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What are head dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like head.

Heads in dreams is a very common dream symbol, occuring in about 14% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 7 dreams.

What are the major highlights of head dreams?

Heads is an interconnected dream symbol. Having heads in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.

Head dreams are friendly

Dreams of heads have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of heads will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of heads are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include conferences, hazel eyes, gambling, arriving, edges, turning, smelling, climbing, x-rays, and dungeons.

Dreams of heads are aggressive

Head dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all heads have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having heads in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include Bahamas, tunnels, other fantastic beings, cannibals, suffering, jungles, bullets, dolls, magnifying glasses, and slow motion.

Dreams with heads might be a nightmare

Dreams of heads are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain heads might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with heads are not nightmares. But, dreams of heads are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include aggressive interactions, abusing, general body parts, paralysis, raping, rooms, black eyes, apes, opened my eyes, and insanity.

How does the dream symbol of heads affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of heads

Who is in heads dreams?

Overall, dreams with heads are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in heads dreams?

Overall, dreams with heads are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are more related to confusion, more related to fear, and more related to pain than dreams in general.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in heads dreams?

Overall, dreams with heads are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are more related to magical places than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in heads dreams?

Overall, dreams with heads are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do heads in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with heads are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do heads in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with heads are much more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heads are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

much more than usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of heads in dreams?

Head dreams are very common. Among other things head dreams are positively interconnected, friendly, aggressive, and nightmare.

Do you think this is true for your dream of heads? How might your dream of heads be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience heads in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about heads in dreams. See how you feel about heads now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of heads?

You can get great ideas about specific features related to the head such as eyes, hair, and face by looking them up.

The head itself is associated primarily with thoughts, thinking processes, and intellect, so that’s where we begin discussing possibilities for symbolism.

Symbolism involving the head is shown in figures of speech and idioms such as “Get your head screwed on straight,” meaning think straight, be sensible. To get ahead means to advance, usually after thinking through how to do it. “Losing your head” means your thinking is faulty, irrational.

Dreams enact those figures of speech, so if a dream wants to say that you lost your head, it’ll show you losing your head—it comes off, or is missing. In simplest terms, a headless person is someone who lost her head.

Your “heading” is your direction, and direction in a dream can refer to direction in life or a specific area of it such as work life or family life. The symbolism could be shown as a head rolling along the ground, flying through the air, or faced in a certain direction. See: Rightness

A head swiveled around backwards can be a way of saying “look behind you” in the figurative sense. Something is in your blind spot, or in your past, and it’s important.

If something goes over your head it means you don’t get it, you don’t understand. Dreams may enact the symbolism through imagery of something flying over or above your head.

Holding your head high may indicate pride and related ideas, whereas a head held low indicates shame and related ideas.

Turning the head away can indicate disapproval or negative opinion, whereas the opposite action can indicate approval or positive opinion.

All functions of thinking and decision-making are fair game to be symbolized with the head: self-control, attention, intention, opinion, analysis, intuition, reason, strategy.

Conflict between the head and heart, between rationality and feelings, is central to many dreams. The symbolism can be shown in closeness or distance between locations or objects. For example, a giraffe’s long neck can symbolize a wide distance between the head and heart.

Injury to the head can symbolize figurative disconnection from the body. You “live in your head.” It can mean you live in your head at the expense of your physical needs. The same idea can be expressed in the symbolism of being headless. See: Wounds

It’s funny when you step back from a dream and realize how obvious it is. For example, you dream that your head swells to many times its normal size. You wonder whether it means you’re “sick in the head” or have an illness in the head such as swelling of the brain, then realize it means your head is swelled with pride. It can mean you have a big intellect, a “big brain.” The swollen head is a metaphor.

Having two heads, or switching heads, can mean you’re of two minds about something.

Getting shot in the head can symbolize thoughts that hurt to think about, or doubts about your intellect. It can symbolize a headache. In rare cases it can indicate a more severe physical issue such as a tumor. Dreams that warn of dangerous physical conditions are likely to recur—your dreams will keep sending the message until you get it. See: Disease

The forehead is the seat of intellect, insight, and critical thinking. In dreams it can symbolize anything related to thought processes and rationality. A third eye in the forehead is a sign of deep insight.

See also: Amputation, Antlers, Balloons, Brains, Decapitation, Disease, Ears, Executing, Eyes, Faces, Fevers, Hair, Hanging, Hatred, Illness, Insanity, Mouths, Necks, Psyches, Psychologists, Wounds

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of heads

Read some real dream reports of head dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I shot myself in my dream but I didn't wake up, I think I felt death

When I woke up in my dream I was standing in a huge grass field with a mansion behind me. My father was sitting in a lawn chair next to me and told me to go hide because the war was starting. I went over to a little bridge with water underneath. Grabbed a bucket and got into the water with the bucket over my head. I stayed there for about 5 mins. I remember hearing my breath in the bucket and feeling cold from the water. When the 5 mins passed, I got out and my looked for my dad. When I found him, he immediately told me to go back to the water because round 2 was starting. I grabbed the bucket again but before I had the chance to get into the water, a woman grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the mansion. She explained that "I wasn't supposed to be here." She led me to a very tall man in a blue suit. He took me to the front lawn and pulled out a gun. He told me that I can shoot myself or he would do it because I needed to leave. I decided to do it. I put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger. All the sudden bright lights were around me and I started floating. I felt so warm, like nothing has ever affected me before. It was actually an amazing feeling. I slowly woke up from this dream. Not panicked at all.

But I'm truly curious as to why I didn't wake up once I pulled the trigger? Also, No part of me is suicidal.

When I woke up in my dream I was standing in a huge grass field with a mansion behind me. My father was sitting in a lawn chair next to me and told me to go...

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Weird dream could it be a warning please help interpret it ? Thanks!

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down the city near some sign saying neufchateau i never knew the city not even today

and then a beast man very hairy looking a bit like a werewolf only with the head of a man and very hairy and looks for someone and he didnt see me then my mom comes opens the door of the car and tells me to get in and then i quickly get in and ran and the beast couldnt see me

a bit later on i meet with a wonderful woman and we get into her charriot and her father accompanied her , and as soon as we arrive somewhere some sorceress or demon did something and made it so 3 weeks pass and the woman thought i left her and then i say to the demon indominus mortis and curse the demon sorceress… and then 3 images appear before me saying no hugging with this one or sex or love , they were stickman images laying in bed with some words written under, and then i am laying in a bed with other man i didnt knew and i did something to a pole like with my hands i made it a hole and put my controller in it and then i made it complete again and the pole was looking like all poles normal and then i see the charriot i was in and behind it is a castle and village or city on fire and then i say to the demon something like never and the dream ends

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down...

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I Had a Nightmare That Has Messed Me Up for Days Now. I Think I Went to a Multiversal Death Hub.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking life. I need some outside help making sense of what it could mean.

For context, I have existential issues involving what my purpose in life is or even if I am supposed to exist at all.

So it began in a sort of black void with a warm colored aurora in the sky. Directly in front of me there is a hooded man with his left eye missing that looks like an older grizzled version of me. Same look, voice, eye color, scar on our upper lip, everything. He is looking into a circular stone fountain looking thing with a bonfire positioned on a raised platform in the middle.

Around him in every direction as far as I could see were hundreds of thousands of gravestones. All of them had a vague “endings” written on them. (For example, “The Swiss Ending”, “The Atomic Ending”, “The Fantastical Ending”, etc.) Some were filled in while most had empty holes in front of them.

I approached the man in the middle and politely asked who he is and where I was. He simply responded with this,
“You know where we are, this is where we all go to die. Now find your grave, I’ll help you out when you get there.”
I responded with,
“My apologies, pal, I’m not dead yet. Who did you say you were again?”
“Does it matter? We’re all the same here anyway.”
That is when it occurred to me. All these graves were for different versions of me. From different realities or universes I don’t know. I was fairly certain I wasn’t dead and this was all just a bad dream so I decided to explore and possibly see which gravestone in this labyrinthine graveyard was mine.

As I walked, I started to feel a tug from my chest, like my heart was being pulled in a certain direction. I followed the pull for what seemed like ages. Eventually the graves just stopped except for this one gravestone sitting alone just outside of where the rest of them lay. As I approached my soul felt like it was it was sitting next to a cozy fireplace, so I had the feeling that this grave was mine.

I eventually got close enough to read it had it not been for the dust and debris that covered it. It looked old and dilapidated yet it still had an open plot in front of it. I brushed off the dirt covering the gravestone and what I read chilled me to my soul.
“The Bad Ending”

The old man came from beside me.
“What an unfortunate soul this one. Feel real bad for him, you know?”
“I think that’s me.”
“What? No, it couldn’t, he’s not-“
He looked at me, his face grew grim.
“Oh shit, you’re not supposed to be here yet!”
He then grabbed my face and I felt my brain shock like it had just been struck by Thor himself.

Then I woke up. Sweating, crying, and white-knuckled. It’s absolutely fucked with my mind ever since.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking...

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Super creepy lucid dream in where a man tried to prove the dream world was real.

It started with me at a crossroad, I tried to make cars collapse using telekinesis after finding out I was dreaming. Nothing worked. The strangest thing was that I could use my imagination, visualize things in my head, and then come back to the dream. That's how "stable" it was.

At one point, I encountered a man who wore a black jacket, and had thin black hair. He told me this dream was real.

I sighted heavily. "This can't be real!", I let out.

"Oh really? Well how about I prove it to you?" the man said with a grin.

"I will translate any given word or sentence to French, I assume you don't know any French... You can check Google Translate to see if it's correct when you wake up.", the man added.

I started thinking. What could be a real good torture test here?

"Hmm, I have been to France many times..." I said. "I'm afraid I might've subconsciously seen the word, and it's translation already."

And then I had a grand idea: "What if I translate a sentence that I never had to use IRL in France?!", I thought.

"Ok...", I turned to the man with a smirk. "Translate: I am dreaming".

The man said something back with a French accent. I don't remember the exact word anymore as I really didn't know how to write it. But it was really short.

"Wait that short? There's no way that's the French translation."

"Oh, I'm sure it is, you can check later when you wake up."

"Can you say it again? I really want to remember it clearly..."

The man said it again, it was once again audible but impossible to write down in letters for someone that doesn't speak French (and perhaps dreaming might have something to do with it).

"I'm afraid I can't remember that too clearly", I said, worried but at the same time not willing to let this chance go.

"Just type the English sentence in Google Translate and see if it sounds the same, that should be enough.", the man said very confidently.

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After I woke up, you can already imagine the first thing I did. I opened Google Translate (https://translate.google.nl/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=I%20am%20dreaming&op=translate) immediately after waking up as to avoid forgetting any more than I had to. And indeed the translated sentence sounded exactly the same. Creepy...

It started with me at a crossroad, I tried to make cars collapse using telekinesis after finding out I was dreaming. Nothing worked. The strangest thing was...

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I had a dream about a random girl...then met her two weeks later.

1. This is probably overdramatic
2. I'm not gonna act upon anything, I just need to tell someone. It's been messing with me lol

Three weeks ago, I had a dream where I fell in love with a girl. She was beautiful, freckles with long brown hair, and she liked the same things I did. She was a gamer like me. The next day I thought about the dream and looked into the meaning. Apparently, falling in love with a stranger means you are longing for a partner. Anyways, two weeks later I go to the family cabin. My cousin is there, and has brought his new step sisters. And there she is. She looks close enough to the description, and likes Minecraft. LIKE ME. It wasn't a 1 to 1 match, but close enough. It's so weird. It's been living rent free in my head for longer than I would like.

Anyways thanks for reading. Have a good day/night!

1. This is probably overdramatic
2. I'm not gonna act upon anything, I just need to tell someone. It's been messing with me lol

Three weeks ago, I had a...

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