Dreams of hearts are more related to family and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to unnamed people.

Heart dreams are much more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

Dreams of hearts are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Dreams of hearts are more related to aggressive acts, more related to death, and more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to eating and drinking.

Dreams of hearts are much more related to nightmares, much more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams.

Dreams of hearts are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

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.

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

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 hearts in dreams. See how you feel about hearts now, in your waking life.

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. The heart is the center of certain emotions related to love, caring, and self-worth. This is true not only in the figurative sense, but also in the anatomical sense. Near the heart is a bundle of nerves that acts as a processor for related emotions. Therefore, symbolism related to the heart tends to be about emotions and emotional life. The heart is also where feelings are processed. Emotions and feelings are not synonymous, though they can be closely related. Feelings are value judgments, such as when you say, “I feel that she’s valuable to the organization.” Dreams can express this sort of thinking through references to the heart. The associations between emotions and the heart create many possibilities for symbolism. As with other symbols, the meaning is found modifier details. For example, a frozen heart can symbolize “cold-heartedness,” meaning emotionally cold and unsympathetic. A heart that smells bad can symbolize pretending to care but actually being unemotional. A callus or other sort of covering over the heart can symbolize protecting emotions, or being “calloused,” unfeeling. For example, a man dreams that he has a thick callus on his chest over his heart. He goes to a doctor to have it removed, but the doctor is unable to remove it all. It symbolizes the emotional layers of protection he has after his heart was broken by failed relationships. That he knows it’s a problem and is trying to help himself is symbolized by the doctor removing the callus. The fact that the doctor can’t remove all of the callus symbolizes that the dreamer has more inner work to do. He needs more time to heal his wounds. Heart problems can symbolize problems in love life or emotional life. The heart is also used metaphorically to mean center or focus, such as in the phrase “heart of the matter.” For example, a dream about finding a heart in a box symbolizes the dreamer’s getting to “the heart” of a matter. A dream about stabbing Jesus in the heart symbolizes the dreamer’s qualms about organized religion that are at the heart of why he rejects Christianity. A dream about shooting an arrow at the heart symbolizes the dreamer’s focus on a love interest. This idea goes deeper when you consider the heart as the center of your being. It’s the place where body and mind meet. It’s where emotion is balanced by thought. It’s commonly depicted as the home of the soul. In metaphysics, the heart interfaces with the fabric of reality to determine your reality. It responds to what your heart says, not what your head says. Wounding to the heart in dreams tends to symbolize hurt feelings and emotions, especially emotions related to love. See: Wounds For example, a female dreams about shooting herself in the heart, and in her waking life she just broke up with her boyfriend, not because they were incompatible, but because their jobs forced them to move far apart and they decided to break up rather than try a long-distance relationship. It’s a self-inflicted wound to her emotions. In another heart-related dream, a female dreams about hunting down a man who stole her phone and stabbing him through the heart. The man in the dream symbolizes an ex-boyfriend who deeply wounded her and messed up her life. See: Former partners A heart pounding in a dream can symbolize anxiety. Dreams translate physical sensations into dream imagery, and it’s possible that your heart is pounding as you sleep, or you are experiencing heart palpitations or an irregular heartbeat. See also: Anxiety, Blood, Body parts, Emotions, Former partners, Hats, Love, Red, Wounds