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What are heart dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about heart dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with heart dreams. These are the words that make heart dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of heart dreams can be illuminating about show hearts affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example heart dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how hearts in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that heart is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that heart is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, heart dreams have more grief and sorrow than 99.7% of dream symbols, more love than 95.6% of dream symbols, and more bad dreams than 94.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, heart dreams have less weird dreams than 89.0% of dream symbols, less human-made places than 74.0% of dream symbols, and less natural places than 71.2% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of hearts tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Furthermore, heart dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that hearts is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of hearts are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Also, heart dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Furthermore, dreams of hearts are full of grief and sorrow. Of course not every heart dream is sorrowful, these type of dreams have more grief and sorrow than 90% of other dream symbols. It can be heart breaking to experience grief and sorrow during a dream. This can remind us of painful events in waking life. Alternatively, the grief and sorrow within a dream can feel so real. Finally, dreams of hearts are usually described as bad dreams. This does not necessarily mean that all heart dreams are bad. It is just that dreaming of hearts might increase the chance that it is a bad dream. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of hearts is different than dreams of hearts in general.

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of dreams have hearts

How common are heart dreams?

3.9% of dreams have the hearts symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are heart dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like heart. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols things and body parts.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of hearts?

Hearts dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, grief and sorrow, Kuwait, talismans, chests, El Salvador, calluses, Bilbo Baggins, Haiti, events, hazel eyes than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of hearts?

Hearts dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Laos, Madagascar, Morocco, Somalia, Uranus, emaciation, Dobby than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into heart dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in heart dreams.

Who is in dreams of hearts?

Who is in dreams of hearts?

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.

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What are the emotions in dreams of hearts?

What are the emotions in dreams of hearts?

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

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Where do dreams of hearts take place?

Where do dreams of hearts take place?

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

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What happens in dreams of hearts?

What happens in dreams of hearts?

Heart dreams are more related to aggressive acts, more related to death, and more related to health events than dreams in general.

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How do dreams of hearts related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of hearts related to the type of dream it is?

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.

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How do dreams of hearts related the senses?

How do dreams of hearts related the senses?

Heart dreams are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of hearts in dreams?

Heart dreams are relatively common. Among other things heart dreams are very emotional, nightmares, about love, sorrowful, and bad dreams. Do you think this is true for your dream of hearts? How might your dream of hearts be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

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.

Return to the feelings

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

An interpretation of heart dreams

An interpretation of heart dreams

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

Examples of dreams of hearts

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of heart dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for heart dreams. Read at your own risk.

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