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What are helplessnes dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like helpless, powerless, and helplessness.

Helplessness in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.

What are the major highlights of helplessnes dreams?

Helplessness is a normal dream symbol. Having helplessness in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of helplessness are emotional

Helplessness have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include intrigued, friendly interactions, going, pleasantness, hazel eyes, crying, surprise, smiling, Colombia, and exhaustion.

Dreams of helplessness are aggressive

Helplessnes dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all helplessness have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having helplessness in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include possessing, wildfires, things, pain, bandits, parking lots, walls, magic, armor, and jumping.

Dreams with helplessness might be a nightmare

Dreams of helplessness are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain helplessness might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with helplessness are not nightmares. But, dreams of helplessness are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include sleep paralysis, skin, vultures, cutting, heads, paramedic, Philippines, broken glass, kidnapping, and Poland.

Helplessnes dreams are scary

Dreams containing helplessness are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of helplessness are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of helplessness, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include trying to scream, losing an eye, descending, fantastic beings, white eyes, suffering, yelling, cursing, paralysis, and locks.

What symbols less present in dreams of helplessness?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of helplessness

Who is in helplessness dreams?

Overall, dreams with helplessness are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of helplessness are less related to distant people.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

less than 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 helplessness dreams?

Overall, dreams with helplessness are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of helplessness are more related to sadness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fun.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in helplessness dreams?

Overall, dreams with helplessness are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of helplessness are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to human places.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in helplessness dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with helplessness are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of helplessness are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and much more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

much more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do helplessness in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Helplessnes dreams are uncommon. Among other things helplessnes dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.

Do you think this is true for your dream of helplessness? How might your dream of helplessness 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 helplessness 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 helplessness in dreams. See how you feel about helplessness now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of helplessness

Read some real dream reports of helplessnes 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 subconsciously saved myself from a horrible Lucid dream experience

I became lucid in a dream shortly after I realized that it didn't make sense for Ben Stiller and my coworker to be at my house for dinner, a random haunted castle-esqe house. The dream was very disturbing up until the lucid point (I'll spare the details) but once I recognized I was dreaming, it was more of a strangeness. I am not experienced in LD and so I tried simple things like jumping up to float and hover for awhile. Though that was fun for a moment, I began to lose control of the dream... Suddenly my coworker was grabbing at my legs and pulling me down from my floating hover.

I couldn't stop thinking (in the dream) about the duality of me trying to float, but also being pulled down by a dream character who is, in a way, also me.

Anyways, I was fully aware I was dreaming but for some reason ,these two dream men had control of the situation. They were ripping my clothes off and verbally humiliating me. I felt completely helpless, utterly disappointed that I was letting this happen to me, considering my awareness. I was desperate to get out of this dream

Finally I felt an otherworldly shaking, like from the waking world. I just knew my partner was trying to wake me up, maybe he could tell I was having a bad dream. I felt him shake and hug me and heard soft distant shouts that felt like "wake up".

I finally wake to realize he is sleeping soundly right next to me. It was me, I was shaking myself awake. I was lucid in the dream I was witnessing, but out of control. Yet on another level, I had actively tried to wake myself up and get me out of that horrible situation. It was amazing.

I wish I could explain this better.

I became lucid in a dream shortly after I realized that it didn't make sense for Ben Stiller and my coworker to be at my house for dinner, a random haunted...

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Can someone help me interpret my boyfriend’s dream about me..?

He had sleep paralysis last night and saw me being raped by a mutual friend. He said I was crying, screaming his name, and that he felt powerless and could not help me no matter how hard he tried. He woke up screaming this morning.

What does this mean? Please help.

He had sleep paralysis last night and saw me being raped by a mutual friend. He said I was crying, screaming his name, and that he felt powerless and could not...

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Massive Waves

I had a dream I was on a boat or something and there was a gigantic waves forming around me. Hundreds of feet high. It never crashed down on to me but I remember feeling helpless as it built up as a high as a building.

Is this a common dream?

I had a dream I was on a boat or something and there was a gigantic waves forming around me. Hundreds of feet high. It never crashed down on to me but I...

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I just had the most terrifying dream of my life. Someone please help.

Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if this has meaning.

There was a body in the front seat of my car and my partner and i got out to call the cops. Instead of cops showing up, a sports car with 4 men showed up and when i told them what happened they ran into the house only to die. Another police drove by and i flagged them down but they parked in my neighbors across the streets driveway and the old cop and the car turned into my neighbor and i was helpless. My partner and i walked back across the street to my house and i suggested maybe i could only see the things happening because i was schizophrenic when a middle aged lady with a cigarette said “but i can see you guys” and ran into my house. I chased her demanding answers and she said “they’re most prevalent in may” and disappeared and i kept screaming “you’re not welcome here” until my voice become not my own. i went back out to my car and there were more dead bodies in my car and a little girl on top of my car with bruises. i noticed my partner in the front passenger seat and they had puncture wounds everywhere. the little girl had a hammer and said she had to kill my partner and kept hitting my partners skull with it. i had to kill the little girl by using a pickaxe and swinging into her brain. Then i got the feeling the cops were going to frame me for every murder and woke up.

Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if...

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Was it just a dream?

When I moved into a new house, after my dad passed away, I felt sad being in the new house, just me and my mom living there... A few hours later, I decide to go to sleep, after all the boxes are finally emptied, and go to sleep... Later that night, I have this strange dream, these two people stood by my bed, and basically helped me experience Astral projection for the first time.

I was walking around the house slowly, and even passed by my mom's room, she was sleeping... I eventually became scared and walked back to my room, and somehow reentered my body, the people by my bed were visibly angry, and proceeded to force me back out, since time for a sinister purpose.

I eventually got them to leave, and woke up in my dark room, crying over being helpless that night, since then, nothing like that has happened...

So my question is... did I really Astral project?, when I woke up, it didn't feel like I woke up, if that makes sense. 🤔

When I moved into a new house, after my dad passed away, I felt sad being in the new house, just me and my mom living there... A few hours later, I decide to go...

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