What are hero dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like hero.
Heroes in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.
What are the major highlights of hero dreams?
Heroes is a normal dream symbol. Having heroes in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Hero dreams are friendly
Dreams of heroes have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of heroes will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of heroes are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include microphones, peninsula, cheering, parts of buildings, horrors, emotions, Argentina, ovations, jury members, and events.
Dreams of heroes are aggressive
Hero dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all heroes have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having heroes in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include climbing, escaping, emotions, cutting hair, fires, boars, weakness, Russia, elements of air, and different roles.
Hero dreams are associated with lucid dreaming
Dreams of heroes are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of heroes are lucid dreams. But dreams of heroes are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include feelings, mosquitoes, acid, unicons, shadows, heroes, psyches, large celestial bodies, time travel, and masturbation.
What symbols more present in dreams of heroes?
Hero dreams are notable because they have substantially more enemies, war, fighting, armor, princesses, collective unconscious, Guatemala, captains, aggressive interactions, faires, saving, journeys, weapons, talismans, Harry Potter, weakness, pirates, destroying, things, harpoons, presidents, cartoons, hawks, movies, disguises, games, Costa Rica, villages, widows, protecting, hostages, lotus flowers, groups, guns, dungeons, dragons, large gatherings, Donald Trump, embarking, specific people, possessing, discovering, planning, Bahamas, general disasters, crowds, cheering, princes, mystery, Colombia, friendly interactions, towns, Italy, armies, bankers, scientists, fantastic beings, exits, magic, and terrorists than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of heroes?
Hero dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, recurring dreams, paralysis, nightmares, emptiness, living rooms, bedrooms, sleep paralysis, needing help, mouths, grandmothers, libraries, phones, couches, noses, dogs, kittens, cousins, fear, shoes, yards, romantic partners, toilets, best friends, rabbits, cold sweats, crows, cubes, seeing a dead grandmother, finding money, giving birth, goats, pooping, acquaintances, family, recurring nightmares, tea, trying to scream, tsunamis, vaginas, west, pressing buttons, dating, and depression than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of heroes affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in heroes dreams?
Overall, dreams with heroes are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heroes are much more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are much less related to family and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in heroes dreams?
Overall, dreams with heroes are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heroes are more related to sadness and much more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to confusion.
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Who is in heroes dreams?
Overall, dreams with heroes are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heroes are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to magical places.
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What happens in heroes dreams?
Overall, dreams with heroes are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heroes are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.
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How do heroes in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with heroes are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of heroes are much more related to lucid dreams than dreams in general. They are much less related to nightmares, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of heroes in dreams?
Hero dreams are very uncommon. Among other things hero dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, and are associated with lucid dreaming.
Do you think this is true for your dream of heroes? How might your dream of heroes 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 heroes 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 heroes in dreams. See how you feel about heroes now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of heroes?
To interpret the meaning of a hero in a dream, or of playing a heroic role, begin by thinking about the classic traits of the hero: courage, prowess, morality, faith, skill, conviction. Everyday life can be filled with moments when we draw on those qualities and others associated with heroism.
Dreaming about a hero can come in response to playing a role of hero, even in seemingly small or everyday ways. For example, maybe your young children see you as a hero, or you come to the rescue of a friend or family member. Portraying you as a hero is exaggerated but ultimately true. If it’s hard to see yourself that way, a dream might project it onto a character.
Most of us have people we model ourselves after or admire. Sometimes these people are directly involved in our lives, such as parents, teachers, coaches, and pastors. We can view them as heroes and dream about them in that role, but keep in mind that maybe you are the hero now. Most dream characters reflect aspects of yourself, after all. When you dream about someone who is a personal hero to you, you might be seeing yourself in that person.
Along a similar vein, you might have heroes you admire from afar, such as sports stars and celebrities. When one of them is dreamed about, it’s often because you see something about the person in yourself, or aspire to be more like him. Our inspirations to become the best we can be often begin with seeing someone else do it, often someone who has successfully faced the same challenges we face.
A common type of dreams involves meeting and hanging out with your heroes, and generally these dreams are a good sign that you are absorbing something from their example. It’s a way for something deep inside you to say “Hey, keep up the good work.”
Remember that dreams can bring balance to the psyche and produce images that are the opposite of your conscious attitude or self-perception. An image of a hero in your dreams might be showing you untapped potential, or compensating for your feeling unheroic or cowardly. See: Compensation, Cowards
The opposite of the hero is the bully and coward, and related behaviors, attitudes, and feelings are actually immature attempts to be a hero.
Dreams can respond to your fantasies, and dreaming about being a hero can reflect your fantasy life. This is especially true for teenagers, because it’s quite common for them to imagine themselves as heroes. It’s healthy because doing so plants ideas in their minds and connects them with the hero inside of them—the hero in all of us.
For females, a hero can symbolize their animus. In the early stages of this archetype, animus is presented as a man of action who appears when needed and saves the day. He’s a sort of knight in shining armor. See: Animuses
The hero is an archetype, the Hero, with generally the same meaning across all cultures. As a universal part of the psyche, the Hero archetype is a blueprint to follow, a set of traits, qualities, and characteristics for accomplishing the heroic task of becoming a fully developed and matured person and tackling the challenges of life. Just look at how it all starts: first a helpless infant, then childhood, then puberty and the teen years, and figuring out what you’re going to do as an adult. Get through school, start a career and a family.
It takes a hero in you to courageously march forward in life. Then, when you consider the adversity almost everyone faces along the way, you see why we all need to be heroes. It often begins by playing the hero in your dreams.
See also: Animuses, Armies, Athletes, Coaches, Cowards, Famousness, Kings, Lifeguards, Magic, Paramedic, Police, Rescuing, Teacher, Teenagers, Warriors
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 heroes
Read some real dream reports of hero 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.
Raped
INFP, F, 30s, Bi
Warning: Sexual violence, body fluids
Dream: I've never had a dream like this before and it hasn't happened to me in real life, but I dreamed I was raped and then 1 or 2 men tried to get their semen onto my body (skin). For some reason, I wasn't as traumatized as I would have been if I did not try to fight back. I felt shocked that such a thing happened, that I would end up in such a situation where such a frightening thing happened.
For context: I've always been hesitant or afraid of dating men, actually dating in general, even though I have dated 2 men in my life, because of the possible danger they represent, my dad always telling me and my sisters growing up that "boys are dangerous" and I think it was a warning to not get pregnant or something. In my last relationship, my ex tried to pressure me to sleep with him but I said no, because we only knew each other for a few months and didn't really know each other, and that's also not what I wanted - I felt like I was going to just be used if I gave in. Eventually we broke up, he dumped me because I wasn't willing to sleep with him, what I wanted was a genuine relationship in which we could get to know each other but I just felt like I would be someone that would be pumped and dumped so I said no.
I don't know if this dream was caused by the stuff I was watching last night, I was watching the first episode of Myths and Monsters on Netflix, where they talk about the hero's journey and where in an old slavic tale, Ivan has to rescue his wife, the princess, from the monster/tyrannical male figure. I was also reading some passages from Robert Johnson's "She" and Marie von Franz's book on feminine psychology in fairytales and some of these talked about how the most prettiest girl would often be still single because others looked at her as a goddess instead of as a human, and in the story of Psyche, that her arranged marriage to Death would be that she would suffer the worst fate of all. When I read that, I felt that it reflected my own personal situation as well, there have been many guys who liked me and said I was pretty but I often felt they weren't interested in me as a person or they wanted to move too fast and it made me feel uncomfortable so I backed out.
I feel really stuck, I don't know if there's something wrong with my animus, or fear of the tyrannical king archetype, I don't know if I have repressed something. In my family, it's me, my mom, dad, and two sisters. And like Psyche's situation, my two sisters are already married and have kids, while I do not. It bothers me because I do want to find the person that I am a match for and I would like to have a family, but I feel like some kind of fear is blocking me from venturing out. It's very easy for my friends to say just date! But I feel like something deeper is blocking me. It could be the fact that the way my relationship ended was traumatic for me and it still continues to bother me and I can't seem to figure it out or resolve it. But definitely, something is blocking me. I'm always terrified of bringing this up to the surface and telling anyone about it, I think because I don't want to be judged or to find out that maybe it reflects something seriously wrong or bad about me. I don't want to keep silent about it anymore because I know that Jung said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Anyone have ideas, from a Jungian perspective?
INFP, F, 30s, Bi
Warning: Sexual violence, body fluids
Dream: I've never had a dream like this before and it hasn't happened to me in real life, but I dreamed...
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Now I know how the Coronavirus started!
I guess my mind figured it all out lol!
I was sitting in a cafe I usually go for a coffee and snacks. It has a large tv in the middle of the room where they play the news channels very often.
The reporter speaking got my attention by saying "And now as the investigation is complete, the Chinese authorities have finally identified the suspect behind the Corona outbreak. A monkey, also a professor at University there is suspected to have chemically engineered the virus! The Interpol already has their eyes on the fugitive!"
*I'm merely paraphrazing here, but she said something with that meaning
Next thing I see is police cars and helicopters chasing what seems to be a very lage chimpanzee (he was a bit bigger than police jeeps behind him)
One guy in the cafe comments as we watch the news "He's too smart.. they'll never catch him!", as he was sipping his beer.
I just try to process what I've just heard as I see a chimp running faster than police cars, but as if my logical part of the brain was completely numb I just go with it!
As I leave the cafe I see our local police making huge rings of bananas in the middle of the street in case the monkey comes here! (I live way far from China)
"Well that's kind of stupid" - I think to myself.
The rest of the dream continues with me going home and talking to my parents about some random everyday stuff, no mentions of the monkey whatsoever!
Suddenly, I hear gunshots coming from the park near my building. I ask the person I see through the window what happened!
"I think it worked, I think they got him, you know the monkey! What a shame, he was a good man", said the person as he walked away
(This is also stupid for many reasons since my window is far above the ground so no way anyone could hear my question from the ground without me shouting, but like I said my logic seemed to be turned off)
I immidiately tell my parents that monkey has been shot and they start acting all disappointed as well, saying he didn't deserve this, he was a hero blah blah..
I woke up shortly after and felt like a dumbass for not realizing it was a dream all along, but I guess it has something to do with many Covid conspiracies I have to endure listening!
I'm not sure if there is any symbolism in the dream..
Point is, it's not a bat, it's a professor monkey!
I guess my mind figured it all out lol!
I was sitting in a cafe I usually go for a coffee and snacks. It has a large tv in the middle of the room where they...
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This was my weirdest dream ever and I need help trying to figure out what it means.
Okay, so in this dream, you need to have some background. In this dream, there was this world famous restaurant. It was known to only serve the rich the powerful, and celebrities.If you were commoner, you would be thrown out. But here's the catch: it was a superhero themed restaurant. There were 2 teams working: the hero staff, and the villain staff. Everyone vastly perfered the hero staff. There were 2 menus depending on what time you went, and everyone said the hero menu was way better. But here's the thing. Inside the restaurant, everyone knew that the hero staff were assholes. They would destroy the ingredients before leaving it to the villain staff, they would hide things and just act superior to the villain staff. The boss knew about this, but didn't care. This is where the dream starts. So, in this dream, I worked on the villain staff. And at that point, they were tired of being treated like that and proposed to become actual super villains and terrorize the hero staff. Everyone was on board with it, except me. So the entire dream is just them trying to convince me to join them. The dream ends when our first and only customer of the day, Shaq came in.
Okay, so in this dream, you need to have some background. In this dream, there was this world famous restaurant. It was known to only serve the rich the...
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You ever have a dream when you're fighting an anime character
I had a dream that I was a villain living in a house full of Heroes and I talked to zoro from One Piece and for some reason boa Hancock liked Zoro and started to argue the argument went as so "How dare you talk to zoro so casually. Boa said. Hey i just said hi so leave me alone and tell me when dinner is ready. I said. Then i sat on the couch and boa got in a fighting pose and almost kicked my head off but i dodged at the last second then i woke up
I had a dream that I was a villain living in a house full of Heroes and I talked to zoro from One Piece and for some reason boa Hancock liked Zoro and started...
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Looking to find other Lucid Dreamers!
Hey everyone!
I'm fairly new to having an actual account on Reddit, but I've used it for years to search for answers or peruse.
**Basically,** I'm just posting in here to see if anyone else is an experienced lucid dreamer, and wants to help motivate each other to take those skills to the next level.
I'm willing to help someone unlock their lucid dreaming abilities as well, if you're not very experienced, but it can sometimes take weeks if you're not accustomed to an "otherworldly" way of thinking. Anyone who can't suspend their disbelief in supernatural abilities will not be of much use in this thread, I'm afraid.
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For a bit of a background in my own experience, I first became lucid in a dream back in 2014, when I was 17 years old. I spent that entire summer sleeping in to get more hours logged in dreamtime. I have dozens of full recounts of spiritual encounters, epic battles, and strange worlds from that summer alone.
This won't seem all that uncommon for someone who has studied LD for quite a while.
My most accomplished feats so far have been meeting a personal spirit guide and one of my previous incarnations, meditating in a dream consciously, and a connection with Mother Earth and Father Time.
I'm more of a fan of DILD (dream-induced) myself, but WILD does work for me as well.
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**Who I'm looking for is someone who wants to attempt to connect in the dream world, practice daily, and eventually move into full astral-projections through the dream state. (My time zone is EST, as that may be of significance for training.)**
I have been out of active practice for a bit, with the current world situation, but it's time I refocus that energy into dreaming again.
I'm completely open to any other experiments or assertions you'd like to test.
I'm a 24 year old male from Canada.
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Ideally, would like to connect with fans of anime or sci-fi for similar shared experiences, should our training progress that far.
(Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, My Hero Academia, Seven Deadly Sins, Naruto, Avatar The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Magic the Gathering, The Flash, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, are some of the most influential media for me.)
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Also, feel free just to share any of your coolest dream experiences! Feel free to brag as much as you want :D
Hey everyone!
I'm fairly new to having an actual account on Reddit, but I've used it for years to search for answers or peruse.
**Basically,** I'm just...
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