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What are hippo dreams about?

The hippopotamus is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa This symbol is identified by words like hippo.

Hippos in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.04% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of hippo dreams?

Hippos is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of hippos greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.

Hippo dreams focus on smells

Dreams of hippos have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, hippo dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include librarians, bankruptcy, hummingbirds, teeth falling out, bows and arrows, family homes, Thailand, landslides, possessing, and hobbits.

Hippo dreams focus on taste

Dreams of hippos have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, hippo dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Other symbols that are like this include baboons, jury members, Cameroon, seeing a dead pet, Bangladesh, Bolivia, chakras, Afghanistan, whales, and wasps.

Hippo dreams focus on vision

Dreams of hippos have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, hippo dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include pregnancy, Malaysia, Sweden, sexuals acts, carrots, crushes, menstruation, calluses, senses, and falling in love.

What symbols less present in dreams of hippos?

Hippo dreams are notable because they have substantially less general body parts, brightness, unique themes, groups, sisters, shopping, roads, buildings, and windows than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of hippos

Who is in hippos dreams?

Overall, dreams with hippos are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hippos are much more related to animals and more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to fantastic beings, and much less related to distant people.

Animals

much more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

much less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in hippos dreams?

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

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

much less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

much less than usual

Hatred

much less than usual

Fun

much less than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in hippos dreams?

Overall, dreams with hippos are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hippos are much less related to home, much less related to work, and much less related to human places.

Home

much less than usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

much less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in hippos dreams?

Overall, dreams with hippos are much less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hippos are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with hippos are much less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hippos are much less related to lucid dreams, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

much less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

much less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do hippos in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with hippos are much less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hippos are less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and much less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

much less than usual

Taste

much less than usual

Vision

much less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of hippos in dreams?

Hippo dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things hippo dreams are very negatively interconnected, focus on smells, focus on taste, and focus on vision.

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

Examples of dreams of hippos

Read some real dream reports of hippo 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 have to get this out. A hippo came for me.

Yeah. You read that right. I've never dreamed of a hippo before. I was walking on a trail to my camp and it was a familiar and beautiful path. There were small cabins or huts that were made from bamboo. Not terribly strong.

I walk towards my hut and I notice a big hippo right by it. It looked me in the eyes and charged at me. I could barely make it in my hut. The hippo kept trying to break in.

This is it I thought. I'm dead. I thought about calling 911 but I realized no one could help me. I sat there screaming and trapped. The hut collapsed and I was able to jump out.

The dream continues on to my cousin's wedding in which I slept through the whole thing and woke up to meatloaf on a plate. Pissed that no one woke me up. I missed something important and no one cared.

Yeah. You read that right. I've never dreamed of a hippo before. I was walking on a trail to my camp and it was a familiar and beautiful path. There were small...

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Hippos, diamonds, and cats

Short dream I got chased by a hippo down the street. It only stopped to eat green diamonds. Shortly I found an old man of a cat, he was missing an eye and a leg. He was skeptical about me petting him but enjoyed it anyway. I sat on the floor with his fat brother and listened to stories from a doll in a rocking chair.

What in the Alice liddell infused silliness is this?

Short dream I got chased by a hippo down the street. It only stopped to eat green diamonds. Shortly I found an old man of a cat, he was missing an eye and a...

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Dream I had about floating head movie thing

So like, we were watching a movie and I remember myself describing it as a movie I had seen before where the female love interest sacrifices herself for her boyfriend or something. Then I was in the movie, and there were these hippos dancing and this giant roller coaster thing that sometimes turned into a giant sexy woman. I remember a cover of 'the Truth' from the Steven Universe movie playing for some reason. Imagine this giant sandstone cube floating. Also it's like sundown. Then there was a computer programme we used to put a face onto a block on that giant stone. Then there was a spinning sideways pillar that we used to revealed a maze of tunnels. These mole guys went through it and got everything they could from it. Then this giant evil lego floating head thing subsumed the maze into his lego tophat. Then we were doing another thing and the head guy got even more parts for his hat, though I can't remember the specifics. Then there was this evil guy who was trying to offer the head more lego to add to the head's tophat but he refused it. A phone conversation then took place roughly going like this:

Evil mortal: "Alright I'm up here."

Evil head: "Uh huh"

EM: "Uh, let's seeeee. Oh. I think I found what it was"

EH: "Did you."

EM: Yes, I appear to have forgotten a block here."

EH: "...."

EM: "..........."

EH: "........................."

EM: \*Hangs up\*

The head then, contradicting what he just said, subsumed the offering into his hat. Then I guess my dream forgot about that, or this happened before the head subsumed the entire thing, but this good guy started to rebuild the thing, except some of the pieces don't fit.

Then I woke up naked in a train station or something. (Didn't realize I was still dreaming. I didn't actually wake up in a train station naked.). I thought it felt really real. I got dressed and there was some movie trivia or something??? Then there was this kid who was like failing his Civic's test or something.

Then I woke up for real

Some of this is probably out of order.

So like, we were watching a movie and I remember myself describing it as a movie I had seen before where the female love interest sacrifices herself for her...

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Dream about falling in lion enclosure and as i was climbing out of it a lion started to be agressive. So i grabbed his ear gently and pushed him away. Then some lady said she admires how calm i was.

There was a hippo too but he just chilled

There was a hippo too but he just chilled

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Nightmare I just had and quickly jotted down, it was just intense and I don’t have anyone I’m comfortable sharing it with so I’m sharing it here

Sorry for my crap grammar, I had to jot it down before i forgot

It starts with helping people around a race track, you know how people get stuck on race/rally tracks well i was helping unstick them. Well I turn a corner and suddenly I’m helping dazed animals that don’t seem to know what is going on and I suddenly get back in my car that now looks like some strange contraption, I’m helping them onto some sort of fairy. I open the door onto the fairy and it is not a fairy. It’s like i was transported to a landscape of death. Bloated corpses of elephants and hippos line the path with a droning in the background, their white eyes following me. So i proceed forward not knowing what i would find then i come to another door, i open it and the scenery and droning intensifies, the corpses are reaching out for help but their proportions are all wrong, its like they went through that content aware scaling. There is no sky but its not a tunnel, just very foggy and a giant corpse in the distance. Suddenly i look down and realize ive been riding an animal, i guess an elephant so i try to reach down to hug it and i lift my hands away and discover that it too is just a corpse. For some reason i cant stop thinking about how people would be shocked and disturbed if they found out about this. A trunk or some kind of limb starts reaching for me from below front and just before it reaches me I woke up.

Sorry for my crap grammar, I had to jot it down before i forgot

It starts with helping people around a race track, you know how people get stuck on race/rally...

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