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What are home dreams about?

Home is a special place. It is a place that, for most of us, feels secure and safe. It is where we go to sleep and spend a lot of our time. 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 home dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how home in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that home is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that home is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, home dreams have more family than 94.7% of dream symbols, more peers than 85.0% of dream symbols, and more romantic partners than 84.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, home dreams have less natural places than 71.5% of dream symbols, less magical places than 68.5% of dream symbols, and less fantastic beings than 67.7% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of home are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of home will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. Finally, dreams of home has a lot of movement. Things are changing and moving. People are coming and going. Movement implies action. It implies change. There might be reasons why dreams of home has lots of movement. 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 home is different than dreams of home in general.

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How common are home dreams?

17% of dreams have the home symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 6 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is frequent.

Identification

How are home dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like my house, where I live, my place, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and lodging.

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What is most related to dreams of home?

Home dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, family homes, childhood homes, houses, movement, home towns, general movement, burglary, characters, intruders, front doors than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of home?

Home dreams are notable because they have substantially less Legolas, Kenya, C-3PO, Hannibal Lecter, Cameroon, emaciation, R2-D2, Han Solo, Ron Weasley, Gandalf, Morocco than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into home dreams

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

Who is in dreams of home?

Who is in dreams of home?

Home dreams are more related to peers, much more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of home?

What are the emotions in dreams of home?

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Where do dreams of home take place?

Where do dreams of home take place?

Dreams of home are more related to work, more related to human-made places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

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What happens in dreams of home?

What happens in dreams of home?

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

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

Dreams of home are more related to recurring dreams and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of home related the senses?

How do dreams of home related the senses?

Home dreams are less related to taste.

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How can you make sense of home in dreams?

Home dreams are frequent. Among other things home dreams are family oriented and containing lots of movement. Do you think this is true for your dream of home? How might your dream of home 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 home 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 home in dreams. See how you feel about home now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of home dreams

An interpretation of home 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. Home is one of the most common dream settings, which makes sense considering how much time the average person spends at home and the ways it closely ties together with the life you build for yourself, both physically and psychologically. Home is where the heart is. Home is where you invest your emotional resources. Home is where you are comfortable, loved, accepted, nourished, connected. Home is wherever you want to be, which is not necessarily the physical place where you reside. It’s a metaphor, and dreams love to use metaphors. Home is the life you build for yourself, represented as a building. You “construct” your life, and your life has areas and divisions like rooms, floors, and walls. See: Buildings Of course, when a dream wants to address something that is happening at home—your literal home, not a figurative one—it can use the place where you live as the setting. However, when a dream presents a place as home but it’s not the place where you live or have ever lived, you know it has to be symbolism. The details about the home and the story involving it reveal the meaning. Dreaming about living in warm, cozy home can mean you’re in a good place in your life. Living in a cold, drafty home can symbolize being in a bad place in your life. Inviting someone into your home can symbolize a new friendship. On the other hand, keeping someone out of your home can symbolize trying to keep someone out of your life. See: Doors References to returning home can symbolize the desire to be in a good place in your life. This theme pops up most frequently in the dreams of people who are unhappy, unstable, or disconnected from their roots, or who are starting a family and wish to create for their children the same sort of happy home they grew up in—or avoid recreating their unhappy childhood home. Returning to your childhood home can symbolize revisiting the past in search of the roots of something affecting you in the present. The childhood home is where patterns form, ideas take root, and the foundation of your character and personality are molded. See: Childhood homes The idea of returning to a place in life that’s been left behind carries over to dreams about homes or places where you used to live as an adult. For example, if you were depressed while living in a certain place and sense depression coming back again, you can dream about it as revisiting that place where you used to live. The same idea applies to returning to places you lived where you felt happy, loved, comfortable, and so on. When you dream about places where you used to live, think of the overarching themes and big picture of that time of life and what that place means to you. For example, a man has recurring dreams featuring the first place where he lived after leaving college, a setting his dreams use whenever they want to refer to the decisions he made that form the basis of his career. Home is where your mind is. In that sense, home is your head. “You” see out of your eyes, and your eyes are in your head. When people are asked where their consciousness or soul resides in their body, the most common answer is that it’s right behind the eyes or forehead. See: Attics A home can symbolize the mind’s structures and layers. The roof or attic represents the highest layer of the mind, the thought centers. The ground level represents feelings, and lower levels represent emotions, instincts, and stored memories. Farther down are the base layers, such as your hereditary roots and the collective unconscious. Carl Jung said that a home can represent “the Self,” the complete picture of the person you are, even the parts that are unrealized or unconscious. See: Attics, Basements, Collective unconscious This stretching of the definition leads to interesting symbolism. For example, feeling harmonized with yourself and calm can be depicted as living in a peaceful garden or on a beautiful stretch of beach. Turmoil can be depicted in a dream as a house battered by a storm. A mind “in the gutter” can be depicted as a sewer or garbage dump. Living in the clouds can symbolize detachment from reality. A home can symbolize your body. Areas and features of a home can symbolize areas of the body, such as plumbing to represent the bowels, windows to represent the eyes, and electrical circuits to represent the nervous system. See: Body parts A home collapsing or falling apart can symbolize illness—your house, your body, is in disrepair, or your life is in disarray. See: Illness A home-improvement-store setting in a dream can be used to tell a story about making improvements to your body through exercise, diet, and beautification. For example, a man dreams about battling another man, someone overweight, up and down the aisles of a home-improvement store. The dreamer shoots a mixer tong at the man and knocks him down, then comes over to finish him off with a grilling fork. The man asks for a last request, to be fed meatballs from a can lying nearby. The dreamer agrees. The dream is about the dreamer’s struggle to lose weight. He’s dieting and thoughts about food are taking over his mind. The man he battles is the part of himself that wants to eat freely, and the home-improvement store setting is perfect for telling a story about improving his body. Finding new or secret rooms in your home is an analogy for discovering new aspects of yourself, or opening up new areas of your life. You are changing. Changes in you or your life can be symbolized by remodeling a home, constructing new rooms, or buying a new home. For example, a person makes big changes by quitting an addiction and joining a spiritual community. He dreams about adding a new room onto his home, representing this new phase of life. Then temptation to return to a former lifestyle creeps in, and he dreams about a storm buffeting the home. See: Discovering Dreams about something invading a home can symbolize difficulties, problems, or other sorts of disruptions to your peace of mind or your routine. It can symbolize invasion of privacy. See: Back doors Locking doors and windows can mean you want to keep someone or something out of your life. See: Doors Rats or roaches in a home can symbolize a decrepit emotional life, or living in squalor. See: Rats, Roaches Snakes or spiders getting into a home can symbolize bad influence or someone bringing personal problems into your space. For example, your troubled child gets involved with the wrong crowd and you suspect he or she is hiding drugs in his or her room. See: Snakes, Spiders Robbers breaking into your home can symbolize loss of privacy, or insecurity—especially material insecurity—or the feeling that you’re being robbed of something immaterial, such as robbed of opportunity or energy. See: Burglary, Thieves Intruders in your home can symbolize loss of privacy, or anything else that feels intrusive. An intruder can represent an illness or virus that invades the body. See: Intruders A dream about a home destroyed or in ruins can symbolize a breakup, divorce, or other situation that breaks up a family or disrupts a living situation. See: Family A vacant house can symbolize missing the comforts of home. It can symbolize a time of life you miss, especially the people who were part of it, and related feelings. It can symbolize something you vacated or gave up, such as a long-term project or a plan for your life. A house isn’t built overnight, and neither is whatever is symbolized by a vacant house. An empty house or building can symbolize feeling lonely and empty. See: Emptiness See also: Attics, Yards, Barns, Basements, Body parts, Buildings, Burglary, Castles, Childhood homes, Chimneys, Collective unconscious, Colors, Constructing, Destruction, Dinner, Discovering, Doors, Egos, Elderly people, Emptiness, Fences, Fires, Garages, Ghosts, Illness, Intruders, Kitchens, Neighbors, Psyches, Rats, Roaches, Snakes, Spiders, Thieves, Trees, Trespassing, Wallets

Examples of dreams of home

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 home 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 home dreams. Read at your own risk.

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