What are hospital dreams about?
Hospitals are generally large buildings where sick or injured people go to receive treatment that might heal them. They are often emotional places because death, or a reprieve from death, can occur in hospitals. Additionally, there can be a sense of powerlessness in a hospital because one needs to trust other people when receiving treatment. This symbol is identified by words like doctor's office, clinic, emergency room, etc.
Hospitals in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 40 dreams.
What are the major highlights of hospital dreams?
Hospitals is a normal dream symbol. Having hospitals in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of hospitals?
Hospital dreams are notable because they have substantially more caesarean sections, verbs, nurses, comas, doctors, surgery, Kuwait, characters, giving birth, lobbies, paramedic, pregnancy, uteruses, health events, injecting, abortions, cancer, illness, disease, movement, x-rays, babies, wheelchairs, medicine, car crashes, blood, ovaries, body changes, miscarriages, stomachs, events, bobcats, ribs, being shot, pregnancy tests, wounds, scars, talismans, different roles, venom, hallways, going to die, infecting, Haiti, general movement, tests, overdoses, my children, fevers, things, elevators, pus, chests, Guatemala, Cyprus, waiting, cults, wind, healing, and psychologists than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of hospitals?
Hospital dreams are notable because they have substantially less natural places, whales, recurring dreams, wolves, nuclear bombs, bodies of water, forests, paralysis, cheese, crushes, the sky, cannibals, yellow eyes, opponents, Italy, egos, places, human places, tornados, oceans, lions, intruders, animals, chicken, edges, west, flying, lucid dreams, guiding, werewolves, frogs, natural things, the planets, glowing eyes, weddings, vampires, bedrooms, boats, swimming, panthers, bees, relationship events, enemies, the galaxy, and soil than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of hospitals affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in hospitals dreams?
Overall, dreams with hospitals are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hospitals are more related to different roles, 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 fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in hospitals dreams?
Overall, dreams with hospitals are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hospitals are more related to sadness, more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to confusion, and less related to fun.
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Who is in hospitals dreams?
Overall, dreams with hospitals are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hospitals are more related to work and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are much less related to natural places.
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How do hospitals in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with hospitals are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hospitals are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of hospitals in dreams?
Hospital dreams are relatively common. Among other things hospital dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of hospitals? How might your dream of hospitals 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 hospitals 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 hospitals in dreams. See how you feel about hospitals now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of hospitals?
Dreaming about being in a hospital can symbolize seeking help with a health matter. It’s the most obvious association. Remember, though, that instead of physical health, health can mean emotional, psychological, or financial health. Relationships are described in terms of being “healthy” or “unhealthy.” Family life is described that way, too.
The connection between hospitals and health extends to situations where you are trying to make something healthier, such as improving the health of an environment by spreading good cheer, or lifting the spirits of someone who has been depressed or sad. A hospital is an appropriate setting to tell the story.
A hospital setting can link with a situation in life where you know someone is physically unwell. For example, your grandma is ill and you fear she will end up in a hospital, then dream about an elderly lady rushing to the hospital in an ambulance. The dream reflects concern for her well-being. Well-being includes ideas related to comfort, happiness, and success.
Hospitals are associated with dread—going to a hospital is a nightmare come true for some people.
They’re associated with emergencies.
They’re associated with boredom.
They’re associated with invasion of privacy, because at hospitals a person may be poked and probed. For example, a man getting a security clearance dreams about going through invasive exams at a hospital and answering personal questions. He’s given a clean bill of health. It reflects his expectation that nothing about him or his past will prevent him from obtaining the clearance.
Hospitals can remind you of your mortality. See: Death
The potential for symbolism branches out further when you consider the connections between hospitals and bankruptcy, and pain.
Dreaming about being in a hospital and well cared for by attentive staff can symbolize giving yourself the care you need, or the feeling that you’re the center of attention. Hospital can be a word play for “hospitality.”
Areas within a hospital can have specific symbolism. A maternity ward can relate to care of a child or your inner child. Radiology can relate to seeing into or through something, or fear that something like a bad mood will spread invisibly like radiation. Surgery can symbolize the removal of something sickening you, something that is no longer needed, or something you want to change about yourself. A psychiatric ward can symbolize mental health.
See also: Cancer, Comas, Death, Disease, Doctors, Elderly people, Illness, Insanity, Paramedic, Psychologists, Surgery, Wheelchairs
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 hospitals
Read some real dream reports of hospital 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.
Ridiculously expensive League of Legends merch with glowing gigantic Teemo penis sold at a hospital
My mom fractured bones from her cheeks and I accompanied her in the hospital with my extended family.
When my mom's in the MRI, everyone of us could hear her muffled screams as well as seeing the images from a screen.
My grandma noticed that the butt area of my pants are torn apart and warned me. Some of the pants/shorts I have IRL are torn apart in the crotch area, but never in the butt. Also in the dream, I was wearing white underwear when the last time I wore white underwear was when I was a child.
Timeskip. Now I'm roaming around the hospital and asking about where they sell the "league of legends champion eggs with props" and their prices. Some say 6 liras (72 US cents), some say 7 liras (84 US cents). This may seem cheap, but this dream takes place in a public hospital (aka poor people hospital) in a poor country. A normal price would be 3 to 4 lira (36 to 48 US cents).
Timeskip again. I find a white room with multiple displays that show all of the champions. There's a vending machine in front of it. I take look at Tristana, my main and fave. Her prop is a penis as long as her arm and it glows. Apparently that penis belongs to Teemo.
I put my money (can't recall the amount) in the vending machine and get an unknown champion that isn't Tristana. I get 5 liras (60 US cents) of change back and put it back in, but immediately regret it.
To all those read this, I'm really sorry.
My mom fractured bones from her cheeks and I accompanied her in the hospital with my extended family.
When my mom's in the MRI, everyone of us could hear her...
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My wife had a stroke IRL
Back story:
She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has feeling on the left side of her body. This has been a terribly hard situation to deal with as we have two young children and no idea where this will end up with her condition.
On to the dream. We were home, and she had some bandaging on her head but was completely normal. It felt so real, but I found myself questioning the situation in my head, while dreaming. I asked her questions about the hospital and she spoke to me like everything was fine. I realized I had to be dreaming because just yesterday I was sitting in the hospital at her bedside. I hugged her and started cry, about the same time I woke up about to break out in tears.
The dream made me so happy but also caused a lot of fear for the future. I usually do not read into these things and I rarely have a lucid dream.
Anyone that might have some feedback, good or bad, I'd love to hear it.
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She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has...
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Dream Interoperation help please.
So the other night I had this weird dream where I had an immense pain in my three fingers (left hand) my index, ring and third finger all hurt a lot in the tips. So I started pulling on them to try and crack them- like I usually do when I get finger pains in real life and it started hurting more until The tips of my finger literally came off. You could see the bone and everything, at first this kinda scared me but then I started worrying about how I cant play claw or hold the playstation controller the same ever again without my finger tips (even started strategizing on how to get them-the finger tips- in ice and to the hospital in time, but gave up for some reason and kept trying to hold the controller but it didn’t feel the same).
So the other night I had this weird dream where I had an immense pain in my three fingers (left hand) my index, ring and third finger all hurt a lot in the...
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My mother had a dream about her brother who was said to have committed suicide in an alley way. In the dream he told her who did it and a year later she saw the name on the news
When my mom was 16 her older brother was found in an alley way with a gunshot wound to the heart. The cops said it was a suicide. He was basically in a gang and my mom could not believe he would do that. Also people don’t shoot themselves in the heart to commit suicide. Anyways, she told me she cried herself to sleep for a month because they were on bad terms when he left. My mom said she had a dream after a month of crying herself to sleep where she was in a waiting room at the hospital, her brother came in and told her that he was okay and everything was going to be fine. He told her who killed him and then comforted her and apologized for everything. When my mom woke up she wanted too look into it and called the police. A couple weeks later she said she got a call from a random person telling her to stop looking into it or bad things were gonna happen. I guess she stopped because she feared for her life. A while went by and she was watching the news and a cop and his son were arrested for supplying guns to a local gang. The name of the son was what her brother told her in the dream.
When my mom was 16 her older brother was found in an alley way with a gunshot wound to the heart. The cops said it was a suicide. He was basically in a gang and...
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Wild and horrible dream about my penis
In the dream, I woke up in the bed I was sleeping in IRL and noticed my penis felt weird. I looked at it and it was completly transparent. Like I could see the blood vessels and everything. I freaked the fuck out and got up to go to the hospital, but this "friend" that I can't stand kept me from leaving because of he wanted me to do something else. I kept trying to break free but he'd keep pulling me back in. I looked at my penis again and it had started to contort like it was made out of clear jello. I kept screaming for someone to call 911, but everyone was just kinda walking by like I was a homeless dude asking for money.
This went on for what felt like hours, my penis becoming more and more disfigured. I started sobbing, which woke me up as I was sobbing in real life as well. I don't know what to do about this dream. I feel so disturbed and confused.
In the dream, I woke up in the bed I was sleeping in IRL and noticed my penis felt weird. I looked at it and it was completly transparent. Like I could see the...
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