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What are hostage dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like hostage.

Hostages in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 400 dreams.

What are the major highlights of hostage dreams?

Hostages is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having hostages in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

Dreams of hostages are aggressive

Hostage dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all hostages have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having hostages in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include raccoons, movement, wolves, horrors, insanity, trapping, general thinking, endings, jails, and running.

Dreams with hostages might be a nightmare

Dreams of hostages are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain hostages might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with hostages are not nightmares. But, dreams of hostages are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include windows, unique themes, heads, blindness, bedrooms, monster, wrist, tools, black, and devils.

Hostage dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain hostages are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include prisoners, nuclear bombs, seeing a dead mother, suicide, revenge, crime, shooting, seeing a dead grandfather, saving, and car crashes.

What symbols less present in dreams of hostages?

Hostage dreams are notable because they have substantially less blue, recurring dreams, dogs, orange, beds, genitals, animals, general animals, actors, mazes, lions, infidelity, eggs, closed my eyes, cartoons, bears, shortness, lucid dreams, spouses, creatures, smiling, oceans, waking life, ghosts, suffocation, and crashes than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

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Who is in hostages dreams?

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

Animals

much less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in hostages dreams?

Overall, dreams with hostages are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hostages are more related to fear and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in hostages dreams?

Overall, dreams with hostages are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hostages are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in hostages dreams?

Overall, dreams with hostages are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hostages are much more related to aggressive interactions and more related to sex than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with hostages are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hostages are much more related to nightmares and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

much less than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do hostages in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with hostages are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of hostages are less related to smelling, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of hostages in dreams?

Hostage dreams are very uncommon. Among other things hostage dreams are negatively interconnected, aggressive, nightmare, and about death.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of hostages?

Being held hostage in a dream can connect with feeling powerless, or forced into a situation against your will. It may be an exaggeration that captures how you feel, such as when you are hostage to waiting in line at the DMV. Think of situations where the word “hostage” is used in the metaphorical sense. “The company is holding the payment hostage until getting the changes they demanded.”

A hostage can symbolize where leverage is used against you. You have no choice but to go along, like a hostage.

You can be hostage to your emotions or desires if they control you.

You can be a captive of your morality, inhibitions, or duties. You won’t allow yourself to go beyond certain limits or boundaries—for example, a severe introvert is captive to a life of isolation—or someone else makes your decisions and you don’t have any choice. For example, a young woman dreams that she’s kidnapped by her father, who confesses that he’s madly in love with her. It’s an exaggerated way of saying he places restrictions on her because he loves her. See: Fathers

Being a hostage can mean that monotony and limited horizons are getting to you. Same old routine.

Enjoying the role of hostage in a dream can mean you enjoy your restrictions or limits, or want someone else to make your decisions.

Another word for hostage is “captive,” and it opens possibilities for symbolism. You can be a captive to an idea about yourself, for example, or unable to leave a bad relationship. You can be a captive to attitudes, beliefs, fears, thoughts, feelings, ignorance, and so on. Your mind or heart is your jailer, in a sense.

“Captivated” means something has your attention and won’t let go. It’s one step away from “mesmerized.”

See also: Accomplices, Arresting, Cages, Escaping, Fugitives, Kidnapping, Prisoners

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 hostages

Read some real dream reports of hostage 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.

Strange coincidence?

I had a pretty vivid dream about being taken hostage in an Apocalypse type world, I fought back and my arms got cut up pretty badly... Woke up after having my cuts looked at by a "doctor"

I was woken up by my daughter singing and being weird, she's 2, it happens.

She tells me she's been to sleep, I jokingly say yeah not daddy I've had a stupid dream. She points to my arm where the cuts were and says poorly cut... SHE KISSES MY ARM BETTER.

I'm sat here trying to convince myself it's a coincidence.

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Love in a different world

Hello people, I've had a very vivid dream last night. I am a gay man in a relationship (22 me) (23 him).
I dreamt that we were at some small war, where the enemies would infiltrate our tribe all the time. I had a lover who didn't represent my bf, but he would get armlocked and i would shoot the captor in the head with my crossbow where the lover would say "thanks love" and i would reply with "I will always have your back". Shortly after there was a sandstorm (dangerous for some reason) where we would take cover. His father would come and try to push him out in the storm where i would grab my lover and push his father instead, repeating my love and eventually proposing in some way. There's more to it, but the rest of the dream doesn't involve my lover in the dream per se. just some random hostage situation in a tall apartment complex with people still living there.

Does any of you have any idea how i should interpret this dream? If i should at all? I love my boyfriend to the moon and back and feel like I would do what i did in the dream with him too.

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I dreamt that we were at some small war, where the...

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Vivid, disturbing dream

Hi all, this post is to both remember what I just experienced and to maybe see what everyone thinks about this one. I just woke up due to a vivid, disturbing dream I had (I rarely dream). I dreamed that I was in a mall, and heard what sounded like a very loud dog whistle. It deafened everyone I was near. I then noticed that it was a distraction, the mall was being robbed by people with machine guns. I ran outside as soon as I noticed what was happening and hid in a dumpster full of old food and trash outside. The people opened the lid and pulled the guns on me, me and many others were taken hostage. We were tied up and all driven to some facility in Illinois. I then talked to a woman who was there to give me the new credentials for my job, a normal person. She had no idea what I was talking about, and I was then driven home. I am baffled and am now wide awake due to this. What was that? Lol

Also, I briefly saw my now-deceased mother in my dream as well, as well as one of my aunts

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Any dream Interpreters?

A few months ago I had a dream, it was quite weird but im gonna cut it short so it might not make sense, I had a dream of when I was at some sort of private school skip time, school ended and my teacher was the one taking me home for some reason, and well she dropped me off then all of sudden school started again and there were kids outside of my house acting as if it was class and my dream teachers was there, so we were learning, Untill, my dream teacher took all the children and held them hostage and she turned into some witch thingy, and so my step dad ran out to help the kids and then the witch got into some kind of truck but then something weird happened, the guy in the truck turned into my real dad and while my step dad was trying to help the kids my "REAL DAD aka dream teacher" ran him over with the truck, so I ran out to make sure he was okay, but as soon as I got on my knees to check on him, I woke up drenched in sweat.

A few months ago I had a dream, it was quite weird but im gonna cut it short so it might not make sense, I had a dream of when I was at some sort of private...

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Dream about stockholm syndrome

I had a dream last night where some serial killer/monsters were trying to kill me and this (hot) guy who was friends with them said he would protect me if i just had sex with him and stayed by his side so i cuddled with him on the couch that he was sitting on and eventually had sex with him because fucking some random guy is better than being dead. I feel like in my dream i actually formed an emotional bond with this imaginary guy that my brain conjured up even though he blackmailed me into having sex with him and pretty much held me hostage with the threat that his friends would kill me if i disobeyed him or tried to leave but i didnt want to leave i honestly felt like i was safe with him and im worried cause i should have felt disgust or just uncomfortable after i woke up but that comfortable and safe feeling i got from him was still there. idk if im just lonely, horny, or if i have a weird kidnapping kink that im not aware of. whats your guys take on it.

I had a dream last night where some serial killer/monsters were trying to kill me and this (hot) guy who was friends with them said he would protect me if i...

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