Background

What are injury dreams about?

Injuries and wounds are something that have a life cycle. At the beginning injuries are dreamatic, shocking, and painful. But these take time to heal. 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 injury dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how injuries in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that injury is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that injury is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, injury dreams have more pain than 99.9% of dream symbols, more health events than 96.8% of dream symbols, and more bad dreams than 89.4% of dream symbols. On the other hand, injury dreams have less weird dreams than 79.2% of dream symbols, less human-made places than 70.1% of dream symbols, and less eating and drinking than 64.4% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of injuries tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Additionally, injury dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that injuries is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of injuries are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Finally, dreams of injuries are aggressive! Injury dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? 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 injuries is different than dreams of injuries in general.

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How common are injury dreams?

8.0% of dreams have the injuries symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 10 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are injury dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like bruise, wound, hurt, etc. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of events.

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What is most related to dreams of injuries?

Injuries dreams are notable because they have substantially more wind, verbs, emotions, emaciation, elements of air, calluses, weather, abscesses, healing, acid rain, ribs than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of injuries?

Injuries dreams are notable because they have substantially less pheasants, Legolas, Chewbacca, Han Solo, Somalia, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Estonia, El Salvador, Princess Leia, Ron Weasley than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into injury dreams

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

Who is in dreams of injuries?

Who is in dreams of injuries?

Dreams of injuries are more related to romantic partners than dreams in general.

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What are the emotions in dreams of injuries?

What are the emotions in dreams of injuries?

Injury dreams are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of injuries take place?

Where do dreams of injuries take place?

Injury dreams are less related to human-made places, less related to magical places, and less related to schools.

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What happens in dreams of injuries?

What happens in dreams of injuries?

Injury dreams are more related to aggressive acts, more related to death, and much more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to eating and drinking.

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

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

Dreams of injuries are more related to nightmares, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams.

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How do dreams of injuries related the senses?

How do dreams of injuries related the senses?

Injury dreams are more related to taste and more related to touch than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of injuries in dreams?

Injury dreams are common. Among other things injury dreams are very emotional, nightmares, and aggressive. Do you think this is true for your dream of injuries? How might your dream of injuries 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 injuries 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 injuries in dreams. See how you feel about injuries now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of injuries

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 injury 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 injury dreams. Read at your own risk.

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