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What are insanity dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like insane.

Insanity in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 95 dreams.

What are the major highlights of insanity dreams?

Insanity is a normal dream symbol. Having insanity in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Insanity dreams are friendly

Dreams of insanity have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of insanity will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of insanity are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include paths, servants, elderly people, Jamaica, floors, technology, trying, shoulder, captains, and kissing.

Dreams of insanity are aggressive

Insanity dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all insanity have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having insanity in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include betrayal, venom, Bahamas, thrones, Cameroon, Madagascar, police, mafia, cursing, and dying.

Dreams with insanity might be a nightmare

Dreams of insanity are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain insanity might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with insanity are not nightmares. But, dreams of insanity are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include couldn't open eyes, locks, qualities, tasers, hallways, floors, waking, parts of buildings, bedrooms, and loss of speech.

Insanity dreams are associated with lucid dreaming

Dreams of insanity are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of insanity are lucid dreams. But dreams of insanity are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include noses, dream within a dream, unique themes, blizzards, eyes, Jamaica, animas, jackals, countrysides, and emptiness.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of insanity

Who is in insanity dreams?

Overall, dreams with insanity are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are more related to fantastic beings and more related to distant people than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with insanity are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in insanity dreams?

Overall, dreams with insanity are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are more related to home and much more related to magical places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

much more than usual
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What happens in insanity dreams?

Overall, dreams with insanity are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do insanity in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with insanity are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are much more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

much more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do insanity in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with insanity are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insanity are much more related to hearing than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Insanity dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things insanity dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and are associated with lucid dreaming.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of insanity?

Dreams exaggerate, and insanity can be an exaggeration of wild, reckless, or irrational behavior. It’s a way of amplifying the behavior to make you aware of it.

It can reflect a situation where you don’t understand a person’s reaction. It seems crazy or irrational to you.

Insanity can symbolize chaos. Life is upside down, or a situation is tense or unpredictable. It can be the sort of situation where you say, “It’s driving me crazy!” Or, “I could go insane!”

Dreams use wordplays to create symbolism. Another word for insane is “mad,” and mad can mean angry. Therefore, dreaming about an insane person or situation can symbolize being angry or upset. Or it can mean a safe place or refuge. See: Anger

Of course, people can act insane and crazy things do happen. A dream is likely to obscure it with symbolism. For example, after an encounter with a crazy relative at a Christmas gathering, you dream about Santa Claus flying his sleigh like a drunk pilot and cackling maniacally.

The theme of insanity can arise in dreams to symbolize something scary or bad. The connections are made because crazy people can be scary and do bad things.

An asylum is a perfect setting to describe chaos in your mind. Your mind is represented in dreams as a place, especially a building. It can mean you have been acting or thinking irrationally or recklessly. Your life is out of control. Your feelings are in turmoil.

An asylum can characterize an environment such as home or work. It’s crazy, chaotic, dysfunctional, leaderless. Is your job like an insane asylum, or home life like a mental ward?

An asylum can symbolize living in a fantasy world.

It can symbolize feeling like you are treated like you’re crazy or abnormal. For an example dream, see: Brother.

It can symbolize an out of control situation.

An abandoned asylum can symbolize a crazy time of your life that’s behind you. You might dream about that time of life because something recently reminded you of it. You saw an old frat buddy, or exam week is coming up, or you started a new relationship and hope it doesn’t turn out crazy like the last one.

See also: Egos, Erupting, Infesting, Nightmares, Psychologists, Terrorists, Zoos

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 insanity

Read some real dream reports of insanity 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.

Extremely creepy shit happening lately.

Alright so I had a pretty insane nightmare which I won't go into detail about but the nightmare contained a scene where I found my smartphone lying on the floor with a shattered screen. I woke up, did my morning routine and eventually grabbed my phone and it took me some minutes to realize that I actually had a few cracks on the bottom right of my smartphone. Now the creepy thing is they weren't there when I went to sleep and I put my phone in a different room at night (For the first time exactly before that night) What in the actual fuck? Also, a lot of other extremely weird shit is happening to me lately that is creeping me out. For example, one morning I found a fucking syringe (not opened) lying on the floor in my room and no I am not a heroin junkie lol. I'm starting to think real life is a dream lol. Am I perhaps starting to sleepwalk or something? The thing is that I lock the door to my room at night, and it is locked when I wake up, so i would have to unlock and open the door AND close and lock the door again while sleep walking. But even then, no fucking idea from where I got a goddamn syringe. Lol what is going on. And yeah I know this shit sounds so fake but i swear to god and on the life of my own mother that I'm not making this shit up.

Alright so I had a pretty insane nightmare which I won't go into detail about but the nightmare contained a scene where I found my smartphone lying on the floor...

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Craziest, most profound dream I ever had

Apologies for the longer post, but so much happened in this dream that I wanted to include. I had an insanely lucid dream. It came on suddenly, while having a normal nonsense dream about protesters in a mall. I noticed an unlit storefront, tucked away in a dark corner of the food court. Right as I passed through the doorway, lucidity slapped me in the face. I was quite aware what I was experiencing was a dream, and that I absolutely remember this one.

I found myself in a wooden room. Each wall and the ceiling were covered in wood paneling, polished and shining. The floor was a thin carpet, but the room was cozy and warm. A beautiful woman came around from behind me. When she smiled, I saw one of her teeth wasn't a tooth at all, but a little bead in the shape of an alien's head, and her eyes were sparkling.
She laughed out loud, but we talked with our thoughts. I don't remember exactly what about, but I would say something and she would respond. The woman said, "let me show you something", and opened a carved wooden door that was one of the walls. It revealed another door, and another, and another, and behind all those doors were small compartments full of wooden boxes and boards, all of different sizes. They were empty, but quite beautifully carved. I thought these had something to do with OCD. I turned and asked, "do I have to sort these out before I can move on?" She nodded.
This strange lady could see through any wall I put up. I remember saying "I'm not a very nice person, am I?" And she mocked my pouting, "oh poor poor you!" A bit of a bruised ego but I understood and laughed with her, "alright, alright. I guess I need to work on it." She said "You have a lot of...bravado...but this is only your first eye." (Whatever that means?)
I looked at her and had to ask.
"Are you my creator?" I don't have a particular religion, or even non-religion, don't claim to know how anything works.
"Yes." She grinned again.
"Are you really?"
"No. You have a projected image of her."
"Oh."
Then she laid down on her side and said "Now I want you to come and sit right here." And she patted her lap. Super not comfortable with close affection and this was super weird to me. I did not want to.
I asked if she was sure, for some reason I felt wary of getting closer to her.
She said, "Yep, just come and sit."
"Okay, if you say so..." It was still too weird.
As soon as I sat she grabbed me. I don't know if she was hugging me or just wrapping her arms around me. I normally hate hugs but holy hell did I literally see stars. This hug could make a hell's angel weep, it was the best freaking hug ever. She said, "Now, rest. Rest." And then, in a sing-song voice, "into the bedroom of science fiction."
It must have been my own fears manifesting because I saw the face of a monstrous demon in the stars and instinctively pulled away and pushed at her. She just laughed it off but I could feel myself getting sucked out of there. When I woke up, my eyes just snapped open. It was like I had just returned to my body. I could only sit up and place my hand on my forehead, like "what the hell was that?!"

Has anyone here had such a lucid experience like mine?

Apologies for the longer post, but so much happened in this dream that I wanted to include. I had an insanely lucid dream. It came on suddenly, while having a...

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I have ABSOLUTELY no clue and I’d like to make some logical sense of this


I’m gonna start by saying I’m classing this as a dream, because anything else Would make me sound bat shit insane. I don’t dream, I have aphantasia, meaning that I can’t picture things in my head so that makes dreaming hard. This is my fifth time dreaming in my life and it was different. With that knowledge you can see why I’m a little freaked out. I saw something, now I’m sure this feels like a “no shit” type of thing but I’ve NEVER seen something before. I don’t even know what to describe, it was just completely alien, nothing I’ve seen and DEFINITELY not humanoid. I could only call it an amorphous blob but that doesn’t even come close to it. So there I am conscious in a void with this... thing, and I recall falling asleep so not only was this a first for a lotta things, it’s my first lucid dream as well. “Hello?” I call then bam, it turns and I’m gone. I feel my being, like full on my consciousness moving into my body. It was such an odd sense, and I had to orient myself, moving, gasping, and touching everything to know I wasn’t in a paralyzed state just in case. I’m trying really hard to not sound crazy but it ain’t working, I just... it was an experience I’ve never felt, situations I’ve never had before, and I’m not even sure if It was a dream, though it has to be...


I’m gonna start by saying I’m classing this as a dream, because anything else Would make me sound bat shit insane. I don’t dream, I have aphantasia, meaning...

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I dreamed of a glorious, supernatural, teleporting lost city with technology alien to modern man. I’m also pretty sure that it was Hell.

I would describe it further but I literally don’t know how to or where to start. It was by far the most vivid, insane, detailed and memorable dream I’ve had in my life yet. If you guys ask any questions I’ll try to answer them, but I can’t quite type it all out unprompted. It was the most beautiful yet the most terrifying thing ever. I love it.

I would describe it further but I literally don’t know how to or where to start. It was by far the most vivid, insane, detailed and memorable dream I’ve had in...

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Death dream… help

i’m extremely freaked out so if anyone can help me, id appreciate it! (please do sarcastic comments as i’m very scared)

in the morning around like 5am, i woke up from a nightmare & the only thing i remember from it is that it was my boyfriend, yelling in my face, eyes wide open, freaked out saying i was going to die tomorrow. it woke me up but i went to sleep after. ever since this, i cannot get it off my mind. it’s genuinely making me go insane & i’m having so much anxiety over it. on the way home from work, i also saw a crow in an area where i never even see birds to begin with. i don’t know :(. I’m just very nervous now cause it’s really scary for me. Can anyone tell me what may be going on? Your help is greatly appreciated.

i’m extremely freaked out so if anyone can help me, id appreciate it! (please do sarcastic comments as i’m very scared)

in the morning around like 5am, i woke...

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