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What are key dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like keys.

Keys in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 80 dreams.

What are the major highlights of key dreams?

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

Key dreams are friendly

Dreams of keys have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of keys will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of keys are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include elderly people, languages, destruction, opponents, surprise, dolls, arms, orphans, emaciation, and heroes.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of keys

Who is in keys dreams?

Overall, dreams with keys are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of keys are more related to different roles, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in keys dreams?

Overall, dreams with keys are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of keys are less related to embarrassment and less related to love.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in keys dreams?

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

Home

much more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in keys dreams?

Overall, dreams with keys are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of keys are more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with keys are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of keys are more related to sleeping and more related to waking life than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with keys are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of keys are more related to hearing, more related to taste, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of keys in dreams?

Key dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things key dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.

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

Examples of dreams of keys

Read some real dream reports of key 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.

I have thought about killing myself due to bad grades and I think I had a dream relating to it does it mean anything?

I have thought about killing myself if my grade stays at a B in geometry

I had a dream a few hours ago and I can't remember most of the details but I still remember one key part of it

I was running from something and I was in the street

there were a bunch of busses running down the road consecutively

Each time I thought I would get hit I narrowly avoided the bus by either stepping to the side or lying down and having it pass over me

Eventually I was able to get out of the road

I don't remember any other part of the dream but I still remember that part

Does this mean anything or is it just a coincidence?

I have thought about killing myself if my grade stays at a B in geometry

I had a dream a few hours ago and I can't remember most of the details but I still...

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What the hell did I see?

I got to sleep for maybe 10 minutes or so. Next thing I remember is flinging my pillow at something in my closet that had me absolutely terrified of it and proceeding to stomp on it before spending the next 10 minutes tearing my closet apart looking for something that I immediately can't remember seeing. Now I'm super fixated on my closet and too keyed up to sleep, and I keep hearing noises in my living room but find nothing when I investigate. I'm just thankful sleepwalking me didn't try shooting whatever it was he saw. All I know is that I was really scared of it and forgot why I was even looking in my closet the moment I started looking for it. Now I'm unsure what was dream or reality and I really hate this feeling.

Amyway I just wanted somewhere to exclaim my incredulity to since it's 4am and nobody I could talk to is awake.

Thanks for reading.

I got to sleep for maybe 10 minutes or so. Next thing I remember is flinging my pillow at something in my closet that had me absolutely terrified of it and...

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A GIANT frog - Progressive interpretation (fragmentation and associations)

Dream from the 3-16, written down after awaking. Will try progressive interpretation by way of free associations to fragments of its narrative. I copy tel quel the handwritten version:

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"I was going through rok, walking with a backpack. Then from the high I saw a beach downthere. The waves "semem/n" (sic for 'seem') stronger and the water some big marine creatures were GIANT frogs swimming. I almos lost my balance and fell down the rock. I saw the falling like in my imagination and mi life felt at risk. Then I regained it leaning ~~againts~~ towards the rock, bending my back with my left hand grasping a protuberance in the rock. A little "poza de agua" and like a couple of regular frogs were there, one of them trying to jump towards me. Second try towards my right forearm, which it like gives a kiss and I think to myself "maybe thats poisonous""

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Then I wrote some keys for interpretation: "FROG= women; FROG= buffalo alvarius; wake up: "giant dog"; shit --> k"

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I left in some typos, maybe they offer also keys for interpretations...

Dream from the 3-16, written down after awaking. Will try progressive interpretation by way of free associations to fragments of its narrative. I copy tel quel...

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Help me solve this riddle from last night’s dream

I am a vivid, linear dreamer who suffers regularly from hypnagogia, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.

Last night, I had a long, linear dream that mirrored an epic/fantasy. I was on a fantastic/strange continent across which I traversed to solve a riddle. At the base of the mountain, I found a relief in a mound of rocks with a treasure box. Inside was a scroll of parchment. When I unrolled it, these are the words I found:

_________ are the map...
_________ is the key.

Solve the riddle, and you will be rewarded your greatest wish and the influence over 1000 suns.”

Along with a companion, I traveled many landscapes, met many fantastical persons and creatures, as I attempted to fill in the blanks within the riddle. In a forest of twisted/gnarled trees, in an owl’s hole at the heart of a grand old oak, I found an object that was a puzzle that needed to be solved, like a rubik’s cube but made of stone and fewer columns to align.

When I solved the puzzle, the stone crumbled to dust. Inside was a femur bone around which was wrapped another scroll of parchment. It said:

“Skeletons are the map...
_________ is the key.”

After more journeying with my mysterious companion, I discovered another puzzle on which was written the final missing word to the riddle. I felt a grand oneness, because the whole riddle together made perfect sense, and I knew exactly where to go to achieve my goal.

Sadly, I woke, and I could not remember the word that filled the final blank, and the oneness I felt from the solution entirely fell apart. It has been haunting my waken self ever since.

“Skeletons are the map...”
What is the key?!

Any thoughts or insights?

I am a vivid, linear dreamer who suffers regularly from hypnagogia, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.

Last night, I had a long, linear dream that mirrored...

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Vivid dream third night in a row

I was driving around the town that I live in. I remember being scared because there were heaps of homeless people around me (that looked deranged). They were all African American (which I guess refers to an unknown part of my payche, or even my shadow? I perceive it to be my shadow figure, but I could be wrong in assuming that) and they kept on looking at me with evil faces. I get out of my car and one of them pick up my car keys. All of them are walking like zombies, almost. I decide to attack him and get my keys back. When I do, I decide to ditch the car and start skateboarding. I hit a ramp, and fly to the top of a high building. There are backpacks, debris, filth, etc. Basically you could tell there were homeless people there. I feel like an intruder and try my best to hide, but they find me and start coming towards me. Thats when the dream ends.

I was driving around the town that I live in. I remember being scared because there were heaps of homeless people around me (that looked deranged). They were...

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