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What are king dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like king.

Kings in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 150 dreams.

What are the major highlights of king dreams?

Kings is an interconnected dream symbol. Having kings in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.

King dreams are very social

Dreams of kings contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of kings are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include doctors, zombies, places, presidents, ducks, vision, worms, movement, babies, and clergy.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of kings

Who is in kings dreams?

Overall, dreams with kings are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings are more related to animals, more related to insects, and much more related to different roles than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as 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 kings dreams?

Overall, dreams with kings are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to hatred, and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in kings dreams?

Overall, dreams with kings are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings are less related to home and less related to transportation.

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in kings dreams?

Overall, dreams with kings are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with kings are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with kings are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of kings are less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

King dreams are uncommon. Among other things king dreams are positively interconnected and very social.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of kings?

A king is the ruler or final authority, someone with power. The trick to figuring out what a king character means in a dream is to decide whether it represents something about you, about someone you know, or about a situation, and match that with the role the king plays in the dream-story and your associations.

When connected with you, a king can symbolize the ability to rule over your own life, to make decisions, and create your own little kingdom. Everyone has an inner “King” or “Queen” involved in leadership and vision for life. In dreams it can be depicted in a form other than a king, such as a president, CEO, or famous person who embodies the qualities and characteristics of a king.

When connected with someone you know, a king can symbolize a father, boss, or husband. It is a characterization of a person’s status, authority, or style. For example, if your father rules the house like a king, he can be presented that way in a dream. The king won’t necessarily look like your father, but some detail will connect the two together. For example, the king in your dream sits at your father’s desk.

A king in a man’s dream can characterize a role he plays in life, such as head of the family or owner of a business. He is a king to his wife and children, or to his siblings, friends, and neighbors. Strip away the pretensions and what is a king? An authority, a leader.

When connected with a situation, the symbolism of a king can stretch to create more possibilities for symbolism. At its simplest, to rule means to be on top, to have the power to make decisions. Thoughts can rule your mind. Ideas can compete for supremacy. For example, choosing a new king from among candidates can symbolize choosing among competing ideas. Only one will come out on top.

The symbolism of a king can derive from associations with the stereotypical image of a king, such as strength, ambition, and wisdom. The image of a good father and husband is a reflection of what makes a good king. On the other hand, some kings are arrogant, demanding, and indulgent. How does the king in your dream act?

A king is someone you want to please. Someone who inspires. Someone very important. Remember that in dreams, you can substitute some-thing for some-one. So, for instance, a crown can symbolize authority or an authority figure. The figure doesn’t have to be present in the dream. See: Hugeness

A king is the highest authority, and that idea can branch out in many directions. Because the king is a character, it’s tempting to assume it represents a person, including you, perhaps, but a king is a set of ideas, traits, and qualities that can be embodied by a person, or by something impersonal. For example, if you live by a code, such as a code of honor or ethics, or a spiritual code, it’s the highest authority in your life.

A king can symbolize the highest figure in a spiritual or religious tradition.

And just because a king is a masculine figure doesn’t mean a woman can’t play the role. It can characterize her style of leadership or personality. Also, a king can represent her animus, the male face of her unconscious mind. See: Animuses

Males have the King archetype deep in the psyche that can play the role of king in your dreams. It shapes energy related to ruling your life, having a vision, and marshaling resources in pursuit of it. The female equivalent is the Queen archetype. Search online for “king archetype” to learn more, and see: Archetypes.

Read the entries for Prince and Queen. They approach the same subject from different angles and can provide valuable insights.

See also: Bosses, Castles, Fathers, Hugeness, Princes, Princesses, Warriors

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 kings

Read some real dream reports of king 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 had a nightmare and I NEED to know what it's about

So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It wasn't just any old kind of scared though, it was the one where you knew you had fucked up and hurt the people you hold the closest, the kind of scared that you'd expect to feel right before you hit the ground from jumping off a fatal height. I realized I could move though, so I got up and started stumbling down my stairs, shaking from fear. The kind of fear to start at the pit of your stomach to consume your whole body until it really settles in what the situation is, but the thing is I don't know what the situation is. I make it downstairs and see my dad sitting on the couch of my living room looking devastated, disappointed, and depressed, or as I will to call the dangerous D's as the occur quite frequently throughout this. He looks at me with a look of the dangerous D's and grief and shakes his head. He tells me to sit down next to him because we need to have a talk and that fear from earlier gets more intense as a feeling of guilt and sadness joins in with them. he starts asking me questions with his head in his palms but get's no response as I try every bit of my power to get a single sound out but to no avail, and he looks up at me again tears streaking his face as he tells me to stand up and shows me the door. I open it to see an empty void, almost as if the world had been swallowed whole leaving my house, and the feelings consume me and I jump. I keep falling and falling until something pulls me aside and I am on this farm like land on a pasture. There is a house and a barn in the distance and the sunlight is bouncing off the blades of shiny green grass swaying in the wind. I look at my surroundings and see an old man in a dark cloak, almost looking like the grim reaper, as he whispers in my ear that he knows what I'm going through right now and that he can help me escape this but I don't trust him and jump off into the void again as he gives me a sad look and shakes his head. My fear keeps growing larger and larger as it keeps ungulfing me in these awful emotions and I start feeling the dangerous D's start to come along. I get pulled one last time and this time I am in a broken down version of my house with my parents giving me the look of the dangerous D's and shake their heads and walks off. After they walk off I see my little sisters, the two girls I had sworn my life to protect, lying there, dead. There skin is pale while they are lying in a pool of blood with there wrists sliced and there throats cut, giving me a blank stare with their jaws unhinged and their faces stuck with a look of an overwhelming look of the dangerous D's along with the saddest, most heartwrenching, most overwhelming look of pure grief. I look in disbelief, every feeling I was feeling before multiplied times one million. My two baby sisters, laying there, dead. I can't take it. Their heads suddenly perk up and they smile with blood gushing out of their mouths. They say that this is all my fault, I made them do this, I went down the path I did and died and made them do this to themselves and my parents come back and stand behind them with the same looks they had before and I look in the distance and see the old man giving me that same look of sadness with an "I tried to warn you" king of look on his face and he turns around. I can't take anything anymore, I can't cry, I can't scream, I can't talk, I can't think, I can just feel these feelings make me do things. The feelings keep getting worse and worse and the fear finally settles in on what the situation is and the fear keeps getting worse from this realization. I am in my own personal hell, being tormented, so I turn around and jump into the void one more time hoping I can escape this hell. I keep falling and falling until I see a bottom, and I know it's finally over so I take a sigh of relief and hit the bottom

I'd make a TL;DR but I don't know how I'd do that with this story. please tell me what this is about. It's the most disturbing dream I have ever had.

So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It...

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Dream: BLACK KING COBRA LAYING EGGS.

One of the weirdest dream I’ve had in a long time.

I recognize the house i was in,someone’s i knew from the real world. I was near the main entrance, talking to a familiar face and there it was a medium sized snake with brown and black striped (crait). I had glance at it while it went into the bushes nearby and disappeared.

Then rite next to it i saw a gigantic “BLACK KING COBRA” crawling next to the main door and it stopped. It arranged itself in a circular way. And there it was struggling to lay-eggs from its mouth(5-6 eggs one at a time). I was standing there watching it with curiosity.
That’s all I remember from the dream. I don’t know what it’s supposed to mean and I’m willing to find out. Anyone who know what it means? Please share your insight.

One of the weirdest dream I’ve had in a long time.

I recognize the house i was in,someone’s i knew from the real world. I was near the main entrance, talking...

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My son responded out loud to my dream

So we were on vacation this weekend. The king bed was next to the bunk bed. My husband was already awake. I was trying to wake up this morning, but I fell back into a dream state. I dreamt I was telling my younger son, "Just don't touch the front of it, okay?" (Don't recall what "it" was, apart from it being a small object he was holding). As soon as I had said that in my dream to him, he responded out loud in real life. He yelled, "I want to!" I immediately woke up, and asked my husband if he heard those words (which he did), and I also noticed that my son was still sleeping, even though he spoke aloud.
I just wanted to share. I thought it was pretty cool. There's definitely something about consciousness that we don't quite understand!

So we were on vacation this weekend. The king bed was next to the bunk bed. My husband was already awake. I was trying to wake up this morning, but I fell back...

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A Babylonian king drinking from the carcass of a beheaded elephant

Hi all, so I had a dream, walking through a palace that looked Babylonian or Assyrian idk… I find a room, a throne room , there’s a beheaded carcass of an elephant on the floor, and a strong God like king, tall with a large crown and large beard, with glowing golden eyes and dressed with a white like robe? Shirtless but with gold jewelry and a large golden crown like those ancient temples in the Middle East. Anyways. He picks up the enormous carcass and lifts it above his head so as to tip the part where the head was removed of the elephant and begins drinking it’s insides as it pours out to his mouth, as he still holds the carcass above he turns to look at me almost as if showing off his great strength in defiance. I’m in awe and I wake up. Anyways lemme know if anyone has any clue to this weird dream

Hi all, so I had a dream, walking through a palace that looked Babylonian or Assyrian idk… I find a room, a throne room , there’s a beheaded carcass of an...

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I sometimes wake up still dreaming

This is my first post here, I apologise if I’m posting this in the wrong place. I’m just looking to see if anyone has had similar experiences.

I don’t know how to explain it but occasionally I wake up still dreaming. I don’t think it’s sleep paralysis, I’m aware of what’s going on to an extent and I’m able to move, talk etc. I can never remember the dream before I “wake up” I just sort of wake up and somethings happening almost like a visual hallucination.

Last night I woke up feeling quite anxious and I was convinced it was raining hot ash in my room like from a volcano or something. Before I hid under my covers I could almost feel the stings of ash hitting me but I feel like that may have been cold sweat. I then crawled out down and out the back of my bed whilst still under the covers, got up, removed my retainer and then suddenly I’m like “what the fuck am I doing?” Then I went back to bed.

One more example from last year:

Again no context, I wake up and I feel like I can see a King Cobra or some sort of snake in my bed. I live in a country where the chance of this actually happening is 0. So I see this snake, panic, jump out of bed and run downstairs into the kitchen and then I snap like “why the fuck did I just do that?”.

I’m not overly bothered by this I’m more just curious if anyone else has had similar experiences.

This is my first post here, I apologise if I’m posting this in the wrong place. I’m just looking to see if anyone has had similar experiences.

I don’t know how...

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