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What are locker dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like locker.

Lockers in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.

What are the major highlights of locker dreams?

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

What symbols less present in dreams of lockers?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of lockers

Who is in lockers dreams?

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

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

much more than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with lockers are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of lockers are more related to grief and sorrow, much more related to embarrassment, and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to fear.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in lockers dreams?

Overall, dreams with lockers are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of lockers are much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to home.

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in lockers dreams?

Overall, dreams with lockers are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of lockers are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do lockers in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with lockers are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of lockers are more related to recurring dreams and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with lockers are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of lockers are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Locker dreams are very uncommon. Among other things locker dreams are normally interconnect.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of lockers?

A dream theme that arises with surprising frequency is that you are unable to remember the combination to your school locker. This theme is especially puzzling for people who have been out of school for years. To understand the symbolism, begin with what it can mean to be back in school. It can mean that you’re challenged to learn something new, or feel unprepared for something in your present life—something for which school was supposed to prepare you, such as career, college, and adulthood.

Now apply that idea to the symbolism of a locker. It’s where you store your books and school supplies. If you can’t find your locker in a dream, or can’t remember the combination, it can mean you are having difficulty getting access to what you need in your present stage of life to accomplish what you want, or to reach a goal.

Accomplishments and goals often involve a combination of factors, such as perseverance, skill, opportunity, and luck. A locker can mean you’re looking for the right combination to make something happen in your life, symbolized as trying to remember the combination to your locker. Also, in your love life you look for a combination of background, traits, and qualities in a person to date or marry.

Another way of looking at it: a locker is supposed to be your private place. If you can’t remember the locker combination, can’t find your locker, or someone breaks into your locker, it can mean you are having issues with privacy and setting boundaries. You can’t figure out how to keep someone out of your life, or to prevent people from prying into it.

There are other types of lockers, such as at work or the gym, which can be used to create symbolism similar to a school locker. For example, dreaming that you can’t find your work locker can mean you forgot the reason you started working at a certain job or profession. If you’re retired, perhaps you’re trying to figure out how you’re going to occupy yourself now that you don’t have an occupation.

Finding a rat in your locker can symbolize feeling betrayed. Dreaming about your workout clothes missing from your gym locker can mean that your identity as an athlete or jock no longer suits you, or you face obstacles to finding the time or motivation to work out.

See also: Fitness centers, Games, Jobs, Keys, Locks, Schools, Sports

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 lockers

Read some real dream reports of locker 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.

Anyone else have recurring themes/events?

I have noticed that I have a few situations that are the same whenever I dream them. I wonder if others have the same experience?

- When I'm running forward, I am slowed down and heavy. When I run backwards, I can sprint.

- I am back in school, but I've already graduated. I can never find my locker, I haven't been to particular classes in weeks because I don't have a schedule, and my gym clothes are the same ones that I actually did wear in high school.

- I can see my car in the parking lot, but when I approach it, I can't find it. My key fob unlocks cars which aren't mine. I usually find out my car has been towed and resold.

- Whenever I get shot, I can feel little vibrations up my spine.

- Whenever I dream about sex, I never achieve orgasm in my dream.

I have noticed that I have a few situations that are the same whenever I dream them. I wonder if others have the same experience?

- When I'm running forward, I...

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What's the most memorable dream you've ever had?

For me, it was my first Lucid Dream

I performed a reality check, attempting to push my fingers through my hand. Didn't work. I tried again, counting my fingers, counting 6 on my left hand

I paused, counting again as my fingers began to blur together, I thought they were multiplying.

That's when I realized I was in a dream, sitting on a couch in my old school House, on a couch where the piano was under the stairs. The feeling of Lucidity in a dream was astonishing, breathtaking. I didn't even notice I was fading

I stood up and walked left into the main room, where the lockers are. There were 3 people in the room, scattered around, kneeling over schoolbags and searching them. To the left were the windows and a door leading outside to the other house's assembly point, but all the windows were frosted over completely, no seeing out of them at all

Then I woke up. I was still reeling from having achieved Lucidity, i'd been trying for a while prior to that dream and was starting to drift away from it. It revitalized my interest in it

For me, it was my first Lucid Dream

I performed a reality check, attempting to push my fingers through my hand. Didn't work. I tried again, counting my...

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Lost at School

IRL I am many, many years past high school. Setting is a 4-story high school, my symbol for learning. I cannot find my locker which contains both books (knowledge) and my class schedule (where I should be.) I know that my locker number is 10033 but I cannot find it. None of the locker are in numerical order and they are different sizes and shapes.

I find i should be in an electronics class and I am set up at a station to work with colored cellophane papers (red, yellow, blue, green, and orange) that are to be placed over objects or passages in books, but either i am doing it wrong or I can't see what I am supposed to, which seems self-explanatory.

1. I have never dreamed a specific number before and it dies not have any meaning to me

2. Electricity? Colored cellophane?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thank you

IRL I am many, many years past high school. Setting is a 4-story high school, my symbol for learning. I cannot find my locker which contains both books...

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Recurring dream for 30 years

I am 56 now, and had the same dream for more than 30 years after I graduated from high school. In the beginning I had the dream 2 or 3 times a week, and as the years went by the dream became less frequent until it got to the point where it completely stopped.

It's a fairly common dream I found out years ago, but my reaction to it was not.

I am in high school, I get to my locker and I can't open it. I go to the office, who seems to have the combination, and writes it down for me. (Which even as I'm asking them, puzzles me).

I get to the locker and it still won't open.

When I first started having the dream, it would end, and I didn't think a lot of it. Then, as the dream became more frequent, in the dream itself, it scared me that I couldn't open the locker.

Near the end, many years later, the dream became like a nightmare, and I was absolutely horrified about what might be in the locker. I was almost afraid to open it. The dream started making me afraid to go to sleep.

If anyone has any ideas about the dream, why it kept happening, and how it changed for me, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks.

I am 56 now, and had the same dream for more than 30 years after I graduated from high school. In the beginning I had the dream 2 or 3 times a week, and as the...

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I promised I wouldn’t forget you Susan

I had a dream that I was transported back in time to high school. I met a spunky girl named Susan who was younger than me, but had been put in the same grade. We had lockers nearby and she had found empty lockers and taken off the extra clothing hooks for jackets and put them in hers. She offered to do the same for mine if I didn’t tell anyone.

We became friends. She had a tool kit in her backpack and we used it to sneak into place and once let out a bunch of senior citizens to play kickball. She once stood up for me to a bunch of girls who were making fun of me. Someone graffitied our lockers and we used the graffiti as a way to get excused from school because it was too distressing and went and got food instead. We laughed and had fun, but lost touch after graduation until I met her again years down the road and we recognized each other in the street. She had started growing a mustache and I was so jealous of her.

We started hanging out again and she told me of her husband who was on a long hiking trail and it turns out he had a mustache too. Her phone case was a makeshift case she built herself out of an old cassette tape. And when she smiled at me and told me not to forget her, I woke up. So to the woman that stood up for me in high school, who let me lose to senior citizens at kickball, who drove the intertwining highways passed gas stations, and one I will not forget, here’s to Susan.

I had a dream that I was transported back in time to high school. I met a spunky girl named Susan who was younger than me, but had been put in the same grade....

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