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What are losing a body part dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like (?:lost|missing) (?:arm|leg|hand|toe|finger|head|arms|legs|hands|toes|fingers|heads).

Losing a body part in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.03% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 3,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of losing a body part dreams?

Losing a body part is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of losing a body part greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.

Dreams of losing a body part are emotional

Losing a body part have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include amazed, embracing, smiling, bankruptcy, obeying, betrayal, trespassing, falling in love, couldn't open eyes, and anxiety.

Losing a body part dreams might be sexual

Dreams of losing a body part are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If losing a body part is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include break ups, Chad, menstruation, psychologists, psyches, addicts, mercury, former partners, werewolves, and wanting and wishing.

Losing a body part dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of losing a body part frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of losing a body part simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include fingernails, abortions, testicles, psyches, maggots, tyrants, collective unconscious, grief and sorrow, menstruation, and seeing a dead father.

Losing a body part dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain losing a body part are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include seeing a dead father, destruction, fingerprints, purgatory, bullets, orphans, accomplices, ambushing, verbs, and Afghanistan.

Losing a body part dreams are scary

Dreams containing losing a body part are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of losing a body part are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of losing a body part, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include paralysis, hyenas, cowards, waking, hearts, summoning_demons, El Salvador, opening, body parts, and chemical weapons.

What symbols less present in dreams of losing a body part?

Losing a body part dreams are notable because they have substantially less children, confusion, fathers, sisters, voice, food, waking life, unique themes, and brothers than 95% of other dream symbols.

How does the dream symbol of losing a body part affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of losing a body part

Who is in losing a body part dreams?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are more related to animals and more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to close people, and less related to family.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in losing a body part dreams?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are much more related to fear, more related to pain, and much more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, much less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

much less than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in losing a body part dreams?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.

Home

much less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in losing a body part dreams?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

much more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do losing a body part in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

much less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

much less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do losing a body part in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with losing a body part are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of losing a body part are much more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to vision and less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of losing a body part in dreams?

Losing a body part dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things losing a body part dreams are very negatively interconnected, very emotional, sexual, lack places or locations, about death, and scary.

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

Examples of dreams of losing a body part

Read some real dream reports of losing a body part 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.

Strange wake up call

Hey people, this isnt really a nightmare story or at least I don't know if it was, that was the question i thought might be answered.
So basically i just woke up out of nowhere at 9am. I dont know how but instinctively stood up and looked by my bed, I vaguely remember feeling something on my knee but i'm not even sure. When I stood up i saw a giant ass spider. Like maybe 3 inches leg to leg, it was bigger than most spidersthat live in my country. Following initial fear I grabbed my shoe and tried to hit him with it. I remember seeing in the half dark room that his body dropped on the floor but when i turned the light on nothing was there not evem a lost leg. And my first thought after that was "was that real or was I still dreaming?" I woke up my family trying to see if the spider is still around somewher and couldnt find anything.
Could things like that be a dream or is there actually a giant spider under my bed? The thing that points to it being a real event is that I fell asleep at 4am and somehow woke up without hesitatiom at 9am, this never happens to me unless I am disturbed sumehow and even then i never jump right up from sleep. I dont know if it was a dream or reality and I gotta say i'm lil bit scared to go to sleep again.
Any thoughts? Could someone dream something like this?

Hey people, this isnt really a nightmare story or at least I don't know if it was, that was the question i thought might be answered.
So basically i just woke...

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Spider with missing legs

Last night I dreamt I was with a man I have feelings for and who also has feelings for me but we're not together yet. And he's really afraid of spiders. In the dream, we were outside somewhere and I saw a big hairy spider with only 4 legs. All its remaining legs were on the right side of its body, it had no legs on the left side. I'm not afraid of spiders, and I looked at it for a minute and felt sad for it. Then I pointed it out to him and said "Look, this spider only has 4 legs." And when he saw it, he got freaked out and mad at me and said "Why would you show me that???" Lol in the dream, I had forgotten he was afraid of spiders.

Any input is greatly appreciated :))

Last night I dreamt I was with a man I have feelings for and who also has feelings for me but we're not together yet. And he's really afraid of spiders. In the...

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Weirdest dream I’ve ever had… Could someone possibly give me interpretation details?

Basically my dream was: I was in a plain, with people I don't recognize but who were my friends, I was missing a leg for some reason but somehow I managed to walk normally. Then, all of a sudden, my family decided to build a fucking mansion in a village (idk where). I didn't even ask myself where all that money came from. Then my brothers and me went to the local hardware store to buy some heat isolation materials, we came back walking through a hole filled with nettles. I walked in them with no trouble because I only used my missing leg (how???) to walk in them, so I didn't feel any pain. We came back to the mansion, it was somehow already finished. Then, I found myself with my brothers in one of the rooms of the fucking mansion, and we somehow managed to melt fucking metal in a cauldron, using fucking magic. In a room with full wooden walls. We eventually spilled shittons of metal on the wooden ground, and nothing got set afire for some reason. Then we opened the small window that was in the room, because it began to get really hot in there, and as we opened the window, a swarm of hornets spawned from nowhere. Then I changed myself into another horned (???????) and defeated the hornet leader, after dying two times to him and respawning.

Basically my dream was: I was in a plain, with people I don't recognize but who were my friends, I was missing a leg for some reason but somehow I managed to...

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I didn’t think a dream could be so evil

Trigger Warning: Suicide.

This dream was last night - I moved into a new apartment and found out the young lady there before me had committed suicide, because she was haunted by a demon that pushed her to kill herself.

Long story short I ended up getting the demon and the stuff it would do and say to me was so horrifying I didn’t even know I could think like that. Even neighbours who were also possessed by the demon had missing arms, legs and eyes from self mutilation.

Before I had this dream, I woke up sweating in the middle of the night, which never happens to me. The whole experience was just awful. I have no idea why this all happened, that was a dream that makes me genuinely worry about future ones.

Trigger Warning: Suicide.

This dream was last night - I moved into a new apartment and found out the young lady there before me had committed suicide, because...

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This one will stay with me until I am dead. 3 parts

1.The beginning part of the dream is foggy. But I was a slave. My sole purpose was to be beaten, starved, mentally destroyed. I have never felt that way my whole life. I couldn't trust a single human being to free me from this dark corner of a vast house I was in. I believe I was South American in my dream. In RL I am not South American.
I escaped through the back door where an old lady was standing. She was the mother of the guy that owned the house. She wanted to let me free. There was a steel bowl of water in front of the back door. The water was for the dogs. There was fruit floating in the water. I moved the bowl of water off to the side which spilled some water on the floor. I was terrified. I thought my world would end right then because I spilled the water. The old lady was angry about the water but wanted me gone more than anything.
I ran through the yard. Hopped the wall. Ran into a decrepit village behind the mansion. But everyone knew who I was. No one would help. I kept running. I knew I had less than nothing to live on. But it was freedom.
They found me. I was hiding behind a black marble slab I believe was a bathroom stall. They all treated me like a run away dog. I was crying and pleading. It fell upon deaf ears that mocked me. And as they dragged me back all the villagers acted like I was nothing. The guy that owned the house owned everyone.
2.They brought me back to the house. I was bound on the driveway with arms and legs behind my back. The main guy took a hand drill with a thin 6" drill bit to my chest and drilled into where the bottom of my lungs were. Doctors immediately patched me up. He then drill into my stomach on either side with a larger and much sharper bit. It tore through my stomach muscles 4 times. The doctors patching me up after each injury. I felt my mind breaking. I lost all hope. I lost myself.
3. I was in a clinic. Supposedly free. Seeking help. There was a nurse that wanted me to go into a back room and wait for a doctor. I refused. I thought it was a trapped and they would kidnap me back to that house. There were 2 others like me in the waiting room. One male one female. The female went in. The male tried to calm me down. His hands were both deformed. Missing fingers. It was clear his hands had been crushed by a belt. His hands were narrow across the middle section. Fully healed but seriously deformed by torture. There was some mkultra ptsd talk.

6am the alarm goes off and I have to work as though I haven't seen some shit I've never seen. I'm afraid to sleep tonight.

1.The beginning part of the dream is foggy. But I was a slave. My sole purpose was to be beaten, starved, mentally destroyed. I have never felt that way my...

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