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What are love dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like adore, beloved, love, etc.

Love in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 9.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 10 dreams.

What are the major highlights of love dreams?

Love is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having love in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of love are emotional

Love have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include magnifying glasses, fear, surprise, lovers, amazed, fists, panic, distant people, exhaustion, and uranus.

Love dreams are friendly

Dreams of love have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of love will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of love are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include stairs and ladders, languages, slowness, Frodo, drugs, emaciation, body parts, weakness, Jamaica, and Venezuela.

Love dreams might be sexual

Dreams of love are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If love is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include penises, Morocco, werewolves, circuses, characters, embarrassment, dating, ugliness, rental cars, and hazel eyes.

Love dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of love frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of love simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include recurring dreams, miscarriages, hair falling out, ants, winning the lottery, crushes, dating, snakes, instagram, and calluses.

Love dreams are about family

Dreams of love are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of love will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include abusing, general movement, places, mothers, jealousy, grandfathers, babies, pregnancy tests, ovens, and lodging.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of love

Who is in love dreams?

Overall, dreams with love are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of love are more related to close people, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in love dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in love dreams?

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

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in love dreams?

Overall, dreams with love are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of love are more related to friendly interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

much more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with love are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of love are much 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

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do love in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with love are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of love are much more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Love dreams are common. Among other things love dreams are very postively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, sexual, lack places or locations, and family oriented.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of love?

Love is a powerful emotion, and when dreamed about, it can compel a person to pick up a dream book like this one to figure out the meaning. Falling in love is the most common variation of the theme, though dreams will address every sense of the word.

Dreams about falling in love are common when a person is actually falling in love. It’s simply an expression of the emotion.

But even if the person you fall in love with in a dream is someone you know and love, the dream could still use the image of the person to symbolize something else, such as falling in love with a subject, idea, or creative project, among other things. Falling in love with someone in a dream doesn’t necessarily mean that love is in the stars for the two of you. It’s more likely to be symbolism for something entirely personal.

For example, a young woman dreams about falling in love with a classmate who’s in her favorite class. The classmate symbolizes the class, not the person. Sure, he’s physically attractive, which is all she really knows about him. But the dream uses him as a character in the story only because he’s someone she finds attractive, and what she’s really attracted to is the class.

The symbolism is especially obvious if you search your feelings and don’t register feelings of love for the person in the dream. In rare cases dreams are known to bring together people who are destined for each other, truly the man or woman of your dreams, and those dreams are known to show you the potential for deep love with someone you barely know, or haven’t met yet—a person you will meet in the future, strange as that might sound to people who don’t know it’s possible.

The feeling of love for someone in a dream may symbolize something you love to do or somewhere you love to be. For example, you have a favorite hangout place, such as a pub, then dream about being in that setting and falling in love with someone. What you really love is going to the pub!

For people who are in a relationship that involves, or could involve, feelings of love, dreaming about love can be a way of revealing how they feel or what they want from the relationship.

A common variation of the theme is the “loves me, loves me not” dream that explores your feelings for someone and whether or not the person is a good long-term prospect.

On the other end of the spectrum, dreams can tell you when you no longer love someone. If it’s hard to admit, your dreams are likely to amplify the loss of love and get your attention that way.

Obsessive love can be symbolized in dreams as something about love that’s out of proportion, such as if you dream about the person you love as fifty feet tall; it means the person has too big a place in your life or mind, or you’re taking things too far.

You can develop feelings of love for yourself and have it show up in your dreams as loving a character—often love at first sight—and it’s a great sign because it shows you can love yourself, something about yourself, or something about your life. It shows a soul-level connection inside you. See: Souls

Throughout your life you go through a process of uniting the conscious side of your mind with the unconscious side, referred to as “marriage of the soul.” And what better way of promoting that goal than by portraying the unconscious as a dream character, and you fall in love with it because you recognize yourself in it.

The unconscious mind can present itself to you in dreams as a perfect mate. The purpose is to motivate you to pursue the process of personal development that makes you more conscious and personally integrated. Carl Jung called it the “individuation process.” The figure that takes form in dreams as a man’s perfect mate is called anima, and for women it’s animus. See: Animas, Animuses

Being loved by someone in a dream can motivate you. It can make you believe in yourself. It can reflect the fact that someone holds you in high esteem and otherwise makes you feel loved and appreciated. For people who don’t have anyone to love or love them, dreams can provide a valuable connection to the love that comes from within, and that anyone can have. You don’t have to deserve it, but you might have to earn it in your dreams with your anima or animus by dedicating yourself to living the best life you can. See: Compensation

See also: Animas, Animuses, Boyfriends, Brides, Compensation, Emotions, Fires, Girlfriends, Grooms, Hearts, Weddings, Red, Wives

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 love

Read some real dream reports of love 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 dreamt about the real world

It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding the real world. I escaped from the prison to eat my favourite food, chicken schnitzel, due to the fact that in the prison you barely got to eat and a lady (That I knew was guarding the real world trying to catch dreamers) spoke to me and asked me if I was ok, I stared blankly at her, she replied with "Oh good I almost thought you were conscious" with a sinister smile. I heard speak of someone once I had left the restaurant talk about words that would unlock the gates to the prison and let the conscious dreamers be free, I found other dreamers, fell in love and walked amongst the rooftops of cities and through streets for what felt like days. I found myself reaching a pinnacle of a grand tower, that stood above the city and the code words that would set the dreamers free, I returned to the prison, near the restaurant that I had broken into, the same lady spoke to me she was angry with what I had done, that I would let people know of the real world and with the words of power, I let out all the people into the real world and woke up.

It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding...

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Weird dream could it be a warning please help interpret it ? Thanks!

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down the city near some sign saying neufchateau i never knew the city not even today

and then a beast man very hairy looking a bit like a werewolf only with the head of a man and very hairy and looks for someone and he didnt see me then my mom comes opens the door of the car and tells me to get in and then i quickly get in and ran and the beast couldnt see me

a bit later on i meet with a wonderful woman and we get into her charriot and her father accompanied her , and as soon as we arrive somewhere some sorceress or demon did something and made it so 3 weeks pass and the woman thought i left her and then i say to the demon indominus mortis and curse the demon sorceress… and then 3 images appear before me saying no hugging with this one or sex or love , they were stickman images laying in bed with some words written under, and then i am laying in a bed with other man i didnt knew and i did something to a pole like with my hands i made it a hole and put my controller in it and then i made it complete again and the pole was looking like all poles normal and then i see the charriot i was in and behind it is a castle and village or city on fire and then i say to the demon something like never and the dream ends

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down...

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I had a dream about a random girl...then met her two weeks later.

1. This is probably overdramatic
2. I'm not gonna act upon anything, I just need to tell someone. It's been messing with me lol

Three weeks ago, I had a dream where I fell in love with a girl. She was beautiful, freckles with long brown hair, and she liked the same things I did. She was a gamer like me. The next day I thought about the dream and looked into the meaning. Apparently, falling in love with a stranger means you are longing for a partner. Anyways, two weeks later I go to the family cabin. My cousin is there, and has brought his new step sisters. And there she is. She looks close enough to the description, and likes Minecraft. LIKE ME. It wasn't a 1 to 1 match, but close enough. It's so weird. It's been living rent free in my head for longer than I would like.

Anyways thanks for reading. Have a good day/night!

1. This is probably overdramatic
2. I'm not gonna act upon anything, I just need to tell someone. It's been messing with me lol

Three weeks ago, I had a...

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Have you ever had a dream where you fell in love with a stranger?

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning japanese woman bumped into me asking if I had the time. I said yes and continued walking around this mall. A little later I found a huge set of stairs and slid all the way to the bottom on the railings.

At the bottom of the stairs, the girl from earlier was there and timidly asked me if I wanted to grab some food with her. I said yes immediately.

I then remember spending some time talking to her about random stuff, but finding her more and more interesting and attractive. Her friends were cool and played in a weird funk-metal kind of band and asked if I wanted to be involved.

After talking she asked if I wouldn’t mind walking her up to apartment as it was super late. I of course obliged and went with her. After arriving she invited me in and I remember her place being absolutely huge and overlooking whatever city this dream was supposed to be in.

We talked some more about what her future plans were and how similar our goals were. It got to the point where we were close and kissing and eventually slept together. I just remember there being this weird warmth in my chest whilst this happening, and it felt like nothing I had experienced before.

After waking up from this, I feel almost hollow and honestly kind of depressed. I can still remember how she smelt and how I felt when she looked me in the eyes.

The fucked up part of this is that I’ve been dating someone for the past 6 months or so, and after this dream, dare I say that I feel less close to her?

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What does it mean? Is it my mind telling the girl I’m with isn’t the right one for me? I’m so confused.

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning...

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I fell in love with a boy who was in my dream

I feel so angry and stupid because I'm in love with someone who most probably doesn't even exist or even if he does, I won't ever cross paths with him. I feel so helpless because I really really want to be with this guy and he's not even real. It's frustrating and hurtful and i feel really stupid. I know that I shouldn't give this much thought and it tends to happen and that I'm getting sad over nothing but it's just that I really really like this guy and he's the only person I wanna be with. I'll never meet anyone like him and idek if I'll like anyone who's not him. Sigh this sounds so childish but I really wanted to let it out :(

I feel so angry and stupid because I'm in love with someone who most probably doesn't even exist or even if he does, I won't ever cross paths with him. I feel...

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