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What are map dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like map.

Maps 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 map dreams?

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

Map dreams are associated with lucid dreaming

Dreams of maps are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of maps are lucid dreams. But dreams of maps are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include paralysis, opened my eyes, video games, faires, souls, exhaustion, large celestial bodies, blizzards, mirror, and chimneys.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of maps

Who is in maps dreams?

Overall, dreams with maps are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of maps are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to family and much less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

much less than usual
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What are the emotions in maps dreams?

Overall, dreams with maps are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of maps are more related to confusion and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to fear.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in maps dreams?

Overall, dreams with maps are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of maps are more related to human places, more related to transportation, and much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to work.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in maps dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do maps in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

much more than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do maps in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of maps in dreams?

Map dreams are uncommon. Among other things map dreams are normally interconnect and are associated with lucid dreaming.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of maps?

To dream about a map can mean you are looking for guidance or direction. Think of direction as personal direction, the direction to head in your life. See: Guiding

Getting directions in a dream can mean you need help reaching a goal, solving a problem, or dealing with an issue. It can mean you’re looking for personal direction; you’re not sure about the best direction to go in your life. Giving directions can mean helping someone with a goal, problem, or issue.

The symbolism of a map can be used in the sense of “map out” a big project. It can mean you are being careful in plotting something, the next steps to take. You “map out” where you are going in your life or an area of it such as your career, living situation, finances, or family. For example, see: Old Friend.

Dreaming about needing directions back home can mean you’re trying to return to a feeling of safety, security, or connection. Home is where you feel secure and wanted. It is “home base.” You can dream about finding your way home after ending a relationship or taking a blow in your life and needing to recover from it. You’re trying to get your life back on track. For example, see: Ex.

See also: Above, Ascending, Backwards, Below, Cars, Descending, Directors, Elevators, Guiding, North, Rightness

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 maps

Read some real dream reports of map 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.

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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I just woke up from a dream about me and two girls I’m acquainted with smoking a blunt on a volcano that was in a place where there would never be a volcano....

So today I had a dream that me and two girls i used to be friends with and smoke with all the time in high school. We were in Manhattan and I thought that we were just climbing a really really really tall building like It was as tall as a sky scrapper. And I’m afraid of heights so I remember once we were sitting on it I started feeling anxious about falling off but I still sat down and lit the blunt and didn’t say anything about it. So as were smoking we’re just talking and what I thought was a building underneath us it starts to get really hot and shake. And then on my phone I look up like a live map of where we are, and it showed a volcano that was erupting or about to erupt. And then one of my friends was like yeah we better go this thing is about to erupt. And as I stood up to quickly get off I started getting dizzy and felt like I was about to faint which is what usually happens when I smoke weed and get a lot of anxiety. And then that’s when I woke up.

Any idea of what any of this could mean or was it just a crazy stupid dream lol.

So today I had a dream that me and two girls i used to be friends with and smoke with all the time in high school. We were in Manhattan and I thought that we...

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Anybody else dream they’re playing real life call of duty and the screen is just ur eyes?

Like your vision has the map and ammo and all that on screen stuff built in to your vision? Bullets even make the thwap sound when I shoot people. Its real life or death though. It’s fun and crazy af. (I don’t own guns or want to shoot people for real) lol PEACE AND LOVE ❤️

Like your vision has the map and ammo and all that on screen stuff built in to your vision? Bullets even make the thwap sound when I shoot people. Its real life...

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Running from Nazis then dream turns into video game

I think I was a maintenance worker or something. I wasn't a Nazi but I was working for them. There was this Nazi commander guy who was following me around. I didn't want to talk to him so I tried to shake him by running around this desert. I was supposed to ride a train with him but I had other plans. I ran down the train tracks and he chased after me.

The dream took a surreal turn when the train tracks went around a rocky bend and suddenly stopped. And then I saw the desert suddenly dropped off like I was outside the bounds of a video game map. I could see the bottom of the skybox when I looked over the edge. I had no choice but to turn around and I found myself in a mining camp. The Nazi commander was talking to some miners and there was a quest icon over his head. And this mining camp was closed in, I couldn't go anywhere else. There was also nothing to do. So I assumed the only way to progress was to take a quest from the Nazi commander. But I didn't, I just ignored him and wandered the mining camp until I woke up.

I think I was a maintenance worker or something. I wasn't a Nazi but I was working for them. There was this Nazi commander guy who was following me around. I...

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Gate to the universal mind I approached after glitching through the dream

I had this weird and very vivid dream. It began by me and my friend standing on street near parking lot, I wanted to go explore and he told this is all just a game. I told him let's find a way to glitch through it. I found this staircase which had very small holes in them and I started to jump on one particular spot and I felt through, I did this three times until I was under the map (like when you fall through the ground in videogame). At this moment I was left alone and I saw this huge gate at the end of the hall (it was basically just blackness all around with a path). As I moved towards just before entering the room with gate there was this huge monitor that was showing human kind statistics, how many of us are alive, how many souls visited this planet, how much money we think we have created so far (this one made me so sad) and how much time have passed and others I have forgotten.

After I entered the room with gate I realized what kind of place this is, it was a like a portal to universal consciousness, if you enter you will see and understand everything. The room was all white and there were plants and flowers everywhere, the gate itself was huge, like 10 people standing on each others shoulders. I was moving forward and looking at all the plants and flowers, they were so beautiful and as I wanted the gate to open this woman arrived. She was very merry, she knew I wanted in and her intention was to let me in. She showed she has the key but didn't want to let me in instantly, she was commenting on the flowers and smelling them. I think she then tested me, she put the key on ground to see if I wanted to take it by force, I recognized the thought that arose in my mind, to take it by force and overpower her but I didn't act on it, I have chosen to respect the situation unfolding. I waited for her to finish her flower adoration but then the phone ringing woke me up from the dream...

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Have you ever dreamt of something similar?

I had this weird and very vivid dream. It began by me and my friend standing on street near parking lot, I wanted to go explore and he told this is all just a...

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