What are mask dreams about?
Masks now have two senses. First, masks can be disguised. They are often worn for halloween or by superheroes. In this sense masks allow us to operate in the world anonymously. Second, masks can refer to the surgical or protective masks that one wears to prevent the spread of diseases. This symbol is identified by words like masks.
Masks in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 85 dreams.
What are the major highlights of mask dreams?
Masks is a normal dream symbol. Having masks in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of masks are aggressive
Mask dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all masks have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having masks in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include Iraq, thieves, possessing, tunnels, unnamed groups of people, ambushing, fighter jets, things, obeying, and elements of air.
Dreams with masks might be a nightmare
Dreams of masks are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain masks might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with masks are not nightmares. But, dreams of masks are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include wrist, movement, fetuses, emptiness, legs, backwards, panic, cutting, hearts, and nurses.
What symbols more present in dreams of masks?
Mask dreams are notable because they have substantially more gas, verbs, Congo, doctors, armor, wilderness, disguises, Jamaica, faces, epidemics, metal, white eyes, chemical weapons, serial killers, movement, janitors, silence, lips, jackals, infecting, body parts, knives, laundry rooms, noses, banks, distant people, Croatia, photography, authors, purple, clowns, Colombia, vision, servants, hallways, dragons, senses, flamethrowers, skeletons, bullets, dungeons, skin, black eyes, characters, Chile, jackets, horrors, scarves, rainbows, Saudi Arabia, general movement, entrances, false awakening, guns, cults, black, Darth Vader, chefs, being tied up, and cheering than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of masks?
Mask dreams are notable because they have substantially less things, car crashes, burying, recurring dreams, love, giving birth, my children, funerals, boyfriends, seeing a dead friend, messages, flirting, romantic partners, foreignness, infidelity, seeing a dead relative, seeing a dead grandmother, the night, former partners, crushes, pooping, relationship events, girlfriends, childhood homes, beetles, hamsters, donkeys, eclipses, farmers, seeing a dead grandfather, mafia, seeing a dead pet, raccoons, cowboys, scorpions, miscarriages, crying, adoptions, going to the bathroom, snakes, the morning, end of the word, classmates, old friends, thanking, west, peeing, and sex than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of masks affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in masks dreams?
Overall, dreams with masks are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of masks are more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and much more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to close people.
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What happens in masks dreams?
Overall, dreams with masks are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of masks are more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general.
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How do masks in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with masks are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of masks are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.
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How do masks in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with masks are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of masks are more related to hearing, more related to vision, and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling and less related to taste.
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How can you make sense of masks in dreams?
Mask dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things mask dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and nightmare.
Do you think this is true for your dream of masks? How might your dream of masks 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 masks 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 masks in dreams. See how you feel about masks now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of masks?
Wearing a mask in a dream can mean you’re hiding something about yourself, as in the phrase “hiding behind a mask.” It can mean you put up a facade or project an image rather than show your true self. See: Disguises
A mask is a great symbol for persona.
It can mean you are playing a role that doesn’t fit you, or feel that you are being fake. Or perhaps you are concealing something, keeping secrets, or hiding your feelings. See: Hiding
Evil-looking masks can symbolize observing the darkness that can lurk behind the image of normalcy, or behaviors that can drive people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t. For example, addiction, envy, and lust can twist people to do things that compromise themselves and others. The darkness in them is like a mask over the good person inside.
A mask can hide an aspect of yourself that’s consciously unknown. This use of the symbolism is especially likely when you encounter a dream character that’s your gender and wears a blank mask. What you actually see in that image is a part of yourself that wants to be a conscious part of your life, or a feeling that you are a “blank canvas.”
The same imagery of a blank mask can symbolize lack of emotion. It can symbolize a weak sense of identity.
Explore this subject further using the entries listed below.
See also: Disguises, Emotions, Faces, Imposters, Makeup, Strangers
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 masks
Read some real dream reports of mask 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.
Did you already have a dream in which you or other people were wearing masks? Or talking about them, or thinking about them due to COVID-19?
I had my first dream about them last night, I dreamt I was in a store shopping for clothes and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn’t wearing a mask and I was like: oh! No! I’m gonna catch COVID-19! I was anxious about it in my dream. There were people around me and some were wearing a mask but some weren’t.
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I had my first dream about them last night, I dreamt I was in a store shopping for clothes and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn’t wearing a mask and I was...
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I met my future kids and self
By far the strangest dream I’ve had. Did I see a glimpse of my future? Details below!
•2021 me visited 2036•
*Lived outside of Chicago or seemed to according to a license plate I saw
*Masks were still a thing
*Two kids, a son Kai (he looked like my fiancé) and a daughter named Sacred. All three of us cried and were so happy when we hugged. It felt as if I were home.
*Someone said fiancé and I got married November 18th, 2021
*I finish my education and have been teaching kindergarten for awhile (according to my future self)
*Lived in a busy neighborhood
*Talked with what seemed to be family/close friends
*Tried to bring back pictures and documents of my kids for when I woke up but they disappeared
*Fiancé passed away from “silly” circumstances and family misses him. Seemed to be a recent death.
By far the strangest dream I’ve had. Did I see a glimpse of my future? Details below!
•2021 me visited 2036•
*Lived outside of Chicago or seemed to according...
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I dreamt of a post-COVID-19 world
I woke up to a dream earlier where I was just walking around on a busy city sidewalk. It looks like the normal pre-Corona time but there are fewer people around (not sure if it was because of the time, could have been after rush hour, can’t tell). There were even fewer folks wearing masks at that time, like 1:10 ratio.
I woke up to a dream earlier where I was just walking around on a busy city sidewalk. It looks like the normal pre-Corona time but there are fewer people around...
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Someone hot smack murdered when I let them out the door
Not exactly sure how the dream came to be but
I was in a random house with someone that I know and used to talk to like nearly 2 years ago
Then someone it came to us doing the nasty, and in my dream it was really good. But then I said he had to leave and I felt guilty and stuff
Cause irl I have a boyfriend so maybe in my dream I was still with him?
I'm pretty sure it read 10am
But it was still pitch black outside
He went downstairs to leave in a sad slighty angry way, but more disappointed
He didnt know which key it was so for some reason I went down and found the key instantly
To which he left without a work and I closed the door
And theough the door window
Which were blurry
A man appeared pretty sure he had red eyes that I could see the most through the blurry window
And then the guy that I was started telling me to open the door to which I was still locking the door quickly scared
And then bam
A truck zoomed past and I'm pretty sure killed him
I'm lowkey scared atm aaaa
And so then the weird red eyed man looked at me through the glass
And I sprinted upstairs with the keys
Laid down in the bed
And woke up (this was like 10 mins ago)
The second I woke up I felt for keys cause I had my sleep mask on and was confused and scared
Hope someone can tell me what this mean or like just, talk about this weird ass dream
Not exactly sure how the dream came to be but
I was in a random house with someone that I know and used to talk to like nearly 2 years ago
Then someone it came...
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(17m) Wet dream I raped someone, please help
Basically the dream was that I was in my lounge and I was sitting on my sofa watching tv when some (roughly ten) assailants came through my door and provoked me or something. They were all wearing the same suit (men in black style) and a plain white mask. I preceded to beat them up brutally with blood everywhere etc. After I had beaten them all up another person came in wearing the same suit but with black sunglasses and blonde hair. I figured he was the leader so I beat him up but leave him conscious in the corner of my room with blood on his face. Next a woman appears next to me but I don’t see her face, but for some reason I think she’s the leaders wife. I than remember raping her on my sofa in doggy style position, she was still wearing cloths(a white dress) and she really reminded me of the girl from megamind. I feel like she was screaming but I am not 100 percent sure. This was all happening whilst her husband was left beaten in the corner of my lounge watching. I was about to climax and than I woke up from the dream face down having ejaculated from the dream (waking up felt like I had been jerked awake suddenly). I than went to the toilet cleaned up than went back to sleep (it was like 2 am). It was only until I had woken up completly in the morning at around 8 am that I realised wt had happened. I told a friend when I went to school and he told me I should put it on here to see if anyone can make sense of it.
Btw I have not raped anyone before nor do I plan to and I have not been raped. I am not an incel either, I’m an 17 year old male.
Basically the dream was that I was in my lounge and I was sitting on my sofa watching tv when some (roughly ten) assailants came through my door and provoked me...
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