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What are mermaid dreams about?

Mermaids and mermen are understood to be mythological creatures that are half-human and half-fish. Stories and folk-lore about them often involve shifting of worlds, like from land to sea or sea to land. This symbol is identified by words like mermaid and merman.

Mermaids in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 950 dreams.

What are the major highlights of mermaid dreams?

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

What symbols less present in dreams of mermaids?

Mermaid dreams are notable because they have substantially less beds, insects, the morning, hearts, thanking, brains, sleeping, kitchens, driving, fires, faces, strangers, bedrooms, sunny, opening, grandmothers, mothers, and living rooms than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of mermaids

Who is in mermaids dreams?

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

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with mermaids are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of mermaids are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are much less related to grief and sorrow, less related to pain, and less related to fun.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in mermaids dreams?

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

Home

less than usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in mermaids dreams?

Overall, dreams with mermaids are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of mermaids are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

much less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do mermaids in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with mermaids are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of mermaids are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Mermaid dreams are very rare. Among other things mermaid dreams are normally interconnect.

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

Examples of dreams of mermaids

Read some real dream reports of mermaid 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.

Mermaid Seance?

There were two mermaid sisters; one had a beautiful, shiny, purple tail, but the other one had a dull green tail that she was self conscious about. The others would bully her for it, or they would praise her sister more than her. So the green sister starts stealing treasure, coins and other valuables.

The scene shifts to somewhere on land with a bunch of people lining up in a warehouse with playground slides attached to the building. There's a hurricane coming so there's people running around and preparing. One lady, who appears to be Angela Bassett, started daydreaming while she was in line with a couple other guys. (I forgot what it was that she was daydreaming about, I'm sure it was something more interesting/plot relevant.) She's startled awake and the guys next to her did too. They were like "woah, what was that?" "I saw it too!" Then they all ran off together to an empty room. They sat at a table and held hands, starting a seance. They recounted what I said about the mermaid, and suddenly the green mmermaidwas above them as a ghost. Angela Bassett asked her why she stole the treasure and ran away. Green said that it was because she wanted surgery to change her tail that she was so ashamed of. (Why didn't I dream up free mmermaidhealthcare?) Angela Bassett tried to calmly tell her that the mmermaidsurgeon had been dead for years. (What??) Green started screaming and trashing the place, breaking a glass in her hand against a wall and screaming about wanting to end herself. The group ran after her and that was the end of it.

There were two mermaid sisters; one had a beautiful, shiny, purple tail, but the other one had a dull green tail that she was self conscious about. The others...

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Weird animal in dream

I almost never dream of animals and this dream really struck out with me that i somehow remember every detail vividly.

Me and my brother went to a beach like place. It's basically a ledge with a fence over the beach where there was shallow waters going to the deep. There were a bunch of people there too at the time like how a normal beach would be when suddenly someone called out that there was aomething in the water. So I took a look over the ledge only to see a baby fawn struggling in the shallow water. I jumped over the ledge towards it thibking ill get it out when it suddenly burrowed into the sand and came out a bit away deeper in the water only this time ita hind lega turned to a mermaid like tail. In my mind im like "oh it must have been somekind of water deer/animal" and suddenly it tranaformed into a beautiful Jaguar only this Jaguar openend up a huge spine fin just like a dimetrodon has. Now I remember thinking how beautiful and majestic/graceful it was for some reason my mind focused on its tail which was black line gold line black and gold at this point it jumped around on the surface of the ocean gracefully and went deeper. I tried pulling out my phone to take a picture but the moment i took a picture I woke up.
The whole dream felt surreal and its transfornation really stuck out on my mind.

I almost never dream of animals and this dream really struck out with me that i somehow remember every detail vividly.

Me and my brother went to a beach like...

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The AXE body spray company offended A LOT of people in my dream last night.

There really is no way to frame this dream to make it sound less ridiculous, so here it goes..

I dreamed that the AXE company came out with a new fragrance called “Super Hot Lesbians”. Someone at HQ decided the best way to get guys hooked on the olfactory goodness of SUPER HOT LESBIANS was to buy the men’s public restroom buildings in parks and tourist areas nation wide, and replace the usual sinks/soap dispensers with decorative “sexy” fountains/dispensers that I can only describe as PG13 mermaids meet gothic gargoyle statues. Of course when the public caught wind of this new line of products they were outraged and confused. They obviously didn’t make the product for super hot lesbians, they were marketing exclusively to men. Was the smell supposed to attract super hot lesbians? Rioting ensued. The dream ended with an lgbt activist group explaining to a VERY confused me the plan of attack - which was to fill every dispenser in every revamped restroom with piss.

Then I apparently woke up, sent half a dozen people cryptic text messages with the major plot points, and fell back asleep. The End.

There really is no way to frame this dream to make it sound less ridiculous, so here it goes..

I dreamed that the AXE company came out with a new fragrance...

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Nightmare about cute girls wanting to kill me in a very nonchalant manner.

Lesbian approaching her 30th birthday.
Woke up at like 6 in the morning with a weird nightmare. Like shaken awake really. I was really creeped out and wrote the nightmare down, mostly to calm myself down.

So here goes... Written in a stream of consciousness by sleepy me on my phone.

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An art festival where all the women are gay. I am there as a writer, even though most are artists. I hang out with a few friends: There were jokes about monsters in the night, but that’s it. I start flirting with one girl; the others then go into full psycho/folk monster mode and stalk the night. We see them at a distance. The say nothing and follow on slowly. You can run away which is what I do. There is an understanding that they want to hurt you. One was a mermaid, one was a like Japanese yokai. We were like in a subway or aquarium which they were decorating as part of the art thing. So we run around through that.

And they specially want to kill me by jamming blades into my head. Like one had a weird scalpel like thing that jutted forward like a kukri blade. And she needed to slowly press through my forehead. I somehow knew this.

And we run. This like full on nightmare logic. I ran off with like a few other survivors. We ran by a lake and small house near it. We never go into the house. I just feel like the lake resembled a place close to where I lived. I run where there are most people (including men and police officers) and no one believes me. Moreover they also seem detached and just joke it off almost maliciously.

This keeps going until the girl I was running with Also starts trying to kill and it’s a full on zombie apocalypse/ riot. Buildings burst into flames, I can see the girls attacking others. The girls now talk. they are all slow and sassy about wanting to kill me. There is no reason. They just want to kill me and laugh about it.

When I kill one of them back, they are mildly annoyed and say that the next one will get me. I killed just one. The one closest, by stabbing her in the side with something. Not sure if she snapped a-la zombie infection or was always plotting to kill me And they all start stalking attacking me like a slasher. And like moments after my mind acknowledges they are hot and I like them. There was not a single one who was not attractive.Like me liking them is a prerequisite of this world ending.

The whole thing felt like a game or a movie... where I felt detached from actually being in danger. But like this was something I had to experience even though I hate horror games and movies. As in, there is never an outright fear of death, but I had to sit thorough something creepy and painful. And all of the girls spoke as if there was some truth to this state of the world. Like “you will understand”, “you should have seen this plot twist coming.” I am shook. Woke up afraid to close my eyes as if that would restart the game. I feel better now. I am weird.

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Any ideas, reddit?

Lesbian approaching her 30th birthday.
Woke up at like 6 in the morning with a weird nightmare. Like shaken awake really. I was really creeped out and wrote...

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Weirdly vivid dream about abandoned school and fish/ghost children (cw for mild body horror)

I was a journalist doing a report on a high school that had been destroyed by a huge storm. It had happened a long time ago, like several decades. I had to wade around and take pictures of the wreckage. The area was left alone to be reclaimed by nature and had turned into a huge indoor swamp. It kind of looked like the Everglades, except the water was extremely clear and unnaturally bright blue. I found a big room that was basically an indoor pond bordered by broken furniture and books. There was a group of kids just sort of sitting in it.

They looked/dressed like normal, modern-day teenagers. Except they had mutated/evolved in different ways to have fish features. Not exactly like mer-people. Some had gills, some had piranha teeth, only one of them really had stereotypical "mermaid" fins. One thing I remember is all their eyes had those transparent third eyelids that some animals have. (nictitating membranes?) I saw a boy with green skin eating a textbook like a sandwich. A kid with jellyfish stingers for hair swam up and asked me "Do you have any razors?" The whole group burst into laughter. They would nudge each other, mutter "Got any razors?" and just snort and giggle like it was the world's funniest meme. I asked what they needed razors for and one said "I don't even know what a razor is. It just sounds funny."

I was really concerned, thinking they were survivors from the storm that had been trapped. I kept trying to talk to them but only one would acknowledge me. Her answers were odd.

me - "Were you all here when the school was destroyed?"

her - "I don't know what a school is but I hate it."

me - "Well how long have you been in here?"

her - "That's a really mean question."

me - "If you /were/ in the disaster then we should find your parents."

her - "Well no. They never looked for us and everyone forgot we were here so I think they wanted us to die. So yeah that's what happened."

They told me to leave and the dream ended with me making an origami boat from a giant piece of paper while it hovered over the water. Idek

I was a journalist doing a report on a high school that had been destroyed by a huge storm. It had happened a long time ago, like several decades. I had to wade...

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