What are monster dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like monster.
Monster in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 60 dreams.
What are the major highlights of monster dreams?
Monster is a normal dream symbol. Having monster in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of monster are aggressive
Monster dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all monster have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having monster in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include bones, crime, hitting and kicking, jails, ducks, attacking, burying, glowing eyes, butlers, and turning.
Dreams with monster might be a nightmare
Dreams of monster are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain monster might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with monster are not nightmares. But, dreams of monster are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include therapists, waking, tasers, back doors, The Holocaust, horrors, general senses, dolls, emptiness, and tackling.
Monster dreams are very social
Dreams of monster contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of monster are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include people's ages, spouses, friends, monster, spirits, elderly people, horses, children, other fantastic beings, and actors.
Monster dreams are scary
Dreams containing monster 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 monster are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of monster, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include descending, uranus, nightmares, going, running, general thinking, torturing, places, trying to scream, and baboons.
What symbols more present in dreams of monster?
Monster dreams are notable because they have substantially more Algeria, verbs, creatures, vampires, dungeons, robots, aggressive interactions, dinosaurs, squids, dragons, other fantastic beings, Somalia, El Salvador, chasing, infecting, werewolves, horrors, mazes, scientists, Ecuador, attacking, caves, losing an eye, demons, Congo, deformation, games, underground, destroying, devouring, fighting, Gandalf, black eyes, apocalypses, trapping, glowing eyes, movement, disguises, Madagascar, escaping, zombies, octopus, killing, orange eyes, fog, skin, aliens, gems, hugeness, jungles, jackals, evil, opponents, hunting, hiding, worms, janitors, video games, teeth, pinecones, and baboons than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of monster?
Monster dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, facebook, former partners, being shot, Donald Trump, romantic partners, flirting, pregnancy, car crashes, relationship events, planes, weddings, thanking, underwear, seeing a dead relative, crushes, seeing a dead grandmother, girlfriends, epidemics, fantastic beings, characters, finding money, insights, kissing, Korea, seeing a dead pet, donkeys, geese, getting fired, Ireland, jealousy, miscarriages, seeing a dead grandfather, paramedic, pastors, precognitive dreams, spouses, concerts, break ups, funerals, family, surgery, kittens, dating, motorcycles, waking life, vacations, and recurring dreams than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of monster affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in monster dreams?
Overall, dreams with monster are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of monster are more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to close people, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in monster dreams?
Overall, dreams with monster are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of monster are much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.
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Who is in monster dreams?
Overall, dreams with monster are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of monster are more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to transportation.
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What happens in monster dreams?
Overall, dreams with monster are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of monster are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general.
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How do monster in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with monster are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of monster are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and much more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of monster in dreams?
Monster dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things monster dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, nightmare, very social, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of monster? How might your dream of monster 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 monster 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 monster in dreams. See how you feel about monster now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of monster?
Monsters are the stuff of which nightmares are made. But like just about everything in a dream, monsters are symbols.
For example, monsters are used to compare with people whose behavior and character are “monstrous.” A difficult situation can be a “real monster.”
“The monster within” means that something nasty lurks there. It can be a way of comparing to mental or physical illness. For example, cancer is compared to a monster. See: Cancer
Anything repressed, unwanted, or ignored in you can take form as something progressively nastier until acknowledged and healed. What’s depicted as a monster in a dream can be something about you trying to get your attention: a feeling, desire, perception, old wound, aspect of yourself. It can even be unused potential or the little voice calling you to deeper experience. Its characterization as a monster is based on your feelings and perceptions. It’s a projection from within you.
A monster can be a general symbol of something feared. The symbolism is revealed by your reaction. If you see a monster in your dream and flee in terror, it’s a clue that the monster symbolizes something you fear. If you confront the monster, it can mean you are confronting a fear. If you laugh in its face, it can symbolize freeing yourself from fear, or someone whose bark is worse than his bite. See: Fear
For example, a woman dreams recurrently about a huge monster hunting her. She never really sees it in detail, it’s just dark and scary. She flees at first sight of it and continues running long after the danger is past. Finally, sick of running, one night she turns on the monster and screams at the top of her lungs. The monster shrinks down to a little girl who looks timid and afraid. The woman continues yelling, exasperated, saying it’s mean to play such a trick on her and that good girls behave themselves.
She reflects on the dream and is struck by her statement about good girls behaving themselves. It’s something her mom used to say to her. Her mom used to criticize everything she did, and in response she’s a perfectionist. Her mom has been dead for twenty years but the woman is still an obsessive perfectionist, still afraid of being criticized, as if she’s still a little girl struggling to understand why, according to her mom, she can’t do anything right. The monster that chases her in her dreams is this unresolved part of her childhood that still deeply affects her.
A monster is something that can’t be controlled. In dreams, that can symbolize a situation or person that can’t be controlled. Something is getting out of hand. It’s a shit spiral.
On the other hand, “monster” can be used to describe something that can’t be stopped. It’s not necessarily bad. For example, if someone has a “monster game,” the person dominates, can’t be stopped. Some athletes and soldiers are referred to as beasts or monsters because they have wild strength and indomitable will, an association that opens avenues for dreams to use the symbolism.
A beast or monster can symbolize the animal side of human nature—not just the “animal in you,” but animal instincts, which can be perceived as beastly if unrestrained, untamed, or shunned.
Or it’s the “beast within,” your Mr. Hyde.
In that sense, a beast or monster can symbolize something about yourself that pops out only under certain circumstances, such as when you feel threatened or under duress.
A beast can symbolize a rejected or repressed side of you that takes a beastly form in dreams as a way of symbolizing your adversarial relationship with it. As with all dream characters, when a beast is in your dreams you look it in the eyes, and ask what you see about yourself or your life in it.
A destructive beast or monster in a dream can symbolize something causing destruction in you or your life: bad temper, financial loss or mismanagement, a failed marriage, addiction, neurosis, mental illness. It can mean that a behavior, instinct, thought, or feeling is unconscious and characterized as a monster only because it isn’t fully understood.
See also: Addicts, Animals, Anxiety, Cages, Cancer, Chasing, Creatures, Demons, Devils, Dragons, Drugs, Fear, Games, Ghosts, Insanity, Nightmares, Panic, Shadows, Spirits, Sports, Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Zombies
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 monster
Read some real dream reports of monster 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.
What was a particularly unique dream that you’ve had that you still remember to this day?
For me, I had a nightmare recently, probably back in December, that was inspired by Lovecraft’s stories, for it had the image of a monster in it that reminded me of his works. It was probably something like the Shoggoth, with flashes of probably other Lovecraftian creatures I don’t recall, with the scream of a person who is falling into insanity! I’ll be honest, the dream itself made me afraid that I was going mad myself!
For me, I had a nightmare recently, probably back in December, that was inspired by Lovecraft’s stories, for it had the image of a monster in it that reminded...
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Dream about transforming into a literal monster
So within this dream, I was in a Jekyll and Hyde situation. Against my will I would transform into some kind of monster, I think it was part snake amongst other features (but being part snake seemed to be what came up), and be responsible for several deaths. I was never arrested, but mobs of people would come for me to either shout me down or ask a multitude of questions, or to just gawk at the monster.
This left me terrified to leave my house. I would hear people outside and just hide under the sheets. Then someone came in to check something (think that they were a technician or something) and they gave me some reassurance, can't remember what they said though.
So yeah. That was very odd. Any ideas what this could mean?
So within this dream, I was in a Jekyll and Hyde situation. Against my will I would transform into some kind of monster, I think it was part snake amongst other...
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3 ways how I get out of a killer/monster dream WORKS! (Most of the time)
1. This is the one I most dislike but it is the one I use the most because it get you to instantly wake up. Just stop running away and stay where you are, then start to dance let the killer/monster kill you since your brain does not know what is after death you will in instantly wake up.
2. This one is kinda fun to do and it can turn your bad dream into a good dream. What you do is stop running away, run TOWARDS, this will make the killer/monster confused and once you are close enough to the killer/monster slap them, then give yourself a powerful weapon to destroy them.
3. You can tun them good in this one. Let them get to you ask “Why are you doing this?” (remember to say this calmly they could get calm too) then try to fix it like if they say they got their happy meal stolen (I know it’s silly) buy them a new one you could become friends.
1. This is the one I most dislike but it is the one I use the most because it get you to instantly wake up. Just stop running away and stay where you are,...
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Worst way you've died/seen someone die in a nightmare?
This one happened right in front of me.
In hindsight, being possessed by the monster and having the process of it causing her to drown in shadow (the thing was a shadow monster) as her screams turned to gurgling was probably quite painful. It was certainly terrifying on my end as a witness, that's for sure.
This one happened right in front of me.
In hindsight, being possessed by the monster and having the process of it causing her to drown in shadow (the thing was...
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Dream of making love with monster
This feels super weird to post this but I woke up confused af lmao
The monster looked terrifying, large teeth/many eyes on face and even on the teeth. (Looks exactly like venom from spiderman but with thousands of tiny eyes)
When it made love to me, I wasn't scared of it but it 'felt' painful as if it was my first time making love....if that makes sense.
Anyone know wtf that would mean?
This feels super weird to post this but I woke up confused af lmao
The monster looked terrifying, large teeth/many eyes on face and even on the teeth. (Looks...
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