Background

What are music dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about music dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with music dreams. These are the words that make music dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of music dreams can be illuminating about show music affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example music dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how music in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that music is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that music is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, music dreams have more hearing than 99.0% of dream symbols, more friendly acts than 93.3% of dream symbols, and more fun than 89.9% of dream symbols. On the other hand, music dreams have less death than 86.4% of dream symbols, less aggressive acts than 83.5% of dream symbols, and less pain than 81.7% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of music are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Finally, dreams of music are auditory! They focus on sounds and hearing. Dreaming is primarily a visual medium. We see in our dreams, but hearing is less dominant. It is interesting to explore why music in dreams could be related to hearing. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of music is different than dreams of music in general.

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of dreams have music

How common are music dreams?

2.4% of dreams have the music symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 40 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are music dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like music. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of music?

Music dreams are notable because they have substantially more Bilbo Baggins, concerts, El Salvador, playing, jackals, artists, verbs, worm holes, collective unconscious, ovations, microphones than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of music?

Music dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Syria, Pluto, emaciation, Dobby, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into music dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in music dreams.

Who is in dreams of music?

Who is in dreams of music?

Dreams of music are less related to animals, less related to strangers, and less related to family.

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What are the emotions in dreams of music?

What are the emotions in dreams of music?

Dreams of music are more related to sadness, more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of music take place?

Where do dreams of music take place?

Music dreams are more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of music?

What happens in dreams of music?

Dreams of music are much more related to friendly acts than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to death.

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How do dreams of music related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of music related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of music are more related to sleep paralysis and more related to good dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of music related the senses?

How do dreams of music related the senses?

Dreams of music are much more related to hearing and more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to touch.

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How can you make sense of music in dreams?

Music dreams are relatively common. Among other things music dreams are friendly and focused on sounds. Do you think this is true for your dream of music? How might your dream of music be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience music in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

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 music in dreams. See how you feel about music now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of music dreams

An interpretation of music dreams

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. Music in a dream can connect closely with mood and emotion. It can express the thoughts you can’t consciously express and the emotions you can’t consciously feel. You have a DJ in your head that has access to every song you’ve ever heard, and that can pull out the right one at the right time to perfectly match the situation. Music can express harmony or disharmony within yourself. To hear beautiful, harmonious music can mean you are experiencing positive emotions. Your life is harmonious, especially your inner life. Disharmonious music can indicate negative emotions, or express the state of your mind or life. It can tap into the deepest layers of your being. Music can tie in with the subject of the dream. For example, the song “Material Girl” by Madonna is heard in a dream, a song the dreamer would never listen to voluntarily, and hearing it sums up his thoughts about living in a material world but seeing through it to recognize the beauty of it, too. The dreamer lives in a rundown urban neighborhood. It makes him feel pessimistic, but shifting how he views it helps him to see the beauty in the people and the ways that nature expresses itself in urban environments. The song is the catalyst for a flip in his perception. If you wake up with a song in your head, pay attention to the lyrics—they could have a message for you—and also to the song’s general mood and tone. For example, feeling energetic could be reflected in waking up with a techno beat in your head. Feeling angry could be symbolized by Death Metal. See also: Ears, Emotions, Hearing N

Examples of dreams of music

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of music dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for music dreams. Read at your own risk.

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