What are octopu dreams about?
The octopus is a soft-bodied, three-hearted, blue blooded, eight-limbed animal that lives in the ocean. This symbol is identified by words like octopus.
Octopus 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 octopu dreams?
Octopus is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having octopus in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Dreams of octopus have a striking lack of emotion
Octopus have substantially less emotion than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include foxes, Congo, chefs, Egypt, teeth falling out, ufos, eagles, Austria, recurring dreams, and Somalia.
Octopu dreams focus on sounds
Dreams of octopus have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, octopu dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include Lebanon, Hungary, burglary, Nepal, crocodiles, donkeys, recurring dreams, Kenya, pregnancy, and buffaloes.
What symbols more present in dreams of octopus?
Octopu dreams are notable because they have substantially more Bahamas, water, oceans, tanks, sharks, squids, bodies of water, reptile, whales, donkeys, creatures, boats, disguises, elements of water, Norway, other fantastic beings, aquariums, fish, hugeness, captains, summoning_demons, purple, outer space, swimming, mouths, destruction, unicons, general animals, chefs, wrist, dissecting, worms, fantastic beings, monster, spiders, alligators, natural elements, foreshadowing, parasites in body, aliens, carrots, beaches, helicopters, colors, giraffes, warriors, rocks, robots, tea, bigness, destroying, spaceships, cannons, hairdressers, legs, jets, horses, and the sky than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of octopus?
Octopu dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, bedrooms, driving, arresting, paying attention, old friends, teacher, balconies, love, cars, waking life, girlfriends, schools, dressing, smiling, embracing, nightmares, and jobs than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of octopus affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in octopus dreams?
Overall, dreams with octopus are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of octopus are much more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are much less related to different roles, much less related to distant people, and less related to close people.
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What are the emotions in octopus dreams?
Overall, dreams with octopus are much less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of octopus are more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are much less related to happiness, much less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in octopus dreams?
Overall, dreams with octopus are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of octopus are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, much less related to work, and less related to human places.
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What happens in octopus dreams?
Overall, dreams with octopus are much less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of octopus are much less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do octopus in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with octopus are much less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of octopus are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, much less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of octopus in dreams?
Octopu dreams are very rare. Among other things octopu dreams are negatively interconnected, lack emotions, and focus on sounds.
Do you think this is true for your dream of octopus? How might your dream of octopus 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 octopus 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 octopus in dreams. See how you feel about octopus now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of octopus?
The symbolism of an octopus is usually derived from its tentacles and the way it engulfs prey. It can symbolize a situation or problem that has many facets or layers, or something entangling or ensnaring: multitasking, possessive relationships, juggling several relationships, being ganged up on. You’re involved in too many things at once, feel pulled in too many directions, overwhelmed, overpowered.
An octopus can symbolize ability to camouflage and to squeeze through tight spaces. Think in terms of a physical representation of a personal situation. Such as camouflaging to avoid notice or scrutiny, or just to blend into your social environment. Squeezing through a tight space can represent getting out of a tight situation. Phew!
An octopus attacking or ensnaring you can symbolize some way that your unconscious mind is pulling you into its realm. This imagery is common in the dreams of people who resist the call from deep within them to find out what’s down in their depths. They feel that something lurks beneath the surface, and it terrifies them because they know if they “go there” they’ll never come back. The experience will change them significantly.
Like other sea creatures, an octopus can symbolize something from the deep reaches of your mind, the foreign, wondrous, sometimes frightening things encountered in the unconscious. See: Unconscious minds
In psychoanalytic tradition, the octopus is seen as a symbol of an overwhelming mother figure, someone who will devour and possess you; an octopus sums up the idea in one image. People who lack security, solid identity, and healthy boundaries can be terrified of separation or loneliness. They attach to and feed off the light and energy of people around them. And if that person is the mother who raised you, an octopus is an apt metaphor for your relationship with her.
Remember, though, that dreams are subjective, and if someone you know is represented as an octopus, it’s your subjective perception. Perhaps you feel that way because you have trouble setting boundaries or making attachments.
The clinging, devouring octopus might represent something about you with which you need to contend. Clingy, afraid of separation, needing close attachments, sucking people in. Does that describe you? This use of the symbolism is more likely if you battle an octopus, or the dream recurs. The symbolism shows in the actions.
An octopus has eight tentacles and is therefore associated with the number eight.
As with all dream symbolism, the meaning depends on your feelings. If you see an octopus and react with fear, it suggests that whatever it symbolizes bothers you, is difficult, or arouses your emotions. On the other hand, if you eat an octopus it might mean you are looking forward to taking on several tasks at once, or are happily involved simultaneously in several relationships. Or maybe you just want to try something different.
See also: Animals, Fear, Numbers, Oceans, Unconscious minds
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 octopus
Read some real dream reports of octopu 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.
Dreamt of being in an AI created reality
Hands down the most vivid dream I’ve had in awhile.
An AI had taken control of a house, and I went into one room, and everything looked like one of those “deep dream” images.
The first thing I notice is a naked skeleton dude laying on the couch with his ass in the air. On the coffee table was a mug made of skin with teeth as a coaster.
A dog walked about the room, but it was no ordinary dog. It was a schnauzer whose face melted into long 7ft spider legs. Just went I thought it couldn’t get much worse... a behaved ghost was arguing with a hairy octopus in the corner.
Everything was swirly and alive. If hell exists that is it
That is all
Hands down the most vivid dream I’ve had in awhile.
An AI had taken control of a house, and I went into one room, and everything looked like one of those...
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4 Octopuses (Octopi?) fighting on land?
I’m new here so thanks for taking the time. I’m a big believer in dream interpretation but I’ve never had an octopus dream. A lot of other things happpened, but this is what stood out the most....
I was in a building that was like a home but felt like a business. After looking for a channel to put on the TV (front area like a waiting room-and a lot of old artistic film noir porn type channels for some reason) I went to the front door. It had a screen door like a house. As I looked outside I saw 4 large Octopuses on land (close to shore—high tide) fighting with each other. They were all intertwined. My feelings were strange. Confused at what I was seeing so close to where I was, intrigued because who sees 4 Octopuses fighting on land at once, relived I was inside.
Then one turned away and was half man half octopus. He turned away from the group and went back in the water while the other 3 continued. I did not recognize him.
Then the tide really came in and started coming through the screen door. I got soaked. After trying to close the door so it wouldn’t flood (I couldn’t) I used the remote (still in hand from earlier) to change what was happening outside.
I’ve looked up Octopus meaning but I came across to much conflicting material. Again, any help is much appreciated so TIA.
I’m new here so thanks for taking the time. I’m a big believer in dream interpretation but I’ve never had an octopus dream. A lot of other things happpened, but...
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Crazy dream
Been having a lot of negative thoughts and it reflected in a bizarre way in a dream.
I was in a foreign country with a metal gear solid vibe plot going on. It was dark, storming, roads were mucky and filled with rocks and mud. Went to this sketchy market near a village that looked like a trap house type of area combined with a bad suburban neighborhood. I was looking for drugs and ran into this woman who took interest in me, although we barely understood each other. I told her about my problems and why I’ve become suicidal, and for some reason she became infatuated with me at a very intense level and wanted me to abandon everything to stay with her.
This freaked me out for some reason and I went to leave, but she followed and the residents around me were getting pissed cause she was either friends with everyone there or they admired her. So I ran for it and got into this old rusty car before flooring it, going through rough terrain of muck and rock. She kept pace somehow and managed to sneak into the trunk, which the dream itself informed me as it would pause and restart the chase each time I got to the destination point, telling me “she’s in the back”. Eventually got away from her and went into a helicopter.
Things got worse as the pilot was in cahoots with someone from the village that had no intentions in letting us leave. I shot the villager and held the gun to the pilots head telling him i’ll risk flying this thing myself if that’s what it takes to get out of here. He pointed at my eye and then I see someone in third person view stand in front of the pilot before I then shot the pilot. He then tells me before dying “it’s in your eye now” and I see this bright sky blue octopus with purple rings and bright green eyes emerging out of the eye of the guy who stood in front of the pilot before it broke through his skull like it was hatching. I grabbed the octopus and threw it out of the helicopter as the other guy died and I woke up.
Any ideas here?
Been having a lot of negative thoughts and it reflected in a bizarre way in a dream.
I was in a foreign country with a metal gear solid vibe plot going on. It...
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Strange Underwater Dream - Blue Whale & Jellyfish
I had a strange dream last night, and it's more fascinating than anything looking back at it.
I was in the middle of the deep ocean. Probably 1500 feet down or so. It was pitch black and no sunlight.. Everything looked monochrome. In fact, there was a light coming from me, making me think this was an ROV or such.
There was a large blue whale to the left. It definitely was in the 80-100 feet length range. Three giant jellyfish were plastered on its body, as if an octopus had attacked prey (that's really the best way to describe it). These things were huge, with each jellyfish probably 12 feet across, and the tentacles being the length of the whale. They resembled the [Lion's Mane Jellyfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish).
The creepy part was the whale was dead. These jellyfish were eating the whale. You could see how their bodies were ramming against the body to "eat" it. I also knew the whale had died from the jellyfish's stings. What hit me more and really ended the dream was that I knew that the jellyfish had no physical means to actively seek or hunt a big whale to eat it. The vibe I got was that the world was changing, and something had either mutated or adapted to survive. Dream ended there.
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I had a strange dream last night, and it's more fascinating than anything looking back at it.
I was in the middle of the deep ocean. Probably 1500 feet down or...
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Killer Octopus
I just woke up from a traumatizing dream that I had an octopus as a pet. But it didn't like us and exploded itself out of its tank and then yeeted itself through the roof. Then it became Donkey Kong huge, and wrecked revenge on us. It took over the apartment, but then it came inside, and asked what a card on the dining room table was. It was an old passed out Valentine’s Day card with lots of signatures on it. It then left it on the floor, suffocated us all, and then went on to take over the world.
But what. The actual fuck. Does this mean?
I just woke up from a traumatizing dream that I had an octopus as a pet. But it didn't like us and exploded itself out of its tank and then yeeted itself...
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