What are panic dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like panic.
Panic in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.
What are the major highlights of panic dreams?
Panic is a normal dream symbol. Having panic in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of panic are emotional
Dreams of panic are aggressive
Panic dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all panic have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having panic in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include metal, captains, screaming, employees, fingernails, machine guns, barns, chemical weapons, things, and fighter jets.
Dreams with panic might be a nightmare
Dreams of panic are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain panic might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with panic are not nightmares. But, dreams of panic are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hiding, necks, losing an eye, blood, general thinking, zombies, killing, backs, general body parts, and innocence.
Panic dreams are scary
Dreams containing panic 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 panic are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of panic, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include abscesses, white eyes, shadows, kayaks, grim reapers, fantastic beings, characters, nightmares, embarking, and aggressive interactions.
What symbols more present in dreams of panic?
Panic dreams are notable because they have substantially more locks, verbs, going to die, erupting, helplessness, Algeria, emaciation, nuclear bombs, movement, shaking, loss of speech, safety, general movement, infecting, Fiji, silence, ascending, relief, Kenya, events, ditching, cold, closed my eyes, maggots, senses, destruction, uranus, paramedic, knees, hearts, rainforests, descending, things, horrors, rage, fireworks, end of the word, attacking, neptune, paralysis, infesting, sleep paralysis, beginnings, pressing buttons, Haiti, false awakening, passengers, waves, general thinking, x-rays, heat, dead ends, noises, dead bodies, Jamaica, earthquakes, tranquility, calves, smelling, and creeping and crawling than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of panic?
Panic dreams are notable because they have substantially less uncategorized, Donald Trump, crushes, sex, precognitive dreams, relationship events, instagram, sexuals acts, falling in love, carrots, presidents, love, pastors, former partners, infidelity, seeing a dead grandmother, games, amazed, squirrels, angels, Japan, sadness, chicken, octopus, seeing a dead relative, friends, seeing a dead father, seeing a dead grandfather, dating, airports, vaginas, boyfriends, flirting, cowboys, panic, crows, romantic partners, faires, actors, kissing, the night, rainbows, social media, egos, and specific people than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of panic affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in panic dreams?
Overall, dreams with panic are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of panic are more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles and less related to distant people.
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What are the emotions in panic dreams?
Overall, dreams with panic are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of panic are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to confusion, and much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to fun, and less related to love.
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Who is in panic dreams?
Overall, dreams with panic are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of panic are more related to home and more related to magical places than dreams in general.
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What happens in panic dreams?
Overall, dreams with panic are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of panic are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.
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How do panic in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with panic are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of panic are much more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring dreams, and much more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of panic in dreams?
Panic dreams are relatively common. Among other things panic dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of panic? How might your dream of panic 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 panic 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 panic in dreams. See how you feel about panic now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of panic?
If you are experiencing panic or anxiety in your waking life, you can bet you will dream about it. Dreams zero in on these feelings to try to help you with them. It might seem cruel for your dreams to induce panic or anxiety after you have been feeling it all day, but it’s actually helping you to relieve the pressure, put some distance between you and it, and understand the source. Dreams can even suggest treatments and solutions.
A common source of panic in dreams is lack of preparation. You know something important is coming up, such as a test, meeting, or interview, and you aren’t ready. Depending on the situation, your response in a dream can range from mild anxiety to full panic. Oh, crap, the interview is tomorrow and I’m not ready! See: Tests
Whatever causes panic in a dream is likely to connect with you and your life but be disguised as symbolism. You can tell what underlies a symbol in a dream by how you react to it. You subconsciously know what it means and react according to that.
Discrepancies will really stand out, too. For example, you react with panic because a drink spills, and it symbolizes fear of getting pregnant. The glass spilling symbolizes an accident with a contraceptive, and that’s the sort of situation that can cause panic, but you normally wouldn’t expect such a reaction.
Dreams exaggerate, so if you experience panic in a dream, the situation it reflects from your waking life might not be as bad as portrayed. For example, you dream about people panicking, jumping off buildings and stabbing themselves with big knives. However, in the dream you are relatively calm. Thinking back on what occurred the day before the dream, you remember that your co-workers were panicked about a situation that you viewed as just another day at the office. The actions of the people in the dream are an exaggeration of how your co-workers behave and the contrast with how you perceive the situation.
Along these lines, a feeling of unease or trepidation can trigger panic and anxiety in your dreams. While dreaming, your defenses are down and filters off. The full impact is felt. Add in dreams’ tendency to exaggerate, and something that is felt mildly while awake can return as panic in your dreams. It might mean you aren’t taking something seriously enough, or you’ve allowed something important to slip your attention. You might have good reason to panic!
For example, your doctor says you are on verge of becoming diabetic. You laugh it off at the time, but on a deeper level the news hits you hard. Seeing the situation as full-blown panic in a dream might express how you really feel.
Consider also that a source of panic is what could happen instead of what did happen. You fear the worst, or see a tendency in yourself that is cause for alarm. Or your Mr. Hyde is showing. For example, you are normally cool-headed but lose your temper one day, and are reminded of your father’s ferocious temper. You fear that ugliness coming out in yourself again.
Sometimes not panicking during a dream is a good sign, especially if that’s how you would normally react. Dreams create scenarios to help you learn and grow, simulations that test you and drive home lessons. Think of it as pressure under fire. If you can handle panicky situations in your dreams, you are more likely to handle them in your waking life.
For more thoughts on this subject and how to use your dream imagery to lessen panic and anxiety, see: Anxiety.
See also: Anxiety, Chicken, Emotions, Fear, Tests
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 panic
Read some real dream reports of panic 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.
Whats your scariest nightmare?
What was your scariest nightmare?
Mine went like this:
I was trapped in a sort of maze, and was running away from a creepy old lady trying to rape me. It was really claustrophobic, no space to stand, i was crawling my way through. Throughout the maze there were many doors I had to open, but blocking the doors were amputated children. These amputated children were really heavy. The amount of stress and anxiety during this nightmare was insane. i was panicking because I could hear the old lady getting closer and closer, but I was struggling to move the children out the way. Also throughout the dream it felt like I had trouble breathing, there were moments where my throat felt like it just clogged up. It ended in a very cliche way when the old granny reached me and I woke up.
What was your scariest nightmare?
Mine went like this:
I was trapped in a sort of maze, and was running away from a creepy old lady trying to rape me. It...
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I just had the most terrifying dream of my life. Someone please help.
Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if this has meaning.
There was a body in the front seat of my car and my partner and i got out to call the cops. Instead of cops showing up, a sports car with 4 men showed up and when i told them what happened they ran into the house only to die. Another police drove by and i flagged them down but they parked in my neighbors across the streets driveway and the old cop and the car turned into my neighbor and i was helpless. My partner and i walked back across the street to my house and i suggested maybe i could only see the things happening because i was schizophrenic when a middle aged lady with a cigarette said “but i can see you guys” and ran into my house. I chased her demanding answers and she said “they’re most prevalent in may” and disappeared and i kept screaming “you’re not welcome here” until my voice become not my own. i went back out to my car and there were more dead bodies in my car and a little girl on top of my car with bruises. i noticed my partner in the front passenger seat and they had puncture wounds everywhere. the little girl had a hammer and said she had to kill my partner and kept hitting my partners skull with it. i had to kill the little girl by using a pickaxe and swinging into her brain. Then i got the feeling the cops were going to frame me for every murder and woke up.
Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if...
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About once a month I have a dream that I’m in high school and I have no idea what classroom I’m supposed to be in.
I have no class schedule and there is no one working in the office. So I just panic and wake up. Anyone have anything similar to this or know what it means?
I have no class schedule and there is no one working in the office. So I just panic and wake up. Anyone have anything similar to this or know what it means?
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Just woke up feeling so guilty :(
Such a bad dream. I was at the river, there was an event going on with a ton of people. A kid came up to me and showed me their guinea pig, which I played with for a while. Then I had to leave and the kid traded for their pet tarantula. As I held it, I just thought it was the cutest thing ever. When I got home I put it in the aquarium (where another tarantula lived but for some reason I thought my bf had let it out to wander around? Idk). Then I realized both tarantulas were now in the aquarium and I felt a sudden panic, cause I knew my bf's tarantula was hungry. Before I could save the new spider the other one was doing her happy dance (that she does after she eats) and she attacked. I watched in horror as she killed the other one. They didnt even fight, she just pounced and sunk her fangs into it :( at one point they were both wandering around and I was like oh thank god, I gotta get it out. Then it was as if she had dialogue and I could hear her say, I thought I killed you, and knock the other one down and "stab" it with her fangs. I just thinking omg I'm gonna have to replace this kids spider.
Anyway then I woke up feeling horrible and uneasy. There was more to the dream, including a large man stealing a lot of stuff from the people at the river, and when I told him "fuck you" he said a really funny comeback about me not being fuckable. I wish I could remember it exactly.
Thanks for reading, just wanted to jot this down lol
Such a bad dream. I was at the river, there was an event going on with a ton of people. A kid came up to me and showed me their guinea pig, which I played with...
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Need help interpreting a dream about being cut open.
It was a school meeting in an auditorium, in which the staff believed one of us was hiding something inside ourselves, and to find it they had to cut open a part of our stomach. The woman who sat beside me was getting cut open, and she gave the impression that this was something she was used, based on how unfazed by any of it happening to her, as I saw her getting stabbed, and handling it with pure ease. It becomes my turn, and I start to panic. Despite my frantic act, the lady (staff member) began to start cutting my stomach open anyway (using a pair of heavy duty scissors). I began to try forcing myself to deal with the pain, but it became unbearable, to the point where I starting screaming and threatened to hit her if she would stop.
It was a school meeting in an auditorium, in which the staff believed one of us was hiding something inside ourselves, and to find it they had to cut open a...
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