Background

What are paying attention dreams about?

Paying attention is that act of focusing on one specific thing. You can pay attention with any of the senses like vision, hearing, touch, or smell. Attention can also be very focused or attention can be more global and open. 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 paying attention dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how paying attention in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that paying attention is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that paying attention is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, paying attention dreams have more schools than 95.8% of dream symbols, more embarrassment than 93.0% of dream symbols, and more friendly acts than 89.3% of dream symbols. On the other hand, paying attention dreams have less weird dreams than 75.5% of dream symbols, less sad dreams than 63.7% of dream symbols, and less death than 60.2% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of paying attention 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, paying attention dreams have thinking and reflection than 90% of all dream symbols. There are many reasons why people think and reflect. Things might be confusing. They might be interesting. There might be risk. 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 paying attention is different than dreams of paying attention in general.

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of dreams have paying attention

How common are paying attention dreams?

3.0% of dreams have the paying attention symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are paying attention dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like attention and attend. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols verbs and general thinking.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of paying attention?

Paying attention dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, Guatemala, Kuwait, talismans, Dobby, Bilbo Baggins, jury members, castration, healing dreams, inner selves, Costa Rica than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of paying attention?

Paying attention dreams are notable because they have substantially less bobcats, Ecuador, El Salvador, burglary, Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Somalia, Neptun than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into paying attention dreams

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

Who is in dreams of paying attention?

Who is in dreams of paying attention?

Dreams of paying attention are more related to unnamed people, more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general.

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What are the emotions in dreams of paying attention?

What are the emotions in dreams of paying attention?

Dreams of paying attention are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of paying attention take place?

Where do dreams of paying attention take place?

Paying attention dreams are more related to work, more related to human-made places, and much more related to schools than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of paying attention?

What happens in dreams of paying attention?

Paying attention dreams are more related to friendly acts, more related to sex, and more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to death.

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

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

Paying attention dreams are more related to lucid dreams and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams and less related to sad dreams.

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How do dreams of paying attention related the senses?

How do dreams of paying attention related the senses?

Dreams of paying attention are more related to hearing, more related to taste, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of paying attention in dreams?

Paying attention dreams are relatively common. Among other things paying attention dreams are friendly and containing lots of thinking of thoughts. Do you think this is true for your dream of paying attention? How might your dream of paying attention 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 paying attention 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 paying attention in dreams. See how you feel about paying attention now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of paying attention

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 paying attention 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 paying attention dreams. Read at your own risk.

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