What are prom dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like prom.
Prom in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 900 dreams.
What are the major highlights of prom dreams?
Prom is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having prom in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Prom dreams might be sexual
Dreams of prom are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If prom is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include lips, innocence, captains, amazed, servants, casinos, weasels, pregnancy tests, werewolves, and lovers.
Prom dreams are about family
Dreams of prom are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of prom will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include children, verbs, pregnancy, seeing a dead grandmother, home towns, Bahamas, facebook, bankruptcy, yards, and lovers.
Prom dreams are about love
Dreams containing prom are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of prom are about love. It simply means that if you dream of prom, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include best friends, animas, girlfriends, distant people, guest rooms, ugliness, romantic partners, Chile, hazel eyes, and South Africa.
What symbols more present in dreams of prom?
Prom dreams are notable because they have substantially more antlers, rental cars, dressing, kings, queens, schools, lockers, human places, indigo, colleges, crushes, janitors, Barack Obama, ditching, relationship events, weddings, pastors, dating, speaking, weasels, makeup, casinos, libraries, break ups, bankruptcy, ducks, above, parties, anticipating, flirting, time travel, going, limousines, students, classmates, grooms, communicating, pizzas, purple, kissing, ancestors, New Zealand, zebras, general movement, socks, being late, menstruation, comfort, boyfriends, Donald Trump, Sweden, shirts, calendars, shoes, asking, puppies, librarians, trucks, waiters, and greeting than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of prom?
Prom dreams are notable because they have substantially less beds, blood, bedrooms, creeping and crawling, doctors, noises, planes, snakes, the morning, nightmares, sleeping, cats, fear, swimming, mouths, sleep paralysis, disasters, and beaches than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of prom affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in prom dreams?
Overall, dreams with prom are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prom are much more related to close people, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in prom dreams?
Overall, dreams with prom are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prom are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are much less related to fear.
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Who is in prom dreams?
Overall, dreams with prom are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prom are more related to home, much more related to work, and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are much less related to natural places and much less related to magical places.
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What happens in prom dreams?
Overall, dreams with prom are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prom are much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and much less related to disasters.
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How do prom in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with prom are much less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of prom are much more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of prom in dreams?
Prom dreams are very rare. Among other things prom dreams are negatively interconnected, sexual, family oriented, and about love.
Do you think this is true for your dream of prom? How might your dream of prom 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 prom 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 prom in dreams. See how you feel about prom now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of prom?
Prom can be used in a dream-story to create symbolism based on associations with it—common associations and personal ones.
Some common associations with prom are that it’s a big date, a formal occasion, a highly anticipated event.
Some less common associations are that it’s costly, brings out insecurities and anxieties in people, and the person you take as your date says a lot about your social status and dating skills. Those are possible reasons that you dream about being at prom ten or twenty or thirty years after your last prom.
Also consider that prom for some people is when they lose their virginity, so it can be associated with sexuality and sex life.
For example, a teenage female dreams that she and her peers walk single file across a plank over a dark pit. Some of her peers fall off, but she makes it across to a room with an overhead sign that says “PROM.” Inside she finds bored teens and a picked-over food buffet.
The dream symbolizes her first sexual experience. The risky maneuver over the pit represents the inherent risks, such as pregnancy and disease. Making it to the other side represents that she didn’t fall into those traps during her first sexual experience. The bored teens and picked-over food buffet show how she feels about the experience. It didn’t live up to expectation.
Prom is connected with inclusion and exclusion. For example, a man who didn’t attend prom because he was an outcast in high school dreams about it years later as a recurring theme. His dreams use prom anytime they want to address a subject related to exclusion and the bitter taste it leaves in his mouth.
Prom can connect with the symbolism of school. See: Schools
It can connect with dating. See: Boyfriends, Girlfriends
It can connect with marriage, both as a formal occasion and as a precursor, such as when you marry your high school sweetheart. See: Weddings, Weddings
And of course, you can have personal associations that your dreams use as symbolism. Begin by thinking about prom and what you associate with it personally.
See also: Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Limousines, Weddings, Schools, Students, Teenagers, Weddings
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 prom
Read some real dream reports of prom 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.
I had a horrible kidnapping nightmare
I literally just woke up from a nightmare, and I’m still quite freaked out. I was at school at Prom, wearing a white suit which I had gotten mud on accidentally. A man and a woman, the man with curly hair and glasses, the woman with dark red hair, started rounding everyone up, explaining we would be sold.
They said we would have to be blindfolded for two months, for whatever reason, and I took off. I tried to jump over a fence into a neighbouring houses yard, but the man had beaten me to it. He was taunting me, slowly making his way up to me. I started talking about my family, my brother and my cat, my mum and my dad, but he would not listen.
I was dragged along with the other kids up the school path to the front. We were told to pile into a large white van, which was parked just outside the school. I remember taking off with my friend Tom, who was saying that he was going to crack his head open on the path and kill himself before they could get to him, but I grabbed him, breaking down the door of yet again another neighbouring house. I went inside, gathering as many people as possible before locking the doors, calling 111 (I live in New Zealand) I don’t remember anyone answering, but hearing a large explosion outside. The kidnapped had driven off the road, effectively killing himself and his partner.
I literally just woke up from a nightmare, and I’m still quite freaked out. I was at school at Prom, wearing a white suit which I had gotten mud on...
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Just had a dream where I cried after I woke up
For the record I am a senior in high school. I was back in first semester of my senior year in high school and I was trying to flirt with This girl named Alyssa(not real name). And I did a lot of stupid things but eventually we got to the point where we were good friends. I decided I was going to her ask her to the prom the next week(today was Thursday). And then someone came in and said that they wanted volunteers for some sort of science experiment. Alyssa raised her hand, so of course I did to. They asked us to come over to the science wing of my high school. As I caught up with Alyssa, We started chatting and hypothesizing what this “experiment” would be. When we got to the room there were 12 of us. There were these pods and they asked us to lay down in these pods and they were going to scan our brains. They put us to sleep and then I when i woke up right away as If they couldn’t put me to sleep, but I was at my house now, in my own room but still in the pod. And everything looked different. Older. I went downstairs and I found my best friend outside playing with my nephew. I thought the nephew he was playing with was my nephew Andy who was 8. As I approach him to ask what happened to me. He sends Andy home and He starts crying and runs over and hugs me. I ask him what happened and he says that I have been asleep for three years. I realize everything that I missed, prom, college scholarships, first dates. I asked where my mom is and he says that she died two years ago. I asked where Alyssa was. He said that whatever they used to put me to sleep didn’t work on her, so she is now half way around the country in college. And then I woke up crying
For the record I am a senior in high school. I was back in first semester of my senior year in high school and I was trying to flirt with This girl named...
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I dreamt about a girl that is in my highschool even though i never seen her in real life and then coincidence strikes?
So two days ago I had a dream about this one girl from my highschool, now i never seen her around, I didn't even know her name, but I added her randomly on Instagram(I was adding everyone that popped up), kinda forgot who she was and how she looked because she posts like 2 3 times a year.
So the dream goes like this: I was on the street that I have never been before (greenish background and it was late at night) heading back to this cheap motel that had neon red lights and I check my phone and I see I had a message in my voicemail. Now people in my country never use voicemail I don't know why and it's from her. It says that her date bailed out on her for the upcoming prom that is like in a couple of hours (I didn't know about the prom in the dream, but at the end of the upcoming year there will be a prom in real life) and she asks me if I'd like to go with her, without a second thought I call her and I only say yes and she is very happy. I head to the motel and there my aunt and my uncle have a room that is like their apartment combined with their old apartment (reddish background and lighting even though there is a little red in those rooms). My uncle somehow knows that I am going to this thing and has the jacket from a suit, a white shirt and a red tie, but no pants for this suit. Kinda looked cool and gives me these weird headphones (silver) like those you get from your phone but had some other features (never use them in the dream but I kept them around my neck). I go into the hallway and this girl is there is she hugs me for a solid 30 seconds really tight, and my aunt and cousin pass by at different times and they say 'no sex'.
Afterwards we leave for the party and I can only remember that the prom had this greenish background, I didn't see the girl around anymore, there were some things that happened at the prom but I can't remember anything. Woke up hugging a pillow(white, green and brown) and I felt like I had a crush on this girl but couldn't remember name or exact appearance but her hair and the shape of her face.
Yesterday, I went to drive ( I am in driving school) and I hoped I would see the girl in the city or on my way back, but no luck. I get home and I do some stuff for a couple of hours but late at night around 11 pm, I open Instagram and she posted a picture, it looks like the girl in my dream. Now you could say this was normal cause girls post pictures all the time, but it is the first time she posted a picture this year, last one being in Nov 2018.
When I go to sleep, I think about her and I want to see her again and it happens, I remember seeing her in my dream but can't recall anything in that dream. Woke up hugging the same pillow.
It is the pillow that I put my head on and before I never moved it around and I have 5 more pillows around me.
What does this mean? Should I try talking to her?
So two days ago I had a dream about this one girl from my highschool, now i never seen her around, I didn't even know her name, but I added her randomly on...
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A pretty hazy but weird dream
I'm 13 and a guy for context.
So apparently my mom had arranged for me to go to this weekend hangout thing for teens that ended on a Sunday night at a big prom. (something my mom would never do.) And Saturday was cool but I only remember a bus ride where the girl I was set to go to the prom with tried to talk to me but I was NOT having it I just wouldn't talk to her and she was a bit older than me like older enough to drive again weird. Well, the night of the prom comes around and we are apparently in a shared hotel room about to go. I'm laying flat on my back not wanting to go because dating and dancing are not my things. She says are you ready? I just remember talking to myself about not going. Then getting in her car to drive there. Next thing I know I get out of the car and just straight up walk back to the hotel. Lay down then go skateboarding home NOT supposed to be since I skipped the expensive teen event and left the girl, my mom, for some reason wanted me to hang out with. I also remember having wiped out on my board pretty bad but not injuring myself if that helps. I'm just curious since I've been having some girl trouble lately and wonder if this reflects anything about it. Thanks for getting this far to the few who did. Maybe you can figure it out...
I'm 13 and a guy for context.
So apparently my mom had arranged for me to go to this weekend hangout thing for teens that ended on a Sunday night at a big...
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Angel of death ?
So last night I had a dream I was speaking to a friend who passed away ( he was telling me that it’s true everything you do in this life will be accounted for in the next life ) anyway I’m in a hospital like setting with this lady with a note book , I also met a guy there he was a tall skinny fella basically telling me how my friends died , he explained to me that one of my friends death were instant then he explained to me that the other person they just took him because if he would of survived he would of basically been a paraplegic, anyway the lady was telling me it was my time to go soon and I’m like no way I don’t want to ,I asked her can I at least stay for my girls to watch them go to prom . I asked her for 10 years she rolled her eyes and told me no ! She told me she’ll give me 10 hours ! By this time I’m on the elevator leaving the building we were in . I scream to her give me 3 years at least give me 3 years she reluctantly agreed ! And then I woke up !
So last night I had a dream I was speaking to a friend who passed away ( he was telling me that it’s true everything you do in this life will be accounted for...
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