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What are pulling dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like haul, tug, and pull.

Pulling in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 8.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 10 dreams.

What are the major highlights of pulling dreams?

Pulling is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having pulling in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of pulling are aggressive

Pulling dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all pulling have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having pulling in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include Laos, earthquakes, Vietnam, barns, general body parts, war, apes, feet, zombies, and tackling.

How does the dream symbol of pulling affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of pulling

Who is in pulling dreams?

Overall, dreams with pulling are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to insects than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in pulling dreams?

Overall, dreams with pulling are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to love.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in pulling dreams?

Overall, dreams with pulling are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to home, more related to transportation, and more related to magical places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in pulling dreams?

Overall, dreams with pulling are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do pulling in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with pulling are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to nightmares and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do pulling in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with pulling are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pulling are more related to hearing, more related to vision, and much more related to touch than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of pulling in dreams?

Pulling dreams are common. Among other things pulling dreams are very postively interconnected and aggressive.

Do you think this is true for your dream of pulling? How might your dream of pulling 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 pulling 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 pulling in dreams. See how you feel about pulling now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of pulling

Read some real dream reports of pulling 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 shot myself in my dream but I didn't wake up, I think I felt death

When I woke up in my dream I was standing in a huge grass field with a mansion behind me. My father was sitting in a lawn chair next to me and told me to go hide because the war was starting. I went over to a little bridge with water underneath. Grabbed a bucket and got into the water with the bucket over my head. I stayed there for about 5 mins. I remember hearing my breath in the bucket and feeling cold from the water. When the 5 mins passed, I got out and my looked for my dad. When I found him, he immediately told me to go back to the water because round 2 was starting. I grabbed the bucket again but before I had the chance to get into the water, a woman grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the mansion. She explained that "I wasn't supposed to be here." She led me to a very tall man in a blue suit. He took me to the front lawn and pulled out a gun. He told me that I can shoot myself or he would do it because I needed to leave. I decided to do it. I put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger. All the sudden bright lights were around me and I started floating. I felt so warm, like nothing has ever affected me before. It was actually an amazing feeling. I slowly woke up from this dream. Not panicked at all.

But I'm truly curious as to why I didn't wake up once I pulled the trigger? Also, No part of me is suicidal.

When I woke up in my dream I was standing in a huge grass field with a mansion behind me. My father was sitting in a lawn chair next to me and told me to go...

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I tattooed justin bieber’s face on my butt

His mouth is where my arsehole is.
When someone asks for my opinion, id say, hmm i wonder what justin bieber thinks,
Then ill pull down my pants, show them my ass, make my arsehole talk a la ace ventura and let justin bieber speak for himself.
I wish i was making this up.

Thats the dream. I woke up laughing.

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I think ill name this dream « ask the bieber »

His mouth is where my arsehole is.
When someone asks for my opinion, id say, hmm i wonder what justin bieber thinks,
Then ill pull down my pants, show them my...

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Teeth falling out

I’m sure this is a very common one, however I have this dream at least 2 to 3 times a week. My teeth are falling out, first it starts with one being loose and then I just pull it out and then another is loose so I have no choice but to pull it out and then it’s all of them. I hate it, what does this mean??? I feel like Google isn’t very helpful or accurate with the answer.

I’m sure this is a very common one, however I have this dream at least 2 to 3 times a week. My teeth are falling out, first it starts with one being loose and...

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I Had a Nightmare That Has Messed Me Up for Days Now. I Think I Went to a Multiversal Death Hub.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking life. I need some outside help making sense of what it could mean.

For context, I have existential issues involving what my purpose in life is or even if I am supposed to exist at all.

So it began in a sort of black void with a warm colored aurora in the sky. Directly in front of me there is a hooded man with his left eye missing that looks like an older grizzled version of me. Same look, voice, eye color, scar on our upper lip, everything. He is looking into a circular stone fountain looking thing with a bonfire positioned on a raised platform in the middle.

Around him in every direction as far as I could see were hundreds of thousands of gravestones. All of them had a vague “endings” written on them. (For example, “The Swiss Ending”, “The Atomic Ending”, “The Fantastical Ending”, etc.) Some were filled in while most had empty holes in front of them.

I approached the man in the middle and politely asked who he is and where I was. He simply responded with this,
“You know where we are, this is where we all go to die. Now find your grave, I’ll help you out when you get there.”
I responded with,
“My apologies, pal, I’m not dead yet. Who did you say you were again?”
“Does it matter? We’re all the same here anyway.”
That is when it occurred to me. All these graves were for different versions of me. From different realities or universes I don’t know. I was fairly certain I wasn’t dead and this was all just a bad dream so I decided to explore and possibly see which gravestone in this labyrinthine graveyard was mine.

As I walked, I started to feel a tug from my chest, like my heart was being tug in a certain direction. I followed the pultugr what seemed like ages. Eventually the graves just stopped except for this one gravestone sitting alone just outside of where the rest of them lay. As I approached my soul felt like it was it was sitting next to a cozy fireplace, so I had the feeling that this grave was mine.

I eventually got close enough to read it had it not been for the dust and debris that covered it. It looked old and dilapidated yet it still had an open plot in front of it. I brushed off the dirt covering the gravestone and what I read chilled me to my soul.
“The Bad Ending”

The old man came from beside me.
“What an unfortunate soul this one. Feel real bad for him, you know?”
“I think that’s me.”
“What? No, it couldn’t, he’s not-“
He looked at me, his face grew grim.
“Oh shit, you’re not supposed to be here yet!”
He then grabbed my face and I felt my brain shock like it had just been struck by Thor himself.

Then I woke up. Sweating, crying, and white-knuckled. It’s absolutely fucked with my mind ever since.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking...

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Weirdest and scariest dream I’ve had

My dream started with me and my brother smoking out of a bong and my mom saw My brother hitting it and he has drug test coming up soon so she got made then next thing ik I was watching Parker (Parker is my nefu he is 1 year old) and his hand got stuck in the sidewalk somehow and I didn’t know so I picked him up and it pulled his arm off like I could see where the bone got disconnected and it was weird cause When I picked him up he weighted nothing and I didn’t feel it pulled his arm off I called the cops put his arm in a cup of ice so they could reattach it (which I’ve saw on a movie I can’t remember to name but 4 friends go out in the woods to party and one is pissing and playing with a butterfly knife and his friend scares him and he chopped of his dick and they put it in ice) and I was freaking out then when the cop got there Chris (the father of my nefu) showed up and my mom and they looked at Parker and his arm was still on him and they all thought I was crazy. anyone know what this could mean. I’m kinda a lil traumatized

My dream started with me and my brother smoking out of a bong and my mom saw My brother hitting it and he has drug test coming up soon so she got made then next...

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