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What are purgatory dreams about?

Purgatory is a place of waiting. In some religions it is a temporary place people can go after death. Purgatory is often used in linguistic expressions to describe a state of uncertain waiting. This symbol is identified by words like purgatory.

Purgatory in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 1,000 dreams.

What are the major highlights of purgatory dreams?

Purgatory is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having purgatory in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

Purgatory dreams are associated with lucid dreaming

Dreams of purgatory are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of purgatory are lucid dreams. But dreams of purgatory are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include slow motion, white eyes, purgatory, dismissals, emptiness, ascending, waking, shadows, Darth Vader, and souls.

Purgatory dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain purgatory are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include arrows, heaven, grief and sorrow, revenge, Kuwait, crime, seeing a dead father, bandits, flamethrowers, and opponents.

Purgatory dreams are about love

Dreams containing purgatory 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 purgatory are about love. It simply means that if you dream of purgatory, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include lips, weddings, emaciation, jackals, fiances, seeing a dead grandfather, happiness, unicons, animas, and blue eyes.

Purgatory dreams focus on taste

Dreams of purgatory have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, purgatory dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Other symbols that are like this include mars, Congo, nuclear bombs, laundry rooms, fugitives, Kuwait, indigo, Frodo, possessing, and Fiji.

What symbols less present in dreams of purgatory?

Purgatory dreams are notable because they have substantially less spouses, hair, schools, dogs, babies, pregnancy, students, genitals, destroying, colleges, beaches, waking life, sisters, arms, people's ages, parties, bedrooms, and kissing than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of purgatory

Who is in purgatory dreams?

Overall, dreams with purgatory are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are much more related to fantastic beings, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.

Animals

much less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with purgatory are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are much more related to sadness, much more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in purgatory dreams?

Overall, dreams with purgatory are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are more related to natural places and much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, much less related to work, and less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

much more than usual
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What happens in purgatory dreams?

Overall, dreams with purgatory are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do purgatory in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with purgatory are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are much more related to lucid dreams, much more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams, less related to recurring nightmares, and much less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

much more than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do purgatory in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with purgatory are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of purgatory are much less related to taste and less related to vision.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

much less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of purgatory in dreams?

Purgatory dreams are very rare. Among other things purgatory dreams are negatively interconnected, are associated with lucid dreaming, about death, about love, and focus on taste.

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

Examples of dreams of purgatory

Read some real dream reports of purgatory 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 nightmare where I died and these lost soul things were walking around purgatory, they had long legs, made of shadows and glowing white eyes, their heads looked like traumatised ghosts, and...

It was really weird.

It was really weird.

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I used to dream about being in the same empty arcade all the fuckin time

Time and time again when I was a kid I would end up in the same empty arcade. It was a huge place and I was always the only one there.

It wasn’t a bad or creepy place, but at one point I became scared that the arcade might be my purgatory or something. So one night before bed I sort of thought really hard and really deliberately about how I never wanted to go back there, and after that I never had the dream again.

Time and time again when I was a kid I would end up in the same empty arcade. It was a huge place and I was always the only one there.

It wasn’t a bad or...

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Very much pain in dream

so this dream I think I was basically stuck in a purgatory in which I died protecting my lover until I move on from my lover or they move on from me. I died a couple of times FEELING THE STUPID ARROW IN MY BODY AS I LAY BLEEDING OUT IN THE GROUND AND FEELING IT. I think at one point they meet another person during pre-loop period and start having fun with them and laughing. So I died a couple more times and felt it all and eventually the dream ended because as I was bleeding out in extreme pain in the ground I looked up and saw my lover being happy with another person and I thought “maybe I’m not the right person after all” and blacked out.
Anyways I’m awake and heart still hurts like a bitch.

so this dream I think I was basically stuck in a purgatory in which I died protecting my lover until I move on from my lover or they move on from me. I died a...

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I had this dream a while ago. As soon as i woke up, I wrote it down quickly so I wouldn't forget it. PS: I have replaced "I" with "he" because he was not me.

A man who was being abused by his co-workers had a car accident due to mental exhaustion. When he wakes up, he appears in another world, like a purgatory, with Aztec aesthetics and lack of color. He meets several people who were there in a makeshift house, they tell him that he has to get to the top of a tower that is seen in the distance to revive and at the same time receive riches but to get there he must perform many tests on the way, the man overcomes many tests but he had the last one left, before climbing the last stretch, he decides to return to tell those people to go with him but they all refuse telling him that it is better to go alone. After that, they "motivate" him to continue on his way, he returns to the base of the last stretch of the tower, takes a breath and begins to climb. The last stretch was complicated due to the obstacles that attacked him, they were like solid gold people that appeared from the floor and constantly tried to push him out of the stairs. He, after several attempts, manages to climb up and reaches a door, opens it, a white flash covers his vision. He wakes up in a hospital with his wife and son looking at him and crying with joy to know that he woke up. He did not see them for a long time since they were fighting, but this situation brought them back together, it gave him to understand that the gold in his dream was metaphorically his family.

A man who was being abused by his co-workers had a car accident due to mental exhaustion. When he wakes up, he appears in another world, like a purgatory, with...

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Dreamt of murder 3 nights in a row, this time I die.

Last night I had quite the unsettling dream. Basically my girlfriend and I were caught committing some crime(memory is a little foggy in this part) which resulted in her killing our witness. This inspired a lengthy police chase which ultimately ended in a familiar setting (her best friends house). Here, at least 2 more police officers/government people (it wasn't very clear) were killed by her/us in an attempt to get away with our crimes. Then all of a sudden she's killed, and as I notice this I'm shot in the back and in result fall to the ground. Realizing I can't move basically and the circumstances, I accepted that this was the end. I could hear chatter but it was hard to make out from the ground. Then the man walks over me, and another gunshot is fired which I assume was to my head, and everything starts slowly fading to black. And I accepted that. This is where things start to get weird. I wake up at my job (Dollar Tree) after hours (it was probably midnight). It was so eerie going down the aisles to what I assumed was my new purgatory. However, I was able to just walk on out of there through the front door. The world was identical to how it looked every other night as I do the night shift, with my girlfriends car parked in the usual spot but nobody else around. I drove it somewhere.Things start to get hazy and I cant really remember much after this but I know I was able to communicate with her as we were both dead and for a good while I was trying to figure out how to come back to life as I couldn't communicate with/find the living. I watched over my brother and Mom. Throughout the dream I repeatedly had to come to terms with the fact that I was dead, which was hard. Anyone know what this means? It felt like the dream had literally lasted all night and that in certain points I was in control. This is also my 3rd dream in a row to contain some kind of murder, but this one I died in. I honestly wish I could remember more about what lead up to the death/crimes, and what happened after I left the store I woke up in.

Last night I had quite the unsettling dream. Basically my girlfriend and I were caught committing some crime(memory is a little foggy in this part) which...

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