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What are puzzle dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like puzzle.

Puzzles in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.

What are the major highlights of puzzle dreams?

Puzzles is a normal dream symbol. Having puzzles in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of puzzles are emotional

Puzzles have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include love, scars, surprise, hearts, accomplices, accepting, anxiety, orange eyes, movement, and unpleasantness.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of puzzles

Who is in puzzles dreams?

Overall, dreams with puzzles are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of puzzles are less related to family and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as 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

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in puzzles dreams?

Overall, dreams with puzzles are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of puzzles are more related to sadness and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to pain, and less related to hatred.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in puzzles dreams?

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

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

much more than usual
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What happens in puzzles dreams?

Overall, dreams with puzzles are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of puzzles are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with puzzles are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of puzzles are more related to lucid dreams and much more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do puzzles in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with puzzles are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of puzzles are more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to taste and less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of puzzles in dreams?

Puzzle dreams are very uncommon. Among other things puzzle dreams are normally interconnect and very emotional.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of puzzles?

Puzzling over something means figuring out how the pieces fit together. Putting the puzzle together means fitting pieces together; for example, when solving a math problem or figuring out what to do with your life. Something puzzling is inexplicable. Working on a puzzle with someone can symbolize trying to figure the person out.

See also: Lost, Mazes, Wilderness

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 puzzles

Read some real dream reports of puzzle 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 Met Lucifer In My Dream

I had this dream a year ago & I still remember it vividly. I'm 16(m), still in high school and I aspire to be a super/fashion model. I still struggle to start my career nothing has been happening yet for the past 2 years, for now I can blame this year.

The dream occurred at a bus terminal, its noon and the sun is setting. A long day from school and I'm just waiting for a bus to go back home.

A nice gentleman, pale skin, long black hair sat next to me. He wore all black, had all the clothes I wanted and he looked luxurious. For some reason I knew that man isn't human. He was Lucifer. He didn't have no wings or horns. It's like he knew how desperate and vulnerable I was to have the things he had such as the designer clothing he wore and his looks. Just the two of us sitting on this metallic bench.

The bus arrived; mind you this could be my 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 ride home to my loved ones. My grandmother & uncle. It's either I conversate with this gentleman who has everything I want in life and I can ask advice from him on how can I get to where I want to be or be home safe with my family.

He tried persuading me without even using words to stay with him. I was so amazed then dream ended.

Till this day I am puzzled. Was I trying to sell my soul in the dream because my modeling career isn't working out?

Please help, replies are highly appreciated <3

I had this dream a year ago & I still remember it vividly. I'm 16(m), still in high school and I aspire to be a super/fashion model. I still struggle to...

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waking up with tears (crying)

Has anyone had a similar experience? The dream i want to keep to myself, but the fact that it blended into my 'real' life has me puzzled.
It's not the first time but this time was much more prominent.
Thank you in advance for any insight/advice.
Peace.

Has anyone had a similar experience? The dream i want to keep to myself, but the fact that it blended into my 'real' life has me puzzled.
It's not the first...

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Help me solve this riddle from last night’s dream

I am a vivid, linear dreamer who suffers regularly from hypnagogia, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.

Last night, I had a long, linear dream that mirrored an epic/fantasy. I was on a fantastic/strange continent across which I traversed to solve a riddle. At the base of the mountain, I found a relief in a mound of rocks with a treasure box. Inside was a scroll of parchment. When I unrolled it, these are the words I found:

_________ are the map...
_________ is the key.

Solve the riddle, and you will be rewarded your greatest wish and the influence over 1000 suns.”

Along with a companion, I traveled many landscapes, met many fantastical persons and creatures, as I attempted to fill in the blanks within the riddle. In a forest of twisted/gnarled trees, in an owl’s hole at the heart of a grand old oak, I found an object that was a puzzle that needed to be solved, like a rubik’s cube but made of stone and fewer columns to align.

When I solved the puzzle, the stone crumbled to dust. Inside was a femur bone around which was wrapped another scroll of parchment. It said:

“Skeletons are the map...
_________ is the key.”

After more journeying with my mysterious companion, I discovered another puzzle on which was written the final missing word to the riddle. I felt a grand oneness, because the whole riddle together made perfect sense, and I knew exactly where to go to achieve my goal.

Sadly, I woke, and I could not remember the word that filled the final blank, and the oneness I felt from the solution entirely fell apart. It has been haunting my waken self ever since.

“Skeletons are the map...”
What is the key?!

Any thoughts or insights?

I am a vivid, linear dreamer who suffers regularly from hypnagogia, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.

Last night, I had a long, linear dream that mirrored...

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Recurring dream for 30 years

I am 56 now, and had the same dream for more than 30 years after I graduated from high school. In the beginning I had the dream 2 or 3 times a week, and as the years went by the dream became less frequent until it got to the point where it completely stopped.

It's a fairly common dream I found out years ago, but my reaction to it was not.

I am in high school, I get to my locker and I can't open it. I go to the office, who seems to have the combination, and writes it down for me. (Which even as I'm asking them, puzzles me).

I get to the locker and it still won't open.

When I first started having the dream, it would end, and I didn't think a lot of it. Then, as the dream became more frequent, in the dream itself, it scared me that I couldn't open the locker.

Near the end, many years later, the dream became like a nightmare, and I was absolutely horrified about what might be in the locker. I was almost afraid to open it. The dream started making me afraid to go to sleep.

If anyone has any ideas about the dream, why it kept happening, and how it changed for me, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks.

I am 56 now, and had the same dream for more than 30 years after I graduated from high school. In the beginning I had the dream 2 or 3 times a week, and as the...

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The Woman.

Hey, so I had a very interesting dream tonight. Before we start however, I should point at that I am a young teen, male, if that matters in any way. Enjoy.

I had just done something very physically demanding. I was completely done for. I was exhausted, could barely move. I didn't know what I did, but it felt like I just lifted a truck barehanded.

I was on the beginning of Mount Doom from LOTR. I looked up, and fiery lava and shards of rock were flying everywhere. I began climbing, however, as I was already exhausted, I could only make it halfway.

Thirsty, tired, and desperate for help, I laid down on the cold, but also hot, sharp rocks. In front of me, a women appeared. She looked like Galadriel and Arwen's child (both from LOTR), however she wasn't. She just was.
She appeared in front of me. Her soft, warm eyes relaxed me. They weren't blue, nor green. They were both, but also not. It was like a new colour. I stared into her eyes, and she smiled a bit.
All my pain was gone, and I just laid there, staring into her eyes.
I wasn't after anything sexual, I just wanted peace in the dream, which I got.

I stared into her eyes for a couple of hours. After a few hours, grass appeared around her. Or, well, rather it became visible, because she hadn't been laying on rocks, but not grass neither. A big, warm sun arose from behind her. The grass that became visible was long, green and warm. It felt lovely. However, I didn't lay on it. Only her. I could but only touch it with my fingers. I was still stuck on the sharp rocks of Mount Doom.
We looked into eachothers eyes, as she arose and starting walking around me. She knew I really liked her, and she started walking around, with her chin high up and a very self-confident body language.

She laid down, but just for a little bit. I awoke. My dog came in and was barking at me. All the peace I once had was now gone, shattered away. I felt like i had just lost someone close to me. I wanted to cry, but I didn't. I fell asleep again.

I went into a sort of Mind Palace. Looking thru every woman i've ever met and remembered, trying to find her. But I couldn't. The closest thing was Galadriel or Arwen, sure they looked alittle bit alike, but not exactly. Also they didn't have that green-blue eye color neither.
I started panicking, trying to remember her. But everytime I did, her picture in my head just fell away farther and farther. I barely regocnized her.
Then, I awoke and ate a sandwich. It was tasty. Egg, on it, too. Thats a first. However, I always felt empty. Like i'd just lost my mother. Something was missing. A critical part of the puzzle was gone, never to found.

Perhaps one day I could return to her in a dream, or perhaps we would meet in real life. We wouldn't say anything, but we'd both know what had happenend.

I know what she looks like, but I also don't

What can all this mean? Very appreciated for answers.

Hey, so I had a very interesting dream tonight. Before we start however, I should point at that I am a young teen, male, if that matters in any way. Enjoy.

I...

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