What are red dreams about?
Red is a color with a lot of symbolism. Our blood is red. Our anger is red. But red also colors sunsets and sunrises. Our cheeks turn red when we blush. This symbol is identified by words like red.
Red in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.
What are the major highlights of red dreams?
Red is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having red in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
What symbols more present in dreams of red?
Red dreams are notable because they have substantially more glowing eyes, verbs, red eyes, yellow, purple, Jamaica, blue, armor, indigo, orange, eclipses, gold, blue eyes, Haiti, brightness, gray, general colors, scarves, foxes, armageddon, things, green, autumn, devils, vision, Guatemala, socks, the sky, gems, hats, black, antelopes, accents, skin, yellow eyes, squares, violet, hair, heat, shirts, dragons, lasers, mercury, arrows, movement, the moon, erupting, dressing, wildfires, senses, balloons, shapes, triangles, pink, white, magnifying glasses, black eyes, fingernails, circles, and entrances than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of red?
Red dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, facebook, sex, precognitive dreams, infidelity, seeing a dead mother, former partners, pregnancy tests, crushes, red, colors, social media, abortions, sexuals acts, abusing, romantic partners, giving birth, break ups, falling in love, teeth falling out, taking a test, relationship events, recurring dreams, dream within a dream, suicide, seeing a dead father, the night, seeing a dead partner, seeing a dead relative, paralysis, fiances, love, depression, pregnancy, egos, waking life, tigers, girlfriends, paramedic, subconscious, adoptions, family, genitals, seeing a dead pet, and grief and sorrow than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of red affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in red dreams?
Overall, dreams with red are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of red are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to close people, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in red dreams?
Overall, dreams with red are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of red are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.
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Who is in red dreams?
Overall, dreams with red are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of red are more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to work.
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How do red in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with red are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of red are more related to nightmares and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of red in dreams?
Red dreams are common. Among other things red dreams are very postively interconnected.
Do you think this is true for your dream of red? How might your dream of red 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 red 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 red in dreams. See how you feel about red now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of red?
Colors in dreams are likely to connect in some way with emotions, and emotions associated with red include love, passion, anger, lust, shame, and embarrassment.
If you’re really angry you “see red,” and that association extends to aggression and war.
But at its most essential, red says “energy” and “intensity.” It says “zest” and “vitality.”
Wearing red in a dream can mean you feel sexy, full of vitality, assertive, and forceful. You want to draw attention to yourself.
And since red is the color of blood, it can be associated with illness or injury. Associations with blood branch out in many directions to create symbolism. See: Blood
Use the entries listed below to explore further.
See also: Blood, Colors, Clothing, Emotions, Fighting, Hearts, Love, Weddings, War
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 red
Read some real dream reports of red 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.
Dated an ugly red haired man and cheated on him with my current boyfriend
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I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my side, there is a guy whining that I never hug him. The guy has red hair and freckles and honestly he looks ugly but I assume me and my current boyfriend broke up in dream but we still were attracted to each other even though I was dating someone new. In the dream I wanted to break up with the red head man, who I have never met before in my life, but I felt guilty about potentially using him so I didn’t want to break it off yet. I did not like him more than pity him though. I will call the red head, Steve.
The bell rings and the boys leave, while two of my girl friends walk me to my class. I care deeply for both, there is none of the red head “I only pity you” stuff going on with my friends. However, I rarely talk to one because she might be depressed and doesn’t answer the phone, we will call her, Sofia, while the other is my best friend, Usagi (She loves Sailor Moon). As we walk to class, the sky goes dark with clouds and as the rain falls, lightning nearly strikes us. We run to the furthest building possible, me carrying Sofia at one point while she says she’s going to vomit. The lightning nearly strikes four times before we make it to a building with cover. I keep carrying Sofia and she throws up on my back. I’m annoyed but I understand. Usagi promises to care for her on their way to class and both leave.
When I go to class, I ask for a spare sweater or jacket since my shirt is nasty. It smells awful for obvious reasons. My friend, Aaron, offers up his sweatshirt and I take it going to the bathroom. It’s a girls bathroom but it appears both men and women are inside studying French. I studied French in high school and I am afraid I can’t speak well so naturally they speak it better than me. I then lose my phone somehow while changing out of my shirt. I try to find it when an old man begins cleaning the faucet and when I smile commending him for his work, he smiles back.
I then just end up in a car in a parking lot with Sandy, my real boyfriend. I don’t remember what happened except I ended up being chased by a bull and had to find my way back inside even though I don’t remember why I got out in the first place. I can’t remember anything else so I think it ended there.
TL;DR
• Two boyfriends, one I am dating in real life, one that is ugly and doesn’t exist but apparently I’m cheating on him with my real boyfriend
• Two friends, one needs to be carried and throws up when I carry her
• Lightning storm
• I get chased by a bull
• Lose my phone while changing shirts
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I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my...
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Nightmare- Stuck in a time loop with a demon
I had the literal scariest dream I've ever had while I was taking a nap yesterday. The dream started out with me standing outside an abandoned-looking red wooden house in the dark. There was one street lamp lighting up the street. The red house seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, yet there were no trees. Since there was nowhere else for me to go, I went into the house. Inside, there were some girls packing their suitcases frantically. I stood in the doorway super confused as to what was going on. Then all of the sudden the lights start to flicker and a shadow starts moving around the walls of the room. The girls packing their suitcases start screaming. Before I had time to react, a black and white demon emerged from the wall, lunged at me, and engulfed me. Then, poof, I'm back outside, standing in the street looking at the red house with the one street lamp giving me light to see.
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At this point I'm super confused. I quickly realized that I needed to save the girls in the house. I kept going back in to save them, only to end up being engulfed by the demon each time. At some point I became lucid and thought I had to save the girls in order to even wake up from the dream.
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Every attack from the demon got more and more intense. Every time I found myself back out on the street, I would formulate a plan as to how I was going to defeat the demon and save the girls. The last time I went into the house before waking up, when the demon attacked she made a kind of vortex around me. She was rotating around me so fast that she was all that I saw. I decided to try to see her face to figure out who she was. With my hair blowing in my face, dust flying in my eyes, I squinted and covered my face to try to figure out her identity so I could use it against her. Then I got a phone call that woke me up.
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This is the most freaky, terrifying, and vivid dream I have ever had in my entire life. I woke up with a single dried tear streak down my cheek. Anyone know what this might mean, or if it was just a random freaky dream?
I had the literal scariest dream I've ever had while I was taking a nap yesterday. The dream started out with me standing outside an abandoned-looking red...
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The Fallen Angel is in Aquarius
Last night my husband kept tossing and turning and whining as if he was almost crying at a certain point I realized he's calling me so I wake up and ask him what's wrong. He tells me that he had sleep paralysis and a really bad experience he looks terrified. He tells me that he had a dream of three women having sex with each other except they all had penises one of them was missing both her arms and another was missing both her legs only one of the women was actually full-bodied. The women were also wearing white mask with red lipstick on the lips of the Mask. for some reason this causes him to wake up and have a sleep paralysis experience and he tells me that during this sleep paralysis experience something whispered into his ear and told him to tell me that the Fallen Angel is in Aquarius.
Not sure what this means but if anyone can help me out.
Last night my husband kept tossing and turning and whining as if he was almost crying at a certain point I realized he's calling me so I wake up and ask him...
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disgusting dream (nsfw)
i do not have a penis and i had a dream where i had one and it went hard and i could like feel it be hard and i wanked it over a tissue and came but it was red but cum texture and i threw the tissue away it and i could weirdly feel the wanking but it was like kinda numb
now i’m disgusted by penises and i feel so sick lol
put it under lucid because i could feel it idk if that’s lucid but it felt so real
i do not have a penis and i had a dream where i had one and it went hard and i could like feel it be hard and i wanked it over a tissue and came but it was red...
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Need Answers
So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.
This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries for the US government. We are world renowned and all of US loves us. They call us Bonnie and Clyde. It’s great. One day she tragically dies on a job. No one knows but my boss and me. So we are famous and a TV show calls him to join. He asks me to send a picture of me smiling so he knows I’m getting paid well (as a joke of course). So instead I send a picture of my girl and I. Then the crowd of the audience goes silent. My boss (on the show) finally tells the world about her. Everyone is depressed. Then I send another picture. It’s a picture of the scars on my wrist that I made because of her passing. The caption of the pic says “What is valor, if there’s no one to share it with”. Time goes by and my boss calls me for one last job. I take it. I’m to impersonate a bad guy to get info at a bad guy headquarters. I go and the bad guys pat me down. As I’m walking to his door I see these pyramids next to me. Two to be exact. Really big. I look up at them and the sun shines from behind them. I get a headache and fall to the floor. My vision changes from red to grey, then red to grey again and again. I can hear my heartbeat and feel it shaking the earth. Then my heartbeat and vision stop being weird lol. A shadow rises from behind the pyramids and it’s a Pegasus. It swoops down in front of my vision and shortly disappears out of my sight completely. A skeletal creature was riding it. Then I wake up in my room but everything is grey. I realize it’s a dream so I start telling myself to wake up. Over and over again. It doesn’t work. So I hold my breath for 30 seconds. Then I actually wake up, gasping for air. That’s my dream.
So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.
This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries...
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