What are relief dreams about?
Relief often occurs after a period of struggle. There is a struggle and worry. Then there is success or resolution. This symbol is identified by words like relief, thankfully, thank heavens, etc.
Relief in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 100 dreams.
What are the major highlights of relief dreams?
Relief is a normal dream symbol. Having relief in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of relief are emotional
Relief have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include cowards, hazel eyes, weakness, fear, joy, comfort, betrayal, boredom, dream events, and losing a body part.
Relief dreams are friendly
Dreams of relief have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of relief will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of relief are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Cameroon, faces, baldness, tools, grey eyes, guest rooms, paths, shirts, planning, and opponents.
Dreams of relief are aggressive
Relief dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all relief have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having relief in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include floors, knees, disguises, beggars, groups, wounds, general thinking, Bahamas, doors, and flamethrowers.
Dreams with relief might be a nightmare
Dreams of relief are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain relief might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with relief are not nightmares. But, dreams of relief are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include closets, black, emptiness, horrors, Kuwait, numb, senses, blindness, parasites in body, and tasers.
Relief dreams are scary
Dreams containing relief are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of relief are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of relief, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include beginnings, emaciation, trapping, noises, losing a body part, Lebanon, erupting, shaking, sleep paralysis, and loss of speech.
What symbols more present in dreams of relief?
Relief dreams are notable because they have substantially more movement, Jamaica, horrors, pants, wrestling, erupting, senses, imposters, joy, hearts, wrist, chefs, general movement, pressing buttons, squids, chests, bones, Nepal, pinecones, foreignness, events, parasites, grief and sorrow, panic, general senses, detours, silence, journeys, brides, borders, arrows, things, glowing eyes, suffering, epidemics, Lebanon, Cambodia, general thinking, fists, ignoring, obeying, noses, feelings, deluges, puzzles, bulls, accepting, unconscious minds, roosters, verbs, injecting, floods, exits, India, going, east, guest rooms, monster, safety, and calendars than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of relief?
Relief dreams are notable because they have substantially less diamonds, emotions, dragons, sex, makeup, boyfriends, pregnancy, crushes, ice cream, the night, cats, eggs, schools, Donald Trump, castles, sexuals acts, prisoners, stores, recurring dreams, hats, fiances, friends, specific people, old friends, finding money, romantic partners, kittens, birds, underwear, close people, general colors, cartoons, eating, bees, wizards, authors, bartenders, donkeys, fetuses, gorillas, hairdressers, hollywood, Ireland, microphones, pets, precognitive dreams, purgatory, Spain, submarines, three eyes, witches, jealousy, and abortions than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of relief affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in relief dreams?
Overall, dreams with relief are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of relief are more related to insects, more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general.
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What are the emotions in relief dreams?
Overall, dreams with relief are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of relief are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.
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Who is in relief dreams?
Overall, dreams with relief are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of relief are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to magical places than dreams in general.
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What happens in relief dreams?
Overall, dreams with relief are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of relief are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.
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How do relief in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with relief are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of relief are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of relief in dreams?
Relief dreams are uncommon. Among other things relief dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of relief? How might your dream of relief 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 relief 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 relief in dreams. See how you feel about relief now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of relief
Read some real dream reports of relief 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.
Had a dream about my GF
I had this terrible dream my gf and I weren’t together. She’s my first everything and I’m her first too. Been together 2.3 years, and never had sex with anybody else.
Anyway, we weren’t together in the dream and me and some friends went somewhere and I met there another good friend I haven’t seen in a decade and we hit it off and were excited and stuff until he had to go.
Then I met my gf in the same place and it was kinda quiet and not as flowing as it’s supposed to be. But she told me how she and my friend from a decade ago are meeting here and she’s looking for him. (They never met irl).
I asked her why they’re meeting and she said they’re FWB. And he called her and started fucking dirty talking to her right in front of me.
My heart legit broke and I left, and she didn’t even pursue me like she would do irl, and it offended me even more. I started crying BIG TIME in the dream and legit couldn’t stop. The emotions were so god damn intense I’m still impacted until now and I woke up an hour ago, she sent me a good morning text but I can’t even open it.
I have never felt something as strong as I have felt in the dream. When I woke up I literally jumped in relief. It was so tough for my “dream me.”
I had this terrible dream my gf and I weren’t together. She’s my first everything and I’m her first too. Been together 2.3 years, and never had sex with anybody...
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I had a nightmare and I NEED to know what it's about
So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It wasn't just any old kind of scared though, it was the one where you knew you had fucked up and hurt the people you hold the closest, the kind of scared that you'd expect to feel right before you hit the ground from jumping off a fatal height. I realized I could move though, so I got up and started stumbling down my stairs, shaking from fear. The kind of fear to start at the pit of your stomach to consume your whole body until it really settles in what the situation is, but the thing is I don't know what the situation is. I make it downstairs and see my dad sitting on the couch of my living room looking devastated, disappointed, and depressed, or as I will to call the dangerous D's as the occur quite frequently throughout this. He looks at me with a look of the dangerous D's and grief and shakes his head. He tells me to sit down next to him because we need to have a talk and that fear from earlier gets more intense as a feeling of guilt and sadness joins in with them. he starts asking me questions with his head in his palms but get's no response as I try every bit of my power to get a single sound out but to no avail, and he looks up at me again tears streaking his face as he tells me to stand up and shows me the door. I open it to see an empty void, almost as if the world had been swallowed whole leaving my house, and the feelings consume me and I jump. I keep falling and falling until something pulls me aside and I am on this farm like land on a pasture. There is a house and a barn in the distance and the sunlight is bouncing off the blades of shiny green grass swaying in the wind. I look at my surroundings and see an old man in a dark cloak, almost looking like the grim reaper, as he whispers in my ear that he knows what I'm going through right now and that he can help me escape this but I don't trust him and jump off into the void again as he gives me a sad look and shakes his head. My fear keeps growing larger and larger as it keeps ungulfing me in these awful emotions and I start feeling the dangerous D's start to come along. I get pulled one last time and this time I am in a broken down version of my house with my parents giving me the look of the dangerous D's and shake their heads and walks off. After they walk off I see my little sisters, the two girls I had sworn my life to protect, lying there, dead. There skin is pale while they are lying in a pool of blood with there wrists sliced and there throats cut, giving me a blank stare with their jaws unhinged and their faces stuck with a look of an overwhelming look of the dangerous D's along with the saddest, most heartwrenching, most overwhelming look of pure grief. I look in disbelief, every feeling I was feeling before multiplied times one million. My two baby sisters, laying there, dead. I can't take it. Their heads suddenly perk up and they smile with blood gushing out of their mouths. They say that this is all my fault, I made them do this, I went down the path I did and died and made them do this to themselves and my parents come back and stand behind them with the same looks they had before and I look in the distance and see the old man giving me that same look of sadness with an "I tried to warn you" king of look on his face and he turns around. I can't take anything anymore, I can't cry, I can't scream, I can't talk, I can't think, I can just feel these feelings make me do things. The feelings keep getting worse and worse and the fear finally settles in on what the situation is and the fear keeps getting worse from this realization. I am in my own personal hell, being tormented, so I turn around and jump into the void one more time hoping I can escape this hell. I keep falling and falling until I see a bottom, and I know it's finally over so I take a sigh of relief and hit the bottom
I'd make a TL;DR but I don't know how I'd do that with this story. please tell me what this is about. It's the most disturbing dream I have ever had.
So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It...
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I “woke up” 3 times before I was awake
I don’t know exactly how to categorize this whether it is something related to sleep paralysis or something paranormal. All I know is it freaked me out to my core.
A few months back I was staying with my sister’s family after a breakup and I had a terrifying experience in the middle of the night.
I had gone to sleep in the guest bedroom in the basement they made up for me and I was awoken in complete darkness to the feeling of large hands holding my arms down and someone crawling on top of me. I started thrashing around and screaming only to “wake up” out of the nightmare.
I reached down and felt my sisters sweet lab mix curled up next to me and felt relief that she was near me and it was all a dream.
Then, out of nowhere she started getting all wiggly and hyper and crawled up toward my face and started licking me. The licking turned into aggressive scratching and she started to bite me. I went to push her off of me and then I woke up...again.
This time, my head was spinning because I already thought I was awake twice so I was questioning if I was really awake or if I was in sort of loop that I couldn’t get out of.
I was terrified to move or to turn on a light because I didn’t know what was real and what wasn’t.
I laid there still for another hour until the sun started to rise and to this day I’m still afraid to sleep in that basement alone.
I don’t know exactly how to categorize this whether it is something related to sleep paralysis or something paranormal. All I know is it freaked me out to my...
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All Slowly Painful Deaths
Do you ever dream on falling? Yeah, I do aswell, but I always hit the ground and mostly don't die of it, but feel the impact.
It's like that one Time Cruise movie, lots of different ways of dying buy they rarely are fast, I dreamed I fell from a bridge above a railroad full stone, I fell belly down, no waking up, I hit the stone and stay there, immobile for 3 or 4 minutes, bleeding but not feeling cuts or sore, just the pain of the impact.
I dreamed once a whole damn collapsed, thankfully I was in high ground already and didn't mind to run fast while other building at low ground were collapsing, well, turns out the mountain-esque I was above eroded when the water touched it's based, I fell down and sank right on water, I recall real life 2 minutes of sinking and plus 5 standing on a rusted big pillar of solid metal while other people on the mountain were sinking further than where I was.
This one mindfucks me until today, I was in some european city, maybe 19th century, those street luminaries with spherical lamps, foggy atmosphere and all, I could hear mine steps on the humid parallelepiped floor while across a bridge above a river a shot was fired toward me, the projectile hits my throat and I can feel the air of my lungs flowing from my open neck, as I grapple onto it and a warm sticky blood streams through the back of my hand, as I start to cripple over my knees, than hands to floor, then lay flat, while I couldn't even make noises of suffocating due to the air not reaching my vocal chords or throats.
Then I finally wake up. There are much more of these, I don't know why I can't just wake up already, always have to be so torturous and slowly, dammit, Morpheus...
Do you ever dream on falling? Yeah, I do aswell, but I always hit the ground and mostly don't die of it, but feel the impact.
It's like that one Time Cruise...
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Reoccuring Haunted House TLDR: i confronted the monster in my dream and won.
From the time I can remember, I've had this dream from time to time of a house. Always the same house, a house, id never seen in my waking life. A two story, white, colonial style with columns at the front and a large porch. I know the inside like the back of my hand. To the left of the entrance, the living room, to the right, the kitchen. I always went to the kitchen. The house is dark, but I know my way. At the back of the kitchen just to the left are a set of stairs leading to what seems to be a hallway in the middle of the house. Down this hallway there is...the door. A single French door covered with a sheer curtain that allows for the only light in the house. Do I dare enter? It is at this moment where I get a dreadful feeling in my stomach. The woman in that room is evil. She wants me, for what I do not know. I am alone. Sometimes I would go in and sneak out right before she noticed me, other times I remembered to avoid the door all together. But one night, I decided to confront her.
A glass block wall separated her den sitting room from her bedroom. A yellowish green glow coming from her bathroom illuminated the glass reflecting off everything and revealing her shadow as well as mine. Alerted to my presence she turns. My heart stopped for a moment I thought of leaving but I pressed on. I made my way up the two small steps to see her in her bed. Surprisingly, she was a small, old woman in bed on a oxygen machine. She was sleeping and looked fragile. Is this what I've been afraid of? My surprised soon filled with relief as I realized she wasn't threatening at all. Just as I began to laugh, she arose and began laugh with me. Dread filled me once again. Her shrieking moans and struggled breath began to get louder as she crawled out of bed towards me. I'd gotten too close. She had me now. In an instant I decided this had to end. I left forward and pushed her away from me. She landed back on the bed and I simply walked out. This was the last encounter I've had with this house. For over 15 years I've had the same dream almost every week but after confronting her a few weeks ago, I haven't had one since. Gotta say, I kind of miss the house, but I'm glad whatever I did resolved it. Glad I could share with you all.
From the time I can remember, I've had this dream from time to time of a house. Always the same house, a house, id never seen in my waking life. A two story,...
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