What are rescuing dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like rescue.
Rescuing in dreams is a 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 rescuing dreams?
Rescuing is a normal dream symbol. Having rescuing in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Rescuing dreams are friendly
Dreams of rescuing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of rescuing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of rescuing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include harpoons, El Salvador, hanging, paramedic, peninsula, smallness, green eyes, service workers, technology, and magnifying glasses.
Dreams of rescuing are aggressive
Rescuing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all rescuing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having rescuing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include barns, being tied up, fingerprints, opponents, safety, jumping, Darth Vader, mosquitoes, evil, and jails.
What symbols more present in dreams of rescuing?
Rescuing dreams are notable because they have substantially more characters, constructing, kidnapping, escaping, Morocco, helicopters, movement, hostages, Kenya, executing, swimming, capturing, places, prisoners, castration, hollywood, general animals, safety, puppies, orphans, water, oceans, boats, princesses, descending, vultures, general movement, mafia, underground, trapping, adoptions, disasters, suffering, submarines, drowning, accountants, bankers, captains, groups, floods, dungeons, trucks, bodies of water, pigs, kittens, harvests, protecting, animuses, Cuba, jury members, cults, elements of water, plane crashes, islands, climbing, pilots, natural elements, getting a job, pets, and tanks than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of rescuing?
Rescuing dreams are notable because they have substantially less sleeping, lucid dreams, childhood homes, voice, genitals, ugliness, teacher, squares, friendly interactions, verbs, sexuals acts, peeing, cheese, parasites in body, intruders, mathematics, walmart, trying to scream, Donald Trump, taking a test, schools, recurring dreams, black and white, beds, penises, couches, love, sex, lips, bedrooms, students, going to the bathroom, instagram, the morning, girlfriends, and excrement than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of rescuing affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in rescuing dreams?
Overall, dreams with rescuing are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rescuing are more related to animals, more related to different roles, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to insects.
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Who is in rescuing dreams?
Overall, dreams with rescuing are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rescuing are more related to home and much more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to human places.
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What happens in rescuing dreams?
Overall, dreams with rescuing are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rescuing are more related to aggressive interactions, much more related to friendly interactions, and much more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.
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How do rescuing in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with rescuing are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rescuing are much more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleeping.
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How can you make sense of rescuing in dreams?
Rescuing dreams are uncommon. Among other things rescuing dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and aggressive.
Do you think this is true for your dream of rescuing? How might your dream of rescuing 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 rescuing 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 rescuing in dreams. See how you feel about rescuing now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of rescuing?
Being rescued in a dream can tie directly to a situation in your life where you need rescue or are doing the rescuing. It might be an external situation, such as drowning in work or debt, or an internal situation, such as depression or making a mistake. Rescue can reflect a role you play in life, with other people and with yourself.
Dreams create physical representations of personal situations. A dream about physically rescuing someone or something can represent the idea of rescue in the personal sense. Think about ways the words “rescue” and “save” are used figuratively.
For example, a woman about to get married dreams that it’s her wedding day, and she’s at the altar in front of family and friends when her ex-boyfriend barges in and says he’s there to rescue her. It symbolizes her inner knowledge that she’s about to marry the wrong man and needs to be rescued from making a terrible mistake.
Dreams can make direct references to situations in your life, though often those situations are couched in symbolism. A dream might present it as literally saving someone or being saved—from drowning, a fire, an attacker—when really it’s meant in the figurative sense. For example, being saved from drowning in emotion or debt. See: Drowning
The theme of rescue can arise in a more general sense of giving and receiving assistance. It might not be tied to a particular situation but instead to a tendency or habit. For example, a man dreams repeatedly about being in situations where he can rescue people but instead either refuses to do it or waits till later. It symbolizes being sick of coming to the rescue of people in his life who make a habit of dumping their problems on him.
A dream about rescue can tie in with reluctance to receive assistance. Perhaps you don’t want to be a burden, are too proud, or think it’s a sign of weakness.
A dream about rescue can symbolize that something inside yourself needs help. You’re mentally or emotionally out of whack. See: Psychologists
Or you’re in danger of losing something about yourself. For example, a man dreams about rescuing a kitten from drowning in a pool. The kitten symbolizes the happy, playful part of himself threatened with “submerging” down into his psyche and no longer being a conscious part of his personality. He’s a teenager, and peer pressure is forcing him to toughen up.
In a dream about saving a baby from drowning in a pool, the dreamer is trying to save a side of himself from receding into his psyche. He’s drowning in the drudgery of adult life and wants to enjoy himself again.
A woman dreams about saving a beached whale and connects it with her sense that some recent bad experiences are making her leery and bitter. She associates whales with kindness, so saving the whale is a way of saying she is trying to save her naturally kind nature.
If you are saved in a dream, or an attempt is made to save you, ask yourself whether you need help or support. Is your workload getting to be too much? Are you struggling? Does someone need to be cheered up or guided? Are you trying to save something, such as a relationship? Think along these lines for the figurative ways that something is saved and how the word is used in expressions and figures of speech, such as “save the day” and “save me from myself.” Remember that your dreams can project these thoughts and feelings onto a dream character that you observe.
For example, a man watches a horse drown and does nothing to save it. It symbolizes his inability to ask for help when he’s drowning in work.
Dreams make wordplays, so “save” can be a play on the word “safe,” as in playing it safe and safe from danger. “Safe” can be used to say that a marriage or relationship is safe, or a job is safe, and it can be represented in a dream as physical safety. For example, a dream says your marriage is safe by showing a house safe from a storm.
See also: Doctors, Guiding, Lifeguards, Paramedic, Pets, Psychologists, Whales
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 rescuing
Read some real dream reports of rescuing 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.
Seeing a car accident
I just dreamed I was in my bedroom and heard a sound. I’ve watch by my window and saw a car accident who have happened in the street. There was 3 body of women’s. I was sure they were dead but saw our body move a little. Rescue services was there and they enveloped the body in newspapers. One of the woman touched the hand of the other woman. I was so scared, and I just wake up. What’s the signification?
I just dreamed I was in my bedroom and heard a sound. I’ve watch by my window and saw a car accident who have happened in the street. There was 3 body of...
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Vivid Dream
So it started out as a normal day in my dream but then, I walked out my house to see the house across the street on fire. I yelled to my mom that the neighbors were burning and I got no answer, so I went to her room and asked her again
So I see my mom on the floor, seeming to be sleeping, but what I see next to her is a collar with the name of my late dog on it. It was freaky. But that isn’t the worst
Then, as the firefighters walked out of the burning house, they rescued 5 different dogs, all of them showing a certain emotion- here’s the list
Beagle- Wonder
Lab 1- Happiness
Doberman- Depression
Australian Shepard- Wild
Lab 2-Witt
The Doberman was the only one without a collar.
I went up to the Doberman and said my Doberman’s name and she ran up to me and licked me, but that’s when I woke up.
Please can someone try and explain this
So it started out as a normal day in my dream but then, I walked out my house to see the house across the street on fire. I yelled to my mom that the neighbors...
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A sweet little dream
I dreamt that I rescued a squirrel from hunters and their dogs deep in the mountains (it was a very beautifulplace BTW. Very cold. But beautiful). I hid the squirrel in my jacket until they were gone. We bonded very deeply. He trusted me, and we loved each other. There was a part in the dream when one of my parents asked me to help them catch a crab for dinner. I was hesitant. I didn't want anything to happen to the squirrel that was still nestled happily in my jacket. Unfortunately, the squirrel and I ended up getting separated from a gush of unexpected water. It was like we got swept away with a tide from the ocean. I was so sad and desperate to find this little guy. I didn't want to think of the worst case scenario. I couldn't! So I went searching in that area we got separated, and the squirrel was very timidly looking for me. When I approached it, it turned and ran to me, and nestled in my jacket. I felt so emotional and happy to have the little guy back.
What do you think? What could this mean?
I dreamt that I rescued a squirrel from hunters and their dogs deep in the mountains (it was a very beautifulplace BTW. Very cold. But beautiful). I hid the...
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Alien Soulmate Dream Meaning
My dream took place at a sort of hostel/boarding house/school.
Humans and aliens boarded together.
My current boyfriend irl was in the dream, and I recognized him as he my boyfriend in the dream.
There were aliens living amongst humans and this seemed to be ordinary or common knowledge to everyone.
The aliens resembled humans though there were some differences, but mostly unnoticeable ones. They could switch genders and they used different toilets and just had a few differing needs, in comparison to human needs.
I met one, whom I recognize from my waking life, and he laid next to me in my dormitory and hugged me in my bed, a full body hug, and I tensed up at first. He kept encouraging me to truly embrace him, to let him give me comfort and let him take care of me. I slowly accepted his embrace and suddenly I felt whole. I was at peace. It was the best hug I’ve had, I think. Waking life and asleep, best by far. I felt loved and comforted and like everything was going to be okay. I felt love.
Further along in the dream, my boyfriend decided it would be cheaper for us to sleep outside of the boarding house. He had set up a mattress with no mattress cover and no blankets. It was freezing outside but I just accepted the situation and laid there, staring into the abyss. It was daytime and I could see my breath in the frigid air. My boyfriend and I laid above the mattress and he strapped us to it with cords, so we’d stay put.
The alien I mentioned earlier happened to show up and he was extremely protective of me. He flipped out at my boyfriend and rescued me from the cold and took me inside. He was constantly showing up to protect me and take care of me in some way.
I’m not sure what the dream meant and I’m wondering if anyone has a dream interpretation or can interpret parts of the dream.
Maybe it meant nothing but it was a powerful dream and I woke up wishing I was still in it.
I’d be so grateful if anyone has any ideas to put out there or any thoughts pertaining to the dream.
Regardless, thanks so much for taking the time to read this thread!
My dream took place at a sort of hostel/boarding house/school.
Humans and aliens boarded together.
My current boyfriend irl was in the dream, and I...
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Weird Dream About Rescuing a Maimed Stranger Who Bit Me- What Does This Mean?
A while back I had a really strange dream. I was out walking on the railroad tracks in the middle of the summer and it was horribly hot. There were a lot of abandoned houses off to the side of the railroad track. A lot of abandoned buildings. And I walked past this weird white building that is kind of small and looks a little bit Like one of those rest stops, welcome centers you see at state lines but it was really run down looking. The ceiling was caving in and the windows were smashed in as well. I heard these strange noises from the building like someone crying but also making these weird pained noises. And shrieking as well.
Out of concern I followed them. I just walked in. Much like the exterior the interior of the building was all white but it looked like the majority of the walls had been removed. There was an area that was all white tile and there was some guy with very long hair almost down to his waist chained to it by his wrists. He wasn't wearing anything and there was blood smeared all over his lower stomach and abdomen and I realized that someone had castrated the poor guy. He also looked emaciated - I could have counted every rib. So I managed to somehow unchain him from the wall but his wrists were still in manacles. I remember having a feeling really bad for the poor fucker. He seemed like he had been driven completely insane and had no idea what was going on around him. I remember trying to wipe him off and stop the bleeding after I pulled him down but he made a weird snarling noise and bit a chunk out of my shoulder. It was then I noticed that he had two fangs that were thin and needle-like in place of canines and he said, "Don't you *dare* pity me, little boy!" Then I woke up.
A while back I had a really strange dream. I was out walking on the railroad tracks in the middle of the summer and it was horribly hot. There were a lot of...
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