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What are robbing dreams about?

Being robbed is usually an unpleasant experience. Sometimes people can be robbed when they are out of the house. Sometimes it can occur within the house. In either case, we often question the safety of the world and assumptions about people after being robbed. This symbol is identified by words like Robbing, breaking into, stealing, etc.

Robbing in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 45 dreams.

What are the major highlights of robbing dreams?

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

Dreams of robbing are aggressive

Robbing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all robbing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having robbing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include quicksand, librarians, Afghanistan, helicopters, peninsula, disasters, heads, ammunition, nuclear bombs, and suffocation.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of robbing

Who is in robbing dreams?

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

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as 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 robbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with robbing are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robbing are more related to embarrassment and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to confusion.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in robbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with robbing are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robbing are much more related to home, more related to human places, and much more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Home

much more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in robbing dreams?

Overall, dreams with robbing are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robbing are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with robbing are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robbing are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do robbing in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with robbing are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robbing are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Robbing dreams are relatively common. Among other things robbing dreams are normally interconnect and aggressive.

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

Examples of dreams of robbing

Read some real dream reports of robbing 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.

Giving up baby

This is from a couple of years back. Any ideas? As a note I have no kids and have never been pregnant.

Dream:
The dream begins as I am giving birth. I am in the bed in the room I slept in as a teenager. My mother and sister are there delivering the baby. As soon as the birth is over I am exhausted and fall asleep. While I am sleeping, my mom and sister discuss who will have custody of the baby. In the dream world it seems to be a given that I am a mad woman and am not fit to care for the child. It is decided that my mom will be the baby's mother.

She takes the baby to her room and feeds him a bottle. Then she leaves the house to buy him a cradle at bed bath & beyond. 

While she is out I wake up (in the dream) and notice the baby is missing. I immediately understand what has happened and go in search of the baby. I find the baby and somehow know my mom has fed him. This fact really upsets me. I know that I shouldn't have the baby since I'm crazy but I decide to steal the baby back anyway.

The dream location shifts from my parents house to a dreary hallway in what looks like a school/community center. (Grey linoleum, Drop ceiling tiles, etc.) I am trying to find someplace to go. I look into the windows on each door in the hallway No place is right. My baby is crying and hungry.

Finally I find a room and decide it will have to do. In the room are groups of young men, religious students studying Talmud at tables. They are focused on their studies and don't notice me. There is a screen room-divider between the door and the larger study hall forming a small antechamber which gives me a small amount of privacy

I don't want anyone to see me and know that the men will easily spot me if they turn around but decide that I need to feed this baby no matter what and to hell with what those men think. I lift my dress exposing my entire lower body. I stand there immodest and defiant and nurse my baby when all of a sudden my sister bursts in. She has been frantically searching for me. She is worried about the safety of the baby and is relieved to see that I haven't done anything too terrible (although she is scandalized at how exposed I am). She puts her arm around my shoulder and leads me back to my parents house where I will give up the baby.

This is from a couple of years back. Any ideas? As a note I have no kids and have never been pregnant.

Dream:
The dream begins as I am giving birth. I am in...

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The funniest dream I’ve ever had, I laughed myself awake.

So me and my boyfriend were planning on robbing a bank together, but the bank was also combined with a sheriff’s office. So my job was to distract the sherif while my boyfriend stole the money from a safe in a back room, but it was only me, the sherif, and my boyfriend in this building. No one else.

I remember this sherif had glasses and a long thin brown beard, and he really (and I mean really) liked mattresses. Not in a sexual way, he just liked mattresses.

So in order to distract the sherif, I started saying, “what would happen if you put a king sized mattress onto another mattress? Would it be mattress squared?” As in the math term. And this blew his mind.

We escaped with the money, but “mattress squared” will always make me giggle. Any interpretations?

So me and my boyfriend were planning on robbing a bank together, but the bank was also combined with a sheriff’s office. So my job was to distract the sherif...

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Dream about a vase

I dreamt that I saw a trendy, expensive vase it came into my possession. It belonged to my sister in law (which had been given to her by her mother). I loved the vase and considered it expensive. I wanted to keep the vase and not return it or tell her I had her vase. Basically I wanted to keep the stolen vase. Any interpretations?

I dreamt that I saw a trendy, expensive vase it came into my possession. It belonged to my sister in law (which had been given to her by her mother). I loved...

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Just woke up feeling so guilty :(

Such a bad dream. I was at the river, there was an event going on with a ton of people. A kid came up to me and showed me their guinea pig, which I played with for a while. Then I had to leave and the kid traded for their pet tarantula. As I held it, I just thought it was the cutest thing ever. When I got home I put it in the aquarium (where another tarantula lived but for some reason I thought my bf had let it out to wander around? Idk). Then I realized both tarantulas were now in the aquarium and I felt a sudden panic, cause I knew my bf's tarantula was hungry. Before I could save the new spider the other one was doing her happy dance (that she does after she eats) and she attacked. I watched in horror as she killed the other one. They didnt even fight, she just pounced and sunk her fangs into it :( at one point they were both wandering around and I was like oh thank god, I gotta get it out. Then it was as if she had dialogue and I could hear her say, I thought I killed you, and knock the other one down and "stab" it with her fangs. I just thinking omg I'm gonna have to replace this kids spider.

Anyway then I woke up feeling horrible and uneasy. There was more to the dream, including a large man stealing a lot of stuff from the people at the river, and when I told him "fuck you" he said a really funny comeback about me not being fuckable. I wish I could remember it exactly.

Thanks for reading, just wanted to jot this down lol

Such a bad dream. I was at the river, there was an event going on with a ton of people. A kid came up to me and showed me their guinea pig, which I played with...

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Reoccurring stolen car dream

Twice now I’ve had a dream where I was driving and I get stopped by a group of men, told to get in the backseat, and they steal my car while I’m in it. So kind of a kidnapping? And last night I had a dream where I remember locking my car before going into the gas station to find that it had been steal in the five minutes I was inside.

I don’t know what this sstealcar theme is lol

Twice now I’ve had a dream where I was driving and I get stopped by a group of men, told to get in the backseat, and they steal my car while I’m in it. So kind...

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