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What are robot dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like robot, humanoid, and cyborg.

Robots 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 robot dreams?

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

Robot dreams are friendly

Dreams of robots have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of robots will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of robots are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hearing, technology, elves, robots, pressing buttons, waiting, heads, bullies, librarians, and greeting.

Dreams of robots are aggressive

Robot dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all robots have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having robots in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include buildings, zombies, ammunition, Saudi Arabia, fighting, paramedic, wolves, panic, helplessness, and invading.

Dreams with robots might be a nightmare

Dreams of robots are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain robots might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with robots are not nightmares. But, dreams of robots are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include deformation, praying, teeth, sleep paralysis, walls, Iran, creeping and crawling, parts of buildings, tools, and disease.

Robot dreams are very social

Dreams of robots contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of robots are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include aunts, brothers, cousins, my children, spirits, employees, robots, going, strangers, and boyfriends.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of robots

Who is in robots dreams?

Overall, dreams with robots are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robots are more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to close people, less related to family, and much less related to romantic partners.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

much less than usual
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What are the emotions in robots dreams?

Overall, dreams with robots are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robots are more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in robots dreams?

Overall, dreams with robots are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robots 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.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in robots dreams?

Overall, dreams with robots are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of robots are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do robots in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

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

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

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

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

Robot dreams are uncommon. Among other things robot dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and very social.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of robots?

Dreaming about a robot can mean that your life has become predictable, routine, and repetitive. For example, every day at work or school is the same old routine. You are like a machine. You’re expected to perform and conform.

For example, a woman dreams about directing a robot at work, symbolizing her work in a call center where she follows a script and her answers are programmed. She feels like a robot.

Robots can symbolize lack of humanity. They can express the feeling of being ground up by the machinery of society and treated like you don’t have feelings, dignity, or intrinsic value.

Dreams about killer robots are known to express the perception of living in a world that lacks humanity, in a system that only wants conformity, which can kill off individuality, and that violates a primary reason that you’re alive in the first place. You’re here to fully live your life, not be a cog in the machine.

This idea extends to any automated process, good or bad. Automation is for robots.

A robot is a ready-made analogy for a person who doesn’t show emotion, or for a feeling of being dead inside. However, as robots get more human-like, they can be used as symbols for someone who pretends to be normal and show emotion. That symbolic use can connect with a sense that something isn’t quite right, or isn’t an exact copy.

For example, you run across your ex, who’s now dating a younger version of you, and dream that your ex built a robot in your image.

The idea can expand to capture the feeling and perception that people aren’t acting human or in ways expected. For example, a spouse acts differently and you can’t quite put your finger on why. A friend who is normally warm and responsive is suddenly distant. A co-worker gives answers that don’t make sense.

Turn this idea on its ear and a dream can use it to show the spark of life within you, the resistance to conformity, the love of nature.

See also: Computers, Dolls

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 robots

Read some real dream reports of robot 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.

Terrible dream

I had a terrible dream last night where a man who felt and looked all powerful and not human (almost like a robot due to the lack of expression) followed me hone and walked into my house sat down in my room. He didn’t do anything or say anything but it made me freeze in fear and I was shivering. After a few minutes that felt like a life time someone I knew walked in a I suddenly let out a scream because I was scared that the situation would escalated. The dream suddenly ended and I woke up

I had a terrible dream last night where a man who felt and looked all powerful and not human (almost like a robot due to the lack of expression) followed me...

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A dream I had that I can't understand the meaning of

The dream was that, a person had made my classmates into mindless iron robots who had to infect others, but they only had 1 minute before they turned back to normal, my crush was chasing after me, trying to infect me, when I tripped, she tried to jump on me to infect me, but then, she turned back into normal and fell into my arms and smiled. What does this mean?

The dream was that, a person had made my classmates into mindless iron robots who had to infect others, but they only had 1 minute before they turned back to...

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I have ABSOLUTELY no clue and I’d like to make some logical sense of this


I’m gonna start by saying I’m classing this as a dream, because anything else Would make me sound bat shit insane. I don’t dream, I have aphantasia, meaning that I can’t picture things in my head so that makes dreaming hard. This is my fifth time dreaming in my life and it was different. With that knowledge you can see why I’m a little freaked out. I saw something, now I’m sure this feels like a “no shit” type of thing but I’ve NEVER seen something before. I don’t even know what to describe, it was just completely alien, nothing I’ve seen and DEFINITELY not humanoid. I could only call it an amorphous blob but that doesn’t even come close to it. So there I am conscious in a void with this... thing, and I recall falling asleep so not only was this a first for a lotta things, it’s my first lucid dream as well. “Hello?” I call then bam, it turns and I’m gone. I feel my being, like full on my consciousness moving into my body. It was such an odd sense, and I had to orient myself, moving, gasping, and touching everything to know I wasn’t in a paralyzed state just in case. I’m trying really hard to not sound crazy but it ain’t working, I just... it was an experience I’ve never felt, situations I’ve never had before, and I’m not even sure if It was a dream, though it has to be...


I’m gonna start by saying I’m classing this as a dream, because anything else Would make me sound bat shit insane. I don’t dream, I have aphantasia, meaning...

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End of the world type stuff...

please allow me to share my weird dream. And comment your thoughts. I just woke up in the middle of it but I’ll try not to be boring.
I was in a hotel resort with my mom and sister. The room we had had a balcony overlooking a beach, like a small bay. It was at night. I went outside alone for a smoke.
A calm clear night, bright moon and all. You could see the stars and some clouds.
All of a sudden two balls of blue glowin light were coming down from the sky in the distance crashing through the clouds, leaving a trail of smoke like they were about to hit the earth and their glow started to reflect on the sea. Then I looked up! and behold!!! It was a full Alien Space Armada going up in the night sky with giant dark spaceships as high up and far up in space as they eye could see....
So I ran inside and told my mom that I was going crazy and told her about this and I started crying and telling my mom “I’m sorry I’m sorry” then she got up and told me it was ok and we went to check.
So we went outside to check but the Space Fleet was still there and my mom saw it and it was advancing down to earth. I think I remember pods were falling and splashing and robot like aliens were coming out of them on the beach....The end of the world I tell you!!!
Then we ran inside, we found my sister in the lobby. The people in the hotel gathered...they started panicking and then running. My mom and my sister included...
I remember thinking “don’t run that’s gonna make it worse they’ll corner us”
Somehow I got hold of some type of shotgun and I started shooting at them. I shot at them from a door opening so I wouldn’t be flanked by them I was able to take down some of them. I could see them pretty close inside the hotel they were in search and destroy mode. They had red lights glowin all over them.
But after that I woke up ....I know there was more detail to it but that’s all I could gather when I woke up
Thanks I appreciate if you read through the whole thing.

please allow me to share my weird dream. And comment your thoughts. I just woke up in the middle of it but I’ll try not to be boring.
I was in a hotel...

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A yacht that never went back, it only went under!

I was first at a casino up a tower! I always won against people in poker that they feared to face me knowing they'd lose thier money! New people would come in and gamble all thier money challenging me! They lose and end up crying!

I leave the casino to go pray in the mosqou, i meet 2 men who run the mosquo and they tell me the mosquo's location has changed, they said too many things that i forgot what they said!

I forgot and went to the old location just to find a yacht in a sea or an ocean! I said why not hop on the yacht, anyway it will come back!

When i was on the yacht i saw islands, all the places i've been to before, it felt like a flashback of my life!

Then no more islands, it started to get darker yet darker!

Suddenly the yacht flips like 70 degree leaving me holding into it with only my head not submerged into water!

The yacht flips back to normal with a creepy annoucer voice aplogizing for the accident! At the same time a robot that looks like a creepy version of TEDD (check call of duty black ops 2's TEDD) appeared on an upper plane of the yacht, the voice seems it came from him then he disapeared! (also he seemed he was pulling down a string that caused something to emit steam, it was like the cho cho thing on trains)

The darkness kept increasing until it became completly black! I almost can't see anything!

I started asking if anyone else is on the yacht... No answer!

This time the yacht started sinking! I panicked so hard! I kept looking around in the darkness, i didn't find anyone! I was alone! I shouted as hard as I can!

While shouting i realised i was actually dreaming so i decided to shout 'til i woke up.

Then i woke up, atleast i though so because i was still in a dream!
I don' t remeber much but it was rather a normal beatiful day! The only thing not normal that my grandma said i was saying dirty shit while asleep!

I was first at a casino up a tower! I always won against people in poker that they feared to face me knowing they'd lose thier money! New people would come in...

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