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What are sadnes dreams about?

Sadness isn't simply the absence of happiness and joy. Sadness is a distinct emotion. This symbol is identified by words like lonely, sad, miserable, etc.

Sadness in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of sadnes dreams?

Sadness is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having sadness in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of sadness are emotional

Sadness have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include uranus, suffering, fun, general senses, lovers, hollywood, sadness, jury members, obeying, and joy.

Sadnes dreams are about love

Dreams containing sadness are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of sadness are about love. It simply means that if you dream of sadness, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include jealousy, lips, facebook, overdoses, grey eyes, break ups, adoptions, comfort, senses, and animas.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of sadness

Who is in sadness dreams?

Overall, dreams with sadness are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sadness are more related to close people, more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in sadness dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in sadness dreams?

Overall, dreams with sadness are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sadness are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in sadness dreams?

Overall, dreams with sadness are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sadness are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do sadness in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with sadness are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sadness are much more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do sadness in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with sadness are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sadness are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of sadness in dreams?

Sadnes dreams are common. Among other things sadnes dreams are very postively interconnected, very emotional, and about love.

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

Examples of dreams of sadness

Read some real dream reports of sadnes 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.

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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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Crazy intense relationship dream that feels like a lifetime

Anyone ever had a dream where you're completely in love with someone and the entire relationship plays out through it? I just had the 2nd one I've ever had.
The first one was just a fictitious girl. She didn't actually exist. But this one is girl I know and have had a crush on as well.

Anyway dudes, I am reeling from the intensity of it. It feel like I've been asleep for 20 years. Like I have to discard these visceral, powerful memories because they're essentially nothing. It almost feels like I'll never be able to get over this.

Of course parts of me wants to just tell this girl about it but seems like a lame thing to do honestly. I'm pretty sure she has a bf these days and I don't know what the purpose would even be. Probably just a selfish thing to do.

The only place I thought I could share this with is reddit so hopefully some of you guys know the feeling. It's really depressing but I'm trying to appreciate the fact that life can even make you feel this way, especially in a dream.

Anyone ever had a dream where you're completely in love with someone and the entire relationship plays out through it? I just had the 2nd one I've ever had. ...

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Thought I lost my old diary notes from a few years ago, was sad but even sadder when I realized I was never again gonna remember the lyrics to the dumbest song I've ever heard in my life that came up...

Keep in mind that the song itself sounded beautiful until I woke up and thought about the lyrics:

People person, banana person? People person
People person, banana person? Banana person
People person, banana person? People person
People person, banana person? Banana person
People person, banana person? Pear person
People person, banana person? Dog person

Keep in mind that the song itself sounded beautiful until I woke up and thought about the lyrics:

People person, banana person? People person
People person,...

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Dreamt I had a daughter - I'm 27, male and single.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to guess she's something in between 6 to 10 years old, not sure.

in the dream, I kneel in front her, tell her I'm her Dad and she doesn't say anything but gives me a big hug, I then burst into tears.

I woke up pretty much then, feeling an immense sense of loss, it feels like I was given something wonderful and then had it taken away.

Anyone else have anything like this? I feel like I'd rather have had a nightmare than something that leaves me feeling depressed.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to...

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Weird “Romantic” dream

2 nights ago I had a dream about a girl I only ever met once she was at a friends party she was quiet but I could tell she had a personality as she kinda opened up to me towards the end showing me that she was very energetic and fun (hard to explain without sounding weird trust me). I thought nothing of her besides the fact that she was very pretty but so were a few other girls there. I never thought of her again until the night after the party I had a dream of her in my room and we got along really well, so well in fact that we were cuddling I can still weirdly feel the magic from the dream. We were doing dabs out of a rig and after her dab she laughed laying on my shoulder and we kissed which felt so warm and I felt it for a split second after I woke up. After I woke up I was confused and sad, I felt I lived a who year that was a lie and it took me a couple hours to get over it. I know this sounds like an average cringe worthy r/teenagers post but this dream really fucked me up. If anyone has had similar experiences or comments as to how I can improve from this please let me know.

2 nights ago I had a dream about a girl I only ever met once she was at a friends party she was quiet but I could tell she had a personality as she kinda opened...

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