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What are screaming dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like scream.

Screaming in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 7.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of screaming dreams?

Screaming is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having screaming in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of screaming are emotional

Screaming have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include bobcats, movement, senses, grief and sorrow, verbs, unpleasantness, anxiety, grey eyes, confusion, and hearts.

Dreams of screaming are aggressive

Screaming dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all screaming have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having screaming in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include destroying, servants, erupting, sparrows, police, east, chasing, horrors, running, and crime.

Dreams with screaming might be a nightmare

Dreams of screaming are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain screaming might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with screaming are not nightmares. But, dreams of screaming are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include knives, tackling, triangles, nurses, false awakening, intruders, windows, losing an eye, testicles, and tunnels.

Screaming dreams are scary

Dreams containing screaming 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 screaming are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of screaming, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include weakness, things, El Salvador, places, safety, panic, couldn't open eyes, Lebanon, shadows, and senses.

What are the symbols that help define screaming?

The symbol of screaming in dreams is highly related to yelling.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of screaming

Who is in screaming dreams?

Overall, dreams with screaming are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of screaming are more related to fantastic beings and more related to family than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in screaming dreams?

Overall, dreams with screaming are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of screaming are more related to grief and sorrow, much more related to fear, and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to fun, and less related to love.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in screaming dreams?

Overall, dreams with screaming are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of screaming are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to work and less related to human places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in screaming dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with screaming are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of screaming are much more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

much more than usual

Sleeping

much more than usual

Waking life

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

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

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of screaming in dreams?

Screaming dreams are common. Among other things screaming dreams are very postively interconnected, very emotional, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of screaming?

Dreams provide outlets for emotions, and screaming in a dream can be a sign that some strong emotions need to be expressed. It can mean you’re in pain—physically, emotionally, personally. You’re in shock. You are under extreme stress or worry.

Screaming can mean someone isn’t listening—including you. When you feel that you aren’t being heard or acknowledged, screaming gets attention. Screaming progressively louder can mean your frustration or anger level is rising. See: Yelling

Yelling is more closely associated with anger, while screaming is more associated with fear.

Screaming can be a way of drawing attention to something that needs it. For example, you have been ignoring your health, and then you dream about a doctor screaming at you.

See also: Anger, Fear, Pain, Panic, Rage, Yelling

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 screaming

Read some real dream reports of screaming 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.

Just had probably the most oddly disturbing nightmare ever

So it was a pretty normal dream, taking place in my hometown in present time. I was walking home like any other school day, but something was off. There were weird things around, like certain roads that weren't supposed to be where they were, and most notably, a Sakura (cherry blossom) tree outside of a house I always walk by that doesn't have a tree in front of it. I didn't notice it though, cause it was a dream. Anyway, I must've taken some kind of detour, because I ended up in a field, that's usually on the other side of my neighborhood. This is where the weird shit goes down. So throughout the dream I was occasionally seeing this (yes it's hilarious thinking about it) really off-putting man in a banana costume, hiding in weird places (now that I think about it, only the ones that were out of place). He had a new expression each time, and he looked more and more deranged as time went on. So when I reached the field, the sky had already turned dark, so It was night time. The field is surrounded by houses (it's in the middle of the suburbs), and the playground that's usually there is no longer present. All that was there was the washrooms, in a building in the center of the field. I don't know why, maybe to hide from the banana guy (I was starting to get the idea that he was following me). I walked in, and went to wash my hands, when to my left, out of the corner of my eye, I saw him. He was laying limp on the toilet in the stall across the floor, with his head hanging in front of him. He had the most deranged and twisted face I'd ever seen, and he slowly turned his head to look at me. In classic SCP-173 fashion, I tried not to break eye contact, but I couldn't look at it for much longer because I felt like I was going insane. Making sure not to make any sudden movements, I slowly began walking towards the door. The banana man (stop laughing) was starting to half cry half laugh, slowly getting louder and louder. He was no longer in my line of sight, and I felt like any second he could've just gotten up and started chasing me. I felt SO threatened. Terrified, I started to crack the door open, and I was sure that he was going to run up behind me at any moment, but he didn't. He just sat there. Once the door was halfway open, I flung it the rest of the way open, and made a break for it. It was pitch black out, and I was alone. I was too scared even to scream for help, so I just kept running. The laugh/crying transitioned into angry scream, still laughing all the same. I didn't look back to see if he was giving chase, because that would've slowed me down. The houses around the field were gone. All that was left was an endless open field. I stopped running and turned around, to find that the scrscreams gone. Still, I felt no less afraid. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps behind me, and I turned around again, but nothing was there. The screamscreamcoming back. I fell to my knees, panicked to the point where I couldn't keep running. The screamiscreamin quickly to the point where it was deafeningly loud, and I started screaming scream was when I woke up.

Bananas freak me out now. Thanks, brain.

So it was a pretty normal dream, taking place in my hometown in present time. I was walking home like any other school day, but something was off. There were...

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Hi, it’s 3pm now and I’m still kind of paralyzed by this dream pls help understand. Even cats were frightened by the energy this morning. going through some kind of spiritual awakening

So, I woke up with that weird feeling something must be wrong, then I saw that the light was turned on downstairs - I spent the night by myself, my partner decided to spent the night at his workplace. I was kind of scared and wanted to get up to turn it off but then my cat lay down on me to cuddle and I decided to wait until she had enough and would leave. Moments later I realized the light was turned off again!! Our second cat came upstairs and looked very frightened! I got really scared and decided to get up later, that thought seemed to soothe me. I fell asleep, So now what happened in my dream was that weird things would happen in our house, noises, floating objects. In that dream my partner was at home but our home looked a little different and I was trying to scream desperately to show him but there was no sound coming out of my mouth! Then I tried to to film with my phone what was happening but it didn’t work.. Then I heard a very loud buzzing in my ear, which happened quite often lately in wake life but not that intense.. I don’t even know if that buzzing ringing was in my dream or real, I remember scream and I honestly don’t know if I might have really scrscream “reality”. So, when I was fully awake I got up immediately, going downstairs and realizing the light was turned on - again !!

I’m really confused. As mentioned I’m going through a spiritual awakening but I have no idea what this might have been. Srsly grateful for any thoughts on that. I still feel very drained, energetically tired and can’t seem to let go. It keeps make me feel down .. tried yoga and high vibe meditation.

So, I woke up with that weird feeling something must be wrong, then I saw that the light was turned on downstairs - I spent the night by myself, my partner...

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A dream about Lucifer

I'd like to start off by saying I'm not a religious person. I would never deny anyone their own beliefs but I myself find I don't need religion to help get through day to day life. I believe in the golden rule and the possibility of a higher power both good or evil but I don't have a specific religion I'd stake my faith in. That being said I had a dream last night that has me a bit curious.
In my dream was at my grandmother's house and lots of my family were there. Although I can't remember exactly who. They are all Christian though which is part of why this dream seemed so odd to me. Anyway, I was sitting on a couch talking to someone next to me, and somehow we end up talking about the Value of Death. I said something along the lines of "This thing (with which I don't recall) is worth the death of many people." And just after having said that I felt an intense static in my legs and then was totally paralyzed. I panicked a bit and told the people around me amd everyone got silent and just stared at me. Then I felt a very suddenly intense pain radiating from my neck throughout the rest of my body which just kept pulsating and never dulled. It caused me to scream but still everyone was silent. Then I felt something, as I'd there were someone leaning into my ear to whisper, but no one was there. And what I heard was quite frightening but I lack the proper words to describe it. Something far worse than impish nonsense but that's the best description I could give. And then nothing. I was telling everyone what was happening and one of my aunts, I'm not certain which one, said we should give Him a call. Then proceeded to take a phone to another room. When she came back a very handsome man, in dark clothing was behind her. He glanced down at me very briefly and then began to survey the room around him as I'd it were a bloody crime scene. For a moment I even saw it from his perspective and it was quite a mess. Then he told me his name was Lucifer and gave me a kind smile. Next he said "A devil of greed had bitten me." Staring at the wall by the TV as if he were looking through it he began to explain that my mention of the Value of Death, the devil was nearby and listening. However when it realized there was nothing a "value" around me it threw a tantrum much like a child, which is why it had bitten me. But apparently it took off in a hurry. Lucifer then leaned down and placed a kiss on top of my head and the pain and paralysis disappeared instantaneously. He smiled kindly at me once more and told me that I would be alright and needn't worry. Then he was gone. As if he had never been there at all, everyone around me began moving and talking again. But all I could think about was how my aunt was able to get ahold of Lucifer himself via phone. Why she would have contact with him as she's very Christian and would never associate with The Devil so casually as if she needed his help? Then I began to wonder if something like this happened again how would I get ahold of him myself to help me. And when I woke up I was in a state of shock. Anyone have an ideas why I would dream of such a thing so randomly?

I'd like to start off by saying I'm not a religious person. I would never deny anyone their own beliefs but I myself find I don't need religion to help get...

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Wild and horrible dream about my penis

In the dream, I woke up in the bed I was sleeping in IRL and noticed my penis felt weird. I looked at it and it was completly transparent. Like I could see the blood vessels and everything. I freaked the fuck out and got up to go to the hospital, but this "friend" that I can't stand kept me from leaving because of he wanted me to do something else. I kept trying to break free but he'd keep pulling me back in. I looked at my penis again and it had started to contort like it was made out of clear jello. I kept screaming for someone to call 911, but everyone was just kinda walking by like I was a homeless dude asking for money.

This went on for what felt like hours, my penis becoming more and more disfigured. I started sobbing, which woke me up as I was sobbing in real life as well. I don't know what to do about this dream. I feel so disturbed and confused.

In the dream, I woke up in the bed I was sleeping in IRL and noticed my penis felt weird. I looked at it and it was completly transparent. Like I could see the...

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horrible dream.

i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.

i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the dream, because it was five years ago.

i went through school, i graduated. with a scholarship. i deferred it and moved out two weeks later with three of my friends, one of which i do not expect to have in my future. all in june 2020

i had a boyfriend, we got together january 2020. i’ve known him for a while, we’re in talking stage right now.

i went to college in 2021 for nursing. i dropped out because i hated it, and held a job at a strip club as a waitress.

i did so much. i voted in the 2023 election. one of my friends died in a car accident. i had a dog, named riley. and my roommate had a ferret named pearl.

it ended in august 2024, was a wednesday but the date isn’t in my head. i came home and found 4 year long boyfriend banging my roommate. i walked in and saw them, it was a fight and they insisted it was “friendly” and “okay because it wasn’t romantic”. i remember every single second of that conversation. i was screaming at the top of my lungs and so were they. i eventually got mad enough to leave, i slammed the door behind me and the hallway started looking off. i figured it was the tears welling my eyes making my vision all wonky so i shut my eyes really tight. i opened them, and there i was in the bedroom of the house i moved out of 5 years earlier.

i lived 5 years into the future in an hour. i woke up and i don’t know who i am anymore. i don’t have the same experiences that built me. i don’t have any motivation. i just DID everything i dot want to do it again.

i don’t know if this is exactly the place to write this. but i’m so disheartened and grieving and i’m terrified.

i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.

i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the...

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