What are sex dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like sex, blow job, anal intercourse, etc.
Sex in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams.
What are the major highlights of sex dreams?
Sex is a normal dream symbol. Having sex in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Sex dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of sex frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of sex simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include fingernails, falling in love, instagram, butterflies, uteruses, acne, rodents, pus, seeing a dead relative, and wasps.
Sex dreams are about love
Dreams containing sex 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 sex are about love. It simply means that if you dream of sex, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include smiling, girlfriends, therapists, communicating, Guatemala, El Salvador, athletes, husbands, boyfriends, and butterflies.
Sex dreams focus on sounds
Dreams of sex have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, sex dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include Iceland, jealousy, scorpions, cheating on tests, spiders, Somalia, giving birth, seeing a dead grandfather, Gandalf, and octopus.
Sex dreams focus on vision
Dreams of sex have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, sex dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include bankers, bees, Joe Biden, falling in love, carrots, weasels, embarking, peeing, miscarriages, and boyfriends.
What symbols more present in dreams of sex?
Sex dreams are notable because they have substantially more prostitutes, relationship events, penises, incest, genitals, vaginas, romantic partners, masturbation, breasts, infidelity, being naked, undressing, characters, underwear, Somalia, kissing, raping, menstruation, love, anuses, Morocco, girlfriends, abortions, flirting, boyfriends, cheating on tests, fiances, pants, break ups, therapists, Cyprus, lovers, unnamed individuals, former partners, showers, snapchat, distant people, instagram, embarrassment, guilty, jealousy, bankruptcy, Singapore, bathrooms, betrayal, abusing, dating, casinos, beauty, innocence, Chad, amazed, ugliness, servants, addicts, wanting and wishing, Bahamas, pregnancy, crushes, and grooms than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of sex?
Sex dreams are notable because they have substantially less disasters, hit the ground, being shot, recurring dreams, nightmares, recurring nightmares, spaceships, the sky, earthquakes, dying, clouds, pets, dogs, tsunamis, wasps, spheres, eclipses, fires, seeing a dead pet, black and white, aquariums, volcanos, antlers, death, deer, bridges, general crashes, natural places, tornados, bombs, cats, flying, frogs, crashes, dragons, pigs, animals, turtles, planes, bullets, objects in space, red, cancer, creatures, and crocodiles than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define sex?
The symbol of sex in dreams is highly related to sexual_acts.
How does the dream symbol of sex affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in sex dreams?
Overall, dreams with sex are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sex are more related to distant people, more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.
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What are the emotions in sex dreams?
Overall, dreams with sex are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sex are much more related to embarrassment, more related to hatred, and much more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to confusion, and much less related to fear.
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Who is in sex dreams?
Overall, dreams with sex are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sex are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to human places, and much less related to transportation.
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What happens in sex dreams?
Overall, dreams with sex are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sex are much less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and much less related to disasters.
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How do sex in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with sex are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of sex are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of sex in dreams?
Sex dreams are relatively common. Among other things sex dreams are normally interconnect, lack places or locations, about love, focus on sounds, and focus on vision.
Do you think this is true for your dream of sex? How might your dream of sex 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 sex 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 sex in dreams. See how you feel about sex now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of sex?
Sex is commonly used by dreams to create symbolism. Even virgins and celibate priests and nuns dream about sex—very intensely and realistically, too.
Interpreting a dream featuring sex or arousal doesn’t have to go very deep, in some cases. The dream simply means that sex is on your mind, or you’re aroused during sleep. People can experience periods of intense arousal while asleep. Dreams turn physical input into dream imagery, so arousal while dreaming is likely to be turned into sexual imagery or symbolism.
However, the “chicken or egg” question has not been answered: Does arousal cause sexually related dream imagery, or does sexual dream imagery cause arousal?
Most dreams connect in some way to the process of integrating new material into the psyche. Sex is a terrific analogy for this process because sex is essentially about integration. Two bodies integrate. Two hearts integrate. You give and take, physically and emotionally. You “make” love, a very telling verb to use, basically saying that sex is a creative process. It’s something that grows and develops and takes on a life of its own.
Think about it. Dream sex is sex (metaphorically speaking) with yourself.
The same idea applies to celibate people, who can have intensely sexual dreams that provide outlet for their sexual energy, and at heart it’s healthy. It can be a way of pouring energy into an area of life, especially related to creativity and personal development, and encouraging bonding between parts of the psyche.
It’s common to dream about someone you know who arouses you. If you have sexual thoughts or fantasies about the person and dream about having sex, the dream might simply reflect your thoughts. It might not be wise to pop awake and tell your bedmate about your “sex with someone else” dream, but it’s not something to feel guilty about, which is a typical reaction. Sex in a dream is symbolism.
Whatever you repress or deny in your waking life will be given extra emphasis in your dream life, so it’s better to allow it outlet in your dreams.
If you already know that a person turns you on and you dream about having sex with that person, you’re not learning anything new. Instead, it could be a safe forum to think through the situation, or a safe outlet for your feelings and desires. At least you get a taste of that fruit, perhaps enough to satisfy. It’s a simulation to help you work through related issues such as attraction, desire, performance, anxiety, comfort, and orgasm. Being comfortable with sex in a dream can make you more comfortable with sex in your life, or with sexuality in general.
For example, a woman who has never had an orgasm, and has been racking her brain trying to figure out why, dreams about having sex with a man who really turns her on. Rather than the usual “wham, bam” sex she’s used to, he takes his time, unlike the men she’s been with. She reaches orgasm in seconds—it’s mind-blowing. And when she wakes up she thinks to herself that she has to find a man who can do it the way her dream lover does it. It’s her dream’s way of showing her—not just telling her—what she needs to orgasm.
Your physician would probably agree that sexual arousal in dreams is healthy for you, especially if you are not having any sex in your waking life. A wet dream helps the prostate and Skene’s gland. It releases stress and anxiety. Enjoy it!
Unrequited sexual feelings can show in dreams, too. It’s quite common to dream about your crush and not get what you want. It can be a way of expressing frustration, of thinking you won’t get what you want, or of thinking through strategies for getting it.
For example, a young man dreams that his best friend—for real, not imaginary—has sex with every girl he likes. It’s awful as time after time he watches his friend take a girl into a bedroom, while he can only weep. The dream is not tormenting him. It shows him he has a great example in his friend for learning how to get the girls he wants. His friend is good with the ladies and an example to follow.
Sex in a dream can symbolize intimacy of any kind. You can be intimate with a person without having sex with him or her. You can be intimate with a subject or idea. For example, a student dreams about having sex with a professor. The professor is not at all physically attractive to the student in waking life, but in the dream he is a real Casanova. The dream helps the student realize that the professor is intellectually stimulating. His lectures are dynamic. The subject of the class and the professor’s teaching ability is what actually turns on the student.
Sex can be used to symbolize forced intimacy. A teenage girl dreams recurrently about being told by her mother that she must have sex with her father. She reluctantly follows him into a bedroom, where he casually disrobes. The dreams end just before they do the deed. She’s disgusted. In her waking life, her parents are divorced and her father is distant from the family. Her mother pushes her closer to her father, forcing her to have a relationship with him, but she doesn’t want to be close with him. Her dreams turn the situation into a scenario of being forced to have sex with him. See: Incest
Sex in a dream can express personal intimacy with what you create. A writer dreams about a sexually charged situation with a character he invented for a book he is writing. The dream reflects the closeness and intimacy he feels with the character. Our creations are often expressions of our inner lives. Story characters, in particular, reflect the writers that create them, so the leap from a story character to a dream character is a short one.
A college-age female in a committed relationship with her boyfriend dreams about having sex with their mutual friends. She wonders whether she has a repressed desire to cheat, but instead the dreams reflect the intimate conversations she’s been having with those mutual friends. It feels like cheating because she’s sharing thoughts and feelings with them that she isn’t sharing with her boyfriend.
Sex in a dream can be used to express thoughts and feelings that are intimate or private.
It can be used in association with jealousy. For example, a man dreams that his wife is having sex with her co-workers. He does not suspect she is cheating in waking life, but does feel a bit jealous of all the time she spends at work. The dream amplifies his feelings so he will consciously deal with them rather than ignore them. See: Infidelity, Jealousy
It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the most basic purpose of sex is reproduction. Sex in a dream can be about pregnancy and related matters. See: Pregnancy
Sex in a dream can symbolize dominance and submission, giving and receiving. The symbolism derives from the roles played and positions assumed during sex. For example, dreaming about being on top during sex can symbolize being in a dominant position in a business deal or relationship, or in some way taking the lead or getting on top. The dream can be about getting what you want and relate to sex only because it’s used as a comparison to getting something else you want.
Sex that finishes soon after it starts can symbolize disappointment. Something doesn’t live up to expectation. Something exciting or pleasurable ends too soon.
Sexual dream imagery that is absurd, inappropriate or outrageous can be a sign of something out of kilter in a person’s sexual attitudes and perceptions.
Interrupted sex in a dream can symbolize lacking privacy or opportunity for sex or masturbation. See: Masturbation
If none of the other possibilities covered in this entry fits your dream, the possibility is strong that the dream is about integrating something new into yourself.
Dreams can draw on hundreds of euphemisms for sex to create symbolism: plowing a field, climbing a flagpole, hitting a home run. Just keep in mind that your dreams don’t bring up sex just for the fun of it. Or do they? With dreams, anything is possible.
The possibilities for symbolism are endless, and this book goes to great lengths to explain the symbolism of sexually related dream imagery and themes. Use the entries listed below to continue your exploration of this subject.
See also: Beds, Bird cages, Body parts, Breasts, Castration, Infidelity, Eggs, Fireworks, Genitals, Incest, Lips, Love, Masturbation, Orange, Ovaries, Pregnancy, Raping, Testicles, Undressing, Uteruses, Vaginas
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 sex
Read some real dream reports of sex 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.
Weird dream could it be a warning please help interpret it ? Thanks!
So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont
and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down the city near some sign saying neufchateau i never knew the city not even today
and then a beast man very hairy looking a bit like a werewolf only with the head of a man and very hairy and looks for someone and he didnt see me then my mom comes opens the door of the car and tells me to get in and then i quickly get in and ran and the beast couldnt see me
a bit later on i meet with a wonderful woman and we get into her charriot and her father accompanied her , and as soon as we arrive somewhere some sorceress or demon did something and made it so 3 weeks pass and the woman thought i left her and then i say to the demon indominus mortis and curse the demon sorceress… and then 3 images appear before me saying no hugging with this one or sex or love , they were stickman images laying in bed with some words written under, and then i am laying in a bed with other man i didnt knew and i did something to a pole like with my hands i made it a hole and put my controller in it and then i made it complete again and the pole was looking like all poles normal and then i see the charriot i was in and behind it is a castle and village or city on fire and then i say to the demon something like never and the dream ends
So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont
and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down...
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I’m a woman but had a dream that I was a man having sex with a woman
Any ideas what this means? It’s the only sex dream I’ve ever had and I’m a female. I didn’t know the woman. Finishing as a man was really intense and I woke up feeling jealous men get to feel that intense of a sensation and I don’t
Any ideas what this means? It’s the only sex dream I’ve ever had and I’m a female. I didn’t know the woman. Finishing as a man was really intense and I woke up...
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I had a really disgusting and weird dream...do I really have to say it? can anyone help me?
so basically as far as i could remember i had a dream where my dad had sex with me...i mean what the actual fuck? can anyone explain the meaning?
so basically as far as i could remember i had a dream where my dad had sex with me...i mean what the actual fuck? can anyone explain the meaning?
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I had a weird sex dream
In this sex dream, an alien entered my room (IDK how) it had these weird fingers or something on its face, it latched onto my face then it transferred some sort of liquid that transformed me to be fit for mating. It felt like I was transforming, my dick grew(balls too!) but I was sort conscious during the whole thing and I made the move and started the devil's tango
it was the second-best sex dream I had
In this sex dream, an alien entered my room (IDK how) it had these weird fingers or something on its face, it latched onto my face then it transferred some sort...
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Dream about sex with little sister (16m)
My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it didn’t happen on purpose but I still can’t help but wonder if subconsciously im some nasty incestual pedo. Just had to get this off my chest I guess. Could it mean anything and how do I prevent this from happening in the future?
My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it...
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