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What are skin dreams about?

Skin is an organ that surrounds that body. It is a barrier between the internal body and the external word. We sense the world through touch. So skin transmits information about temperature, texture, and pressure. This symbol is identified by words like skin.

Skin in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 30 dreams.

What are the major highlights of skin dreams?

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

Dreams with skin might be a nightmare

Dreams of skin are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain skin might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with skin are not nightmares. But, dreams of skin are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include skeletons, molesting, dead ends, killing, castration, safety, intruders, aggressive interactions, sleeping, and hair falling out.

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

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Who is in skin dreams?

Overall, dreams with skin are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of skin 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 different roles, less related to close people, and less related to family.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in skin dreams?

Overall, dreams with skin are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of skin are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to confusion, and more related to fear than dreams in general.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in skin dreams?

Overall, dreams with skin are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of skin are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in skin dreams?

Overall, dreams with skin are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of skin

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than 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 skin in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with skin are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of skin are much more related to smelling, more related to taste, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

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

Skin dreams are relatively common. Among other things skin dreams are normally interconnect and nightmare.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of skin?

Skin is the most visible part of your body. As an outer covering it can be used to symbolize something about your outward identity, the part of you seen publicly. Wounding to the skin can symbolize a blemish on your reputation or damage to your persona.

For example, a young woman dreams that a skinless creature with a knife wants to skin her alive. They fight epically and end up in the street, where the creature is hit by a city bus. The dream symbolizes a situation with her former employer. She sued the company and her former supervisor retaliated by spreading rumors about her. In the skinless creature, she sees a projection of her raw and wounded feelings related to a public dispute.

Because skin is sensitive, it can symbolize emotional or physical sensitivity. For example, a painful burn on your skin can symbolize being “burned” emotionally, or burned by an argument. It’s a physical representation of a personal situation. The same idea can be expressed by scratches, bruises and stings. These ideas are fleshed out more in the entries listed below, especially: Knife, Wound.

Skin can be used to refer to pain in another part of the body. Skin is a part of the body more likely than others to experience pain, so it can be used by dreams as a general reference to pain, especially pain experienced while sleeping. For example, a dream about being too close to a fire and feeling a burn can symbolize the pain of a sunburn. See: Pain

Figures of speech come into play as possibilities for the symbolism. Dreams can enact phrases like “skinned alive” and “get under my skin” as a way of expressing the dynamics of a situation and your feelings. Something under your skin in the figurative sense can be portrayed in a dream as an object such as a splinter or an insect. You can feel as if you want to crawl out of your skin. Something can make your skin crawl, which is a way of saying it disturbs, frightens, or disgusts you.

The bark of a tree can symbolize skin, as can the outside of a house or skin of a tent. In this sense, skin is what protects you.

See also: Body parts, Creatures, Knives, Makeup, Masks, Being naked, Pain, Snakes, Trees, Undressing

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 skin

Read some real dream reports of skin 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.

Why Satan was scared

Wow I just woke up from the most absurd dream I think I have ever seen. It was formed like a bollywood musical with song and romance and other shit. The villain of the movie was Satan but he was always running away and hiding from view. His nemesis was a young innocent girl who believed in God & tried to prove his existence to everyone.

So satan lived on for years in disguise amongst people leading them on the path of sin but he was so afraid of being discovered that he could never be in his true form ( burly six pack but without any outer layer of skin , only red muscle visible) but god would occasionally walk the earth and no one would notice because he was dressed like a pauper and was so frail and short.

In the final moments of the dream I witnessed a monologue that Satan was having with himself. He said that he denied his own existence in the world because he knew that if people actually believed in Satan then the majority of the world, (who was by this time atheist) would leave their belief and start believing in God. And since it would be an action with fear of Satan as a motivator for leaning on to god, then Satan would be wiped off the face of the earth.

So he would rather deny his own existence and be able to influence a few people every day & lead them into crime & brutality . He feared power and being recognised because that would mean everyone rushing to God (in the beginning of the dream satan mentioned everyone is inherently divine but had a great propensity for evil since most people are unaware of their own divinity)

And as for god, he didn't want to end it & expose satan. God in the dream was unaffected by Satan and didn't want to end or expose him because God couldn't harm anyone, not even Satan because harm was not a divine quality but an evil one.

I think watching Bird Box and Bandersnatch on the same day might have influenced my dream. What do you think? Any comments?

Wow I just woke up from the most absurd dream I think I have ever seen. It was formed like a bollywood musical with song and romance and other shit. The villain...

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Saw Russia Nuking the US

Ok so this could be some random dream that just happened with no meaning but it freaked me out, I have deja vu alot.

Ok so I was really tired one day so I took a nap and woke up to what felt like a super realistic feeling and I walked into my moms room and she told me Russia had sent missiles to us and we were in the insurance zone (pretty sure she meant impact zone but my dream said insurance lol) and they would arrive shortly, so we were waiting for a bit just not knowing what to do with our time and I told them "The US would surely retaliate and kill Russia" and my mom told me the East Coast had been wiped clean and we were next and we heard 3 loud beeps (kinda like a bomb or a timer) and a large flash of light blinded the room, my family could still see but I remember not feeling any pain and my skin on fire and it taking ten seconds to hit and I was mezmorized by this fire and not feeling pain and then sudden death hit. I woke up to 4 screens in which I only remember two of the options which were "relive last memory" and "relive life". I then woke up from my dream and was freaked tf out. Any meaning behind it?

Ok so this could be some random dream that just happened with no meaning but it freaked me out, I have deja vu alot.

Ok so I was really tired one day so I took...

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I might be cursed or some shit. I'm posting this dream/hallucination everywhere until I get answers

I was in my kitchen. It was like, midnight. The wood door was open, leaving the screen door. There was a creature outside. Mangled, skinny, at least 14 feet tall, it’s left arm was bitten off, and so were three fingers on its right hand. It had open wounds all over its body. And there were tally marks scratched into its skin. As it focused on me, it took one of its claws and carved another tally mark into its skin. It was a rotting, torn apart... thing. It smelled of Death. It smelled like a decaying body, like blood. It was a Wendigo. Why was there a Wendigo in my backyard? It made a sound. A hiss mixed with a raspy growl. Like if you mixed an alligator with a cat with a lion. My chest felt tight, my vision got blurry, and my breathing became labored. Yet, I opened the door and stepped out. The Wendigo seemed excited at the mere sight of me. It just stared at me with those empty sockets, before reaching out with whatever was left of its hand, and stroked my cheek. It was surprisingly gentle. Why was it so gentle? It kept on circling me. Examining me, occasionally reaching out to touch me. For fuck’s sake that sound, and smell. It smelled like Death. So much. After a few minutes of it just examining me, and making that sound, it looked me in my eyes. And smiled, or bared its teeth. I couldn’t tell which. Then it picked me up, slinging me over its shoulder. For such an aggressive action, it was still gentle. As if it was scared I was glass, and that I would break at the slightest touch. It sprinted, faster than I thought possible. It jumped over fences and cars. Until it reached its destination. The woods behind the school. It smelled even worse than the wendigo. Like..bodies. And I quickly found out why. There **were** decaying bodies. **Everywhere**. I recognized one. Alyssa. It **had** to be Alyssa. It’s hard to mistake hair of that color when I have no ginger friends. For fuck’s sake, her body. It was so *damaged*. Covered in blood, some wounds still dripping blood. I think she was still alive, just waiting for Death to come. I walked towards her, but the Wendigo put itself between me and her body. It made that same sound. That hissing/growling rasp of anger. So, me, not wanting to die, backed up. It just kept on examing me, touching me. Its favorite part of me seemed to be my face. Specifically my cheek, and my jaw. It’s been muttering the same words this whole time. But only at this point had I realized what it said, *“ You are like me. I am like you. You are me. I am you.”* Its voice. Its voice was strange. Calming, yet terrifying. Smooth, yet raspy. It sent shivers up my spine. It repeated those words over and over and over again. Then it hugged me. I already had blood on me from all its touches. But now I was drenched. It fucking hugged me. Why? When it pulled away, it looked sad, yet happy. It looked at me like I was a mirror. Or its child. All of a sudden, my chest got tight again. My vision getting blurry again. My breathing getting heavier again. Then I woke up, panting. And with a pinched nerve in my arm. Not only did my arm feel numb, my body felt weird. I felt...**dirty**, used. But I don’t know why. I know one thing though, I never want to sleep again, or whatever the fuck that was. Of course, though, I passed out the next day and had another disturbing dream which I might post on here too

I was in my kitchen. It was like, midnight. The wood door was open, leaving the screen door. There was a creature outside. Mangled, skinny, at least 14 feet...

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My nightmare from a while ago, isn’t like it normally is. Please read

For some context, I’m a teenage female, and this nightmare or night terror has happened since I was 4 up until two years ago when I saw the man in the nightmare, after I had the nightmare that night in my bffs house in Illinois. I haven’t had the nightmare since then, but I had it last night. I felt like throwing up after I had woke up, showered and got dressed.

I had my usual nightmare from a long time ago, and it was all normal. I was in a old lime green Cadillac with a oakwood dashboard, in the back left seat, with people who aren’t my family but are in my dream. A little boy sat next to me, he had pale skin, dark hair but the lightest blue in his eyes, and a sweater to match the hue of his eyes. The driver in front of me, was a man with broad shoulders, and a white sweater covering them. I couldn’t see anymore of his features from my seat but the woman in the top right was gorgeous. She sat with good Posture, her pink dress hugging her curves, as long with her sweater on top. As the car drove up the dirt road on a hill, I see the man in black (his face is covered but I saw his face the last time I had this nightmare at my bffs house in Illinois but then saw him at the cafe the day after, but with a little girl with him.) then it crashes.

But here’s where things get off.

I get out of the car crash like normal, the people that were in the car are no where to be seen, like normal. Then I turn to my right, to see the man in all black. But when I see the man, instead of starting to turning to my left and running downhill, I stand still. I stand still but firm in the ground. I, still staring at where his face would be, see him walk towards me. He walks with a slow, steady pace. Each foot touching the dirt, making a print. Soon, he is standing in front of me, with two feet of space between us. I can now see his face from underneath his hood he wore, and the wind blew. The wind had never blown in the nightmare before, but the wind hit his face, and he had no reaction.

He then focuses on my eyes, and starts to speak. His face emotionless but the words being said as a warning, I can’t remember what he said yet, but I’ll try and remember it.

If anyone could have the slightest idea to what some of this means, please say anything. Even if you think it may not help, I’ll take what I can get.

For some context, I’m a teenage female, and this nightmare or night terror has happened since I was 4 up until two years ago when I saw the man in the...

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The Clothman

I had a dream last night about some kind of murderer called the Clothman.

He isn't human, his face is smooth and almost featureless, except for these two grooves that run town his face and point toward his chin. His skin's kinda greyish. He's so tall.

He wears a vest, pants, and a little bowler hat. Maybe a scarf too.

He has a song. If you sing/hum/whistle the song he will come. Thankfully I don't remember it.

The song will start playing outside along with loud wind if you sing it.

If you look outside you'll see him walking up to your house after a few seconds. I only saw his legs, I didn't look up.

He'll come in.

Don't sing his song.

I had a dream last night about some kind of murderer called the Clothman.

He isn't human, his face is smooth and almost featureless, except for these two...

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