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What are smiling dreams about?

Smiles are facial expressions that often convey happiness. However, the context of the smile is important to understand its meaning because smiles can be menacing or threatening. This symbol is identified by words like smile and grin.

Smiling in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.

What are the major highlights of smiling dreams?

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

Dreams of smiling are emotional

Smiling have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include wanting and wishing, hazel eyes, general thinking, uranus, grey eyes, Ecuador, Croatia, other verbs, magnifying glasses, and embracing.

Smiling dreams are friendly

Dreams of smiling have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of smiling will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of smiling are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hollywood, crying, coaches, pushing, intensifiers, seals, welcoming, getting a job, villages, and spying.

Smiling dreams are about love

Dreams containing smiling 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 smiling are about love. It simply means that if you dream of smiling, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hearts, instagram, Ecuador, brown eyes, feelings, Denmark, animas, Portugal, taste, and amazed.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of smiling

Who is in smiling dreams?

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

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in smiling dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in smiling dreams?

Overall, dreams with smiling are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of smiling are more related to magical places than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in smiling dreams?

Overall, dreams with smiling are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of smiling are much more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with smiling are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of smiling are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

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

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

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

much more than usual

Touch

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

Smiling dreams are relatively common. Among other things smiling dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, friendly, and about love.

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

Examples of dreams of smiling

Read some real dream reports of smiling 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.

I dreamt about the real world

It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding the real world. I escaped from the prison to eat my favourite food, chicken schnitzel, due to the fact that in the prison you barely got to eat and a lady (That I knew was guarding the real world trying to catch dreamers) spoke to me and asked me if I was ok, I stared blankly at her, she replied with "Oh good I almost thought you were conscious" with a sinister smile. I heard speak of someone once I had left the restaurant talk about words that would unlock the gates to the prison and let the conscious dreamers be free, I found other dreamers, fell in love and walked amongst the rooftops of cities and through streets for what felt like days. I found myself reaching a pinnacle of a grand tower, that stood above the city and the code words that would set the dreamers free, I returned to the prison, near the restaurant that I had broken into, the same lady spoke to me she was angry with what I had done, that I would let people know of the real world and with the words of power, I let out all the people into the real world and woke up.

It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding...

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Died in dream but didn’t immediately wake up; experience

Was curious if anyone else has experienced this before and if so, what was it like for you?

Several times I have had this same dream, everything is normal (as normal as a dream can be) and all of a sudden I see a nuke slowly falling towards me. Each time I’ve seen the nuke, I didn’t feel scared, I just said “well, guess it’s time to see what it’s like to die”

The nuke goes off. And all sounds and thoughts dissipate. It goes so quiet, but I don’t wake up.

I can’t see anything, but it’s not dark or light. I can’t move, but it’s not scary, rather contrary. It felt actually blissful. Like a sensation when you take your first sip of wine and ur body gets warm but multiply that sensation by x1000. I could feel like as if I was floating, and smiling, but again no thoughts, no sound. It’s been awhile since I’ve had this dream and I’ve only met one other person who has experienced the same exact thing

How about you guys? Sorry if my wording is bad, but would love to see if you can relate or have a completely different experience

Was curious if anyone else has experienced this before and if so, what was it like for you?

Several times I have had this same dream, everything is normal (as...

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Need Answers

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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What exactly does this dream mean?

It was a room. Empty. Black, bit with white lines. As if you colored the lineart of the walls white. There were no lights but there was a faint glow, just enough for me to clearly see. There was...something in the corner of the room. Crying, muttering to itself, drawing on the walls with what I thought was a red marker. But as I inched closer, I realized its fingertips were cut off. And it was drawing with its blood. The blood was bright, not like normal blood. It was like, neon red. Very strange.

I don't exactly remember what it was drawing but it was drawing the same symbol over and over again. It was whimpering to itself. My brain automatically went "Help it, it's hurt" So I put a hand on its shoulder. It didn't even jump or get startled. It just stopped everything. It lowered its hand from the wall and slowly turned its head to face me. It had strange features. It was tall, skinny. But it still had like, basic human anatomy. It had a nose, lips, a chest, muscle definition (of whatever muscle it had) It was just a completely black skinny human, but with crazy eyes that were completely white. And they were...scribbly. Like if you took a white pen and angrily scribbled a circle on black paper.

It stared at me for a second, before saying in a raspy, pained voice. " You're like my art in a lot of ways." It moved closer to me. I smiled slightly, " How so?" Its hand curled around my neck, but not choking me, as it leaned into my ear and whispered, " You were created. You have blood. And..." It leaned in with its hands still around my neck, its lips almost brushing against mine, " I can rip you up whenever I wish."

With that last word, it dug its fingers into my neck. Literally. Its fingers went through my neck, piercing the flesh. I choked a little bit. Then like a movie, it cut to a different scene. Back to it drawing on the walls. Then it cut again to it curled into a ball, sobbing, whimpering, muttering. Then I woke up with the horniness of a thousand 13-year-old boys. Which was hella confusing. So like, what the fuck?

It was a room. Empty. Black, bit with white lines. As if you colored the lineart of the walls white. There were no lights but there was a faint glow, just...

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"You don't have to do it alone"

I've had a dream of a cute girl I've rarely spoken to approach me in a dark room, where nothing was illuminated except for her. I think I was in the kneeling position or on the floor, and she looks at me and smiles warmly.

"You don't have to do it alone", she says. End.

I've had a dream of a cute girl I've rarely spoken to approach me in a dark room, where nothing was illuminated except for her. I think I was in the kneeling...

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