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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. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about smiling dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with smiling dreams. These are the words that make smiling dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of smiling dreams can be illuminating about show smiling affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example smiling dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how smiling in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that smiling is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that smiling is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, smiling dreams have more friendly acts than 99.1% of dream symbols, more happiness than 98.6% of dream symbols, and more vision than 95.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, smiling dreams have less weird dreams than 79.2% of dream symbols, less recurring dreams than 77.1% of dream symbols, and less disasters than 68.4% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of smiling tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Additionally, dreams of smiling are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, smiling dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Additionally, dreams of smiling have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, smiling dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Finally, dreams of smiling have more words related to touch than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, smiling dreams involve directly interacting and feeling another person or object. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of smiling is different than dreams of smiling in general.

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How common are smiling dreams?

5.1% of dreams have the smiling symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are smiling dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like smile and grin. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols verbs and friendly acts.

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What is most related to dreams of smiling?

Smiling dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, characters, senses, things, vision, luminous bodies, hazel eyes, green eyes, movement, Bilbo Baggins, body parts than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of smiling?

Smiling dreams are notable because they have substantially less Ethiopia, El Salvador, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Algeria, Fiji, Haiti, abscesses, Laos, Lebanon, Somalia than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into smiling dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in smiling dreams.

Who is in dreams of smiling?

Who is in dreams of smiling?

Smiling dreams are much more related to strangers, more related to peers, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to insects.

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What are the emotions in dreams of smiling?

What are the emotions in dreams of smiling?

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.

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Where do dreams of smiling take place?

Where do dreams of smiling take place?

Smiling dreams are more related to home, more related to magical places, and more related to schools than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of smiling?

What happens in dreams of smiling?

Dreams of smiling are much more related to friendly acts, more related to sex, and more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

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How do dreams of smiling related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of smiling related to the type of dream it is?

Smiling dreams are more related to nightmares, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams and less related to weird dreams.

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How do dreams of smiling related the senses?

How do dreams of smiling related the senses?

Dreams of smiling are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of smiling in dreams?

Smiling dreams are common. Among other things smiling dreams are very emotional, friendly, about love, focused on taste, focused on touch, and focused on vision. Do you think this is true for your dream of smiling? How might your dream of smiling be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

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

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

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of smiling dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for smiling dreams. Read at your own risk.

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