Background

What are speaking dreams about?

Speaking is expressing concepts through the spoken word. 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 speaking dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how speaking in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that speaking is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that speaking is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, speaking dreams have more strangers than 98.7% of dream symbols, more peers than 98.3% of dream symbols, and more hearing than 98.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, speaking dreams have less insects than 76.5% of dream symbols, less recurring dreams than 75.2% of dream symbols, and less animals than 68.0% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of speaking tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Furthermore, dreams of speaking 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, speaking 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 speaking are very social! Speaking dreams contain more characters tan 90% of all other dream symbols. Dreams, in general, are very social. There are people or characters in almost every dream, so it is notable that speaking dreams have are so social. Finally, dreams of speaking are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of speaking will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. 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 speaking is different than dreams of speaking in general.

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of dreams have speaking

How common are speaking dreams?

59% of dreams have the speaking symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 2 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is frequent.

Identification

How are speaking dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like tell, utter, speak, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols verbs and communicating.

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What is most related to dreams of speaking?

Speaking dreams are notable because they have substantially more characters, movement, general movement, senses, going, general thinking, places, loss of speech, Ecuador, emaciation, Algeria than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of speaking?

Speaking dreams are notable because they have substantially less Legolas, teeth falling out, recurring dreams, mudslides, pheasants, Fiji, C-3PO, Gimli, Princess Leia, hummingbirds, acne than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into speaking dreams

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

Who is in dreams of speaking?

Who is in dreams of speaking?

Dreams of speaking are more related to unnamed people, much more related to strangers, and much more related to peers 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 speaking?

What are the emotions in dreams of speaking?

Speaking dreams 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 speaking take place?

Where do dreams of speaking take place?

Dreams of speaking are much more related to home, much more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of speaking?

What happens in dreams of speaking?

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

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

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

Speaking dreams are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of speaking related the senses?

How do dreams of speaking related the senses?

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

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How can you make sense of speaking in dreams?

Speaking dreams are frequent. Among other things speaking dreams are very emotional, friendly, about love, very social, family oriented, focused on sounds, focused on touch, focused on vision, containing lots of movement, containing lots of thinking of thoughts, and work dreams. Do you think this is true for your dream of speaking? How might your dream of speaking 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 speaking 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 speaking in dreams. See how you feel about speaking now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of speaking dreams

An interpretation of speaking dreams

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. Talking is a common action in dreams. Some dreams are basically just conversation, the brain spitting out memories from the day or communication among various parts of yourself. Your body can talk with your mind. Your head can talk with your heart. The components of your psyche talk among themselves, taking form as dream characters and other symbols such as talking animals, or just as voices. Yup, the voices in your head can be completely normal. Talking to people you know in a dream can reflect your conversation from the day—it’s basically just memories—but it can be a way of articulating something you are not articulating consciously, or continuing the conversation, specifically the train of thoughts. It can be a way of connecting with the emotions felt in response to what you said and heard. For example, a woman dreams about talking to friends about her deepest personal thoughts, reflecting the discussions she has been having with them. But then she has sex with them and wakes up feeling as if she’s cheated on her boyfriend. It feels like cheating, in a sense, because she has not been talking about those same deep thoughts with him. Conversations in dreams can be used to admit something to yourself, too. Don’t be surprised if what you hear is shocking or discomfiting. Conversations with important figures such as leaders and celebrities can be a way of getting your attention and communicating something important. Dreams of talking with holy figures and higher powers can serve the same purpose. See: Famousness Symbolism can be built around associations with talking, such as openness and guardedness, glibness and sincerity, social acceptance and isolation, candor and deception, and gossip and rumor. In a conversation with dream characters, or conversations between them, you can see your own tendencies. It’s all you talking something over with yourself. See: Psychologists Trouble with hearing someone talk can mean you aren’t listening, or have trouble understanding something being communicated to you. For example, a man’s dream that his boyfriend is deaf means he thinks his boyfriend doesn’t listen to him. Having trouble hearing what a supervisor says in a dream reflects the dreamer’s confusion over understanding an assignment. See: Ears See also: Accents, Angels, Ears, Famousness, Guiding, Hearing, Lips, Mirrors, Mouths, Necks, Phones, Psychologists, Strangling

Examples of dreams of speaking

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 speaking 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 speaking dreams. Read at your own risk.

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