What are suffocation dreams about?
Suffocation is when a person cannot breath. This can be life threatening. Yet, suffocation is often used metaphorically. The heat can feel suffocating. People or situations can feel suffocating. This symbol is identified by words like can't breath, cannot breath, no air, etc.
Suffocation in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 75 dreams.
What are the major highlights of suffocation dreams?
Suffocation is a normal dream symbol. Having suffocation in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of suffocation are aggressive
Suffocation dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all suffocation have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having suffocation in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include sparrows, abandonment, bombs, cults, tunnels, unnamed individuals, tanks, pushing, Bolivia, and trucks.
Dreams with suffocation might be a nightmare
Dreams of suffocation are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain suffocation might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with suffocation are not nightmares. But, dreams of suffocation are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include places, kidnapping, backwards, tasers, trying, ribs, black and white, hair falling out, exits, and molesting.
Suffocation dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain suffocation are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include funerals, talismans, orphans, car crashes, destruction, blood, grief and sorrow, characters, limousines, and accomplices.
What symbols more present in dreams of suffocation?
Suffocation dreams are notable because they have substantially more elves, emaciation, elements of air, necks, drowning, strangling, events, harpoons, trying to scream, stabbing, vomiting, white eyes, avalanches, mouths, wrestling, pushing, bartenders, noses, death, tackling, Venezuela, going to die, sleep paralysis, volcanos, ribs, magnifying glasses, killing, nephews, paralysis, panic, fists, dying, chests, rage, scarves, chemical weapons, kayaks, screaming, serial killers, losing an eye, weakness, cold, ambushing, yelling, nose bleeds, possessing, knees, demons, black eyes, beginnings, dissecting, silence, elbows, kittens, midnight, body parts, masks, constructing, shaking, rodents, and Voldemort than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of suffocation?
Suffocation dreams are notable because they have substantially less hostages, schools, weddings, old friends, whales, beaches, falling in love, aggressive interactions, verbs, scientists, students, faking, relationship events, makeup, the future, crushes, human places, ice cream, buses, universities, transportation, bees, amazed, boats, Donald Trump, large gatherings, planes, armies, stores, presidents, maps, social media, facebook, spouses, calendars, circuses, conferences, eclipses, Egypt, grenades, infesting, pregnancy, mermaids, miscarriages, parasites, precognitive dreams, real locations, prom, submarines, tiktok, wasps, menstruation, and autumn than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of suffocation affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in suffocation dreams?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are less related to insects, less related to different roles, and less related to distant people.
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What are the emotions in suffocation dreams?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to fear, and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to confusion.
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Who is in suffocation dreams?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human places.
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What happens in suffocation dreams?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do suffocation in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.
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How do suffocation in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with suffocation are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of suffocation are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to vision.
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How can you make sense of suffocation in dreams?
Suffocation dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things suffocation dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, nightmare, and about death.
Do you think this is true for your dream of suffocation? How might your dream of suffocation be different?
All dreams have meaning
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Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience suffocation in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
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Examples of dreams of suffocation
Read some real dream reports of suffocation 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.
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 choking 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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Had a weird dream (need explaining)
As generic the title says I could use some help understanding what it means.
I am in a dark room. I look behind me and I see a small girl following me with dark eyes. I look at it then turn my head. Out of nowhere I feel myself floating and the moment I moved my hand the entire room got dark. I felt a choking feeling on my neck and I ended up waking up. Trust me when I say that I could use some explanation on this
As generic the title says I could use some help understanding what it means.
I am in a dark room. I look behind me and I see a small girl following me with...
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Saw a dream of killing someone, is it normal?
Ok, so i saw a dream where me and my older sister we're walking on a street after going to the shop. A car stopped next to us and tried to kidnap both of us, there were people behind us and they all came to help and luckily nothing happened to us and he got away. Let's pause for a minute, the guy resembled a lot of people from my real life (bullies, annoyingasfuck teachers etc) so it's not like the guy had a "face". This is where a dream kind of splits you know? Something happens, you don't know what happened in the middle of it but the dream has a "jump-cut", i hope you know what i mean. So i was in a mountain-y area and saw the same car coming towards me and i started like fighting him or something?? So eventually it got to the point where i had to eliminate the guy or i wouldn't survive, but, i can't just kill someone? So i... buried him in a brick-wall kind of thing that was made out of stone. Because of dream logic, he kind of just WENT into the wall and i'm pretty sure he was alive at that point but suffocated in the wall. Later i went to check the place to get rid of the car, blood and saw that the place that i "burief" him onto had some red on the stones. That's when i basically knew "well fuck i hope no-one notices that" and i just... woke up. Is it normal? Am i a psychopath? What is going on.
Ok, so i saw a dream where me and my older sister we're walking on a street after going to the shop. A car stopped next to us and tried to kidnap both of us,...
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Unsettling dream about the COVID vaccine
This happened last night. So In this dream, I had declined to get the COVID vaccine for whatever reason. Next thing I remember was being in a local grocery store looking for donuts when all of a sudden I start having trouble breathing and I’m coughing out this extremely viscous green fluid. It’s got a foamy substance but doesn’t go away and the more I tried to spit it from my mouth, the thicker it gets and the harder it gets for me to breathe. The next thing I remember is seeing a live feed from my uncle who’s showing everyone how the government is threatening him and his family (because I didn’t take the vaccine) and he goes on to show everyone that someone stole my passport and sent it to him, I’m guessing as a warning message? (Idk). Except the passport had these strange, almost demonic or alien people printed on the pages. As soon as I see this, I start violently coughing out the green fluid which suddenly gets so thick that I can no longer breathe because it’s completely blocking my airways. I pretty much start to suffocate and that’s when I woke up. So yea, shit was weird..I couldn’t fall back asleep after this and I usually have a pretty easy time falling back asleep but something about this creeped me out a little. Thanks for reading!
This happened last night. So In this dream, I had declined to get the COVID vaccine for whatever reason. Next thing I remember was being in a local grocery...
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I had the most disturbing dream of my life
My childhood cat died very suddenly two weeks ago. She choked due to water in her lungs. We couldn't save her. I remember driving home after my brother called with the intention of saving her, that she wasn't really dead. Her death really messed with me. Words can't express how much I loved her and I can't stop imagining her choked. This dream is very, very disturbing.
Today I took a nap. I woke up after the most disturbing dream of my entire life. I was sitting on the couch and realized my cat's body was next to me, at the exact spot she used to sleep all the time. Not only that, there was two of her. Someone picked one of the two up and took it out of sight. I asked my mom what it was doing there. She told me she took her out of the freezer (we are keeping her body until we can bury it since it's winter) because she missed her too much. My cat then started moving slightly. She started cchoked I tried to save her. I started blowing in her mouth to clear her throat and doing the Heimlich method on her. However her body kept slipping out of my hands and falling in weird positions on the couch. She finally stopped chchokedShe had died again. I called 911 to ask them to come over and make sure she was dead. While I was waiting my whole family started chasing me with knives; even my disabled brother who cannot run and my very old grandma. They pushed me to the ground and started trying to stab me while laughing. I managed to get up and answer the door: the ambulance was here. Two men in a red suit were there. They were the chiefs of ambulances or whatever. They looked at my cat and confirmed she was very, very dead and that her moving was a response from her dead body the the stimuli around her. I thanked them and escorted them to the door. When I came back to the living room my cat was laying the exact same way as she is laying in the picture of her I have on my desk in my dorms. What's really freaking weird to me is that it was only her skeleton, which I found cute in my dream? Then her skeleton started shrinking and I woke up.
I called my mom and started crying while telling her about it. I still feel very weird and needed a place to share.
My childhood cat died very suddenly two weeks ago. She choked due to water in her lungs. We couldn't save her. I remember driving home after my brother called...
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