What are surgery dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like surgery and heart transplant.
Surgery in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.
What are the major highlights of surgery dreams?
Surgery is a normal dream symbol. Having surgery in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Surgery dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of surgery frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of surgery simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include animuses, social media, insights, carrots, foreshadowing, love, breasts, calluses, subconscious, and penises.
Surgery dreams focus on touch
Dreams of surgery have more words related to touch than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, surgery dreams involve directly interacting and feeling another person or object. Other symbols that are like this include seeing a dead father, Thailand, orange eyes, seeing a dead grandmother, donkeys, Morocco, authors, alimony, El Salvador, and cancer.
What symbols more present in dreams of surgery?
Surgery dreams are notable because they have substantially more caesarean sections, comas, doctors, nurses, scars, body parts, uteruses, different roles, ribs, getting fired, hospitals, cancer, disease, indigo, cutting, abortions, brains, body changes, masturbation, things, breasts, stomachs, healing, miscarriages, pain, adoptions, castration, amputation, getting a job, hearts, guest rooms, vaginas, blood, servants, chests, lobbies, deformation, orange eyes, legs, lasers, medicine, skin, makeup, x-rays, anxiety, illness, bones, calves, numb, Greece, waiting, three eyes, unconscious minds, suffering, foreshadowing, general body parts, seeing a dead mother, noses, paramedic, and genitals than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of surgery?
Surgery dreams are notable because they have substantially less disasters, forests, natural places, castles, cliffs, the sky, wolves, bedrooms, recurring dreams, games, rain and thunder, caves, flying, silence, angels, elements of water, capturing, creatures, fighting, climbing, kings, elements of fire, other fantastic beings, witches, houses, languages, and the planets than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of surgery affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in surgery dreams?
Overall, dreams with surgery are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of surgery are more related to different roles than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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Who is in surgery dreams?
Overall, dreams with surgery are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of surgery are much less related to home, less related to work, and less related to transportation.
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What happens in surgery dreams?
Overall, dreams with surgery are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of surgery are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and much less related to disasters.
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How do surgery in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with surgery are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of surgery are more related to recurring nightmares and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of surgery in dreams?
Surgery dreams are very uncommon. Among other things surgery dreams are normally interconnect, lack places or locations, and focus on touch.
Do you think this is true for your dream of surgery? How might your dream of surgery 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 surgery 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 surgery in dreams. See how you feel about surgery now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of surgery?
Having surgery performed on you in a dream can be a way of saying you want to change something about yourself or remove something from your personality or memory. It can be something you are ashamed of, that’s unwanted, or that’s troublesome for you.
Brain surgery, in particular, is known as an analogy for removing something from your thoughts or thought processes.
For example, a young man dreams that his female friend performs surgery on his brain. He’s calm and relaxed as some parts are removed and some disconnected. The dream symbolizes rewiring his brain to accept that his friend will not be his girlfriend or lover. He has strong feelings for her, and in order to save the friendship he has to disconnect from them or turn them off. He’s relaxed during the surgery because he knows subconsciously what the surgery symbolizes.
Surgery can symbolize something tedious or very serious. It can reflect health fears.
“Surgical” means precise, sometimes ruthless or cold.
Be sure to read: Amputate.
See also: Amputation, Dissecting, Doctors, Hospitals, Knives
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 surgery
Read some real dream reports of surgery 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.
Had sex with my dad
So much happened in the dream, but my dad fucking me was the truly disturbing. I was just laying there and he comes up behind and start having sex with me.
My husband is laying across from me. He doesn’t say anything and I didn’t fully comprehend what was going on till he was close. and when he finishes I pushed him off in disbelief and went to the bathroom to clean up. I wasn’t angry per se, It was more disbelief and confusion because there was no reaction from anyone.
This was just one aspect of the dream , there was a lot of shit going on so I’ll just point out the things that stuck out.
-My parents, my husband and I were living together in my deceased grandparents house
-family started showing up at the house
- Me being really mad and disgusted about dirt/germs being everywhere. ( someone made a mess with feces)
-My deceased cousin laying in bed happy and laughing but he looked like how he looked after surgery to remove tumor in his head
-Animals ( snake, Jaguar or leopard couldn’t tell the difference) walking around that were bought by cousins I don’t get along with
-The snake bit my my mom multiple times
-A storm and a big lightning
-part of the roof of the house falling off
The dream was overall very weird and disturbing
So much happened in the dream, but my dad fucking me was the truly disturbing. I was just laying there and he comes up behind and start having sex with me.
My...
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Hospital dream
I had a weird hospital dream, where I was strapped to a gurney(one of those beds with wheels), and was about to head into surgery for a back probably I didn't even know I had. As soon as I started to wake up in the operating room I felt so heavy. I could feel a Lazer go zap me with line after line for what felt like 10 minutes. Woke up properly I could still feel the lines from where the Lazer zapped me.
I had a weird hospital dream, where I was strapped to a gurney(one of those beds with wheels), and was about to head into surgery for a back probably I didn't...
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Piercing surgery
In my dream, I remember my breast was hurting really badly. I had nipple piercings, and went to a piercer to check it out. Initially they were going to examine it tomorrow, but when they moved it and I yelled from pain, they called for me to get emergency surgery. The right boob had the piercing hole stretched down half of it. The piercing hole was like a zipper barely holding the piercing in, and raw tissue exposed. There was also a weird wire connecting the tissue they had to take out too, and it ran across my chest. They had to pull the wire out and I also remember them using scissors to cut out certain veins and wires. I ended up getting stiches all across my chest and somehow they ended up on my right arm too.
In my dream, I remember my breast was hurting really badly. I had nipple piercings, and went to a piercer to check it out. Initially they were going to examine...
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Dream of a Deformed Dog
Last night I had a freaky dream. Wasn’t really a nightmare because the overall vibe was positive but definitely got caught off guard in it. I was at an animal shelter with the premise I guess of adopting a dog. I feel like I wanted to go for a dog that’s been there a while, that no one wanted, perhaps special needs. So I get taken into a room with this dog. He’s laying on a dog bed, with his head facing away from me. I’m told his name is Gummy. He is a Dalmatian, Golden Retriever mix so he’s spotted like a Dalmatian but with the fluffiness of a Golden Retriever. He’s quite large as well, probably coming to my waist when I am standing. As I approach him, he turns his head and finally looks at me. I’m shocked for a second at what I see. His jaw is deformed, a little off center with the lower jaw being too short for the top snout so his tongue is out and he has scarring as if he’s had corrective surgery. His lips are taut and show off his gums, hence the name Gummy. He looks like he’s always smiling or baring teeth. For a few seconds I’m taken off guard and say “Oh God” as I wasn’t expecting his appearance then he starts wagging his tail at me and I pet him. We’re having a good interaction when I wake up. Ideas?
Last night I had a freaky dream. Wasn’t really a nightmare because the overall vibe was positive but definitely got caught off guard in it. I was at an animal...
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I had a dream that my mom was replaced by an impostor
It started out like a normal day in life, but i felt something was off, like something is missing.
She acted, sounds and looks like her, after i realized i asked her what happened to my real mom and where she is, of course she didn’t answer properly, i even asked how can she looks like her lol, i just blurted “Did you do plastic surgery?”
The weird thing is that everyone in the house didn’t seem to realize or care that my real mom is missing, even though it appears that my extended family (from my mom) to be present in the house
And my younger brother seem to realize too that our mom is missing
This dream is seriously absurd, i think i never had a dream like this if i remember correctly, i don’t know how this dream can appear, it felt so real and i didn’t know it was a dream.
It started out like a normal day in life, but i felt something was off, like something is missing.
She acted, sounds and looks like her, after i realized i...
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