Background

What are surgery dreams about?

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 surgery dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how surgery in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that surgery is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that surgery is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, surgery dreams have more health events than 99.1% of dream symbols, more pain than 95.3% of dream symbols, and more unnamed people than 87.7% of dream symbols. On the other hand, surgery dreams have less natural places than 94.3% of dream symbols, less disasters than 93.8% of dream symbols, and less fantastic beings than 91.3% of dream symbols. Notably, surgery dreams are associated with going to the bathroom! This may or may not be surprising. Going to the bathroom is a basic human need, so it makes sense that we dream about it sometimes. Still, this might hold some meaning in the dream. It all depends on the context. 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 surgery is different than dreams of surgery in general.

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How common are surgery dreams?

0.5% of dreams have the surgery symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very uncommon.

Identification

How are surgery dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like surgery and heart transplant. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols events and health events.

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What is most related to dreams of surgery?

Surgery dreams are notable because they have substantially more caesarean sections, uteruses, doctors, healing dreams, hospitals, alimony, nurses, Lebanon, x-rays, roosters, ovaries than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of surgery?

Surgery do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into surgery dreams

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

Who is in dreams of surgery?

Who is in dreams of surgery?

Surgery dreams are more related to unnamed people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of surgery?

What are the emotions in dreams of surgery?

Surgery dreams are more related to grief and sorrow and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.

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Where do dreams of surgery take place?

Where do dreams of surgery take place?

Surgery dreams are less related to home, much less related to transportation, and much less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of surgery?

What happens in dreams of surgery?

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

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

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

Dreams of surgery are more related to weird dreams and more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of surgery related the senses?

How do dreams of surgery related the senses?

Surgery dreams are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

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How can you make sense of surgery in dreams?

Surgery dreams are very uncommon. Among other things surgery dreams are associated with going to the bathroom. Do you think this is true for your dream of surgery? How might your dream of surgery 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 surgery 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 surgery in dreams. See how you feel about surgery now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of surgery dreams

An interpretation of surgery 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. 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: Amputations, Dissecting, Doctors, Hospitals, Knives

Examples of dreams of surgery

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 surgery 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 surgery dreams. Read at your own risk.

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