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What are tattoo dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like tattoo.

Tattoos in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.

What are the major highlights of tattoo dreams?

Tattoos is a normal dream symbol. Having tattoos in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

What symbols less present in dreams of tattoos?

How does the dream symbol of tattoos affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of tattoos

Who is in tattoos dreams?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in tattoos dreams?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are more related to happiness, more related to hatred, and more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to fear.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in tattoos dreams?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in tattoos dreams?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do tattoos in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do tattoos in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with tattoos are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of tattoos are less related to hearing and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of tattoos in dreams?

Tattoo dreams are very uncommon. Among other things tattoo dreams are normally interconnect.

Do you think this is true for your dream of tattoos? How might your dream of tattoos 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 tattoos 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 tattoos in dreams. See how you feel about tattoos now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of tattoos?

People sometimes get tattoos as permanent reminders of another person, so getting a tattoo in a dream can mean that you want to remember someone—or conversely, don’t want to forget the person. Especially a loved one who passed away.

Tattoos are reminders of events and times of life.

Tattoos are part of you, and as symbolism they can mean that whatever is tattooed on your body is part of you. For example, a man’s dream about getting a tattoo of a wolf ties in with recognizing wolf-like qualities in himself: good instincts, protective, sociable. The tattoo symbolizes his connections with those qualities of himself.

A tattoo is a record of who you are and where you’ve been.

Getting a tattoo with another person can be a bonding ritual. It shows the personal bond between you. On the other hand, if the tattoo is forced on you, it might symbolize a feeling that you’re forced to commit to something or bond with someone or something.

A temporary tattoo can symbolize a temporary situation or relationship.

See also: Artists, Body parts, Seeing a dead relative, Scars

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 tattoos

Read some real dream reports of tattoo 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.

I almost never dream and woke up after an extremely vivid and realistic dream that i cant stop thinking about.

So I knew this person in high school who was a heroin addict. He was the same grade as me. He had lots of stick and poke tattoos on his hands. What made me recognize him in this dream was one specific tattoos, on his finger he had the acronym ACAB. I haven’t thought about this person in years. Anyways, the first thing i can remember is being in a house I didn’t recognize. I was with the heroin addict guy who we’ll call Nick and two other girls i was friends with in high school. Nick and one of the other girls were shooting up. I remember saying out loud, “Nick? Is that you? I knew I recognized the ACABtattooso but the rest of you has changed so much.”

After I said that the next memory i have was all 4 of us in my car. We’re driving around my home town and suddenly the perspective changes to third person outside of the car. I crash the car and go unconscious. When i wake up, im in first person again. My legs are pinned under the steering wheel. I see Nick and the two girls looking at me from outside the car with blank expressions. Theres a fire truck but no firefighters. I remember feeling completely dazed and out of it when I noticed that outside it was completely dark. We had crashed during the day and after realizing this i kept repeating “WHAT TIME IS IT?” over and over again crying and trying to free my legs. And after that I promptly woke up, extremely sweaty.

Anyone have any thoughts or interpretations of this? I have no idea what to make of it and its been bothering me.

So I knew this person in high school who was a heroin addict. He was the same grade as me. He had lots of stick and poke tattoos on his hands. What made me...

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Question about symbolism

what does it mean when you see a tattoo on a stangers chest in a dream specifically a woman I never saw they’re face though even though it was in my field of vision, does anyone know what this could mean? I’ll answer questions if needed

what does it mean when you see a tattoo on a stangers chest in a dream specifically a woman I never saw they’re face though even though it was in my field of...

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A dream my girlfriend had of me which i would really lile to know the meaning of

Could anyone PLEASE interpret this dream my girlfriend had of me ?

She dreamed that we were walking together in a small street in a french small town, her idea is that the town is Paimpol, a city in Brittany, France next to where she’s from.

Then all of her friends turn up and we find a tattoo machine while walking all together. Everybody then proceeds to tattoo my girlfriend a tattoo of his/her choice at a spot of his/her choice. I tattoo her too. Of all the tattoo my girlfriend receives, mine is the biggest and one of the most detailed and well designed one, it had shadows and volumes whereas the tattoo of her friends were usually simpler doodles.
My ttattoowas also the only one featuring colors, all the other ones were in black and white.

If you have any idea what meaning that dream might have PLEASE comment or send me a message. I can give you details about my girlfriend and I if it helps in DM.

Love this community

Wishing you all a pleasant day.

Could anyone PLEASE interpret this dream my girlfriend had of me ?

She dreamed that we were walking together in a small street in a french small town, her idea...

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I think I met some kind of old god - I know that sounds bat shit

So this is both a lucid and reoccurring dream. It started out at war. Someone was attaking my army and we were losing. We were having a naval battle, but were close enough to land to see the battle raged on shore. I was a spy master and a commander and I was fighting someone that kinda looked like a giant marsai Martin, when I say giant, I mean she was larger than the biggest boat and only her head and arms were visible above water... GIANT. We were losing to her slowly swatting away our ships. Since we were losing I left to find help because I knew where to go but I consciously didn't know where I was going. I went to the sea shore and floated along till I found what I was looking for. A rock laid over like a Sphinx but with its head down towards the water floor. At first they were a rock rested at Sea and they came to life, slowly and with breaking sounds.

I got on their back and they flew into the air until they shook off all the rocks and ghostly but solid flesh and his legs were made of water until he got land, they became strange flows water colored legs. They had crown imbedded into their head made of green and petina marble or something, like a dark aquamarine precious stone that is completely opaque. Their crown was around the face like a sun🌞 . The face was round and it lacked characteristics that were normal but he had big eyes.... Like what one would find in the art of early Babylonia. His body was weird it glowed but it didn't and it changed to water depending on how I looked at him... but it wasn't. He wore jewelery and a lot of it but sometimes it was tattoos and it shifted back and forth like that the entire time. And his crown rotated around his face which made his face look like it was turning, it could’ve been turning. It also made the sound of a giant safe dial turning. The sound was bigger than it should’ve been.

They took me to the room of my ancestors and the floor was made of some blue stone similar to what was around his head, his looked older duller, and he said this is the map of your past and your families past. There were markers on the map, animals and plants and things. But the map didn’t look... accurate. They told me that we couldn't stay because we didn't belong here but we had to go through to get out. I didn’t know what it meant until they opened a portal. I went through and my first thought was that I was in Norway and everything was Norwegian, but I have no knowledge of what that means aesthetically, visually, or historically outside of the feeling of that being the case in my dream. Particularly odd because I am a Black American. The lighting was low and warm, the map on the floor was the same, the wall were made of a very deep yellowish wood, and the walls bent skillfully and purposefully making rounded undulating shapes like a boat. That part was visible, but the decorations on the walls weren’t. I was aware that they were there, and felt like part of me out there there.

It was silent and no one was there, the room was large and my footsteps echoed through when I walked through the portal the thing, person?, went silent and patiently stood on the other side until I said you are welcome to come in as well. And they gracefully stepped into the room, their water legs shifting from water to feet like before, and immediately says we had to go because I have a destiny not like the rest of them. They told me we were in pangea and I was like eh???? Then I woke up after they got really big and filled the room and scared me. Their eyes were so huge and unblinking. Un shining. No dimension... the way he filled the room was like.... how plasma moves. Expanding, solid, but fluid.

I woke up confused, disoriented, and scared. Like their voice was like several at once at different genders and completely filled the air. This is my second time having this dream... what does this mean??? Help please?

So this is both a lucid and reoccurring dream. It started out at war. Someone was attaking my army and we were losing. We were having a naval battle, but were...

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It's been 6 years , why now?

6 years ago I had a dream . In this dream I was playing basketball in my driveway with a tall, tattoo covered guy my age named "Stephanie". I remember the dream vividly because I hate basketball and I've never known a boy named stephanie,......that was 6 years ago.....Last night in my dream I was working on my car in my driveway and somebody came up to me and was like "Hey man ,how's it going?", he looked familiar but I didn't recognize him and told him so and he said "What!? You dont remember me?. Its me , stephanie!" And suddenly it all clicked and I remembered him and we hugged and he was happy to see me and we played basketball again and he helped me work on my car......I had the first dream 6 years ago and I just had its successor last night...why? Lol

6 years ago I had a dream . In this dream I was playing basketball in my driveway with a tall, tattoo covered guy my age named "Stephanie". I remember the dream...

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