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What are the future dreams about?

The future is anything beyond the present moment. It is a time that we have not yet discovered. Oftentimes we can have hopes and dreams for the future. In any case, there is always uncertainty for the future. This symbol is identified by words like future.

The future in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.9% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 55 dreams.

What are the major highlights of the future dreams?

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

The future dreams are about love

Dreams containing the future are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of the future are about love. It simply means that if you dream of the future, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Costa Rica, qualities, feelings, hazel eyes, taste, sadness, guest rooms, overdoses, green eyes, and talismans.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of the future

Who is in the future dreams?

Overall, dreams with the future are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of the future are more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than 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 the future dreams?

Overall, dreams with the future are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of the future are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and much more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in the future dreams?

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

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in the future dreams?

Overall, dreams with the future are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of the future are less related to aggressive interactions.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do the future in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with the future are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of the future are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do the future in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with the future are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of the future are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of the future in dreams?

The future dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things the future dreams are normally interconnect and about love.

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

Examples of dreams of the future

Read some real dream reports of the future 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.

My wife had a stroke IRL

Back story:

She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has feeling on the left side of her body. This has been a terribly hard situation to deal with as we have two young children and no idea where this will end up with her condition.

On to the dream. We were home, and she had some bandaging on her head but was completely normal. It felt so real, but I found myself questioning the situation in my head, while dreaming. I asked her questions about the hospital and she spoke to me like everything was fine. I realized I had to be dreaming because just yesterday I was sitting in the hospital at her bedside. I hugged her and started cry, about the same time I woke up about to break out in tears.

The dream made me so happy but also caused a lot of fear for the future. I usually do not read into these things and I rarely have a lucid dream.

Anyone that might have some feedback, good or bad, I'd love to hear it.

Back story:

She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has...

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horrible dream.

i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.

i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the dream, because it was five years ago.

i went through school, i graduated. with a scholarship. i deferred it and moved out two weeks later with three of my friends, one of which i do not expect to have in my future. all in june 2020

i had a boyfriend, we got together january 2020. i’ve known him for a while, we’re in talking stage right now.

i went to college in 2021 for nursing. i dropped out because i hated it, and held a job at a strip club as a waitress.

i did so much. i voted in the 2023 election. one of my friends died in a car accident. i had a dog, named riley. and my roommate had a ferret named pearl.

it ended in august 2024, was a wednesday but the date isn’t in my head. i came home and found 4 year long boyfriend banging my roommate. i walked in and saw them, it was a fight and they insisted it was “friendly” and “okay because it wasn’t romantic”. i remember every single second of that conversation. i was screaming at the top of my lungs and so were they. i eventually got mad enough to leave, i slammed the door behind me and the hallway started looking off. i figured it was the tears welling my eyes making my vision all wonky so i shut my eyes really tight. i opened them, and there i was in the bedroom of the house i moved out of 5 years earlier.

i lived 5 years into the future in an hour. i woke up and i don’t know who i am anymore. i don’t have the same experiences that built me. i don’t have any motivation. i just DID everything i dot want to do it again.

i don’t know if this is exactly the place to write this. but i’m so disheartened and grieving and i’m terrified.

i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.

i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the...

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I dreamt what happens after I died

This has never happened to me before and its kind of freaking me out. Im wondering if anyone else has experienced this before because nobody in my circles that I asked ever had.

This is the dream:

This was a few nights ago and im still fucked about it.

I was at my childhood home, my parents were really old and frail (75/80’s, they’re actually in their 40’s irl) I felt like i was 24/25 (Im 19). The tv was on and I was cleaning not paying attention when the tv had a really loud alarm. The news guy said that america has fallen and showed huge street fights with fire everywhere and people getting shot and falling by the hundreds. The same dude came back on with another alert and said that the outsider countries that were waiting to attack have just declared war too. The phone rang and I watched my younger brother (18) answer it and hang up. I couldn’t hear him or anything else. He didnt say anything but him and my other brother (17) went upstairs, got a bag and left the house. I knew they got drafted to fight and I knew they didnt say anything bc they weren’t going to come back. My dad got up and hobbled to the door and said he had to protect the family, but I knew he didn’t want to go. He was doing it out of duty, and everyone knew he was too old he would die for certain. My mom was crying and so was my little sister (9) and so was I. Then there was another emergency alarm on the tv to immediately get underground and put something between your teeth and bite down, North Korea was coming. I got my family to go the basement and I was coming behind them, still upstairs when I looked out the window and saw a blinding white light growing and I knew I was going to die right then and I had this huge feeling that I had let it get to that point. It was MY fault that it did.
The light became everything and then it became all dark and my eyes adjusted to see that I was in a moving hallway of sorts. It in space, made out of space, and I could see outside of the area but I was confined to the inside. It was like a black space snake and I was inside riding it like a train. Some of the space scales of the snake worked as doors and I could go into points of time in the future/past, of my life which was a tiny section of it overall and in general too. I looked inside one room but I didn’t go in. It was just trees in a swamp. I opened this other door that had a vibe™️ to it and instantly I was met with this warm yellow glowing light that filled the entire room (which had no walls, it was just the light) and it had the MOST loving feeling ever. It felt like the ultimate motherly warm love ever and I could just melt into it and be happy and safe forever and I was about to step in when the light shifted and formed the face of a lady. The lady opened her eyes and looked directly dead in my eyes and without opening her mouth or anything she said loud and clear: Speak. The sound was in my body and everywhere at the same time.

And then I woke up. And I remained fucked up because I’ve never died in a dream and continued dreaming ever before.

Also my interpretation of the dream was: i have to speak on what ive been meaning and KNOW i need to speak on in order to not let bad things happen. Im trying to write a book and Ive been too scared to start.

This has never happened to me before and its kind of freaking me out. Im wondering if anyone else has experienced this before because nobody in my circles that...

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Dream about sex with little sister (16m)

My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it didn’t happen on purpose but I still can’t help but wonder if subconsciously im some nasty incestual pedo. Just had to get this off my chest I guess. Could it mean anything and how do I prevent this from happening in the future?

My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it...

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i met a girl in a dream and i think i’m in love

i met this girl in my dream, she was perfect in every singly way, it felt amazing to be with her, and everything seemed so real. i’ve never met this girl however she looks like a mixture of people i’ve seen and now since i woke up i can’t stop thinking of her. i want to dream of her again and i have hopes that it might be for-seeing the future. is there some sort of meaning behind this? why was she perfect in every way except being real as far as i know of. what do i do

i met this girl in my dream, she was perfect in every singly way, it felt amazing to be with her, and everything seemed so real. i’ve never met this girl...

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