What are touch dreams about?
Unlike vision, hearing, or smell, touch needs to happen with your body. This suggests closeness and intimacy. This symbol is identified by words like caress, grab, and touch.
Touch in dreams is a very common dream symbol, occuring in about 10% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 10 dreams.
What are the major highlights of touch dreams?
Touch is an interconnected dream symbol. Having touch in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.
Touch dreams are friendly
Dreams of touch have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of touch will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of touch are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include arriving, getting a job, pretending, vision, embracing, butlers, haziness, endings, needing help, and people's ages.
Dreams of touch are aggressive
Touch dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all touch have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having touch in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include masks, things, chemical weapons, harpoons, groups, mafia, noises, guns, escaping, and nuclear bombs.
Touch dreams focus on touch
Dreams of touch have more words related to touch than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, touch dreams involve directly interacting and feeling another person or object. Other symbols that are like this include touch, nose bleeds, pregnancy, volcanos, paris, bobcats, seeing a dead father, calendars, precognitive dreams, and submarines.
What symbols more present in dreams of touch?
Touch dreams are notable because they have substantially more movement, elbows, emaciation, shoulder, wrist, ankles, things, anuses, Bolivia, lips, undressing, necks, talismans, general movement, fists, calves, smelling, knives, body parts, intruders, Guatemala, knees, pushing, molesting, characters, snack, Ecuador, hands, devouring, keys, wallets, places, peninsula, stabbing, entrances, venom, arms, back doors, weakness, silence, purse, Somalia, Fiji, vision, Laos, tools, safety, fingers, fingernails, breasts, pulling, shirts, family homes, pants, weasels, beginnings, pressing buttons, locks, janitors, and bones than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of touch?
Touch dreams are notable because they have substantially less giving birth, precognitive dreams, cancer, recurring dreams, verbs, presidents, senses, touch, submarines, pregnancy, weddings, surgery, authors, seeing a dead relative, falling in love, Donald Trump, the night, calendars, dating, funerals, schools, car crashes, suicide, former partners, zoos, sadness, seeing a dead grandmother, crushes, Spain, countries, boyfriends, Japan, social media, Ireland, subconscious, the morning, time travel, old friends, seeing a dead partner, infidelity, love, owls, the moon, dream within a dream, the future, Nepal, alimony, Bangladesh, calluses, Cameroon, Venezuela, collective unconscious, uranus, Congo, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Portugal, harpoons, Hungary, Morocco, pheasants, and Algeria than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of touch affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in touch dreams?
Overall, dreams with touch are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of touch are more related to insects, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general.
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Who is in touch dreams?
Overall, dreams with touch are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of touch are more related to home and more related to magical places than dreams in general.
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What happens in touch dreams?
Overall, dreams with touch are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of touch are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.
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How do touch in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with touch are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of touch are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of touch in dreams?
Touch dreams are very common. Among other things touch dreams are positively interconnected, friendly, aggressive, and focus on touch.
Do you think this is true for your dream of touch? How might your dream of touch 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 touch 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 touch in dreams. See how you feel about touch now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of touch
Read some real dream reports of touch 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.
Ok so super weird, never even thought about something like this
Ok, backstories for what I gathered it this dream it was weirdly vivid, this dream takes place in a world where there are humans and neko’s, but humans are racist towards the neko’s, anyways it start with me in a park bent over looking at the flowers, this dream was really vivid, the color of the flowers were blue and yellow they were mixed I think, but I got up and turned around I see a neko in a cloak I think, it was either a cloak or a Japanese outfit, she touched my chest with two fingers and my entire body was encased with ice, then a split second later the neko was gone and the ice shattered like glass, but she was behind me, I was about get up and then my neck started to feel extremely cold, then I think I was knocked out, but when I woke up I got up and headed home, but I saw people giving me weird looks and whispering to each other, i never made it home though, this whole bit is a bit of a blur but I remember I got it a fight, I crossed a little bridge then after that everything was clear again and I was at a friends house, he didn’t know who I was and I was super confused, I told him it was me, and he squinted his eyes and said “Logan?”, I said yeah and he said,”you do notice you have ears and a tail, right?”at first I thought he was joking, until I looked behind me and saw that I had a tail, I looked in a mirror and saw cat ears, I told him I couldn’t go back to my normal job, he agreed with me
Ok, backstories for what I gathered it this dream it was weirdly vivid, this dream takes place in a world where there are humans and neko’s, but humans are...
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I've had this dream my whole life, where something inconceivably, impossibly huge is coming into contact with something inconceivably, impossibly tiny, I see it when I'm awake too
I've had this dream all my life. It's always without color, no color at all, not necessarily even black and white, no color. I can't really explain the shapes, it used to look kinda like sound waves, now it's just random confusingly shapeless objects. Something overwhelmingly and impossibly big, would touch something overwhelmingly and impossibly small. Like a pin touch a finger. But the finger is so big that my brain can't handle it, and the pin is so small that I can't handle it either, it's hard to explain. Lately I've been seeing it while I'm awake. I've seen it awake before, but it's been happening way more lately. I don't see it like you'd normally see something like a color or a shape physically in front of you. I see it, like, in the back of my eyes. It overlaps my vision. When I close my eyes it gets worse. It never used to be a much of a problem, it'd just be confusing. I'd always feel disturbed by it, and scared during the dream, I felt too overwhelmed. It wasn't and isn't a feeling I can easily describe other than... overwhelming. It's like my brain is trying and failing to comprehend it because the contrast between huge and tiny is so vast. My mind is being opened to the point where my brain can't stretch any further, but yet it keeps stretching to the point where it's impossible to comprehend. What is this??
I've had this dream all my life. It's always without color, no color at all, not necessarily even black and white, no color. I can't really explain the shapes,...
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I think I may die soon.
I will not tell the entirety of the dream. because most of it had no correlation, I know that.
It was just tests and reality checks, telling me to get my shit together since I'm a grown ass man who can control his ownself.
Now, I will mention an irl fact, I have a problem. I am parasitic. Whether you believe it or don't believe it, it matters little to me.
I can feel pains in my heart, things entering and moving around in my heart. It feels as if things are there, tugging and just moving. A stinging, sometimes.
Thats just to provide context.
Now onto the part of the dream I haven't been able to clearly decipher.
A book opened, and there was a kind of children's fairytale theme to it. There was a picture of a flat 2D grassfield, with the Sun in the sky and grass on the ground. On the ground laid a heart, my heart, I knew that right away. Perfect looking, rhythmically beating soundly.
Then, the Sun fell and the Moon rose. The once perfect heart that laid there was now black and battered. There were holes in it, and a green acidic looking ooze flooding from out of it. It's rhythm was all off, beating faster than its supposed to.
And then, The Sun rose again, and all was normal.
Until it fell again, then the black heart appeared once again.
There were 5 days of light, and 4 nights. The fifth day, a black bird flew in and grabbed my heart by it's beak and descended into the earth, dropping my heart into a lake of fire.
I woke up shortly after, and my heart was beating faster than usual. The Sun hadn't rose yet, but it was still morning.
One detail I forgot to mention, was that the word AVACADO was on The Sun on the fifth day before the bird grabbed my heart. I dont eat, or talk about Avacadoes.
Even writing this now, at night, I can feel my heart aching, beating irrhythmically, feeling ill.
A day passed and at night I prayed and asked what that dream was meant to show me.
I went through a test of some sort, overcoming something I would usually succumb to, and everything went pitch black.
In white letters, the message appeared.
"Learn to read, Troubled One.
Learn to read, quickly.
Learn to read."
Another day has passed, and it is now night.
I don't know what I wanted coming here. Maybe I just wanted to tell someone, get over my loneliness or ask for help. I'm scared but I feel like I shouldn't be.
Oh, something to note, I talk to the Sun for comfort. I call it Mr.Sun, and ask it to carry my prayers and messages to the Lord and Jesus. It's just something I do. I dont know if that carries any meaning, but yeah.
I will not tell the entirety of the dream. because most of it had no correlation, I know that.
It was just tests and reality checks, telling me to get my shit...
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UPDATE: my girlfriend is dreaming but awake at the same time???
This is an update to my post the other day about my girlfriends creepy sleep walking.
So there’s been some interesting occurrences since that post pertaining to her sleep walking. First of all, she refuses to see a doctor and insists that she’s ok so idk what to do about that.
Second, I found out it only occurs at a particular time. I’ve witnessed it twice so far and her episodes occur around 3am each time, regardless of when she falls asleep. Last night we were able to avoid an episode by having her stay up past 3am. She eventually fell asleep around 4:30. She said whenever it happened before it also happened at 3am.
Third, the second time this occurred was really bad. For one, she almost hurt herself really bad. I was pretending to sleep when I saw her at the glass door that leads to a back porch. She unlocked it and started walking outside. I quickly jumped out of bed to get her. When I was leading her back inside, she kept saying “she has to go”.
Other than trying to walk into the snow, she almost cut herself. She got up out of bed to go to the washroom, but before leaving my room, she grabbed a knife from my desk and placed it on the bedside table. While she was in the washroom I hid the knife. When she got back, she kept repeating “Where did you put it, we need it for the ritual.” I just kept comforting her and hugging her to make sure she stays in bed. Multiple times she also tried to grabbed a box cutter until I took it away and hid it as well.
She also did stuff that her fully awake self doesn’t know about. She said she wanted to watch videos so she went on YouTube on her phone and started playing a really creepy Alice in Wonderland Remix (Link: https://youtu.be/tnVij0qC6No). While it was playing, she asked why I was crying (I wasn’t) and wiped my ‘black tears’ away. When I showed her in the morning she said that she’s never heard that song before. The weird part is that she searched specifically for that video. There is also a rosary hanging on my wall, but it’s hidden behind a tapestry thing. She lifted the tapestry and said to take it down because ‘it’ doesn’t like it. She then told me in the morning that she didn’t even know it was there.
After a while, it appeared as if she was fully awake finally. We were talking about regular stuff, she was watching videos on her phone, eating a snack, etc. If it weren’t for these other occurrences, I wouldn’t have been able to tell if she was conscious or not, which scares the fuck out of me. However, every few minutes or so she would stare at me super creepily with her eyes wide open. She would also stare at the glass where ‘it’ is supposedly located and talk to it, usually telling it to stop or something. If she ever fell asleep again, she would revert back to her obvious dream like state. Once she said she heard three chimes, that it was her time to go, and that they were getting impatient. When I asked her in the morning, she said that ‘they’ wanted her blood for a ritual.
In the morning, she told me that there were these words that she isn’t supposed to say or something. She doesn’t know what they mean or what would happen, but two of the words were Bolotov and Salazar.
I know this sounds like a fake creepy pasta or something but honest to God it’s not. I don’t know how to help her. I can’t force her to see a doctor. If I leave her to sleep at her place, she might hurt herself or somebody else.
This is an update to my post the other day about my girlfriends creepy sleep walking.
So there’s been some interesting occurrences since that post pertaining...
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Had a dream when I was 10 with a girl I didn’t know in it. We’re dating now.
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.
Anyways.
When I was about 10 or so, I had this dream where me and this random girl were playing and just having fun doing kid stuff. Suddenly I got the urge to tell her “this is a dream, and I can leave whenever I want to. Isn’t that cool?”
She replied with something like “I know.”
So I said “watch this” and in the dream, I closed my eyes and opened them and I was awake (in real life).
Didn’t think much of it.
Come this past June, I was in a town about 4 hours from the one I live in, getting my drivers license photo and all that done since COVID restrictions took them out of my town.
I walked out of the DMV there, and a girl is walking her dog. The dog peed on my moms car door, and she apologized.
We talked for a bit and she asked me for my Snapchat so we could talk some more, which was a first for me since I’m a solid 3/10.
Flash forward a few days later, we’ve been talking, we like each other, decide to hang out in person. She makes the drive up to my town to spend the night.
We spent most of the night just talking about random childhood stories, and I went a grabbed my 3rd grade school picture. Then she told me she had a dream when she was younger about how she was hanging out with a boy, then he said “this is a dream” and left.
She pointed out how younger me looked almost like the kid she had a dream about those years ago.
Well I told her my story of the similar incident, and we concluded we were destined to meet.
I think we both are in agreement that it’s just a scary coincidence, but we both also feel very twilight-zone-y about it now and we aren’t sure if it is a coincidence or some weird fate stuff.
Life is weird, kiddos.
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.
Anyways.
When I was about 10 or so, I had this...
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