Background

What are touch dreams about?

Unlike vision, hearing, or smell, touch needs to happen with your body. This suggests closeness and intimacy. 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 touch dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how touch in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that touch is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that touch is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, touch dreams have more pain than 89.0% of dream symbols, more hearing than 88.8% of dream symbols, and more vision than 88.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, touch dreams have less recurring dreams than 63.7% of dream symbols, less sadness than 54.3% of dream symbols, and less natural places than 51.6% of dream symbols. Notably, touch dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that touch is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of touch are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Furthermore, dreams of touch are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, dreams of touch are aggressive! Touch dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Furthermore, 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. Finally, dreams of touch has a lot of movement. Things are changing and moving. People are coming and going. Movement implies action. It implies change. There might be reasons why dreams of touch has lots of movement. 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 touch is different than dreams of touch in general.

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How common are touch dreams?

11% of dreams have the touch symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 9 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very common.

Identification

How are touch dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like caress, touch, and grab. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols verbs and senses.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of touch?

Touch dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, movement, things, general movement, Bilbo Baggins, body parts, characters, Han Solo, places, wrists, talismans than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of touch?

Touch dreams are notable because they have substantially less Cameroon, Bangladesh, pheasants, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Aquaman, Algeria, Haiti, Princess Leia, C-3PO, Bolivia than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into touch dreams

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

Who is in dreams of touch?

Who is in dreams of touch?

Touch dreams are more related to insects, more related to strangers, and more related to family than dreams in general.

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What are the emotions in dreams of touch?

What are the emotions in dreams of touch?

Touch dreams are more related to confusion, more related to fear, and more related to pain than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of touch take place?

Where do dreams of touch take place?

Touch dreams are more related to home than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of touch?

What happens in dreams of touch?

Touch dreams are more related to aggressive acts, more related to friendly acts, and more related to sex than dreams in general.

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

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

Touch dreams are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of touch related the senses?

How do dreams of touch related the senses?

Touch dreams are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of touch in dreams?

Touch dreams are very common. Among other things touch dreams are nightmares, friendly, aggressive, focused on touch, and containing lots of movement. Do you think this is true for your dream of touch? How might your dream of touch 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 touch 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 touch in dreams. See how you feel about touch now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of touch

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 touch 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 touch dreams. Read at your own risk.

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