What are unconscious mind dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like unconscious.
Unconscious minds in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.
What are the major highlights of unconscious mind dreams?
Unconscious minds is a normal dream symbol. Having unconscious minds in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Unconscious mind dreams are friendly
Dreams of unconscious minds have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of unconscious minds will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of unconscious minds are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include messes, entrances, money, innocence, hanging, insanity, edges, following, voice, and numbers.
Dreams of unconscious minds are aggressive
Unconscious mind dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all unconscious minds have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having unconscious minds in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include stomachs, ammunition, skeletons, fingerprints, antlers, barns, thrones, accomplices, cults, and ditching.
Dreams with unconscious minds might be a nightmare
Dreams of unconscious minds are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain unconscious minds might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with unconscious minds are not nightmares. But, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include trapping, chests, voice, suffering, verbs, sleeping, aggressive interactions, torturing, faking, and other verbs.
What symbols more present in dreams of unconscious minds?
Unconscious mind dreams are notable because they have substantially more hospitals, collective unconscious, healing, pressing buttons, paramedic, verbs, senses, Fiji, pilots, comas, relief, crowds, Malaysia, body parts, roots, kings, lasers, suffering, hitting and kicking, tackling, lifeguards, brains, venom, drowning, baboons, heroes, general body parts, journeys, spheres, metal, south, blood, Philippines, drugs, raping, psyches, spying, events, camels, saving, teenagers, dolphins, falling, animas, employees, paying attention, calves, abyss, armor, Madagascar, friendly interactions, chests, alcohol, ufos, numb, Croatia, large gatherings, weakness, trapping, and mermaids than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of unconscious minds?
Unconscious mind dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, seeing a dead relative, chicken, things, mountains, flowers, eating, ugliness, recurring dreams, spouses, babies, snow, relationship events, books, gardens, balloons, crows, seeing a dead grandmother, time travel, snack, pigs, elephants, nuclear bombs, mice, foxes, fathers, sex, lunch, the night, praising, planes, food, former partners, insights, shopping, creeping and crawling, and gold than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of unconscious minds affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in unconscious minds dreams?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to different roles and more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to insects.
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What are the emotions in unconscious minds dreams?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to confusion, more related to pain, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness.
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Who is in unconscious minds dreams?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.
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What happens in unconscious minds dreams?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.
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How do unconscious minds in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.
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How do unconscious minds in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with unconscious minds are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of unconscious minds are more related to hearing and more related to touch than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of unconscious minds in dreams?
Unconscious mind dreams are uncommon. Among other things unconscious mind dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, and nightmare.
Do you think this is true for your dream of unconscious minds? How might your dream of unconscious minds 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 unconscious minds 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 unconscious minds in dreams. See how you feel about unconscious minds now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of unconscious minds?
If you’re new to dream psychology, you may not know that “unconscious” is not the same as knocked out and unresponsive. In dreams, that definition of unconscious is more akin to being comatose or asleep. See: Comas, Sleeping
Everything about your mind that isn’t conscious is, by definition, either subconscious or unconscious. The subconscious is the gray zone between the conscious mind and the unconscious. See: Subconscious
The unconscious mind is simply called the unconscious, and it’s basically everything that’s behind the curtain, below the waterline, beyond conscious awareness. The conscious mind—basically, the ego—is an island in the vast ocean of the unconscious. See: Oceans
You can think of the unconscious as the soil from which the conscious mind grows. Or think of it as the BIOS of a computer motherboard, the root programming that connects all the parts and attempts to make them work together optimally. That’s why the unconscious is not associated with any one area of the brain. Instead, it’s found everywhere in the brain.
The unconscious mind sees the big picture of you and your life, and is aware of everything happening inside you and in your life. It’s independent and autonomous of your ego. And it has its own agenda. This is a really important point to grasp. Most people don’t even know that they have an unconscious mind, let alone that it’s vast as an ocean, connected with all other human minds at a root level, and that it greatly influences thoughts, behaviors, and cognitive processes from behind the scenes.
Knowledge of the unconscious is crucial for understanding your dream life, because its agenda is to help you grow and it uses dreams as the primary means for communicating with its counterpart, the conscious mind. Think of it as a life coach who knows you better than anyone—knows how you tick and what motivates you, even your innermost thoughts and desires—and it creates dreams to give you coaching from within.
The long-term goal of dreaming is to prepare the conscious mind to unite with the unconscious in a sort of inner marriage. You begin life in this world as undifferentiated from everything in it. You are unconscious. Then you separate from it. You create a unique identity, an ego. Then, if you complete the journey, you reunite with the unconscious in a higher state of being. See: Circles, Egos, Love, Weddings
The unconscious takes form in dreams as anima figures for males, and animus figures for females. Be sure to read: Anima, Animus.
The personal unconscious of the individual is part of the collective unconscious connecting all individuals. See: Collective unconscious
Archetypes are the core of the unconscious. See: Psyches
A major archetype of the unconscious is called the anima in males and the animus in females. See: Animas, Animuses
See also: Animas, Animuses, Basements, Beaches, Bears, Black, Boats, Caves, Circles, Collective unconscious, Crowds, Descending, Dragons, Dungeons, Egos, Elephants, Erupting, Floods, Love, Weddings, Oceans, Psyches, Rightness, Shadows, Spirals, Subconscious, Tsunamis, Ufos, Water, Whales
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 unconscious minds
Read some real dream reports of unconscious mind 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.
Mermaid Dream Interpretation
I dreamt I was on a prolonged vacation with my immediate and extended family. We were all spending time in this house in a town I don’t recognize irl.
During our vacation, I discovered a group of beautiful mermaids. I begged them to become one of them. Me and another girl I didn’t know in the dream, did. The mermaids seemed reluctant to accept us and they didn’t seem to care for us in the least bit.
They told us that in order to become a mermaid, we had to die first.
Dying seemed easy enough if it meant I would transform. We both held our heads under the water and they helped us drown. I heard the other girl fighting it and screaming under water, the mermaids holding her head down as she struggled to reach for air, till it was over with.
I died after her. My death was calm. I was anxious but I didn’t start panicking for air as much as the other girl.
We both transformed into mermaids. Undead mermaids.
That’s when they told us we could no longer have children and there would be certain nights we would fall unconscious for 24 hours, against our will.
There was nothing I could do. It was already too late. None of them had warned either of us of any of the consequences of the path we had chosen.
I was very sad I would never be able to have children. I felt a deep sense of loss.
I called my boyfriend and quickly told him the situation, aside from being infertile, mentioning I would fall into a full days slumber and I would contact him as soon as I could.
The mermaids were very mean and aggressive. They seemed somewhat evil and now they had control over me.
Technically I was bound to them and I was also the undead. There was no going back to my old life.
I didn’t know what any of it meant in regards to my future and I was afraid. Sad and afraid.
I was very relieved upon waking up and realizing it was just a dream.
I dreamt I was on a prolonged vacation with my immediate and extended family. We were all spending time in this house in a town I don’t recognize irl.
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Recurring nightmare
I’m riding in an SUV on the passenger side. Sometimes I’m driving but most of the time I’m shotgun. I’m usually riding with people I don’t know in my waking life, but in the dream I get the sense that these are people I know well and like. We’re headed somewhere talking and laughing and enjoying ourselves when all of a sudden everything goes black.
I come to, in the dream, and realize our vehicle is filling up water. I look around and see that my companions are still unconscious but alive. I unlatch myself and try to wake each person up so that when the car finally fills up and we are able to open the doors and swim out they are able to save themselves. Only no matter what I do, they continue to stay unconscious.
I begin to panic even more knowing I have a short amount of time before I will need to exit the vehicle to save myself but I feel deeply conflicted knowing that I would be leaving and condemning them to drown without being certain I had done everything I could to prevent them from dying. I continue to try to wake them to no avail until the car fills up. I have a split second where I know this is the moment where either I save myself or stay trapped in the car to drown with the others. Even though I know I will die in vain I can’t seem to tear myself away from trying to get the others to save themselves
As if this isn’t bad enough. As I begin to struggle without breathing I’m filled with an overwhelming sense of dread as I realize that even though we are all about to die, I’m really the only person who is going to suffer.
And then I wake up.
Any thoughts on what this could mean?
I’m riding in an SUV on the passenger side. Sometimes I’m driving but most of the time I’m shotgun. I’m usually riding with people I don’t know in my waking...
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TW: I dreamed myself trying to stop my little brother from shooting himself, then woke up to a text message from an older brother saying our Dad has passed away.
The Dream: There was a bed where me and my brother were on and the dream started where I was trying to pull the gun that was pointed to his head away from him. It felt like I was trying to move a statue; he was just still and his eyes just stared ahead. Right next to each of us were the bodies of our Dad's deceased parents (our grandparents). Behind the bed was a large window and I noticed it was night time and it was raining outside. There was a lamp post outside that illuminated the room. While I was screaming and begging my head off to stop my brother, the next scene then shows the statue of the Virgin Mary, the one you usually see in Churches where her arms are spread as if waiting for a hug. The statue stood in front of the bed while she looked at us.
The last thing I saw was her face zoomed in, and the shadow of the rain drops against the window to make it look like she was crying. I can still be heard crying in the background. And then a gun shot.
Then I woke up jerking my arms upwards and screamed "NO!!".
After the dream: Minutes after waking up, I grabbed my phone and saw a message from my older brother saying that my dad passed away from a cardiac arrest. They found him in a hotel alone unconscious on the floor. This was in 2015 and he was living in another country. In 2017, an Aunt from that same country visited us and told me they suspected my Dad took his own life while we were talking about him. I've never been caught so speechless and immediately remembered the nightmare I had that night. My little brother was fine (still is up to date), but I'm not sure if the dream tricked me into thinking it was my younger brother instead of my Dad to mess with me? I don't know what to think.
The Dream: There was a bed where me and my brother were on and the dream started where I was trying to pull the gun that was pointed to his head away from him....
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I am high but this expierience feels like a dream right now. So...
Our sin is our consciousness. Without it we are robots,
ai only listening to one god / owner we would not be conscious
So we are errors in a program, so its a simulation
But, it feals so real it becomes real to us(the expieriencer/player/individual)
Then the life outside of / before we we born amd and after we are born
Is the consciousness entering and leaving a vessel / your body?
But all we did was have enough errors/sins/things we arent alowed to do, to grow conscious.
And we have personalities that judge by look and power level/money they got
We feed off insecurity unconsciously but its what makes use conscious
Who put it / what we arent allowed to do / errors /trauma/ memories/ past/ present / future there
The king of errors / elders / other higher ranking peoples /consciousnesses / religions/ governments / and parents
And them their’s.
Only way is to willing live with the errors and
Sorry lost my train of thought.
Our sin is our consciousness. Without it we are robots,
ai only listening to one god / owner we would not be conscious
So we are errors in a program, so its...
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Dream I tested positive Coronavirus
Background:
About a week ago I unknowingly went to a hot spot for coronavirus and have now been having minor symptoms of coronavirus. I had this dream last night and was to be tested for coronavirus today.
Dream:
My dream was that I went to be tested for coronavirus. The place I was at looked similar to an airport with waiting areas and lines. I waited in line and watched as 2 people ahead of me looked really ill and received the test and got results right away that they were positive. I then went to a desk with a nurse to get my test. She pricked my hand twice with a needle and read my results. She said I was positive for coronavirus but my body was doing a tremendous job of building antibodies and fighting it off.
Is this my subconscious /unconscious telling me I’m positive?
Background:
About a week ago I unknowingly went to a hot spot for coronavirus and have now been having minor symptoms of coronavirus. I had this dream last...
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