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What are vomiting dreams about?

Vomiting is the act of expelling the stomach's contents through the mouth. This occurs through an involuntary action, though sometimes this involuntary action can be initiated with conscious intent. A person can vomit for any number of reasons including sickness, disgust, ingesting something harmful, and so on. 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 vomiting dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how vomiting in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that vomiting is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that vomiting is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, vomiting dreams have more health events than 99.5% of dream symbols, more smelling than 98.7% of dream symbols, and more bad dreams than 97.4% of dream symbols. On the other hand, vomiting dreams have less natural places than 89.7% of dream symbols, less good dreams than 84.9% of dream symbols, and less sadness than 84.1% of dream symbols. Notably, vomiting dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that vomiting is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of vomiting are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Additionally, dreams of vomiting lack characters. Vomiting dreams contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is notable because dreams help us make sense of our social relationships. Dreams almost always contain characters. The lack of characters in vomiting might mean something. Furthermore, dreams of vomiting are smelly! These dreams have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is surprising because smelling in dreams is relatively uncommon. Additionally, dreams of vomiting have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, vomiting dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Finally, vomiting dreams are associated with going to the bathroom! This may or may not be surprising. Going to the bathroom is a basic human need, so it makes sense that we dream about it sometimes. Still, this might hold some meaning in the dream. It all depends on the context. 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 vomiting is different than dreams of vomiting in general.

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How common are vomiting dreams?

0.9% of dreams have the vomiting symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 100 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is uncommon.

Identification

How are vomiting dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like throw up, vomit, threw up, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols events and health events.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of vomiting?

Vomiting dreams are notable because they have substantially more Algeria, Kuwait, Ecuador, Cyprus, maggots, castration, magnifying glasses, pooping, illness, broken glass, endless loops than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of vomiting?

Vomiting dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Legolas, Gollum, Gimli, Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo Baggins, Voldemort than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into vomiting dreams

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

Who is in dreams of vomiting?

Who is in dreams of vomiting?

Vomiting dreams are more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to unnamed people, less related to fantastic beings, and less related to strangers.

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What are the emotions in dreams of vomiting?

What are the emotions in dreams of vomiting?

Dreams of vomiting are more related to embarrassment, more related to pain, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to confusion.

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Where do dreams of vomiting take place?

Where do dreams of vomiting take place?

Vomiting dreams are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human-made places.

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What happens in dreams of vomiting?

What happens in dreams of vomiting?

Dreams of vomiting are more related to sex, much more related to eating and drinking, and much more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

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

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

Vomiting dreams are much more related to nightmares, more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to good dreams, and less related to sad dreams.

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How do dreams of vomiting related the senses?

How do dreams of vomiting related the senses?

Dreams of vomiting are much more related to smelling and much more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of vomiting in dreams?

Vomiting dreams are uncommon. Among other things vomiting dreams are nightmares, lacking characters, focused on smells, focused on taste, associated with going to the bathroom, and bad dreams. Do you think this is true for your dream of vomiting? How might your dream of vomiting 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 vomiting 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 vomiting in dreams. See how you feel about vomiting now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of vomiting dreams

An interpretation of vomiting dreams

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. The simplest way of describing vomiting is that you need to relieve yourself of something. You can’t hold something down anymore. Begin there. What do you need to get out of you? It could be guilt, pain, burden, expectations, or negativity. Vomiting means eliminating something from yourself that’s harming you from within, something you can’t hold something down anymore, such as toxic feelings and emotions. For example, a woman dreams about vomiting heavily into a toilet. The vomit is black and fills the toilet bowl. A thought crosses her mind that she really needed to get it out of her because it was making her sick. What she sees in the black mess in the toilet is the childhood abuse she endured. She’s an adult and has moved on, but has held down all the pain and bitterness. She can finally let it go. Vomit comes out of the mouth and the mouth is used to speak, so needing to express something, to say something, is an especially strong possibility. Or it can characterize something that’s spoken as vile, nasty, disgusting, worthless, premature. Vomiting is used to symbolize a sudden outpouring of talk or feelings. Perhaps you had to listen to someone ramble on and on, or a friend poured out her troubles. Vomiting can indicate revulsion. The thought of something makes you sick. Vomiting food is a theme in the dreams of people with eating disorders. It reflects the belief that vomiting food will lead to weight loss, and is graphic illustration of their relationship with eating. It’s also possible that vomiting in a dream is caused by an upset stomach or the feeling of wanting to throw up. Vomiting champagne in the dream of a high school girl is an expression of her feelings about people not being very good friends. She’s sick of her peers being fake and inconsistent, one day acting like friends and the next day acting distant. Champagne is used by the dream to symbolize friendship because of its association with celebration and friendship. A dream about vomiting pieces of penis expresses graphically the dreamer’s feelings about giving oral sex. Even the thought of it makes her sick. See: Eating, Food, Mouths, Stomachs, Toilets

Examples of dreams of vomiting

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 vomiting 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 vomiting dreams. Read at your own risk.

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