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What are waiting dreams about?

Waiting is the act of not doing until an expected action occurs. We wait for any number of things. We can wait for food to cook, for the rain to stop, or for a person to change their minds. Generally waiting takes effort and can occupy our minds.
This symbol is identified by words like wait.

Waiting in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of waiting dreams?

Waiting is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having waiting in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Waiting dreams are friendly

Dreams of waiting have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of waiting will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of waiting are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Serbia, hunger, intensifiers, crowds, signs, phones, general thinking, praising, cheering, and snack.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of waiting

Who is in waiting dreams?

Overall, dreams with waiting are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to different roles, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in waiting dreams?

Overall, dreams with waiting are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in waiting dreams?

Overall, dreams with waiting are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in waiting dreams?

Overall, dreams with waiting are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to friendly interactions and more related to sex than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with waiting are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with waiting are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of waiting are more related to hearing, more related to taste, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of waiting in dreams?

Waiting dreams are common. Among other things waiting dreams are very postively interconnected and friendly.

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

Examples of dreams of waiting

Read some real dream reports of waiting 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.

Hi, it’s 3pm now and I’m still kind of paralyzed by this dream pls help understand. Even cats were frightened by the energy this morning. going through some kind of spiritual awakening

So, I woke up with that weird feeling something must be wrong, then I saw that the light was turned on downstairs - I spent the night by myself, my partner decided to spent the night at his workplace. I was kind of scared and wanted to get up to turn it off but then my cat lay down on me to cuddle and I decided to wait until she had enough and would leave. Moments later I realized the light was turned off again!! Our second cat came upstairs and looked very frightened! I got really scared and decided to get up later, that thought seemed to soothe me. I fell asleep, So now what happened in my dream was that weird things would happen in our house, noises, floating objects. In that dream my partner was at home but our home looked a little different and I was trying to scream desperately to show him but there was no sound coming out of my mouth! Then I tried to to film with my phone what was happening but it didn’t work.. Then I heard a very loud buzzing in my ear, which happened quite often lately in wake life but not that intense.. I don’t even know if that buzzing ringing was in my dream or real, I remember screaming and I honestly don’t know if I might have really screamed in “reality”. So, when I was fully awake I got up immediately, going downstairs and realizing the light was turned on - again !!

I’m really confused. As mentioned I’m going through a spiritual awakening but I have no idea what this might have been. Srsly grateful for any thoughts on that. I still feel very drained, energetically tired and can’t seem to let go. It keeps make me feel down .. tried yoga and high vibe meditation.

So, I woke up with that weird feeling something must be wrong, then I saw that the light was turned on downstairs - I spent the night by myself, my partner...

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I dreamed of my own death and experience in the afterlife

In my dream I was driving my car, and I drove past a gas station. In my rear view mirror I saw the gas station I passed explode. I felt some worry about the people there but relief I didn’t stop at that one, and then I kept driving.

I drove up to the next gas station that was within line of sight across the street, much closer than the first one and I waited at the red light. As the light turned green I saw the edges of the building light on fire, like the fire just appeared, and then I drove away but I didn’t get much distance before it exploded. I felt the heat off of it and heard the screams and I drove away scared with a feeling of dread in my stomach.

I finally drove to a gas station and decided to pull in and stop. But at the last second my hands froze on the steering wheel and instead of turning, I drove straight into the gas pumps and they also exploded.

I felt the explosion overtake my body so fast, and my physical body jumped in my sleep and my heart skipped a beat from the shock of it. At this point, after experiencing physical harm in my dream, I’d normally wake up. There was a brief darkness in my dream and I remember feeling relieved that I didn’t seem to experience much pain.

And then I could see again and I was standing outside my car in the aftermath of the explosion. I could hear sirens in the distance. A spectral male figure appeared floating above me and he held his hands out to me and gestured for me to take them and come with him. I was compelled to take his hands but I was confused, yet somehow I knew I felt safe and comfortable with this man at the same time.

As he brought me into the air with him and we floated together, I realized I was dead. And a huge wave of panic hit me knowing I wouldn’t be able to speak to my boyfriend or my mom again- I immediately wanted to try to communicate with them even though I was dead. The man told me not yet, I had a soul contract to fulfill first.

The man took me and trained me, I remember him speaking to me about there being many things I needed to learn. He tried to teach me to be like him and convince me to come with him, but I didn’t want to hear it. I wanted to stay as close to the Earthly plan as I could so I could one day see my family again and check in on how their lives were going now that I was gone.

After that he took me to a prison cell of a man whose soul needed to be saved. He told me to speak with him and try to help him. I went into the man’s cell and he seemed to recognize me even though I didn’t remember knowing his face. At the same time I felt love for him. He didn’t know I was dead until I reached out and touched his hand. He said “You’re so cold..” and I told him it was because I died.

I died on September 20th in my dream. Once I left the man’s cell I asked my spectral mentor what day it was to the people who were still living. He said it was October 21st. “A month?! Already?” I started panicking and hoping my boyfriend was okay. I knew I need to get to him and tell him not to be sad and that I’m still here, just in a different form. But the spectral man still didn’t want me to leave, and I woke up just after I agreed to stay with him instead.

In my dream I was driving my car, and I drove past a gas station. In my rear view mirror I saw the gas station I passed explode. I felt some worry about the...

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Saw Russia Nuking the US

Ok so this could be some random dream that just happened with no meaning but it freaked me out, I have deja vu alot.

Ok so I was really tired one day so I took a nap and woke up to what felt like a super realistic feeling and I walked into my moms room and she told me Russia had sent missiles to us and we were in the insurance zone (pretty sure she meant impact zone but my dream said insurance lol) and they would arrive shortly, so we were waiting for a bit just not knowing what to do with our time and I told them "The US would surely retaliate and kill Russia" and my mom told me the East Coast had been wiped clean and we were next and we heard 3 loud beeps (kinda like a bomb or a timer) and a large flash of light blinded the room, my family could still see but I remember not feeling any pain and my skin on fire and it taking ten seconds to hit and I was mezmorized by this fire and not feeling pain and then sudden death hit. I woke up to 4 screens in which I only remember two of the options which were "relive last memory" and "relive life". I then woke up from my dream and was freaked tf out. Any meaning behind it?

Ok so this could be some random dream that just happened with no meaning but it freaked me out, I have deja vu alot.

Ok so I was really tired one day so I took...

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Dreamt I was interacting with a large group of people. How did my brain make up 100+ strangers?

Most people were complete strangers to me. I was interacting with them as they were all interacting with each other. The interactions were fun, joking, flirting, etc. I wasn't the center of attention, the group had something else going on and I wasn't involved with it. How did my brain make up a ton of people I've never seen before?

I did recognize a small number of people (maybe 3) that I believe I've seen or met in awake life but even they were basically strangers to me as well. I interacted with them as if I hadn't seen them in a long time. I felt that I was seeking them out because they were more recognizable to me and I felt some kind of small connection to them. I was hoping they would help me find what I was looking for.

From what I gathered, the group was working in my industry so I was trying to find the leaders of the group to make a connection. While interacting with multiple people and sorting out who the leaders of the group were the police arrived and started searching for the same people/person. The group disbursed and I ended up finding the leaders who stayed behind but now they were dealing with this police situation. I waiting around trying to find an opening but ultimately decided to leave them alone because it would have been seen as bad taste to try to make a connection while some of their friends were getting arrested.

Then my alarm went off.

Most people were complete strangers to me. I was interacting with them as they were all interacting with each other. The interactions were fun, joking,...

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Super creepy lucid dream in where a man tried to prove the dream world was real.

It started with me at a crossroad, I tried to make cars collapse using telekinesis after finding out I was dreaming. Nothing worked. The strangest thing was that I could use my imagination, visualize things in my head, and then come back to the dream. That's how "stable" it was.

At one point, I encountered a man who wore a black jacket, and had thin black hair. He told me this dream was real.

I sighted heavily. "This can't be real!", I let out.

"Oh really? Well how about I prove it to you?" the man said with a grin.

"I will translate any given word or sentence to French, I assume you don't know any French... You can check Google Translate to see if it's correct when you wake up.", the man added.

I started thinking. What could be a real good torture test here?

"Hmm, I have been to France many times..." I said. "I'm afraid I might've subconsciously seen the word, and it's translation already."

And then I had a grand idea: "What if I translate a sentence that I never had to use IRL in France?!", I thought.

"Ok...", I turned to the man with a smirk. "Translate: I am dreaming".

The man said something back with a French accent. I don't remember the exact word anymore as I really didn't know how to write it. But it was really short.

"Wait that short? There's no way that's the French translation."

"Oh, I'm sure it is, you can check later when you wake up."

"Can you say it again? I really want to remember it clearly..."

The man said it again, it was once again audible but impossible to write down in letters for someone that doesn't speak French (and perhaps dreaming might have something to do with it).

"I'm afraid I can't remember that too clearly", I said, worried but at the same time not willing to let this chance go.

"Just type the English sentence in Google Translate and see if it sounds the same, that should be enough.", the man said very confidently.

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After I woke up, you can already imagine the first thing I did. I opened Google Translate (https://translate.google.nl/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=I%20am%20dreaming&op=translate) immediately after waking up as to avoid forgetting any more than I had to. And indeed the translated sentence sounded exactly the same. Creepy...

It started with me at a crossroad, I tried to make cars collapse using telekinesis after finding out I was dreaming. Nothing worked. The strangest thing was...

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