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What are wanting and wishing dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like want, hope, wish, etc.

Wanting and wishing in dreams is a frequent dream symbol, occuring in about 26% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 4 dreams.

What are the major highlights of wanting and wishing dreams?

Wanting and wishing is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having wanting and wishing in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of wanting and wishing are emotional

Wanting and wishing have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include injuries, aggressive interactions, hollywood, abusing, numb, anxiety, smiling, unpleasantness, Cameroon, and surprise.

Wanting and wishing dreams are friendly

Dreams of wanting and wishing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of wanting and wishing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of wanting and wishing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include grey eyes, general movement, nurses, joy, disguises, buildings, bullies, captains, voice, and paying attention.

Wanting and wishing dreams might be sexual

Dreams of wanting and wishing are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If wanting and wishing is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include genitals, penises, hair falling out, Bahamas, pretending, prostitutes, animas, wanting and wishing, brides, and abusing.

Wanting and wishing dreams are about love

Dreams containing wanting and wishing are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of wanting and wishing are about love. It simply means that if you dream of wanting and wishing, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include therapists, El Salvador, uncategorized, my children, talismans, abusing, alimony, dismissals, crying, and paris.

How does the dream symbol of wanting and wishing affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of wanting and wishing

Who is in wanting and wishing dreams?

Overall, dreams with wanting and wishing are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wanting and wishing are more related to distant people, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to insects.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

the same as 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 wanting and wishing dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much 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

more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in wanting and wishing dreams?

Overall, dreams with wanting and wishing are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wanting and wishing are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in wanting and wishing dreams?

Overall, dreams with wanting and wishing are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wanting and wishing are much more related to friendly interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

much more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do wanting and wishing in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with wanting and wishing are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wanting and wishing are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do wanting and wishing in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with wanting and wishing are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wanting and wishing are more related to taste than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of wanting and wishing in dreams?

Wanting and wishing dreams are frequent. Among other things wanting and wishing dreams are very postively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, sexual, and about love.

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

Examples of dreams of wanting and wishing

Read some real dream reports of wanting and wishing 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.

Have you ever had a dream where you fell in love with a stranger?

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning japanese woman bumped into me asking if I had the time. I said yes and continued walking around this mall. A little later I found a huge set of stairs and slid all the way to the bottom on the railings.

At the bottom of the stairs, the girl from earlier was there and timidly asked me if I wanted to grab some food with her. I said yes immediately.

I then remember spending some time talking to her about random stuff, but finding her more and more interesting and attractive. Her friends were cool and played in a weird funk-metal kind of band and asked if I wanted to be involved.

After talking she asked if I wouldn’t mind walking her up to apartment as it was super late. I of course obliged and went with her. After arriving she invited me in and I remember her place being absolutely huge and overlooking whatever city this dream was supposed to be in.

We talked some more about what her future plans were and how similar our goals were. It got to the point where we were close and kissing and eventually slept together. I just remember there being this weird warmth in my chest whilst this happening, and it felt like nothing I had experienced before.

After waking up from this, I feel almost hollow and honestly kind of depressed. I can still remember how she smelt and how I felt when she looked me in the eyes.

The fucked up part of this is that I’ve been dating someone for the past 6 months or so, and after this dream, dare I say that I feel less close to her?

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What does it mean? Is it my mind telling the girl I’m with isn’t the right one for me? I’m so confused.

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning...

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Lost connection - A dream that lasted years

So some people are going to read this and think I’m crazy, it’s fine though because I’m not sure if I am at this point. I was only asleep for a few hours but my dream lasted for years. I had a life and I fell in love. I’m trying to find him if he’s even real. Unfortunately the dream world was a bit different to this world and was dangerous and he died in it. He wasn’t just my sole mate he was my best friend and we fought together, taking on every challenge that the world threw at us. There was a group of us surviving, a few people I work with were there as well as some people I didn’t know prior to the dream, him and his brother. By the end of the dream I’d lost and mourned him, there were only a few of us left including his brother.

It wasn’t a nightmare, it was the best years of my life somehow and they never even happened. I remember them as memories rather than a dream, it feels like they really happened. I’m just hoping that maybe this is a second chance to find him and maybe I can save him this time. If he’s even real. I mourned his death once, if there’s any chance I can find him in this world I’ll take it. No matter how low the odds because that’s what you do when you’re in love and he’s my love.

So some people are going to read this and think I’m crazy, it’s fine though because I’m not sure if I am at this point. I was only asleep for a few hours but my...

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How did you teach yourself to lucid dream?

I can randomly start lucid dreaming but I can't control when it happens. I know some of you have control of it and I was curious how you've all trained yourself to lucid dream when you want to. What's your method?

I can randomly start lucid dreaming but I can't control when it happens. I know some of you have control of it and I was curious how you've all trained yourself...

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I had a sex dream about my dad who used to sexually abuse me.

I'm 24 years old. When i was a young girl, my dad used to sexually abuse me and my sister. It was happening in the whole family, my uncles sexually abused their daughters and us, and my father did the same with other girls in the family. It was disgusting, really.
I used to have fights with my dad about that, I stood to him and confronted him a lot and he used to hit me for it until that ended when I was like 15 years old. He also used to physically abuse us and my mother all the time. Our lives when he was around were a fucking nightmare.
I had a little sister, we tried to protect her from all of that for a long time, I'm not sure we did though. When she was 16, she killed herself. She threw herself from the roof and died instantly. I know that my father was the one who caused that.
I'm telling all of that to say that I really hate him for a lot of reasons, not the ones that I can let go. We live without him now and whenever he comes, I don't talk with him and I try to not even see him. I go out, pretend that i'm sleeping or just ignore him. He tries to talk to us but we don't want anything to do with him. My sister and I are trying to fix what he did to us without any professional help because where I live there isn't that much of good therapists and we can't afford the good ones since we don't have jobs, so..
Today I had a dream that I was having consensual sex with him. I want it to happen and I felt good. I don't know what does that mean. When I'm awake, all I think of him is that he is a pathetic, worthless old piece of shit, and If you saw him or dealt with him you would agree. So I'm so confused about that dream.
Normally when I have a weird dream, I talk with my boyfriend about it and he tries to help me figure it out. By the way, my boyfriend and I don't have sex because I'm having troubles with my sexual life, and that's very okay by him because he's giving me the time I need before trying to have sex. So now I can't even talk to him about that fucked up shit to help me. Does anybody have any explanation for this or any Idea what is that all about?
Sorry for talking too much but I was trying to give you an idea about the whole situation.

I'm 24 years old. When i was a young girl, my dad used to sexually abuse me and my sister. It was happening in the whole family, my uncles sexually abused their...

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Mental orgasm in a dream

Has anyone else experienced it yet? I basically woke up climaxing and it was really intense, unique orgasm. Wish it'd happen more often. Until then I had no idea it's actually possible to cum just by mental stimulation, especially since I can't do it without stimulating my clit when awake.

Edit: fixed wording

Has anyone else experienced it yet? I basically woke up climaxing and it was really intense, unique orgasm. Wish it'd happen more often. Until then I had no...

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