What are work dreams about?
Work is a large area of life. If you have a full time job, you'll spend a third of your life working. Because dreams reflect our daily life, it makes sense to dream of work. This symbol is identified by words like leaving work, went to work, work place, etc.
Work in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.9% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.
What are the major highlights of work dreams?
Work is a normal dream symbol. Having work in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of work?
Work dreams are notable because they have substantially more bosses, calluses, things, getting a job, employees, verbs, wallets, unemployment, getting fired, coworkers, money, grocery stores, Laos, general movement, colleges, service workers, janitors, ovaries, motorcycles, movement, emails, apartments, desks, different roles, jails, Kenya, restaurants and bars, directors, lunch, going, accountants, crime, lawyers, being late, nurses, communicating, gas stations, calendars, epidemics, clean, Kuwait, Bangladesh, facebook, planning, accepting, universities, mafia, characters, scars, waiters, the afternoon, washing, Serbia, baboons, speaking, pilots, overdoses, arriving, and coffee than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of work?
Work dreams are notable because they have substantially less recurring nightmares, hamsters, sleep paralysis, paralysis, human places, places, goats, lions, seeing a dead pet, recurring dreams, fantastic beings, tigers, octopus, snakes, wolves, animals, seeing a dead grandmother, lucid dreams, seeing a dead grandfather, devils, nightmares, foxes, pets, islands, outer space, chasing, attics, spiders, work, dungeons, games, ambushing, panthers, cats, the moon, elephants, flying, beaches, fish, gorillas, natural places, skeletons, birds, yellow eyes, and eggs than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define work?
The symbol of work in dreams is highly related to jobs.
How does the dream symbol of work affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in work dreams?
Overall, dreams with work are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of work are more related to different roles, more related to close people, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in work dreams?
Overall, dreams with work are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of work are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.
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Who is in work dreams?
Overall, dreams with work are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of work are more related to home and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to work and less related to natural places.
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What happens in work dreams?
Overall, dreams with work are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of work are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do work in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with work are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of work are more related to sleeping and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of work in dreams?
Work dreams are relatively common. Among other things work dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of work? How might your dream of work 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 work 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 work in dreams. See how you feel about work now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of work
Read some real dream reports of work 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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Last night I lived 10 years in 8 hours
Last night, I hade the longest dream ever. It went on for 10 years and I remember faces, names, details of a full 10 year life. I felt a personal connection with each person and sometimes still think they are real for a minute. Here is my story
The dream started with me being about 16 years old. I was halfway through the school year and had mostly B’s with the occasional A.
Within about 1 month, i met a girl named Abby and we hit it off right away. I was 16 so obviously it was probably gonna lead to nothing, but I was young and dumb. At that same time, maybe 2 weeks after we met, my dad had a stroke.
It caused huge problems, with him losing his job because half of his body (the right half) was disabled. He couldn’t properly talk but could form the words in his brain.
I had to quit high school to work at a local gas station and had to work for a man named Jack, who was very nice to me job and understood my situation.
This is already 7 months after my dream started, and I’m becoming 17. Abby turned 17 about a month before me, so we were both 17. On my birthday, I couldn’t do much because we were living paycheck to paycheck.
The rest of the months until 1 month or so before I turned 18 where very uneventful, but I do remember dates and trips to stuff as mundane as Taco Bell for some days.
A little before I turned 18, a surgeon found out how to cure people who have suffered from strokes, by doing something with the nerves. We obviously came to the doctor right away, but had to pay a hefty fine (about 8k) for the surgery. We saved up money until I was 18, and had to take a loan from a bank.
We finally were able to do the surgery and it went mostly successful. He still had a speech impediment, but he could now walk with both legs and speak mostly normally.
2 months after, I proposed to Abby and she said yes. We planned to have our wedding when we were both 19 as we were still struggling financially. I lived with my parents until I got married to support the family. Eventually at 19 we got married and, while it was a small wedding, it was amazing.
Today I still remember the wedding and feel, weirdly pain that it was all fake.
I can go on with the story, but it’s 7 more years after this. I might finish writing out the story tomorrow. Thank you for reading my pretty long dream
Last night, I hade the longest dream ever. It went on for 10 years and I remember faces, names, details of a full 10 year life. I felt a personal connection...
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Rasputin told me that I would experience “a death” at 11 today
Dreamt I was at my old job gathering trash when a tall man in robes came around. I joked around, being my friendly self. I make a mention of death, and he responds “You will experience a death at 11”
This has shaken me. My dad works driving a bus, and I don’t think he’s gotten enough sleep last night!!
Dreamt I was at my old job gathering trash when a tall man in robes came around. I joked around, being my friendly self. I make a mention of death, and he...
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horrible dream.
i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.
i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the dream, because it was five years ago.
i went through school, i graduated. with a scholarship. i deferred it and moved out two weeks later with three of my friends, one of which i do not expect to have in my future. all in june 2020
i had a boyfriend, we got together january 2020. i’ve known him for a while, we’re in talking stage right now.
i went to college in 2021 for nursing. i dropped out because i hated it, and held a job at a strip club as a waitress.
i did so much. i voted in the 2023 election. one of my friends died in a car accident. i had a dog, named riley. and my roommate had a ferret named pearl.
it ended in august 2024, was a wednesday but the date isn’t in my head. i came home and found 4 year long boyfriend banging my roommate. i walked in and saw them, it was a fight and they insisted it was “friendly” and “okay because it wasn’t romantic”. i remember every single second of that conversation. i was screaming at the top of my lungs and so were they. i eventually got mad enough to leave, i slammed the door behind me and the hallway started looking off. i figured it was the tears welling my eyes making my vision all wonky so i shut my eyes really tight. i opened them, and there i was in the bedroom of the house i moved out of 5 years earlier.
i lived 5 years into the future in an hour. i woke up and i don’t know who i am anymore. i don’t have the same experiences that built me. i don’t have any motivation. i just DID everything i dot want to do it again.
i don’t know if this is exactly the place to write this. but i’m so disheartened and grieving and i’m terrified.
i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.
i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the...
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My boyfriend and I had the same dream through different perspectives. The dream was horrible and I want to understand what it means.
I was at my bfs, and he was helping his grandad with something. Then just like that, we were working at our job. I remember my manager asking me to serve my friend. My friend disappeared and then All of a sudden, a girl that my bf and I know walks in, dressed in all white. She was there physically but not mentally, like a negative spirit of some sort took over. The energy that she gave off scared us both so much. She kept walking around the job and just stared at my bf and me without saying anything. The dream doesn’t sound scary but the scary part was the energy. The energy I got from her was very creepy, I remember my bf waking me up in real life, knowing something wasn’t right.
When I told him my dream it turned out that he had the exact same dream too... we were too scared to go back to sleep and it was the middle of the night.
For his dream, the same events happened but she also tried to put her arms around him and when he kept saying “no” sternly, he looked at her and she had no head, so it was just her arms.
Does anyone know what this dream could mean, and how my bf and I had the same dream?
I was at my bfs, and he was helping his grandad with something. Then just like that, we were working at our job. I remember my manager asking me to serve my...
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