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Every dream is a direct, personal, and meaningful message to the dreamer. This communication uses symbols common to all mankind, but always in an individual way. By identifying what a symbol means to us, we can start to identify the message a dream brings.
Dream Interpretation is a place to post your dreams with the aim of having others discuss and interpret possible meanings of your dream or its constituent parts. . . .
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"…when someone tells me a dream … [I have made a rule] to say first of all to myself ‘I have no idea what this dream means’ then I can begin." - C.G. Jung
Every dream is a direct and personal message to the dreamer. This communication uses symbols common to all mankind, but always in an individual way. By allowing the dreamer to identify what a symbol means, we gain insight to what message the dream carries.
r/DreamInterpretation's focus is to offer dream analysis that attempts to guide the dreamer along, using a Jungian approach, allowing them to derive meaning from their dream's symbols. Sometimes the dreamer just needs someone to help "sort" the contents of their dream... to find the patterns and connections that emerge from the associations they make to the contents of their dream. This is different from other dream communities in that we are not using dream dictionaries to derive a symbol's meaning.
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I'm not sure if it was a nightmare but I was in the passenger seat of the car, my brother was driving close to a water body(a river/pond maybe) and a rather big orangish pink snake came out and started following us. I pointed at it to my family, and was about to but my hand back inside the car when the snake bit me.
I surprisingly didn't feel much fear, I kept trying to pulling it off my hand where his fangs had lodged in. I managed to get it off one or two times but it found its way back on my hand. I finally persistently pressed its head to make it let go and got rid of it.
The last few moments of the dream was my brother taking me to the hospital and I was in a waiting room. Then I woke up.
Can anyone give suggestions on what it might mean? I'm a little superstition on these dream stuff.
I keep dreaming about being raped. Sometimes by my uncle, I blurry faced man, a stranger, or Donald Trump. I all happens in bedroom Everytime and the setting never changes, sometimes I can feel the the force and the pain and it scares me. I also keep dreaming about people constantly breaking into the house and also about school shootings. I thought that it was maybe because of the true crime things I listen to sometimes so I stopped listening to them a few months ago but I'm still getting the same dream. I'm scared and I don't know what it means.
TW// It was quite gruesome.
So, I had a dream of being hunted by a wild dog or something like that?? It started with the dog killing an infant baby around neighborhood, then suddenly it was targeting specifically me. Basically hiding around the area I lived, & the moment I would leave the home it would come running behind me waiting for an opportunity. It was very much stressful, after a certain point I told that to people around me & they set up a trap something?? I was just a bait to lure the dog out then I was thrown into some basement room to hide while they tried to get a hold of him. One thing I noticed was that someone was watching me from the basement window, I couldn't see the face but I could tell that person hated me, tho they did nothing & left (I suppose?). Either way, the dog was caught & I think I woke up after that. But it was so scary I just couldn't get it out of my head, so I hope for anyone to explain it from their perspective?
Hello! It's my first time posting here so hopefully i can get some help.
For context my brother(20) passed away in 2023 and was really abusive to me.
So, i(19) keep having dreams about him. The first dream i had about him after he passed goes like this- Him and i were standing in an empty black space and he was kinda floating and i was normally standing. He was telling me that he was scared and didn't know what to do. I told him that it's his journey now and i don't know how to help. And then i woke up.
After that i had another dream where he told me that he was "moving on" and that was it. I couldn't ask any questions and i woke up right away after.
After those i had a couple dreams relating to my trauma about him, usual stuff caused by my ptsd.
Today i had a dream as follows- My brother and i were sitting at a round table and it had a white table cloth. We had ceramic tea cups in front of us but his was empty and mine was too hot to touch. We were sitting facing the table and he says "i don't feel real" and i just look at him and agree with him saying "I feel that way too" and i remember feeling very comforted but also worried and scared. Then i woke up.
During all of these i think i was lucid dreaming? It all felt real and i thought it was real until i woke up. I feel everything that's happening and i have no control over what happens when im in these types of dreams.
Anyone know what this might mean?
so it's my 1st time posting, so hello!. so at the start of my dream there isnt anything quite weird happening just normal like dream, kinda just like watching around dream nothing scary n all. but suddenly like after a awhile of strolling in my dream ive been like in a cave where with some dream friends where im been tasked to remove of dirt in this cave, i didn't noticed the spider in my way in only after I've finished cleaning then things became ominous after ive seen the widow, well jokingly after weve seen it, we tried to run out the cave. but it chased us, kinda weird were i thought i wasnt the one being chased by it but it turned around and bit my i couldn't actually feel my hand but i felt like the venom entering my arm. after a while of feeling it that weird feeling i woke up.
it wasn't my first time dreaming abt the black widow spider kinda feel like a few times now. and sometimes it just watches me, then sometimes interrupts the dream to wake me up or something. any meaning to that everyone?
Just experienced schizophrenia in a dream, during the dream, I went and fell asleep in my room then I experienced a nightmare, then I woke up and then I went to my parents, that’s when I saw my dad and my mum, then another my mum in the kitchen (my mum had like an Italian mustache it was funny). I started screaming the mum in the kitchen, who was cleaning the outside of the fridge, came towards me in the living room and attacked me, well not so much as just started grabbing me.
I’ve had experienced schizophrenia in a dream before only once and I don’t remember it that well. Also I’m not schizophrenic. And also the “nightmare” I had like I actually experienced so I had a 2 in 1 experience
Ok I never post here so hi!
I have been having a lot of vivid dreams where I travel far away, more recently where I get on a spaceship and go to the moon and then some far away planet outside our solar system.
I remember in the dream I was moving around in 0 gravity trying to find everyone on the ship. I found a group of people (very eccentric looking crazy hair, dressed in metallic spacesuits) that I had never seen before, strapped into their seats telling me to also strap in because we were going to some far away planet. I did so and the ship goes super fast and it changed the colors of the atmosphere/my vision. It was so vivid I even felt one of the girls on the ship grab my hand tight. I had a hard time breathing and then I woke up!
I need an outside perspective: so the dream in question I was dreaming I was visiting my cousins. my eye started to hurt so I went to the bathroom and looked and it looked like contact lenses were left in my eye ( never wore contacts in my life) so I went to take them out but in the process of trying to get the contacts they disappeared and I noticed under My eyeball a white piece was trying to fall out so I let it when it did come out it felt like a piece of broken ceramic. I thought there might be more so sure enough kept checking and more piece kept coming out and more blood was on each piece. and I don’t know how I knew but I knew it was my own skull.
My grandad passed like 6/7 months ago. What could it mean? I’m worried it might have a negative meaning, especially since my mama has a chronic illness.
I keep dreaming my cousin (F23) is getting abducted and brutally and horrifically trafficked and murdered. Each time after this happens, there is a white rabbit that I’m told I need to catch and have to break its neck in order to break her curse of it happening repeatedly, and let her soul free from the cycle.
She’s been doing really well for herself, so I’m really confused but it’s sticking with me and making me anxious about her safety.
This morning I had a two second nightmare(?) My mother passed in October and this morning at 6am I dreamt my dad was on the stairs and he said, "__(my name) your mom is calling." Me? Him? Death? What?
I’m sorry if this is a little long but I keep having recurring dreams about being kidnapped, particularly away from my mother. The dream would set up like she would be supposed to meet me at a certain place and then on my way to the place I’d get kidnapped. This time I got kidnapped by this piglet trafficker (??) who had a bunch of other children working for him. I was threatened with guns and forced to take dead piglets out of their wrappers in boxes and line them up in other boxes (that I assume belong to the company they were smuggling the piglets for. Can anyone give any guidance on what this might mean? Or how to stop these scary kidnapping dreams at least?
In the rules it said to give as much detail as possible. So, this one will be pretty long. If you make it all the way through, thank you for taking the time to read it, whether you have input at the end or not!
Also, I'm going to add a trigger warning here for the next paragraph, just in case - It briefly mentions emotional/verbal abuse, death, s*xual abuse/assault (SA), and mental health. I wanted to add these, though, in case they are important to this dream, because part of me feels like it could be.
I'll start with a little about me - I'm a 29 year old wife to a wonderful 26 year old man and am a mother of two - an 11 year old son and a 7 month old daughter. I'm a very empathic, introverted person that feels everything on 1,000! I have been through a lot in life, at multiple different times through the years - the major ones including the loss of my dad to pneumoconiosis (wrongly diagnosed as cancer) & other health issues (when I was 14), loss of my mom to lung cancer (when I was 26), SA once at somewhere between 3-5 years old (by one half brother), SA twice at 10-12 years old (by a different half brother), SA at 18 (by my partner at the time), and emotional/verbal abuse all throughout life (from my mom, most specifically when she was drunk). I have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder - but often wonder if there is something else going on, and am currently in therapy working to find out.
Okay, now to the dreams - I can't remember when they started, but it's been at least 3 or so years now. But, I have had multiple of them about this house I have never been to or seen in my life, that just seems to get bigger and bigger with each dream I've had about it, and has made me feel some immense feelings.
The first dream started out with me in the house - a big, older, white house (maybe a farm or ranch style) with a red front door. I went through the house and discovered it was a 3 story house with a basement (not included in the 3 stories) while exploring. When I looked out the window in the living room, it was in an area I recognized - a spot up the street from my childhood home where another house used to be (but burnt down years ago) - However, the location hasn't always been the same in other dreams. Nothing really stuck out to me in that dream, other than the red front door (why? I have no clue!), the basement, and the third story (the major one).
- The basement stuck out because it was one big room made of partially concrete and partially compacted dirt. In the middle of the other side of the room, there was a single door cut out in the wall. I couldn't see anything past the doorway because it was too dark, so I had no idea where it went. It kind of scared me, but also peaked my curiosity.
- The third story (I'm assuming it's an attic) stuck out because of the immense fear it made me feel. Right at the top and slightly to the left of the second story steps, there was a dark wooden door. I opened it, looked up the set of steps going up (seen nothing scary or that stuck out), and froze in fear. I never made it past the doorway, and haven't in any of the other dreams I've had so far where I've been faced with that doorway. I have no idea what is up there, but dream me is terrified to find out.
Now, I can't remember the order of the other dreams, or as much detail about them as the first. But, I'm going to list the biggest things I can remember from them below.
- One of the dreams took place solely in the basement. When I went down the steps this time, nothing looked any different, except there was a second dark doorway on the same wall as the original - but to the right. I decided to go through the original doorway, which led to a hallway with a few rooms on either side. As I went through the rooms, it was like a scary haunted house with realistic looking stuff, but with things that, at the same time, did and didn't make sense - like just weird stuff. At the end of the hallway, it turned right and had the same thing - the different rooms and such. At the end of that hallway, it turned right again, same rooms and stuff, and ended at the new doorway in the original room in the basement. Going through that made me feel freaked out and gave me an impending sense of doom, but also just a "wtf just happened" feeling.
- I came across the dining room, and while very pretty (with a beautiful wooden dining set), I noticed the floor in that room was slanted down towards these glass doors that lead outside. Also, there was a grandfather clock beside those doors, to the right. This room just felt homey.
- Another room I've came across was like a sitting room. It had an older style couch and chairs, a nice fire place, but no TV or anything - but also has a grandfather clock in it. That room made me feel really uneasy, like I wasn't wanted in there.
- There was a weird, screened in porch room thing on the second story. That area, and the room beside it, was dimly lit and was cluttered with stuff like books and boxes. That room made me feel a mixture of things - a little emptiness and a little anger.
- There has been one place that I haven't been in yet, but have seen through the upstairs window. There's a pretty wooden walkway going from a door on the ground floor to an unattached part/room of the house. In the dream where I seen it, there was a party or get together going on. I just remember feeling excited to get over there and see everyone that was there.
Those are the biggest things I can remember from the 5-7 dreams I can remember having of that house. The only other thing I can think of to mention is that some of the dreams have taken place solely in the house, but some others have started out elsewhere and I somehow ended up at the house.
Like I said at the beginning, if you made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read it all. I am open to any and all insight and interpretations, and will appreciate it all! If I happen to remember anything else, I'll be sure to edit this and add it.
So in the dream I was with a tour group in some museum where we apparently were learning about different fantasy creatures.
One of the creatures we learned about was this weird type of mermaid. I think this mermaid had really blurry vision and was immune to poison. We had to put on these weird goggles that made our vision all blurry - I guess to have it really "feel" like we were like that creature.
I think there was also a device that helped us be immune to poison like that mermaid. So we had to put these things on and dip our heads in a pool of water or something? Which was right outside the museum, behind a sliding glass door.
And before we entered that door, we had to leave our jewelry at the register right outside of it. Problem is though, the jewelry was all disorganized, so it was hard to tell what was whose. I asked the tour guide how we would be able to tell, and she just kept being stingy and rude and overall NOT answering my question.
Any ideas as to what this dream could mean? This one kind of weirded me out.
I have this weird reoccurring dream that I can't figure out and wanted to know what yall think. This dream happens when I sleep I'm my bed and on the couch, it happens more often when I fall asleep on the couch though. In my dream I will have a false awakening, waking up in my dream where I fell asleep in real life. I'm always in my house in the dream but sometimes the decorations or layout of the house are different, but I always know the house is the location of my house in real life. I immediately know I'm dreaming and want to wake up because I'm scared for some reason. My mom is always in my dream doing something and I'm begging, pleading, and crying with her to wake me up but she ignores me, or acts like nothing is wrong. Sometimes in the dream I'll actually be asleep in my dream screaming in my head for her to wake me up but she obviously can't hear me. Sometimes in these false awakening dreams I'll have it back to back, like the dream happens and I beg her to wake me up, I wake up, realize it's still a dream and start the process over and over again until I actually wake up in real life. What could this dream mean or be trying to tell me? I hate having these dreams, it's super traumatic and scary for me. I've even talked to my mom about it but she has no idea. Her only thoughts on it besides being weird and scary is maybe it's the position of my body when I fall asleep causing it. I don't think that's it though, has anyone ever had a dream similar to this?
I dreamt that I went to watch a game and squirrel bit me on my finger. It was taken care of right away. But what does it mean? When it happened, I let the squirrel bite me completely instead of fighting it.
(i texted this to my boyfriend as soon as i woke up about what happened in my dream. please tell me what this dream means, im very scared because he likes to drive fast and i don’t want him to die). you were driving very fast and we were talking on the phone i was telling you to stop speeding but you wouldn’t listen, you turned on facetime and started showing me how fast you’re going i kept saying stop, stop, you can’t drive 200+ kilometres and hold your phone with your other hand but you just laughed. then i heard crash, i started panicking and yelling what happened, if are you okay but you didn’t answer. i was very worried and i was crying because you wouldn’t answer your phone. next thing in my sleep was that you called me and i was so happy to hear you are alive. i asked what happened, and if everything is okay with you, it was quiet so i assumed you were at home. i asked if everything is okay with you and where you are. you said in the hospital and no, not everything is okay. you called me on facetime showing just your face i was so thankful that everything is okay with you and then you switched to the back camera and showed your broken leg. i was upset but at the same time i said thank God it’s just a broken leg. and then you said no.. it’s not everything - and showed me that you don’t have half of your body - you didn’t have your hand and your leg…… they had to cut it off because it was very bad. i started crying so hard you explained what happened and said you were trying to overtake a car in front of you and as you said “a blue Tesla” was in the opposite lane and since you were driving on the hill kind of you didn’t see it and it just crushed into your car………..
I'll preface this by mentioning I have a hard time remembering all the details of my dreams.
I was speaking with my ex-wife before our divorce. In the conversation she said she wished I noticed her unhappiness sooner ( I cant remember my response other than it was remorseful). Then I'm in the living room in a better mood waiting for her. All of a sudden I'm in my car feeling upset again, driving through my old city (I moved back to my old town irl). I was rehearsing what I wanted to say to my ex wife and texting my mom for advice where she said I should divorce (my mother never encouraged divorce irl). Then I was walking to a group box in an apartment complex in my city dressed in my postal uniform and ran into a random female postal carrier. She said something that made me chuckle and I responded with I was not a carrier in this town. She then said something about opportunity in her office with routes available for the taking.
I wish I could remember every detail of this dream but it was fleeting the moment I woke up. I did apply for a slightly higher position at work so the later part of my dreams makes sense.
I woke up in my own bed and my own house ( in the dream) and i went to the door because i could hear heavy breathing or panting sounds. I looked down and there was a very tiny little puppy looking exhausted and clearly suffering. At the same time i saw my neighbour ( i have never seen this man in my life) he was old but i cannot recognise the face. His cat got out of the his house and starting sniffing the puppy outside my door. I asked if the puppy was his and he said no it isnt. He looked at the injured puppy and then back at me and smiled. He asked if i will take him and i said nothing. I looked down at the puppy only to realise it isnt a puppy anymore, its a teenage dog ? Like a little bit older now but still young. He has visible injury on his neck, his back and basically it looks like its been attacked a bit. I start crying a lot lot lot. Like im visibly shaking and hugging the dog close to me. I tell my neighbour that i live in a rented apartment and im afraid he might end up breaking something if i decide to keep him. My neighbour just smiles and nods in understanding. His eyes were very kind. I asked him how much it would cost at the vets to fix him up, since he has cats too. He says 200 euros and i say okay, i can afford 200 euros but anything more than that...i dont know. He again smiles and just nods in understanding. But i know without a doubt, then and there that i am adopting this now grown up puppy/ young dog. I smile and i cry sooo much whislt hugging him. But then i woke up after that and my whole face was wet from tears. I was actually crying !
Anyways, for context, im in my Mid-Twenties, live alone and my home is in another country. Lately ive been feeling exhausted from work so maybe its just that ( i was also on my periods). So yeah But would be nice if anyone has an explanation?
Okay so the other night I had a strange dream I keep thinking about. I seen a huge red inflatable bouncey house and I stepped in and tried climbing to the top. Then, the whole thing started to tip over and it fell then deflated. It’s a weird recurring dream because it feels so familiar.. any guesses on what the meaning could be?
Curious on opinions about these dreams, doesn’t have to be religious. Just want understanding thank you 😊
So a guy from my university has a crush on me since a while. He is okay and cute but I don't have feelings for him and I love someone else.
But yesterday oddly enough I dreamt about him and me having a conversation. Where in I was married to him. We were rolling off the bed. Having tea together and living in an apartment. I also reciprocated his feelings in the dream
What does this dream imply? Is he manifestating me?
basically, i have frequent (every month at least) dreams about being in a school shooting, and i hate it.
most times, it ends up with me being shot and "respawning" (aka the dream basically restarts) and then i either escape or hide. but last night was even more disturbing than usual. i actually spoke to one of (yes, there were multiple) the shooters. it was partially just dream nonsense but i remember him saying super clearly that shooting people made "the darkness in his soul" feel valid.
tl;dr school shooting dreams keeping happening, im terrified
Last night, I had this strange dream that I was running a race on a giant treadmill in the middle of the ocean. The sky kept changing colors—red, green, purple—and every time it did, the treadmill got faster. At one point, dolphins were swimming alongside me, cheering me on (yes, cheering). Then, just as I was about to reach the “finish line,” which was somehow floating in the air, I tripped and fell… but instead of hitting the treadmill, I started floating in the sky.
It wasn’t scary, but it felt so vivid and random. Does anyone know what something like this might mean? Is it just my brain being creative, or could it symbolize something deeper?
Curious to hear your thoughts or similar experiences!
I dreamt about building a path out of cow bones (it was evening twilight) and happening upon a woodfire (on a hill, under a tree). I sat in front of it amongst three other persons/human like creatures and we watched shapes made out of bones appear above fire. I knew we were waiting to be taught about occult things. Noone was talking. Pretty weird dream, what meaning could it have?
In my dream my current boyfriend who is a caring and compassionate person calls my ex boyfriend who is an angry person to tell him something. In the dream he has my permission to call and I'm sitting next to him. The ex starts an angry rant and I can hear him shouting a stream of words (something along the lines of how dare you call me). I ask my bf to pass me the phone and say "hello, hello, hello" pretending I can't hear to stop the rant. Then he uses a deep commanding voice (something like from Dune) to say: "hello, hello? Look at me. You can see me." I look up to see his face on the smartphone my bf is holding up for me (it just appeared - before I was using a dumb phone). And his face reflects pure anger/rage. I woke up immediately feeling scared of such anger. Thinking in the middle of the night "such anger".
In my dreams that ex often appears out of nowhere, having traced me down to guilt me into getting back with him. I run away from him. He did that in real life as well but that was more than a decade ago.
Guys I have this reoccurring dream where my boyfriend/babydad gets out of jail and cheats on me it’s truly a nightmare it’s got to the point I wake up sweating In the dream I always seem to be upset at the fact I waited for him n he just cheats it’s always me catching him cheating never good nice dreams is this a spiritual sign should I leave move on with my life ? How do I stop this or what does this dream truly mean other than getting cheated on ?
I am at a table sitting across from Jim he is wearing a red shirt and the table have a white cloth and Jim is shuffling tart card he is asking me questions and I am answering I can't hear him or myself but I see that I am speaking assertive and bold and I could feel the emotions even though I cannot hear the conversation I am having with Jim and at some point I start to hear the the sound of my voice Jim looked surprised and then I got woke up out of my dream and I woke up feeling aggravated and betrayed.
What does it mean I couldn't hear at all except for that short moment and he realized and then I woke up from the dream immediately
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has shared the same experiences as me. I'm 19 years old and I struggle with insomnia. I am rarely able to fall asleep on my own without medication but a few times in my whole life early in the afternoon I've fallen asleep and it takes hours of me closing my eyes and tossing around but once I hit a certain state it's like I'm going beyond a dream state and in this time I can hear vibration in both of my ears then it's like I’m traveling fast until I “hit a dream” but it feels different than when I dream and it takes me hours to get myself out of this state. When I try to wake myself up my eyes will open and I’ll see my room spin and then I end up going back into that state and I'll try again and again until I wake up. When I wake up I feel completely drained and ill, I've had these experiences about a handful of times now and I've tried talking to family and friends and they all think I'm crazy has anyone else experienced this or might know what's happening? Any help would be appreciated or if anyone needs more information I can give plenty more.
My husband (m, 28) has been having the same 2 reoccurring dreams since he could remember. He told me the two dreams in detail last night and I dont know what they mean or how to help him with it.
Dream 1: most often (2-3 times a week) He is in a mall (Westfield Valley Fair in California) with no one else around but the person he is walking with. He says the person changes every time he has the dream but the age stays the same (around his age). He said it could be male or female but every dream is the same. He is walking but not in a rush. He also isn't talking and neither is the person walking g with him. He told me sometimes they talk but nothing important enough for him to remember. He feels like he's looking for a certain store but all he see is the "As Seen on TV" store. He is on the second floor and can't seem to get down to the first floor to leave. (Valley Fair has a luxury section on the first floor too idk if that means anything). My husband told me he would take random lefts and rights and still end up focusing on that same "As Seen on TV" store. -I told him last night to try to go into the store and see what he's fixated on. But every time I ask if he's had the dream and if he tried going into the store, it's like he couldn't control it.
Dream 2: less often (2-3 times a month) My husband describes that he's at Santa Cruz by the boardwalk but he's on the beach. He sees the water pull back slowly and stretches for miles it seems. He gets up and tries to run towards the boardwalk. Running as fast as he can, but he doesn't move. Everyone else around him are running away but he is the last person on the beach still running in the same spot. He didn't tell me the ending of that but I can only assume a tsunami hit him and he woke up. (He also has a deep fear of the ocean and won't go any deeper than his feet).
What do you think these dreams mean? Why do you think he keeps having them? What can I do to help?