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Fear

Fear symbol
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💡Possible meaning

When we experience strong negative emotions in our dreams our mind is trying to release them. The experience you had in your dream is something that you need to face in your waking life so you can resolve this issue. What we fear in the dream is often a representation of what we fear in waking life that we may not even be aware of.

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Fear is our mind's way and telling us that we need to amend something or face unfavorable consequences. Fear can come from parts of ourself that are not resolved, and that anxiety manifests in the dream. By facing your fears, you will find your strength and learn how powerful you really are. You can do this, don't doubt yourself. Be resourceful and find a way to confront the problems and make a positive change. This can include cutting out people or things from your life that are toxic!

❤️ Feelings

This dream evokes a sense of unease and anxiety. It may leave you feeling scared or apprehensive about something in your waking life. The fear symbolizes deep-rooted concerns or insecurities that need to be addressed. It is important to explore the underlying emotions and confront any fears head-on to find resolution and peace.

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12 Nov 2024

dream-about-being-attacked-in-a-house-3
Stabbed
Death
Fear
Break-in
House
Man

Dream

I was in a house for vacation with my mom and some friends and it was a big house there where windows and a break in happened and there was a man with a pig mask and he was gonna try and hurt me but i stabbed him and he died but before he died he said there is another person who wants to hurt me it was very scary

11 Nov 2024

dream-about-driving-crazy-and-getting-lost
Dead
Fear
Gun
Car
Cousin
Driving

Dream

I went with my cousin in her car to drive to my grandparents and she was driving like crazy. She missed the turning and ended up in some really narrow back streets and she wouldn't listen when I told her to turn around. We ended up at someone's huge private estate and I told her to turn around quickly but she ignored me and drove like crazy through their land. The owners saw us in the window and I told her to keep driving and get back on the road and dissappear. They sent a man on a silver bike after us so I told her to drive as fast as she could to lose him but she got the car stuck at a tight turn. We ran through the narrow streets trying to find our grandparents but we ended up at a dead end and the man trapped us. I told her to stay quiet and hide but she started blubbering and wailing crying that she was sorry and scared and I had to hold my hand over her mouth. Because she was crying the man found us and cocked a gun at my head and I woke up

10 Nov 2024

dream-about-worm-invasion-apocalypse
Apocalypse
Blood
Fear
Friend
Elevator
Helping

Dream

I dreamt of an apocalypse coming but it wasn't like a zombie apocalypse it was like worms would invade someone's body through their mouth, their nose, their eyes, their ears and essentially like take over their body and try to attack you and I remember we were trying to cure them it was me and like four other people I only remember one of them being my friend I don't really remember the other few people but they were trying to attack us but we were also trying to help them because there was some way we could help them and I remember we helped two older ladies but like I could see from different perspectives of the different people and like they were being swarmed like there was this one guy who had to jump on top of a horde of people chasing him and trying to attack him and he had to jump on top of them and then out a window and then onto a balcony to escape them and I also remember we were going into a house after running away from them and we go into an elevator to try to get to our floor where our little lounge area is and two people are in the elevator with me and we're waiting on the other two but they're not coming fast enough so I'm like oh maybe we can take the other elevator because we need to go because like the horde was like coming towards the elevator door and so I press like close the elevator button um and the other two people are like what the fuck and they get out of the elevator and then I'm the only one in there and one of the little girl that I assume has a worm infection she comes in starts talking to me and I have to hold her against the elevator wall to make sure that I stay safe and I go up by myself and then once I get up there I start like barricading our area to make sure nobody gets in that's not supposed to be in and there's another time switch and I am I wake up on a roof and I guess I'm on the roof to kind of protect myself from like I expect they can't get up there with me the infected people and it starts raining and I woke up because there were worms in my mouth it's raining worms and blood and so I quickly get up and I go to jump off the roof so I can enter the house that I'm laying on and three women with the worm infection like bust out of the house and they start trying to come towards me but they all look really sad like they look cognizant and they're throwing up violently they're throwing up worms and they're trying to get it out of them but each one of them passes out and the last one passes out in my lap and I'm sitting there trying to help her but I don't know what to do

9 Nov 2024

dream-about-playing-game-with-streamer
Family
Fear
Game
Restaurant
Sword

Dream

I was playing a game with my favorite streamer, and I was playing the game correctly and asking dumb questions and making him laugh. Then the next person you play with him created absolute chaos making him yell in confusion and I knew that one would be edited into the video on YouTube since it was quality "content" but the one I played with him, I still didn't regret because I was nice to someone I liked as a person. Then I got bored and walked down the street into a book shop. I overheard something about a costume contest from another group. I saw a dress I really liked in the book store, as well as a sword that was 3d coming out of a book. So I tore off the sword from the book and made a necklace out of it. This one was pink and sparkly (which I didn't like). Then all of a sudden we were outside and the pink sword turned into a black and diamond one the size of an actual necklace. I was trying to figure out how to piece it together since it kept falling apart. I couldn't do it with the necklace on myself so I had someone else wear it. I didn't know the group of people I was with but they seemed to tolerate me, not so much like me though. I kept getting the parts wrong until I finally got it right. Then it was my turn to wear it and the parts weren't all there so I had to go searching for them. We all got into a canoe and slowly went down the rocky/grassy hill looking for the parts. They seemed to all be at the bottom somehow, where the rocky hill turned into a city boulevard. Then it was time to go to the costume contest, but I couldn't find the dress. I was looking everywhere for it. I scaled the hill 3 times before I took the high ground at some random person's apartment. I remember holding onto their deck railing with a light touch and the paint was chipping off, so I decided to go back down. I don't know why the railing gave me so much nostalgia as I haven't seen one like that in real life. But then after heading down and giving up, I followed my group to lead to someone else's house. It was my aunt and she was holding my dress and sword. I was angry she didn't tell me but relieved she had it. Then the sword turned from black metal and diamond to old natural wood/bark. The wood would fall apart each time it was touched or rattled. So even though I loved it so much, I had to give up on putting it back together, but I still had a piece of it on the necklace. Then we went to a restaurant with family from my dad's side, with my aunt and grandpa. The wooden sword turned into a plywood necklace that had a box on it. The box had wires attached to a clock. I was telling my grandpa that everything wood that I've touched lately has fallen apart and he calmly said that if that box around my neck falls apart by any shape or form, it will explode killing everyone here. I didn't know if he was fear mongering or if it was true, but I was scared shitless. As I was walking out of the restaurant, I kept looking at the box expecting it to break with every step but it kept intact somehow. I was so scared though.

6 Nov 2024

dream-about-vampire-fangs-and-halloween
Blood
Fear
Mirror
Party
Vampire

Dream

I was a part of a Halloween celebration and I wanted to dress up as a vampire, I had a really gorgeous outfit I felt good in and I was excited. My coworker and friend Lindsey was trying to explain to me about a new way I can build vampire fangs out of this material. She told me the process and I said okay. I changed into my outfit and started molding my vampire fangs inside my mouth, and thought I would work on my makeup while I waited for the material to set. We were located in this decadent house with a lot of ornate furniture and decorative pieces. I went to go back to my room and it was an obstacle to get to. The party was starting soon and all the lights were out, when I got back to my room the teeth mold in my mouth was starting to crumble, I went to the bathroom to use the sink and the mold completely fell a part. I looked in the mirror and I looked very sexy, not at all sexy like I was I was hoping for. I was scared. When I went to find my friend to help me with my teeth she was too busy to help me and then I accident spilled fake blood all over the carpet.

5 Nov 2024

dream-about-cockroaches-and-creepy-landlord
Fear
High School
Father
House
Infestation
Water

Dream

I was renting a house from this man named Andy. Andy is a real person from my life. He was a janitor at a job I worked and had a crush on me. He was always a little creepy and way older. I was supposed to be renting it with my sister but somehow she wasn’t there and hadn’t been paying rent. It was very messy with my stuff and hers in corners of the house. The house was two floors but didn’t really have any rooms, just each floor like one big room. When I went to the laundry room I saw beetles and cockroaches. It was a total infestation and they were crawling all over the dirty laundry on the ground. Over my favorite tomato sweater and everything. It was snowing and I also began to realize water was coming through the second floor into the corners of the first floor of the house. I tried to get the cockroaches first with humane traps. The traps came with live cockroaches that were supposed to lure other ones into the humane trap. The trap was made to stuck to the ground and cockroaches would go into it and not be able to come out. I put two on the ground and immediately the cockroaches escaped. Now I had introduced even more cockroaches. I told myself I’d have to buy the poison to kill them all. I realized now that water was pouring from a corner so I rushed up to the second floor to see snow was melting through the cracks in the wooden roof. The house was now like a log cabin. Or maybe it was just how it was the whole time and I hadn’t noticed. I realized I’d have to call Andy. But Andy was creepy and could be unpredictable and sometimes over reactive. I started cleaning and sorting the corners of the room with the most mess. The items were wet now but I just tried to make it cleaner so Andy wouldn’t be made or comment on it. I started cleaning under the bed. Anxious that Andy would ask why I didn’t notice or call him sooner. I started thinking in my head how he might proposition me to give him a blowjob in exchange for fixing things in the house I was renting from him or in exchange for not paying different parts of the rent. Then I worried what if I said no. Would he force me anyway? I started to clean faster even more nervous. The house was looking a lot cleaner and I turned my attention to the laundry room again. Now with the clothes off the floor and in a corner I didn’t see any coackroaches although I knew they were there. I was still nervous about one running across the floor while Andy was at the house. before the dream ended, I saw either Andy or my dad parking the car in the snow outside the house. I can’t remember, but I do think it was my dad and I think in the dream I was relieved that it wasn’t Andy, but I was also nervous because I knew my dad was going to comment on how messy the house was too Back-and-forth in my head if giving Andy a blow job if he proposition to me would be fun or not consensual/assault. Somehow there is also a part in my dream about musical theater and a high school Director, not having enough money for a musical production despite the students being really really talented. However, most of my dream was about the house, the cockroaches the water coming in from the second floors roof to the first floor in all the corners of the house and feeling anxious about having to call the landlord Andy for help because was creepy and I was afraid that he might Hurt me sexually.

5 Nov 2024

dream-about-getting-lost-and-fear
Apartment
Celebration
Fear
Sexual
Darkness
Father

Dream

I was home getting to head to work, it looked like it could’ve winter outside as I was dressed warm and so was the client I’m assigned to. She came over to my address, which in my mind I was confused to how she knew my exact address and wondered if the agency gave her my address as in the past they’ve provided my old phone number to a patient but I wasn’t sure if they’d do the same thing with addresses. So, I left my home with the patient and my area looked different, the patient had this big bag and asked me to carry it in my bag she put it in my bag but surprisingly it wasn’t that heavy and she was assuring that it wasn’t and that it’s better I hold it in my bag instead. I was in this a apartment, I walked into the bedroom and it felt like it Jacob’s (the guy I was seeing recently) room as it seemed familiar. There was an apartment unit next to the room I was in and I thought it’d be a nice idea if I could be roommates with them one day, so I took out a piece of paper and while writing I’ve encountered something. It’s like I was watching something unfold without actually being, and it was an unserious situation going on as if they were playing a game plus a newly celebrity was involved and the game seemed a bit lustful. I was then at the park playing on the playground with the other girls, we were celebrating someone’s birthday. I decided to a store and used Google Maps to walk me there, I found myself in this building that I was supposed to walk through but I winded up getting lost inside the building but before I got lost I seen this little girl and her father together. But when I became lost, I seen the same girl close by calling out for him she looked scared and confused but when I realized she was by herself that’s when I wanted make sure she was okay. She said she seen her dad and pointed in the corner where I only seen a glimpse of him, and I found it eerie that he just stood there and looked like a completely black figure so I told the girl that it’s not him and tried to evade. We were running every door that could be closed shut but it wasn’t closing as the dad still managed to catch it before closing, until we got into another secluded room and I grew the courage to close it tightly with her help. He began banging on the door, and he started talking to the girl in a calm way but obviously angry but he started saying sexual stuff—stuff I wish he could’ve been saying to me in that moment as it was turning me on but unfortunately that was for his daughter who looked no older than 6.

3 Nov 2024

dream-about-being-barefoot-in-facility
Barefoot
Fear
Past Home
Window

Dream

In my dream i was going into some kind of facility and i wasn’t wearing any shoes, i was barefoot but i was able to get past the front desk without them noticing or stopping me. No one noticed but i was really worried someone would and ask me about it or kick me out. When i had walked past the front desk i thought about putting some tissue boxes on my feet but i didnt cuz there was people right at the front desk that would’ve seen me do that so i decided to just go with it. There was this window that i climbed through in order to actually get to this meeting or whatever. There was another part of the dream where i was at a past house, it was one i lived with my mom at a while back. I think when i was in there i was with Emily but there was this underlying feeling of someone possibly trying to get into the house.

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