Everyone has dreams every night, but you won’t remember all of them. Many of us have similar dreams every night with recurring themes so here is our list of the top 10 most common dreams, in no particular order.
See if any of them are familiar with you.
Falling
Falling dreams are the most frequent among all the common dreams we experience in our lifetime. Researchers say the average human will dream about falling to their death more than 5 times in their life.
One theory suggests that you may have lost control over a particular situation in your life. Though to identify you might have to do some thinking to what it might be linking too. This can be linked to relationships, workplace, school or home life. Falling can imply both internal or external issues that have been neglected. Depending on the context of the dream it can point to different areas that need to be analysed. Writing down as much detail of your dream can help decode it a lot easier by thinking in metaphors.
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Losing your teeth
As bizarre as this dream may feel it seems to be fairly common. Falling teeth could be an inner reflection of how we are feeling about ourselves at the moment. Teeth falling out suggests a lack of support internally and you might be having trouble holding things together that was once strong in you.
These dreams could relate to all anxieties and fears you have at your workplace or relationship as well. The location and the people around you will give you an indication of what to look out for.
If you are looking in the mirror then it has a different meaning. Doing some self-reflection on your confidence can better help you understand your dream. The dream is metaphoric to how you are feeling. Are you falling apart inside?
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Cheating
Being cheated on in a dream can often feel so real that you actually go and accuse your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend or significant other of it. Such dreams are unsettling and disturbing. It often leaves you questioning your relationship. Often dreams about infidelity are rarely about cheating, but rather more about your own feelings of insecurity.
Feelings of neglect, insecurity and mistrust are things that should be confronted and discussed in any personal relationship in order for the partnership to grow. It is time to let your guard down and open a dialogue with your significant other.
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Being Chased
Psychologists tend to think that chase dreams occur when our emotions become repressed. Emotions such as love, hate, envy or anxiety that have been hidden in our metaphorical closet that will eventually appear but in our dreams. Once ignored these thoughts and images manifest via unconscious in our dreams as we are being chased by an attacker or monster.
Remembering the events in your dream will help you understand if you are facing your fears directly, or if your running away from them. These dreams should not be ignored but rather dealt with in orderly fashion in order to get to the root of the problem.
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Being Naked in Public
A dream of being naked in public usually starts with a sense of shock as you find yourself completely or partially enclosed in a public place. Although you are making frantic attempts to shield your body and hide behind whatever cover you can find, you still feel that you are in full view of all the people around you. Everyone else is fully dressed and, even though you are extremely embarrassed, no one else seems to notice your nudity.
The action from this dream is to be more confident in revealing the real you to the people around you. It may seem easier to hide your abilities away so that they won’t be constantly exposed to the judgements and criticisms of other people. By choosing to keep your talents under wraps, however, you constantly have to show up as other people expect you to appear, rather than showing up in a way that really displays your uniqueness.
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Flying
Flying dreams can be interpreted in many different ways depending on the context of the dream. For the most part, flying dreams are very positive dreams that signify high exceptions that reflect your walking life. Though it can also hold a negative translation if you are having difficulty taking off.
These thrilling type dreams are fairly common and considered one of the top dream themes we get in our lifetime. Flying dreams can be extremely vivid as if we are superman for the night. As you soar high above the clouds and defy gravity these dreams hold great significance that shouldn’t be overlooked.
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Being Late
To dream that you are late signifies your fear of change and your ambivalence about seizing an opportunity. You may feel unready, unworthy, or unsupported in your current circumstances.
Additionally, you may be overwhelmed or conflicted with decisions about your future. Time is running out and you no longer have time to accomplish all the things you want. Alternatively, being late in your dream could be telling you that it is better late than never.
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Tests or Exams
Taking an exam in your dream implies that you are being put to the test or being scrutinised in some area of your waking life. As with most common dreams, dreams about taking a test have to do with anxiety.
In such dreams, you may find that you cannot answer any of the questions on the test, that the test is in some foreign language or that your pencil keeps breaking during the test. Perhaps the time is running out and you cannot complete the exam in the allowed time. Or perhaps, you arrive late and miss the exam altogether. These factors all result in you failing the dream test.
In order to better understand your test-taking dream, identify what aspect of your waking life is giving you a lot of anxiety or making you feel inadequate. It is also important to keep in mind that dreams about taking a test are usually never about the content of the test. It is more about the process and about the feelings you experience while taking the test.
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Death
When you dream of death, dying or dead people, notice how you feel in your dream. While many people fear that their dreams predict a literal death, another approach would suggest that you’re dreaming about an aspect of yourself.
To dream about the death of a loved one suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what you like about them. It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances.
To dream of your own death indicates a transitional phase in your life. You are becoming more enlightened or spiritual. Alternatively, you are trying desperately to escape the demands of your daily life.
Your dream of death should usually not be taken literally. Look at the dream death as symbolic of something in your waking life that is changing or ending.
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Being out of Control
Sometimes you might dream that you’re in a car you have no control over. Generally being in an out-of-control vehicle conveys a feeling of being off track and exhibiting a lack of control in waking life.
Perhaps you’re doing something to excesses such as shopping or drinking, so dreaming that you can’t control the vehicle you’re in suggests you are being ‘driven’ by your current ‘addiction’.
Dreaming of being a passenger could mean you’re allowing someone else to control you or your life, or you may be feeling you have no control over your life, or you may not be taking responsibility for your actions.
Grab the steering wheel of your own life and find roads you’re more comfortable with.
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