Sexual intercourse – dream interpretation
Love and lust, union and the desire to have children – or simply “banging” during a one-night stand: sexual intercourse is a basic part of human life. It ensures our survival in general, but is also a sign of our love in private and the satisfaction of our lust on an individual level. That’s why homosexual sex, i.e. the act with the same sex, is not abnormal, but simply a sign of physical satisfaction and/or love.
Not only the sexual act itself, but also the touching – “petting” – and kissing during foreplay is important to many people. On the one hand, it helps to build up pleasure, and on the other hand, it creates a closer bond with your sex partner. In prostitution, where this is not desired, kissing and intimate cuddling are usually not necessary.
No matter how often you have sex or think about the act of love, it is very likely that it will appear in your dreams. Read below why this is so and what intimate intercourse in dreams wants to tell you.
Dream symbol “sexual intercourse” – the general interpretation
Your innermost beings reveal themselves in dreams desires, because now the subconscious rules. If you dream of sexual intercourse, in general dream interpretation it means that you are outside the realm of reason.
As a basic human need, sexual intercourse in dreams symbolizes your innermost longings and urges that you do not pay enough attention to when you are awake, do not even notice them or perhaps even suppress them. It’s often about your primal desires.
Dreams about sexual intercourse can provide precise information about your mental state – your wishes, longings and fears. The sex dream of a pubescent teenager is relatively easy to interpret: it is one Pipe dream.
But not every pleasurable dream experience means that you want fulfillment in reality. Dreaming about sleeping with someone often expresses other longings – which can be linked to the topic of physical love, but do not have to be.
If you dream of a shepherd’s hour with your own partner, this indicates a balanced and happy relationship. Sex with your ex is always spicy, even in the dream world. Having sex with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend can warn that you have not yet completely overcome the failed relationship. At the same time, you probably have an urgent desire to do just that.
If the other person in the dream is a person you know but not intimately familiar with, this can indicate a desire for more closeness to this person. Maybe you admire certain qualities of this person and want to adopt them.
Passionate sexual intercourse with a stranger often indicates one’s own personality, a repressed one Personality partsthat you want to live out but don’t. Sex with an ex-partner does not necessarily signal that you long for the old relationship. It may simply be an indication that old relationship patterns are repeating themselves. Maybe an old love story isn’t over yet? You should deal with this while you are awake.
The “threesome” is a popular sexual fantasy. If you have sexual intercourse with three people in your dream, perhaps in a harem, this generally indicates sexual desires and needs that have not yet been met. If you watch yourself having sex in the mirror in a dream, this can indicate a barrier in your relationship. If you watch others having sexual intercourse, this can happen disagreements point out in your own relationship.
Having sexual intercourse with relatives, your own parents or children in a dream can be very disturbing. But here, too, it’s not about the desire for sexual contact. Rather, the dream experience symbolizes a too close connection to the family and the need for it Abnabelung. But incest in dreams can also happen Feelings of guilt of the dreaming to the family members.
A common dream for women is about same-sex, homosexual love, even if they are heterosexual in real life. It’s about the longing for tenderness and sensual love. In fact, sex with your brother is also a very often experienced dream image. There is no real sexual interest here – if you actually have a brother at all – but just a confrontation with your own strength. All “masculine” characteristics are now evaluated and used if necessary. If it is the sister in the sex dream that you are sleeping with, it is the negative character traits such as envy and jealousy that you take a closer look at.
If a sleeper has sexual intercourse with a distant relative in the dream world, the interpretation of the dream differs slightly. Sex with your cousin, for example, symbolizes character traits that are far from your own – and that’s precisely why you long for them. Anyone who feels certain traits within themselves that tend to remain hidden should promote and live out these traits more.
If things get tougher in the dream, namely sadomasochistic sex or similar practices, this is not necessarily an expression of a real one sexual fantasy. Such dreams often mean that you generally want to be more active in determining where your life goes – professionally and privately.
Further dream situations related to the symbol “sexual intercourse”:
- Prostitution: Longing for more freedom in life
- Paying a pimp: you may behave dissolutely yourself
- Rape: clear violation of personal space, private or professional
- Masturbation: seeking comfort
- Partner’s infidelity: share your own thoughts about sexual intercourse more intensively with your partner
- Exhibitionism: Longing for recognition
- Sadomasochism: reference to expanding one’s own sexuality, desire for new things
- Impotence: negative influence
- Orgasm: sexual difficulties and tensions are released
- Defloration: new attitude to life, maturity.
Dream symbol “sexual intercourse” – the psychological interpretation
The psychoanalyst and founder of dream research Sigmund Freud assumed that almost all of our dreams have a variety of dream symbols – mostly with a phallic character – on the topic of repressed sexuality be attributed.
For Freud, coitus was a main theme of our subconscious, so the sexual act in dreams also symbolizes a strong desire for eroticism in waking life.
If the symbols “sex and death” play a major role in the dream, secret ones are pressing erotic fantasies and suppressed urges to the surface of consciousness. The dreamer should explore his psyche more closely and question whether his sex life is currently fulfilling.
Dream symbol “sexual intercourse” – the spiritual interpretation
If sexual dreams are about union, i.e. sexual intercourse or intimate caresses with another person, this symbolizes the longing for certain aspects that you have previously neglected in your spiritual life.
It’s about merger with something new, with another soul or with the divine.
