Planet dream meaning
Dreaming about
planets
The complete overview of what science, psychology, and spirituality say about this dream. Drawn from Oniri data and the classic works of dream psychology.
Popularity
54/100
Appears in 1 in 314 dreams
Nightmares
About average13%
of dreams about planets are nightmares
Lucid dreams
1.6× the average13%
of dreams about planets are lucid
The ancient Greeks called the planets wanderers, because unlike the stars they drift across the sky from night to night. Dreaming about planets often carries some of that wandering, a wish to explore, to go somewhere nobody you know has been, or to get away from your everyday world for a while. When the planet felt cold and empty, the dream can also be about feeling worlds apart from the people around you.
What you were doing with the planet is the first clue. Watching a giant planet rise over your street is a dream about something coming into view, while landing on one is a dream about leaving. The other clue is how far you've felt, lately, from where you are.
The dream dictionary
Dreaming about planets usually points to exploration and possibility, or to a wish to get away from your everyday world for a while. If the planet felt strange and lonely, the dream is often about feeling worlds apart from the people around you.
Emotional profile
The emotions usually associated with dreaming about planets.
Emotion families
Compared with the average dream
Emotions that stand out
Related dream symbols
Other symbols that often appear together with planets in dreams.
NatureMoon"Moon" shows up 46 times more often in dreams about planets than in the average dream.Dreaming about the moon usually points to your feelings and moods, the things that rise and fall in cycles, or a part of your life that only shows itself at night.
NatureSpace"Space" shows up 40 times more often in dreams about planets than in the average dream.Dreaming about space usually points to the unknown, a new path you're exploring or a problem you've never faced, or to a need for room and distance from your daily life.
CreaturesAliens and UFOs"Aliens and UFOs" shows up 27 times more often in dreams about planets than in the average dream.Dreaming about aliens usually points to something new and unfamiliar coming into your life, to feeling like an outsider yourself, or to losing control to forces you don't understand.
NatureFireDreaming about fire usually points to a strong feeling you're carrying, most often anger, desire or the fear of losing something you've built.
NatureWaterDreaming about water usually reflects how you feel, and the state of the water is the state of your emotions.What dreaming about planets means
We use planets for distance in everyday speech. Someone who isn't paying attention is "on another planet", a strange idea makes you ask what planet someone is on, and a famous self-help book put men on Mars and women on Venus. Dream planets tend to borrow that sense of being far from ordinary life.
Exploring something new
Planets are the edge of what we know, and a planet dream often comes when you're curious about something just out of reach, a new field of work, a country you'd like to live in, a side of yourself you've never tried. If you felt excited and not scared, the dream is usually encouraging the exploration.
Wanting to get away
Sometimes the planet is an escape hatch. Dreams of leaving the earth behind tend to arrive when daily life feels heavy, with too many demands and no breaks, and a silent planet can be the space you haven't been getting.
Feeling worlds apart
A lonely planet with no one else on it is about distance from people. It can come after a move, during a falling-out, or when you feel nobody understands what you're going through. Who did you wish was there with you?
Dreaming about seeing planets in the sky
Looking up and seeing a planet hanging huge and close, rings and all, is one of the most striking dreams people describe. It usually means something big has come into view, an opportunity or a change that's suddenly very close and hard to take in. Wonder points to excitement about it. Fear, especially if the planet seemed about to hit, points to something looming that you don't feel ready for.
Dreaming about traveling to another planet
Flying to another planet in a spaceship is a dream about leaving the known behind. It often comes before or during a real change, a move abroad, a new relationship, a career switch, when part of you is already halfway to the new life. How the landing went matters. A smooth landing and a world you liked suggest you're ready, while a crash or a hostile planet can mirror doubts you haven't voiced.
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Dreaming about living on another planet
Living on another planet, as if it were normal, often shows how out of place you feel in your current life. If the other planet felt like home, you may have outgrown your surroundings or the role others expect of you. If you were homesick for earth, the dream may be about missing something simpler that you've left behind.
Dreaming about planets colliding
Two planets crashing into each other is a dream about two big forces in your life meeting head-on. That might be your work and your family, two people you love who can't stand each other, or two parts of you that want opposite things. It's a dramatic dream but rarely about anything outside you. Look at what each planet stood for, even vaguely, and where those forces are pulling against each other.
Dreaming about planets according to Jung and Freud
A dream planet is as far from daily life as a setting can get, which gives both men's ideas plenty of room to work.
Jung: the planet that answers your week
Jung held that a dream often supplies what the waking day leaves out, and that the dreamer's own associations outrank any dictionary, this one included.[1] The planet makes that easy to see. After a week of crowds and deadlines, a silent planet is the quiet you didn't get, and after a long spell alone, a planet with other people on it, or with no way home, is the contact you've lost. Which planet it was, and what the name means to you, outweighs anything written here.
Freud: a wish with a name on it
To Freud a dream wraps a wish in a disguise, and a planet is a thin one for the wish to be somewhere nobody can reach you.[2] What the disguise adds is a name, and Freud would begin with the dreamer's own associations, so Mars or Saturn would have him asking what comes to mind when you hear it (a person, a school lesson, a film) before any general meaning.
Questions to ask about your planet dream
Planets are far away, and distance runs through all of these.
- Were you watching the planet, traveling to it or living on it?
- Did it feel exciting, peaceful, lonely or threatening?
- Which planet was it, if you knew, and what does that planet mean to you?
- What in your life would you like to get away from, or get closer to?
Oniri starts with the same kind of questions when you share a dream, which is how it can tell a dream of adventure from one about loneliness.
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean to see planets in the sky in a dream?
Huge planets hanging in the sky usually point to something big and new coming into view, an opportunity, a change or an idea that's hard to take in. If the sight was beautiful, it's often a hopeful dream. If it felt threatening, look at what has suddenly loomed large in your life.
What does dreaming about traveling to another planet mean?
Traveling to another planet is usually about a wish to escape your routine or start over somewhere completely different. It can also mean you're exploring a new interest or part of yourself. How you felt when you arrived, free or homesick, tells you which.
Do planets in dreams have an astrological meaning?
Astrology gives each planet a character, Mars for drive and conflict, Venus for love, Saturn for limits and responsibility. If astrology matters to you, that can be one way into the dream. But the planet in your dream mostly carries what it means to you personally.
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