A dream about a bomb can sometimes be triggered by a deeply disturbing experience in your waking life. Otherwise, your dream is trying to alert you to a potentially explosive situation. You may need to face up to feelings you have been suppressing before they overpower you and create havoc. If there is ongoing conflict in some area of your life, you could be toying with the idea of dropping a bombshell in an attempt to resolve it, once and for all.
Questions to ask yourself - and what to do when the answer is ‘yes’
Have I been thrown off balance by a traumatic event?
- Under these circumstances, healing ultimately comes with the passage of time. If you do your best to adjust to the new circumstances, you will emerge from your experience with wisdom you might not otherwise have gained.
Am I repressing some powerful feelings?
- Your dream is urging you to try and resolve the situation before you blow a fuse. If you don’t know how to go about it, consider confiding in a friend or a member of your family. If this is impossible, then it would be best to seek professional help.
Would I secretly like to say or do something explosive?
- While you may have good reason to feel as you do, cultivating a sense of being hard done by can only make matters worse. If you want your circumstances to change, you must be first willing to change your attitude. Can you see how you have actually helped to create this situation? This means that you are actually more powerful than you think you are. Claiming that power and using it more wisely is the key to success.
If you wake up from such a dream before it is finished, you are probably shirking some issue in your personality or in your external life.
(2) If the bomb is an atom bomb, the dream mav represent your anxiety about the way things are going in the world. On the other hand.
even anxiety about the atom bomb may be a symbolic representation of deep anxiety about yourself. Some dreams allow both an objective- external interpretation and a subjective-internal interpretation. [2]
If the one who places the bomb is you it means you are losing control and refuse to accept responsibility. On the other hand, this dream also indicates your internal condition. Perhaps, something is affecting you that you may want to explode in rage. The same goes for all those feelings and emotions that you repress.
If you avoid expressing them, they will end up exploding sooner or later.
The oneiric superstition says that a discussion that besets you will end happily. [3]
Depth Psychology: The bomb, more than anything else, is a symbol of impending danger where emotions are out of control or where you are gripped by fear.
If repressed Aggression is the reason, try to prevent the Explosion as quickly as you can. This dream has to be taken seriously! [4]
A bomb creates an enormous amount of energy in an instant, and an explosion is a powerful symbol of great change. In this case, the changes that are taking place are likely to be creating a great deal of chaos and challenge.
A bomb that hasn’t exploded indicates changes that may or may not happen.
The results of a bomb blast symbolize the havoc that is wreaked when enormous changes take place. [5]
2- Psychologically we need to be aware that our own emotions arc likely to get the better of us.
3- A bomb exploding is usually an unexpected event.
Dreaming of one would suggest a fear of sudden death. [6]
A feeling or fear of domination or victimization by an authority (legitimate or otherwise).
Feeling helpless or victimized in some aspect of your life due to misuse of authority or power.
An indication that you were having a Toxic Dream.
See also: Weapon, Explosion, Nuclear, Attacked, Being, Attacking, Terrorism, Rocket, Missile [7]
The picture of an exploding bomb also points to an act of freeing oneself and of unloading. Addressed here is removing and shattering boundaries. [8]
See also: Anger Management, Death. [9]
2. Surprise announcement;
3. Words that burn (positive or negative);
4. Issue that is not solved that will blow up in the future (time bomb);
5. Explosive outburst. Matt. 26:21; Luke 22:21; Jer. 51:8;
Bones
1. Spirit;
2. Condition of the heart;
3. Death; Ezek. 37:4, 11; Prov. 17:22; (4) Prov. 15:13. [10]
To dream of a bomb threat suggests that you are experiencing some inner anger or pressures which are on the verge of exploding violently. Also see “Bomb Shelter”, below. [12]
Dreaming of a bomb would appear to suggest a fear of sudden death or a cataclysmic event. [15]
2. Repressed emotions.
3. Feelings of impending disaster.
4. Bad news (“drop a bomb”). [17]