Fear of a process or project ending.
A desire to escape or to get rid of a problem.
Executing someone as punishment for a past deed can represent: a feeling of self-righteousness, needing to feel right or needing to consider another person wrong, feeling critical, or wanting your opinion to seem more important or carry more weight, an opportunity to resolve an issue involving your judgment of self or others.
See also: Killing, Beheading, Killed, Being, Death of You, Death of a Loved One [1]
If you are the one who is being executed, this symbol indicates strong negative emotions, self-doubts, and guilt feelings.
If somebody else is being executed, it symbolizes the Other—usually characteristics or behavior that you must urgently discard.
See also: Death.
Psychological and mental re-orientation. Changes need to be made. [2]
Dreaming of being executed: others are putting you down and you feel ashamed.
See also: Gallows, Hanging. Murder.
Depth Psychology: Your opinions or assumptions are going to change (or have already).
A dream about an execution suggests revising an opinion you have had about certain events. Put your changed attitude to work. [3]
If you see an execution it is a sign of a great misfortune caused by others; if you are the victim you will suffer not only losses of any kind but also diseases; and if you are the executor it indicates rebellion against social conventions. Dreaming that you are about to be executed but that a miraculous salvation occurs means that you will defeat your enemies and succeed in your projects. [4]
It is also natural that in face of grave disaster the dreamer would rather die being executed than to live a lonely life of deprivation.
If the dreamer is the executioner in the dream it signifies a desire to eliminate or overthrow the authority of another person. [6]
To dream that you are about to be executed, and some miraculous intervention occurs, denotes that you will overthrow enemies and succeed in gaining wealth. [7]
2. Guilt over something. [11]
attending an: wil best your adversary.
being executed: others debase you, change that element in your life.
executioner, being an: death of a smal child in the family.
failing in his duties: wish to rid yourself of destructive impulses.
of an: catastrophe and ruin to the enemy within.
preparing to kill someone, an: desire to eliminate someone from your life.
guilty person, of a: triumph over enemies in unusual places.
friend: doubtful success of undertakings; that friend is lost to you.
innocent: wil be jilted by a lover, because of your poor health.
lethal injection, by: investigate al routes of responsibility before investing.
lover, of a: wil suffer through own foolishness causing misfortune to others.
own: must control passions or wil suffer a prolonged il ness.
stay of, a: miraculous timing of new evidence, which wil connect your foes to the crime.
sweetheart, of a: your loyalty and faithfulness wil be repaid. [15]