This dream could represent your most intimate frustrations and feelings about the circumstances around you. Deep down, you fight because the situation you are living does not meet your expectations.
According to the guru Sathya Sai Baba, the inner struggle does not exist: everything is provoked by the mark left by the past on our lives. Reminiscence for yesterday creates apparent problems in the present and future.
It is a matter of letting love flow and worrying less. So, the fight that your heart carries out will diminish. Often, this guru says, it is all the product of an illusion.
Filming If the dream unfolds like a film that stars yourself, different conclusions may be drawn according to its genre: if it is drama, an unfortunate matter will depress you; if it is a comedy, however, you will experience pleasant surprises. To direct a film involves excessive zeal to control everything that goes on around you. [1]
To see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money.
For women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip.
For a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness.
To dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you will lose your right to property.
To whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance, win honor and wealth in spite of opposition.
To dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many worries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream, yet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted.
To dream that you are on your way home and negroes attack you with razors, you will be disappointed in your business, you will be much vexed with servants, and home associations will be unpleasant.
To dream that you are fighting negroes, you will be annoyed by them or by some one of low character. [2]
Example: ‘I realised a door had been left open that should have been locked and I felt very vulnerable. Suddenly a sword of light appeared in my hand and a voice told me that it was my weapon to fight the evil’ (Mrs DE).
A fight also depicts, as in the example, fighting for our space; our values or honour, we may fight for survival, for our health, fight crime (resist criminal impulses); we may also feel attacked by another person’s opinions, assaulted by sexual desire; fight against depression; have a conflict over moral issues.
See also: attack; war. Idioms: fight it out; fight like cat and dog; look for a fight. [3]
A feeling or fear of (physical, emotional, or mental) aggression or needing to defend yourself.
A combative environment somewhere in your life (or in a movie, the media, or a video game).
Your own inner conflict.
An effort to understand two opposing arguments or points of view.
A real or imagined situation that triggers feelings of anger, againstness, or self-righteousness.
A one-sided perspective, taking a stance of “us vs.
them,” or feeling threatened by differences you perceive in someone else.
Desperation, perhaps due failure of diplomatic or social skills.
Compassionless action, bravado, or immaturity.
The idea of your immune system battling against an infection or something else.
See also: Arguing, Violence, Invading, Invaded, Being, Attacking, Attacked, Being, Surviving, Immune System, Allergy [4]
2- To fight back is a natural defence mechanism, so when we are feeling threatened in our everyday lives, we will often dream of taking that situation one stage further and fighting it out.
3- Quite literally a spiritual conflict.
The dreamer should try to work out where, and why, there is a conflict and perhaps deal with it in a more subtle way than with ‘all guns blazing’. [5]
Standing on the sidelines and watching other people fight indicates that the troubles of others may spill over into your life.
A dream of war indicates an inner battle.
The dreamer needs to look within and see what it is that’s keeping them from getting anywhere. Other symbols in the dream might help. [6]
As with all dream symbols, the tone and setting of the dream indicate which meaning is applicable. [7]
For a business person, it signifies a change of enterprise; for an employed person, a change of job, etc.
The degree of success or failure you may expect from the change was forecast in the outcome of your dreamed fight.
If your dream concerned others fighting, it is a warning against waste of time and money in idle pleasure. [8]
To throw a punch in a dream is to recognize our own distress or aggression.
To be punched is often to have invited such aggression. [11]
See also: Venting Dream, War. [12]
If a man dreams of seeing his lady love fighting with another woman, it is a sign that she will prove a competent housewife. [13]
2. Conflicts in waking life getting out of control; explore more creative resolutions.
3. Bad luck in relationships. [15]
being beaten in a: are powerless to the opposition of your love affair.
fighting with a wild animal: feel conflict with an irascible savage part of yourself.
of being in a: your battle with yourself wil bring on an unfavorable peace.
others: have plenty of scope to improve your projects.
participating in a: wil gain honorable wealth despite lawsuits threatening you.
on a battlefield: hate and envy make life difficult when they fight within themselves.
struggling to save yourself: wil suffer abuse you have forced upon another.
watching a: don’t involve yourself in another’s ugliness.
winning a: conciliation with yourself wil overcome your sense of your unworthiness.
witnessing a: your smugness wil regurgitate on you. [21]
A fight in a dream also means inflation and rising prices, plague, food lines, adversities or stress.
If a soldier sees himself engaged in a battle in a dream, it means that he will receive benefits and a rewarding success. Fighting unjust people in a dream means triumph over injustice, supporting the needs of one’s father or mother first, or being protective of one’s wife or husband. Fighting against the truth in a dream means aligning oneself with heedless people or going astray.