Dreaming Lens: Were you the vampire or was someone else the vampire? Was the vampire a stranger and a figure of mystery? Was the vampire someone you know from life? Were you the intended victim? Were you trying to save someone from a vampire? Were you bitten? What was the level of danger, intrigue, or sexual stimulation?
Personal Focus: Vampires are creatures of death that survive by drinking the blood of the living. Blood represents passion and life force. A vampire in your dreams represents some aspect of your personality or way of being that has the potential to drain you of your vibrancy and energy.
Because vampires can only move about freely at night, they are in the symbolic realm of the Shadow. This indicates that whatever issues are robbing you of your vitality, they are hidden from your conscious awareness and must be examined with this in mind. We keep in the shadow those parts of ourselves that we can’t accept and have difficulty integrating into our personal identity. Not integrating the Shadow can suck the life force out of us until we face what we resist.
Often portrayed as sexy or seductive, consider that the vampire may represent a situation or person in your life that seemed alluring at first, but is now exhausting or depleting. As a Character Aspect of your personality, there may be some habit, behavior, or emotional trait that is literally sucking you dry. Since vampires cast no reflection in a mirror, this may be a part of you that you may be unable or unwilling to see directly.
Feeling responsible for things can have a very draining effect on you. You may want to become more aware of those things you are attached to in a negative way. Holding on to old attitudes and beliefs can be draining. Consider that it can be just as draining to avoid responsibilities that are legitimately yours. It is the ignorant victim who foolishly leaves the window open and unwittingly invites the vampire to visit. Other internal vampires include neediness, self-doubt, lack of forgiveness, and judgments. All of these feelings kill passion for life. Commit to emotional healing and your vampires will return to the grave where they belong. [1]
To dream that you yourself are a vampire represents how you use those around you. You are using everything you have to further your own goals. [2]
If a man is afraid of sex—afraid his mother/lover will disapprove if he has any sexual feelings of his own—the fear and perhaps anger will sap any good feelings about sexual relationship. Such a man or woman, every time they have sex— because they still do not really wish to give of themself—feel bad after sex, perhaps sucked dry, even ‘dead’.
The fear or anger about not having a will of their own, and still emotionally dependent on mother/father, turns back upon them, depicted as the vampire. [3]
2- Often the fear of emotional and sexual relationships can be represented in dreams as a vampire. Becausc the human being still has a fear of the unknown, ancient symbols that have represented this fear can still appear in dreams, ‘flic succubus and incubus preying on young people’s vital energy is often pictured as a vampire.
3- Life-threatening evil is represented by the vampire in dreams. However, it mav be that the dreamer has a rather fantastical outlook on the realms of evil and some reservation could be applied to their thoughts. [4]
The vampire represents personal attributes or negative habits that drain energy and resources or cause emotional exhaustion.
If you are being attacked by a vampire, you may perceive yourself as a powerless victim. Interpreting this dream’s message may help you to identify the source of your negative feelings and helplessness. [5]
Someone or something figuratively sucking the life away from you a little at a time. This person or situation may be very appealing on the surface, but definitely has an agenda that isn’t in your best interests. [6]
The vampire may also be symbolic for someone who is addicted to drugs or someone in an obsessive relationship.
To dream that you are a vampire suggests that you are sucking in the life energy of others for your own selfish benefit. You may also wish to look up the meanings of “Dracula”, “Movie Character” and “Vampire Slayer”, below. [7]
The idea of someone taking advantage of you or taking something from you (such as your time, energy, effort, attention, personal space, or integrity).
Someone taking without giving back.
A person or group you perceive as greedy or self-serving.
The idea of controlling or possessing.
See also: Sucking, Attacking, Monster, Mythological Character [8]
As creatures of darkness, vampires can particularly represent fears and anxieties arising out of our unconscious. Symbolically, a vampire is someone or something that sucks the life blood out of us. Alternatively, vampires can embody anxieties about our sexuality. [11]
Depth Psychology: Fears, instincts, and primitive urges are producing a “cold” heart and depleting your strength. They will make your life difficult in the future—unless you can control them quickly.
The vampire or blood sucker is such a fearful figure that it is accepted as an embodiment of total negativity. [14]
It is likely that this dream relates to some ambition which you subconsciously feel is immoral or unethical.
Talk it over with a competent friend or adviser. [16]
The vampire image points to insufficient boundaries toward the world of shadows. [17]
2. Drain of vitality, life force; often in a relationship.
3. Bad bargain has been made (as in “bargain with the devil”). [20]
2. Principality power that seeks to take the life out of you; 2 Sam. 14:21 & 15:6. [23]
being bitten by a: al of your fears point to an unpleasant encounter that must be faced.
chased by a: choose your companions stringently, no negative thinkers.
dead person coming back to life: your destructive habits have a seductive hold over you.
fighting with a: are responsible for maintaining your own envy level.
kissing your neck, a: a lover is draining your energy and you emotional y.
married person dreaming of a: have made a bad bargain with a selfish bloodsucker.
of a: wil triumph over resistance to your lowly class and marry for money. [28]