If you can’t think of any waking parallels, consider the identity of your opponent in the dream? Is this someone you recognize or is it a hidden part of yourself? Was your opponent serious or light-hearted? Was anyone hurt in the dream? Was the conflict resolved and how so? Any violence in dreams is a reflection of your own inner feelings about yourself and sometimes about the situation around you. Seeing yourself as a victim of self-imposed violence suggests self-blame, perhaps related to the end of a relationship or the death of a loved one, both of which you may feel could have been avoidable had you had acted differently. Dream violence towards yourself may also express low selfesteem, self-loathing and destructive urges that should be dealt with before they erupt into waking life.
If, on the other hand, you are lashing out at others in your dream, this may reflect your struggle to fight the undesirable impulses within yourself. Violence towards an old person can indicate resentment against authority. Violence towards a child may indicate the dreamer’s inability to accept and express the child within themselves.
If you dreamed that you were attacked or threatened with attack, it may be a warning of an attack in waking life. This may not be a physical attack but an attack on your integrity or character. [1]
(2) Even where the violence is obviously directed towards someone else, it may indicate anxiety. For example, a man who dreams of cruel sex with a woman is almost certainly afraid of women and afraid of - guilty about - his own sexuality. The cause of the guilt and anxiety needs to be uncovered, even if it means seeing a psychotherapist.
(3) A violent explosion - volcano, bomb, etc. - will usually mean that some part of you is frustrated and ready to wreak havoc in your life if you continue to deny it expression.
NB Our violence is caused by emotions taking us over; and such emotional take-overs are the result of frustrated healthy desires. [2]
If you are the victim of violence in the dream, it is trying to say that you are punishing yourself and you consider yourself guilty of something in real life. In the case that it gives you the sensation that everything is going against you, you should not lose hope, because your luck will change soon.
The significance of this dream is the opposite as it suggests.
If you are violently attacked, superstition foretells better times. [3]
A fear of whatever is being attacked.
Perceiving that the attacker feels hostility or intolerance for whatever they’re attacking.
Feeling or perceiving a lack of compassion, understanding, reverence, or respect of others.
Focusing on the negativity in the world.
An indication that you were having a Toxic Dream.
See also: Crime, Fight, Killing, Attacking, Invading, Killed, Being, Attacked, Being, Invaded, Being, Bully, Threat, Menacing, Arguing, Revenge [4]
If you are the victim of the anger or violence of someone else in your dream, this may suggest feelings of guilt about thoughts or actions you have had or made in waking life.
If your dreams are often violent, disturbing and consistently terrifying to the degree that they are damaging the quality of your waking life, you should consider seeing a therapist to talk about them. [5]
2- When we arc unable because of social pressures or circumstance to express ourselves properly, we can find ourselves behaving violently in dreams.
If others are behaving violently towards us we may need to take care in waking life not to upset others.
3- A sense of spiritual injustice maybe represented by scenes or acts of violence in a dream.
The dreamer should equate this with recent spiritual events. [6]
If you are not dealing with these feeling consciously, your dreams are compensating and bringing into awareness the need for honest reflection and emotional balance in daily life. [7]
If others are behaving violently towards us we may need to take care in waking life not to upset others, or it may be that subconsciously we are aware of others’ distress. [8]
See also: Sword, Knife, Venting Dreams. [10]
2. A feeling that someone has bad, even harmful, intentions.
3. Repressed hostility, rage.
4. Use extreme caution in expressing emotions to others; avoid harsh words or arguments. [13]
If you do some other persons violence, you will lose fortune and favor by your reprehensible way of conducting your affairs. [14]
A violent reaction to something in dreams suggests some kind of spiritual distress. [16]
To do violence to another in a dream augurs great business success. [17]
being attacked with: an upheaval of which you are a part, but not the instigator.
being done to others: have lost al sense of control over your power.
mate showing: infidelity in a delicate situation is undoable.
yourself: are a sensitive, timid person who needs tranquility. [24]