If you dream of using a weapon against someone, do you harbor hidden anger and aggression that you have not expressed in waking life? If you do not know the person you are attacking, your weapon and victim may be symbolic representations of aspects of yourself you do not like or find hard to deal with. You may have inner conflicts that need to be resolved, or ‘killed off’.
If so, what does your unknown victim look like, and how does he, she or it react to the threat? All this may provide you with important clues.
If you have a weapon used against you in a dream this may suggest that you have done something to upset people around you or it may be that you feel you have become the victim of circumstances.
If you are shot in the dream, this may be referring to internalized aggression, past hurt or a fear of being hurt.
According to Freud, almost every weapon is a phallic symbol and many dream researchers still subscribe to this view.
If a man dreams he is attacking a woman with a weapon or hunting a woman, it may reveal an equivocal attitude towards women. A woman who dreams of being attacked may be expressing sexual insecurity or a fear of men. Weapons or firearms that malfunction in dreams or fail to work may indicate a sense of powerlessness to handle challenges in daily life. They may also suggest anxiety about sexual performance or an inability to express ideas confidently to other people.
If a work tool or other object is used as an offensive weapon, this suggests a skill or authority that has turned against you, as might happen if a teacher was taking advantage of a pupil. The atmosphere of the dream will provide the best clue for analysis, but ancient dream oracles suggest that this dream generally means you have enemies who pretend to be friends. In other words, ‘watch your back’. [1]
An arrow indicates being pierced by some kind of powerful emotion, of being hurt by someone else through words or actions. We need to turn our attention inwards in order to make ourselves feci better, flic gun or pistol traditionally represents male sexuality and for a woman to dream of being shot often indicates her wish for, or fear of, sexual aggression.
If we are shooting the gun ourselves we may be using our masculine abilities in quite an aggressive way; in order to defend ourselves.
A knife represents the ability to cut through debris, to ‘cut into’ whatever is bothering us and to cut out the hypocrisy that perhaps is prevailing in a situation.
The sword has more than one meaning. Because of its hilt — which is a cross shape it often represents a system of belief which is used in a powerful way. Equally it can be used to suggest spiritual strength, creating an abilitv to cut awav the unneccssary more powerfully than the knife.
The sword when sheathed is the soul or the Self in the bodv.
2- To have a weapon used against us means that we have to look at how we are party to people being aggressive around us. It maybe that we have done something to upset the other person which results in aggression, or it may be that we have put ourselves in a position of becoming the victim of circumstance.
3- Various weapons can suggest varying degrees of spiritual power.
The dreamer should use this power with relevant caution. [2]
Taking up a weapon reveals hostility or fear that you may be repressing during waking hours. Turn to look upon the object of your actions. Sometimes just facing your true feelings is enough to begin the healing process.
Guns are violent, but impersonal. These reveal a source of anger or anxiety that you would prefer to keep at arm’s length. How healthy this distance is for you, however, is questionable, or your dreams would not reveal it.
A catapult indicates the ability to circumnavigate an obstacle by ingenious thought and assertive action.
Cannons can fire over a large distance, meaning the perceived threat is not nearby. Additionally, they may symbolize things that you value very little (e.g., something
best used as “cannon fodder”). As an omen, cannons portend a struggle that engages powerful torces.
Maces represent blunt realities that are so cold and firm as to nearly knock you off your feet with their realization.
Nuclear devices represent tremendous buildup of frustration to the point that it leaks into your life as a futile attitude that poisons everything. [3]
If we shoot or stab someone or something, we need to consider what part of ourself we are turning our aggression upon.
If we kill or injure a recognisable person, we may be harbouring the desire to hurt or kill that person, even if only in reputation. All weapons can represent male sexual drive or aggressive sexuality.
The situation in which the action takes place: defines what the weapon expresses. Ineffective weapons: feelings of inadequacy.
A work tool used as a weapon: our skill or authority turned against ourself or someone else, as might happen if a doctor got sexual favours through his position. [4]
• Weapons, regardless of their form, are a picture of warfare and of our stand against the flesh and the enemy.
• Apostle Paul also tells us that the weapons we fight with are not weapons of flesh, but of spirit. Our authority is vested in the Lord, and any action we take should be with our spiritual authority.
• 2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
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Arrow, Axe, Bow, Dagger, Dart, Shield, Spear, Sword. [5]
To dream of squeezing the trigger of a gun, for instance, suggests that we may be at fault. [6]
2. Depending on the weapon, a phallic symbol. [9]
armory full of, an: credibility is gained by works, not by force.
bludgeon, hitting a person with a: correct the source of the gossip, not the messenger.
boomerang, throwing a: be wary of revealing information unintentional y.
damaged, a: have misused valuable information for your defense.
grenade, throwing a: a stark adjustment of confidence after missing your target.
lance, a: impossible odds against formidable enemies can be overcome.
wounded by a: an error in judgment in a crucial experiment wil aggravate you.
possessing a: learn the correct defense method before proceeding.
sharp, pointed, a: your words do the damage; insight and love can heal the wound. [10]