Abusing dreams are much more related to family and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Abusing dreams are much more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion.

Dreams of abusing are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and much less related to natural places.

Abusing dreams are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to friendly acts, and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters and less related to eating and drinking.

Dreams of abusing are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and much more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, much less related to weird dreams, and less related to vivid dreams.

Dreams of abusing are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience abusing in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about abusing in dreams. See how you feel about abusing now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Think of abuse as a physical representation of a personal situation, an exaggeration that in its way sums up a situation or how you feel. It could reflect a physically abusive situation, but more often it’s figurative. For instance, your spouse doesn’t really hit you as in the dream, but it feels like abuse when he or she insults you, starts an argument or acts oblivious. Go further with the idea and abuse can apply to a wide range of situations. Substances can be abused. A friendship can be abused. Trust can be abused. In this sense, abuse means “to take advantage” or “misuse.” Authority can be misused and shown in scenes of someone’s being slapped around or otherwise abused by an authority figure. Characters that abuse you in a dream can symbolize ways you abuse yourself, especially by being too hard on yourself. Most dream characters are projections from your inner world, so a character that is abusive is likely to connect somehow back to you. Throwing rocks is known to symbolize abusive ways you talk to yourself. It can symbolize hurled insults, whether you insult yourself or someone else. The feeling of being hit by a rock is a representation of emotional and personal impact. Words can hurt. Dreaming about dishing out abuse can reflect coarseness in your character. You come on strong and affect the people around you. Perhaps the exaggeration into physical abuse is to help you see the impact you have, in which case there might be an underlying message that it would be wise to tone it down. Being abusive in a dream can express a wish to lash out or pay back for perceived wrongs, as when a victim turns the tables. Meek and mild people are known to dream about scenes of abuse and violence, and they have the hardest time recognizing that it’s an exaggerated way of acting out their deepest feelings. In which case, dreaming about abuse is compensation. It’s the flip side of the conscious personality, and it’s a sign that under the right circumstances the Hulk hidden inside can pop out. See: Compensation Dreaming about a child being abused can indicate that someone is taking advantage of your innocence or naiveté, or that a young part of yourself feels left out of your life. It can mean you miss the simplicity and fun of childhood. See: Children, Innocence See also: Children, Compensation, Dolls, Fighting, Fists, Raping, Toys, Wounds