What are abusing dreams about?
Abuse is behavior that intentionally causes harm. If we are hurt by accident, we will often say that we were hurt. If we are hurt intentionally, we can say that we were abused. Abuse can take many forms. It can be physical, sexual, financial, verbal or emotional. There are varying levels of abuse. It can be overt and noticeable. It can be subtle. This symbol is identified by words like abuse.
Abusing in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.7% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 150 dreams.
What are the major highlights of abusing dreams?
Abusing is a normal dream symbol. Having abusing in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of abusing are emotional
Abusing have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include Cameroon, accomplices, embarrassment, general senses, beginnings, grey eyes, magnifying glasses, El Salvador, numb, and depression.
Abusing dreams are friendly
Dreams of abusing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of abusing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of abusing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include horrors, ancestors, venus, laughing, mafia, coaches, comfort, scientists, descending, and cheating on tests.
Abusing dreams might be sexual
Dreams of abusing are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If abusing is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include animas, Bahamas, embarrassment, unnamed individuals, wanting and wishing, Somalia, bankruptcy, characters, instagram, and abortions.
Dreams of abusing are aggressive
Abusing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all abusing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having abusing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include cowards, torturing, drugs, weakness, breaking, molesting, magic, places of transit, crime, and aliens.
Dreams with abusing might be a nightmare
Dreams of abusing are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain abusing might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with abusing are not nightmares. But, dreams of abusing are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include crying, death, aggressive interactions, cults, locks, fingerprints, hunger, robots, goats, and kidnapping.
Abusing dreams are about family
Dreams of abusing are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of abusing will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include kitchens, ancestors, childhood homes, Denmark, back doors, wives, home, guest rooms, former partners, and abusing.
Abusing dreams are about love
Dreams containing abusing are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of abusing are about love. It simply means that if you dream of abusing, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include relationship events, verbs, unemployment, husbands, Ireland, accepting, qualities, green eyes, sadness, and athletes.
What symbols more present in dreams of abusing?
Abusing dreams are notable because they have substantially more tyrants, characters, suffering, adoptions, raping, molesting, children, Guatemala, ribs, arresting, torturing, therapists, family, jails, drugs, healing, revenge, Ethiopia, uranus, seeing a dead mother, fathers, cocaine, threatening, rage, finding money, Bahamas, parents, hatred, childhood homes, psychologists, bullies, Venezuela, emotions, uncles, authors, being tied up, people's ages, addicts, suicide, general animals, family homes, animuses, cheating on tests, anger, scars, penises, police, paramedic, prisoners, mothers, boars, home towns, jealousy, former partners, instagram, pain, winning the lottery, evil, microphones, and arguing than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of abusing?
Abusing dreams are notable because they have substantially less flying, going to die, floating, Donald Trump, owls, pilots, red, oceans, maps, bodies of water, bombs, insects, lightning, hugeness, general crashes, witches, hit the ground, mazes, surprise, verbs, aggressive interactions, motorcycles, boats, crashes, natural things, jungles, robots, the sky, blue, ankles, other fantastic beings, video games, water, nuclear bombs, orange, and spaceships than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of abusing affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in abusing dreams?
Overall, dreams with abusing are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abusing are much more related to family and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in abusing dreams?
Overall, dreams with abusing are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abusing are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fun.
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Who is in abusing dreams?
Overall, dreams with abusing are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abusing are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.
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What happens in abusing dreams?
Overall, dreams with abusing are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abusing are much more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.
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How do abusing in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with abusing are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abusing are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams.
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How can you make sense of abusing in dreams?
Abusing dreams are uncommon. Among other things abusing dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, friendly, sexual, aggressive, nightmare, family oriented, and about love.
Do you think this is true for your dream of abusing? How might your dream of abusing be different?
All dreams have meaning
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.
Look for the differences
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.
Return to the feelings
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.
What are possible meanings for dreams of abusing?
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
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.
Examples of dreams of abusing
Read some real dream reports of abusing dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
Dreamed That I hurt people
**I am a 33 year old black male living in Brooklyn. Dedicating all of my resources and time to building the business I'm building now. Sales is hard and has been extremely brutal but I think I have had some luck.**
**Yesterday I had some luck. I have a few clients attracted to me and what I am offering.**
**I had a client reach out to me yesterday saying that they would need my service for another role that they would want filled very soon. I am supposed to be setting an appointment with him next week.**
**The last two days my GERD/Acid Reflux has gotten even worse and now I am considering going to a doctor to get it checked out. It was enough to have me worried.**
**I am back on the Omerprazole.**
I dreamed last night that I had been brought into this school area to be a hero of some sort.
I remember the area having a lot of school buses.
I ended up abusing the power I was given and giving out severe punishment to small time offenders. The was one woman I remember that tried running from me and I ended up kicking her in the head.
She was small and frail. She had on a white shirt with a short black haircut.
I realized that I might have gone too far and attempted to resuscitate her in panic that I might have taken her life.
I think she ended up being alright.
There was also someone else I ended up injuring as well but I don’t know if they turned out alright or not and I began to worry that they may not be.
I tried to gain access back into the school facility but there was a fence put up there between me and it.
On the other side of the fence I was talking to this woman who had feelings for me. She seemed disappointed in what I had become.
I could tell that she was angry with me.
She told me that in the beginning I came here not knowing who I was and now I have learned, through these horrid actions exactly who I am now.
I then began to speak in a British accent: “There has to be some path for me towards redemption.”
Although she didn’t say it, she gave me the sense that by even bothering to come over and speak to me that she might have a forgiving aspect to her.
As soon as I said this statement to her then she appeared in a magazine spread
Then the same woman appeared before my eyes on the cover of a magazine spread modeling some clothes and jewelry.
**I am a 33 year old black male living in Brooklyn. Dedicating all of my resources and time to building the business I'm building now. Sales is hard and has...
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Dreamed about a manipulative blackmailing politician accusing another one of being Pedophile
It was a very disturbing an elaborate dream involving politics blackmail and pedophilia.
There is this very powerful right wing politician R that bullies opposition around and is sadly very very popular. His party hold power in the equivalent of senate and the house and majority of state parliaments as well. I personally hate the politics and demeanor of R.
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In my dream I saw R holding a gigantic press-conference/political rally with audience in thousands. It was like he was on a stage down in a valley and the audience was in mountains around it. Was like a football stadium kinda view but valley and mountains. Its evening and dark. R walks onto the stage with a kid and says the kid has something to reveal. R starts talking about another politician N. N is a decently well known opposition politician. I don't love N but don't dislike him either. Seems respectable to be holding fort again R and his party. N belongs to one of the few opposition held states.
Now R and the kid starts narrating how the kid was kidnapped and disappeared in and around a guest house/resort which is in the political constituency of N. The kid was thought dead but was very much alive and a captive. The kid was repeatedly abused and assaulted and raped by N and his powerful friends. To the point where the kid almost felt hopeless and started accepting his fate.
Then R starts saying saying he has video evidence. He doesn't want to show the video evidence because of its graphic nature but has made an animation of it for public screening. He plays the animation. It was extremely graphic and bloody. The black and white (sometimes colored) animation had scenes from a very narrow walled space with a flickering clay lamp with oil and cotton wick at the far end, then the kid facing the lamp and the politician N. The place was so narrow it seemed once you get in you cannot turn easily and have to back out. The floor was bloody and the kid was in pain.
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It was horrible. I woke up extremely disturbed.
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Clarification: The politicians are real but not US politicians or of any large country.
It was a very disturbing an elaborate dream involving politics blackmail and pedophilia.
There is this very powerful right wing politician R that bullies...
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Mirror Mystery
I barely remember this dream since it was yesterday but I'll do my best. Also it's sorta violent
I was a normal kid that lived with a sterotypical mean uncle and for some reason whenever I looked in a certain small mirror I had, there was this blonde girl about my age that I've never seen before (in the dream and irl) and she would talk to me about stuff, it was the wierdest thing ever. I tried asking her who she was and why she was in a mirror but she always changed the subject.
Eventually high school came around and in my class was the girl! In the flesh! (Still in the dream)
Turns out she had moved from somewhere and was moving right next to me. I tried to act like I had never seen her before, and she was sorta acting wierd as well. When we were alone at the end of the day I decided to show her the mirror, and she was sorta freaked out, but then she showed her own mirror with me inside of it.
When the two mirror people saw each other they freaked out and cracked.
We were both shocked because both of our lifelong mirror friends had both heckin died.
However behind the broken mirror glass, there was a little slip of paper for both of us, we put it together and there was a house address. We traded phone numbers, agreed to meet up to go to the address and went home.
Uncle was hella mad that I got home late. And turns out that the girl had a mean Aunt as well. (Big sad)
Unfortunately I don't remember a big chunk.
I was sneaking over to the girl's house to help her escape from the mean aunt, I was almost there when uncle saw me and rushed over. He was probably about to whallop me when he saw the mean aunt through a window and let me go.
Uncle: That god**mn b**ch had another child, I thought I divorced that piece of sh*t.
We sneaked in together, uncle probably wanted to beat the shit out of his divorced wife's sister.
The aunt came down from the second floor and threw the girl at me, (yikes) she landed on a couch tho.
I grabbed a vase and smashed it on the ground for some goddamn stupid reason. I remember thinking, this worked before so it'll work again.
I guess the broken vase made a sharp minefield of a sort so i grabbed the girl and got the hell outta there.
We probably went to the police because the next part of the dream I remember is the mean aunt and uncle getting convicted of child abuse.
At the end, I was grinning from ear to ear, and i started to giggle a bit, and i did a sarcastic salute at them "see ya"
I smiled at the girl and started to laugh and cry out of joy, she smiled back and I did a massive jump for joy and punched the air. Time froze like a movie and a black circle closed in on us like the end if a buggs bunny cartoon.
THE END
Credits rolled and for some reason I was the one credited with all the parts of it, even the actors.
In the end I never was able to go to the address in the dream, I don't even remember it irl. Why the hell were there miniature versions of ourselfs in mirrors? What the heck was going on????
I barely remember this dream since it was yesterday but I'll do my best. Also it's sorta violent
I was a normal kid that lived with a sterotypical mean uncle...
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Horrid dream I had a couple nights ago (NSFW WARNING: sensitive topic within)
I don't recall the entire dream, but there was one thing from that dream that was engraved into my brain.
In the last few moments, I was abusing one of my dogs to the point of death.
As an animal lover myself, I WOULD NEVER DO THAT. This is something FAR from my state of mind that night. Is there any reason I would dream about something so... horrid and wrong?
I don't recall the entire dream, but there was one thing from that dream that was engraved into my brain.
In the last few moments, I was abusing one of my dogs...
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A disturbing sex-related dream I've had and that I have no idea how to process [TW]
**Here is a big trigger warning for sexual abuse, blackmail and rape - if you are uncomfortable with that, don't read this post.**
I don't remember this dream that well, but what I do remember is pretty specific and disturbing.
One of the first things I remember is being naked on the floor of some house I don't know, I am not tied up but for some reason I can't get up - like something invisible is holding me down. Then there's a hand in my hair and someone is forcing me to suck his dick and I am crying.
Next thing I remember is standing up in an hallway, I am completely naked and covered in cuts and bruises and there's rope around my feet, my hands and my neck. I am leaning on the wall because I am barely standing up. The same man who forced me to suck his dick is taking pictures and holding the rope around my neck like a leash. He tells me I am disgusting and that he will share the pictures if I try to escape - so I better do what he says.
Last thing I remember is him being way too close to me and pinning me against a wall. He starts rubbing my genitals through my undwear and is licking my face. I tell him I need to use the bathroom and he tells me that I can go but I can't wipe afterwards. I was probably forced to lick my dirty undewear afterwards - but I am not sure that actually happened.
That's it, that's the dream. I don't know what it means.
**Here is a big trigger warning for sexual abuse, blackmail and rape - if you are uncomfortable with that, don't read this post.**
I don't remember this dream...
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