What are bully dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like bully.
Bullies in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.
What are the major highlights of bully dreams?
Bullies is a normal dream symbol. Having bullies in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Bully dreams are friendly
Dreams of bullies have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of bullies will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of bullies are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include music, menus, camels, scientists, clarity, mansions, microphones, laughing, scars, and forwards.
Dreams of bullies are aggressive
Bully dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all bullies have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having bullies in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include detectives, revenge, rental cars, scars, rainforests, shaking, hitting and kicking, aliens, strangling, and saving.
Bully dreams are very social
Dreams of bullies contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of bullies are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include best friends, bullies, neighbors, family, general insects, rabbits, deer, wolves, strangers, and police.
What symbols more present in dreams of bullies?
Bully dreams are notable because they have substantially more principals, schools, Guatemala, students, classmates, vampires, baboons, human places, hosts, teacher, revenge, abusing, socks, cowards, unnamed groups of people, venom, hatred, lunch, distant people, Frodo, conflicts, werewolves, fun, teenagers, places, indigo, fists, best friends, pretending, psyches, anger, Cuba, mathematics, colleges, ugliness, baggage, innocence, hitting and kicking, dungeons, faking, money, Syria, Indonesia, lockers, groups, suicide, embarrassment, bus stops, close people, beggars, candles, robbing, authors, actors, landslides, fighting, courts, raccoons, ignoring, and fitness centers than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of bullies?
Bully dreams are notable because they have substantially less bedrooms, creeping and crawling, medicine, spaceships, the morning, doctors, flying, tunnels, trucks, beds, my children, underground, weather, the earth, epidemics, water, creatures, robots, disasters, highways, horrors, sleeping, the planets, opened my eyes, slowness, sunny, and going to the bathroom than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of bullies affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in bullies dreams?
Overall, dreams with bullies are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bullies are much more related to different roles, much more related to distant people, and much more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in bullies dreams?
Overall, dreams with bullies are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bullies are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion.
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Who is in bullies dreams?
Overall, dreams with bullies are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bullies are much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to natural places.
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What happens in bullies dreams?
Overall, dreams with bullies are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bullies are much more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.
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How do bullies in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with bullies are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bullies are more related to recurring dreams and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring nightmares and less related to sleeping.
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How can you make sense of bullies in dreams?
Bully dreams are very uncommon. Among other things bully dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, and very social.
Do you think this is true for your dream of bullies? How might your dream of bullies 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 bullies 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 bullies in dreams. See how you feel about bullies now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of bullies?
Dreaming about acting like a bully can symbolize the need to dominate conversations or situations, to be in control or impose your will. In an exaggerated way, the image fits.
A bully can be the image of anger, rage, or even weakness. A common assumption is that bullies act that way because they compensate for feelings of weakness. See: Cowards
The bully is actually trying to be a hero, someone with courage. See: Heroes
In archetypal psychology, the Bully is understood as a shadow manifestation of the Warrior archetype. The Bully covers over feelings of cowardice and lack of power and is actually an immature attempt to be a Warrior in the truest sense. See: Warriors
Bullying can symbolize being at the mercy of more aggressive people. Situations with bullies are usually uncontrolled and can symbolize lacking control over a situation or yourself. No authority will intervene.
Dreams can create scenarios that trigger certain feelings. For example, you can dream about being humiliated by a bully and it corresponds with a recent experience of feeling humiliated by failing a test or being rejected.
Dramatic dreams about being tortured or humiliated can connect with the experience of being bullied and are known to crop up even decades after the fact. It’s a sign that something is trying to work through your system. Bullying is torture for the people who endure the worst of it. See: Torturing
For example, an adult woman dreams she’s cornered by the high school bullies who used to make her life miserable, and is forced to perform fellatio on a henchman. The dream is designed to help her heal from the experience by realizing what’s keeping her holding onto it. For the full story, see: Revenge.
See also: Attacking, Biting, Chasing, Cowards, Escaping, Fighting, Fists, Heroes, Hiding, Lions, Opponents, Raping, Revenge, Ugliness, Warriors
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 bullies
Read some real dream reports of bully 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.
(Trigger Warning) A dream where I killed myself at the end
I don't usually post anything but this dream stuck with me a lot so I'm sorry for my terrible grammar. (This post is long af)
Some background to my dream: it took place in a post apocalyptic world where 90% of the world is inhabitable (for unknown reasons) and the humanity is left with only 10%. Not that is mattered anyway, since most of the population died or disappeared. So all these humans left in the world decided to wall up themselves (probably influenced by attack on titan here lol). Anyway, the population right now was so small that there are at most 300 people in every generation so overpopulation isn't a problem.
My dream took place over several years. It started when I just got into school when I found out I have mysterious powers that caused me to be able to do different superhuman things in different parts of the school (I never got to test the power outside of school). But the thing is the whole school also knows about my powers and started to ostracize and bully me. I remember reasoning to myself that since it's the post apocalyptic world, I can't blame them for being scared of me having unusual powers. I also remember telling myself that it's already good enough that they don't want to murder me. So I just ignored everything and endured. For some reason, once you got into the school, you can't come out until you graduate and the school is like a small country itself. Anyway, the bully got worse like lighting my bed on fire when I'm sleeping, holding me under water to drown me for a bit, that after a few years, I just want some peace and quiet. Some alone time to read the few books left from the apocalypse.
But then I made a friend for a brief moment. I forgot the specifics of what we did, but I just remember him being a really good friend. One thing that stuck with me was that we'd hang out near a specific part of the wall that enclosed humanity, where you can climb up halfway before reaching a scaffolding that acts as a ceiling. We'd talk about how nice it would be if everyone left us alone and how great it is if we can explore the world. After a while, he suddenly disappeared. So I looked for him everywhere, whilst being chased by an angry mob cause they thought I killed him. I arrived at the wall as the last place, and climbed up to find him but he wasn't there and the angry mob is just below me (for some reason they didn't climb up with me). I continued to climb further up and found a small hole, embedded at the top of the wall, with just enough space to fit one person inside. I climbed into the hole and found all the books left behind in the world. I also found a gift left behind by my friend. It's a book that I told him about wanting to read (I forgot the name of the book , but it's something about being alone). And I had a feeling I knew that he found the place where no one would disturb us. And I also had a feeling about how to get there.
At this point, I'm sure most would know what I'm talking about from the title of this post. So I climbed out of the hole with the book, faced the crowd of angry mob, closed my eyes and jumped to my death. I felt a sense of weightlessness before I woke up.
So this is my dream. Sorry for the long post.
I don't usually post anything but this dream stuck with me a lot so I'm sorry for my terrible grammar. (This post is long af)
Some background to my dream: it...
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Realllly strange sex dream.
I-as a woman- was attempting to do sexual things for money. It was me and this girl, and two women were watching us.
I went to eat her out-her legs were covered almost down to her mid-thighs with scabs. Licking her clit, it turned into a swelling uncircumcised penis. She still had both parts it looked like, so hermaphroditism. When I pulled back the skin of the penis, a kid, about 1-2 ft tall *was the penis*
The kids foot was attached/was the base of the penis. I pulled back and apologized to the women watching, saying I just couldn’t do it. They said that was okay, and when I looked at one directly in the face it was a girl who bullied me in college.
Next thing I know, this penis/kid/ hemaphrodite is fucking one of the women. The kids still the penis.
I-as a woman- was attempting to do sexual things for money. It was me and this girl, and two women were watching us.
I went to eat her out-her legs were...
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Saw a dream of killing someone, is it normal?
Ok, so i saw a dream where me and my older sister we're walking on a street after going to the shop. A car stopped next to us and tried to kidnap both of us, there were people behind us and they all came to help and luckily nothing happened to us and he got away. Let's pause for a minute, the guy resembled a lot of people from my real life (bullies, annoyingasfuck teachers etc) so it's not like the guy had a "face". This is where a dream kind of splits you know? Something happens, you don't know what happened in the middle of it but the dream has a "jump-cut", i hope you know what i mean. So i was in a mountain-y area and saw the same car coming towards me and i started like fighting him or something?? So eventually it got to the point where i had to eliminate the guy or i wouldn't survive, but, i can't just kill someone? So i... buried him in a brick-wall kind of thing that was made out of stone. Because of dream logic, he kind of just WENT into the wall and i'm pretty sure he was alive at that point but suffocated in the wall. Later i went to check the place to get rid of the car, blood and saw that the place that i "burief" him onto had some red on the stones. That's when i basically knew "well fuck i hope no-one notices that" and i just... woke up. Is it normal? Am i a psychopath? What is going on.
Ok, so i saw a dream where me and my older sister we're walking on a street after going to the shop. A car stopped next to us and tried to kidnap both of us,...
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Dream felt extremely realistic and vivid almost as if when i woke up i had no idea where I was i had to have a few minitues to process what the hell was going on....
It was really strange in that dream my insecurities popped up inferiorities i was bullied like in childhood went to a different more richer school and got good grades only to beat up another classmate who was making fun out of me and i got kicked out of that school then my parents were angry then all my emotions against them i had in waking life started flooding in the dream had so much emotion in it so vivid
I had to have some minutes to process what the fuck was going on after the dream something like an acid trip
It was really strange in that dream my insecurities popped up inferiorities i was bullied like in childhood went to a different more richer school and got good...
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I had a really weird dream last night and it’s making me feel crazy
A few years ago I was in fifth grade and leaving my school and thankfully my bully. Irl he has been bully me relentlessly for years, so irl I was glad I was leaving. In the dream it was the start of fifth grade, and in the dream I did fifth grade basically identicaly to how I actually did it with a few minor details skewed, like the names of my friends. They were the same people except with different names. In fifth grade irl I had a really hood friend who had smoked weed before, and in the dream he was the same. In the dream tho, about 3/4 of the way through the year, things started skewing from reality. Btw, time was the same in the dream, it literally felt like the better part of a year. Anyways, at that point in the school year, my hood friend had stolen a gun from his brother and I bought it off of him because he didn’t need it and I was interested in guns. It had a mag in it already. Another kind of skewed point in this dream was that after I bought the gun my bulbullyarted being even worse, and making me cry every night. He would cyberstalk me and just say horrible things. At the end of the school year in the dream, I had gotten an idea in my head to beat him up on the last day of school because I wouldn’t be coming back. In the dream, my mental state became so horrible and all I could think of is how bad the bulbully. On the last day of school, it was extra bad, and in a fit I packed the gun in my lunch box. At the end of the day I was shaking, and we did the whole end of the year routine, saying goodbye, and irl I used to love that but on this day in the dream I was in a fit of anticipation. I went to the school yard where we all played around after the year ended, and at some point, everyone had left the yard except my bully.bullylled to him, “hey you fucking asshole, suck on this” and he started walking towards me and insulting me as I pulled the gun out of my lunchbox. He stopped when he saw the gun and froze with wide eyes. He was trembling, and he said “bro...I...” and I was suddenly on my feet even though I didn’t remember standing up, and also I was pointing the gun at his face, and I was trembling and crying, and I had my one hand on it shaking like hell. My eyes were welled up w tears and I said “you! You... you! You never thought I would ever fight back!” And he was standing there shaking and there was a solid 15 seconds of me pointing it at him. I started screaming like crazy as I fired the first round into his chest. It hit him and he immediately went down squirming. I waked up to him and yelled again as I fired six more rounds into his neck and head. He stopped squirming and I quickly pocketed the gun. I felt so fucking amazing. I felt like a god, but then I felt so panicked and I had a mental breakdown where it got dark and all I could do was scream and have a fit. I recovered a few minutes later and still in a fit if panic grabbed the gun and blew my brains out, making me wake up. It felt so real, and it felt like the actual school year and it has been driving me crazy because what actually happened is that despite him being a lot bigger than me, I somehow managed to beat him within an inch of his life. The circumstances were the same as in the dream except without the gun. I remember what happened irl is that I was frantically checking for a pulse before leaving him basically bleeding out as I biked home.
A few years ago I was in fifth grade and leaving my school and thankfully my bully. Irl he has been bully me relentlessly for years, so irl I was glad I was...
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