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What are cutting dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like pierce, cut, slice, etc.

Cutting in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of cutting dreams?

Cutting is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having cutting in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of cutting are aggressive

Cutting dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all cutting have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having cutting in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include panic, earthquakes, arrows, Haiti, zombies, ammunition, general thinking, opening, apocalypses, and arresting.

Dreams with cutting might be a nightmare

Dreams of cutting are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain cutting might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with cutting are not nightmares. But, dreams of cutting are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include waking, triangles, terrorists, fear, arms, creatures, mosquitoes, floors, other verbs, and imagining.

How does the dream symbol of cutting affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of cutting

Who is in cutting dreams?

Overall, dreams with cutting are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in cutting dreams?

Overall, dreams with cutting are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting are more related to fear and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in cutting dreams?

Overall, dreams with cutting are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in cutting dreams?

Overall, dreams with cutting are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do cutting in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with cutting are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting are more related to nightmares and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do cutting in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with cutting are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cutting are more related to taste and more related to touch than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of cutting in dreams?

Cutting dreams are common. Among other things cutting dreams are very postively interconnected, aggressive, and nightmare.

Do you think this is true for your dream of cutting? How might your dream of cutting 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 cutting 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 cutting in dreams. See how you feel about cutting now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of cutting

Read some real dream reports of cutting 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.

A creepy dream I had that had me feeling paranoid all day.

The beginning of the dream was confusing, and though it may sound sexual, it was not at all, but it involved accidentally downloading a virus while looking at porn. A pornstar and a guy trying to sell a kayak came to my house and talked to me while I was in the shower. Then my mom came in my room and saw these two random people, and then she left, as well as those two people. That part of the dream isn’t what creeped me out.

The next part seemed to be part of the same dream, but it felt like someone had flipped the switch from a nonsensical dream about nothing in particular, to a more dark and foreboding dream.

I got out of the shower and the people from the previous part were gone. I hadn’t totally forgotten they were there, but I had stopped thinking about whatever confusing situation had happened.

I walked into my room and the lights were off. I went to turn them on but they had been cut. I tried my lamps and they had been cut off too. None of my lights would turn on. There were also single things missing, as well as things that those two people seemed to have left. A single one of my shoes was missing. But one of the people had also left behind some tanning lotion.

Now that part of the dream still contained elements from the last part, but it transitions into the final part. So my lights have been cut and things are missing. This next part is what left me feeling paranoid.

I go into another room and my family is in there. They tell me that someone was just murdered very close to our house. I look out the window and see two short clowns riding small bikes down our street in the night, honking their horns. That was the end. Really creeped me out. Interpretations?

The beginning of the dream was confusing, and though it may sound sexual, it was not at all, but it involved accidentally downloading a virus while looking at...

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I (16f) had a dream about a girl that doesnt exist, caught feelings for her, then she died pretty awfully?

I didnt even realise it was a dream, I was in school with my friends but started getting overwhelmed and having a meltdown which are pretty common for me only this time I physically left school grounds and was in the parking lot trying to calm down, I met a girl with faded dyed blue hair in a braid, slept in makeup, big PJs under a big coat, her name was Charlot and we joked about how it was spelt weird, she looked like a mess but was really pretty to me. She was in this like small van she was living in? This is the weirdest dream I’ve ever had because I could ask her questions I was thinking and she’d respond but I had no control over anything else in the dream so I don’t believe it was lucid. It sounds dumb but i started catching feelings for her, she was funny and cool but came off as cold, we bonded so much, she even taught me a few life lessons but then suddenly her drug dealer came wanting money, she told him to leave her alone then he sliced her neck and killed her right infront of me and I woke up in shock. I’m kinda hurt about this because i bonded with her so much only to find out that shes not only dead but a figment of my imagination. I’m writing this all down a couple minutes after I woke up so sorry if its all over the place, does anyone know what this could mean?

I didnt even realise it was a dream, I was in school with my friends but started getting overwhelmed and having a meltdown which are pretty common for me only...

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I dreamt I ate my clitoris as if it was a meaty snack last night. Should I be worried?

I don't remember much but at first I was alarmed. Like why did my clitoris come off and did it look like a round-ish thin slice of chicken? I don't know why the fuck I ate it. The dream moved on quite fast after that. I think I ate some random candy as well.

Was that just a weird thing I dreamt? Does it have a meaning? Google ain't telling me shit. Perhaps I am simply going crazy.

I don't remember much but at first I was alarmed. Like why did my clitoris come off and did it look like a round-ish thin slice of chicken? I don't know why the...

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Need help interpreting a dream about being cut open.

It was a school meeting in an auditorium, in which the staff believed one of us was hiding something inside ourselves, and to find it they had to cut open a part of our stomach. The woman who sat beside me was getting cut open, and she gave the impression that this was something she was used, based on how unfazed by any of it happening to her, as I saw her getting stabbed, and handling it with pure ease. It becomes my turn, and I start to panic. Despite my frantic act, the lady (staff member) began to start cut my stomach open anyway (using a pair of heavy duty scissors). I began to try forcing myself to deal with the pain, but it became unbearable, to the point where I starting screaming and threatened to hit her if she would stop.

It was a school meeting in an auditorium, in which the staff believed one of us was hiding something inside ourselves, and to find it they had to cut open a...

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I dreamed I saw a dead friend, who told me I would die on the anniversary of her death.

I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle, my friend Roy, my deceased friend Rose, and another friend Alisha.The nightmare is as follows.

It started with me, my siblings, and my mom packing up her car. We were seemingly leaving and trying to do so in a hurry. But I got the impression we took to long, and when we began to pull out of the driveway we hit my friend Kyle's car as he was trying to pull into the carport. We canceled our plans to leave and me and Kyle decided to drive to what I think was a high-school reunion.

We arrived at the event, and it was almost like a chapel/gym hybrid with large windows towards the front of the room. I saw most of the people that I went to high school with conversing and interacting with each other. I saw my friend Roy who was our senior class president cutting up pineapple and putting it into a drink. He said he didn't have enough pineapple and me and my friends laughed at him for it. Now the nightmare/dream starts.

I walked outside for some fresh air, and when I came back I saw my friend Rose, who is dead, and my friend Alisha who is alive. They both looked like spirits however. I asked Rose how I could see her, and asked if I was going to die soon. She said yes I was going to die, she started becoming more solid. I asked her if she could as God of I could live longer. She said that she would ask but its going to happen anyway. She started getting more solid, so I left the room to try and escape my death.

As I walked into the foyer to escape, a blonde skinny teenager came in. He pulled out a gun, and I was shot with either lightning, or the gun. I don't know which but I felt myself dying. I was then teleported to a city block where I saw a newspaper on the road. I picked it up and it had a picture of me, saying I died on October 17th. The day was Friday. I woke up and wrote the dream my journal quickly. I then went back to sleep, and had a dream where me and rose went to Wendy's just like we used too when she was alive. I ordered her food and we hung out.

That was the end of it, and it's not as scary as some experience. But I woke up sweating and scared. Thanks for listening.

I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle,...

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