Fighting dreams are more related to unnamed people, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to strangers than dreams in general.

Dreams of fighting are more related to pain and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness.

Fighting dreams

Fighting dreams are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to disasters, and more related to death than dreams in general.

Fighting dreams are more related to sleep paralysis and more related to good dreams than dreams in general.

Dreams of fighting are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling, less related to taste, 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 fighting 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 fighting in dreams. See how you feel about fighting 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. Fighting or battling in a dream presents many possibilities for symbolism. In simplest terms, a fight is a conflict or struggle, and it could symbolize a conflict or struggle with yourself, a situation, a person, or a group of people. For most people, the majority of their dream characters are projections, so fighting a character can mean fighting with yourself. It might connect with conflicting needs, desires, sides within yourself, interests, or roles. It implies that you need to consciously mediate your internal conflicts. A fight can show a battle within yourself, such as when you fight against discouragement, pessimism, or temper—feelings that are likely to be strong if they’re symbolized as a fight or battle. Pay attention to the details of the battle to gain insight into the nature of it—to the settings, combatants, uniforms, weapons, tactics, and especially the actions. It’s all symbolism and the details fit together somehow to tell a story. Dreams exaggerate, so the situation symbolized as a fight might not be at the level of “fight” but instead fall somewhere in the range of skirmish or conflict. It’s a subjective portrayal. A man dreams he’s in a home-improvement store battling against a hugely overweight man who floats in the air between the aisles hurling objects at the dreamer. The dreamer shoots him down with tongs from an electric mixer, fired like missiles. The dreamer is about to finish off the man with a grilling fork when the character asks, as a last request, to be fed meatballs from a can lying nearby. The dreamer agrees. The dream is a classic example of fighting with yourself. The dreamer is trying to lose weight by modifying his diet, so the home-improvement store setting is apt because he’s trying to improve his body, which is the home for his mind. The man he battles is the side of himself that wants to eat the foods that have made him overweight, and the last request for meatballs is hilarious. It really sums up the dreamer’s internal battle. The weapons of battle, all related to food, are also funny and ironic. All the details tie together to tell a story about the dreamer’s internal struggle to lose weight. You can fight yourself to work harder, to be more outgoing, to regulate your impulses, to stop procrastinating, and to overcome weakness, habit, and addiction. Or the conflict might rage inside you between sides of yourself, between your rational and impulsive side, between your head and heart. If life is you against the world, you might feel as if you’re constantly fighting something. The symbolism can show in figures of speech and phrases that use the words “fight” and “battle.” Fight boredom, fight for your rights, fight for what you believe in, fight for your life, fight for independence, fight like cats and dogs, battle temptation, battle a workload. Your dreams act out those ideas. For example, a young doctor dreams he’s in an arena and faced off against himself in a fight to the death. The version of himself he battles is presented as clean and angelic, while the “other him” is dirty and sweaty. The dream is a great representation of an internal battle for this young doctor. On the one hand, he has a strong desire to live up to the typical image of a doctor as clean and angelic. On the other hand, that’s not who he really is. He gets down and dirty. Doctors are held in high esteem and have an image to maintain. The dream’s portrayal of the situation as a fight to the death is an apt way of describing his inner struggle between expectation and reality. Fighting can crop up in dreams when you’re not paying attention to your feelings or expressing your emotions. Dreams act as outlets for feelings and emotions and are a safety valve. Fighting can mean you are not consciously processing emotional content from the day, and if you want less conflict in your dreams it is wise to give them fewer unprocessed emotions as fodder. If emotions are repressed or ignored, they come out in exaggerated form in your dreams. If the situation causing you conflict can’t be addressed directly, some other strategy for emotional release is needed. See: Emotions For example, you are frustrated and upset about a situation at school, but know better than to say anything because teachers punish students who speak up. Or you are really frustrated with a parent and know that expressing your feelings will only make the situation worse. The ensuing dreams put you in situations where you fight for your life, but it’s not your physical life you are fighting for, it’s your emotional and psychological life. Something needs to be done either to change the situation or provide emotional release. Interpersonal conflict is another good possibility for the symbolism of fighting. Arguments, hostility, battle of wills, something ongoing—often reflected in recurring dreams—or one-time. Something that happened or you expect could happen. You argue with your spouse or significant other, then dream about being attacked by a tiger or wolf. You disagree with your supervisor, and dream about a wrestling match. An angry customer at work acts hostile, and you dream about a random person attacking you on the street. You’re really mad at your dad, and dream about punching him in the face. Also consider the possibility you are fighting or battling a situation. For example, battling problems at work, fighting to save your marriage, rescuing your child from making big mistakes, or saving your home from going under. A woman dreams about traveling forward to the end of time, only to loop back to the beginning of time, to a world that’s rocky and blanketed by thick mist. There, she joins a group of super-soldiers in a never-ending battle against insect-like humanoid creatures that stream to the surface from the center of the planet. The battle is going badly for the humans, so the dreamer tells the leader about it, and the leader fires the general overseeing the battle. The dream symbolizes the dreamer’s work environment, which is like a never-ending battle against a massive workload. The humanoid creatures in the dream represent the impersonal forces of work and responsibility the dreamer faces every day working in the front office of a school. The key clue is found in the detail about time reaching the end and looping back to the beginning. That symbolizes the never-ending and cyclical nature of the work. Firing the general is the dream’s suggestion for helping the situation. A general delegates responsibility, and the dreamer tends to take everything onto herself rather than delegate. A battle that involves an invasion might symbolize interference in your personal matters. An invasion can symbolize unwelcome guests, invasion of privacy, or invasive thoughts. The idea of invasion applies far and wide to situations in your life and yourself. See: Invading A battle with an animal can symbolize fighting your instincts or feelings. Or the animal represents someone you know, or a situation you are in. See: Animals A key fact to keep in mind when interpreting dreams about battles is that they use symbolism. Even dreams featuring carnage, death, and violence are using symbolism to express an idea. Don’t take the imagery literally, but do acknowledge that in most battle dreams there is something trying to get your attention. Something needs to be addressed and resolved: stress, fatigue, conflict, personal disappointment, bitterness, unfulfilled desires. It might be affecting you more deeply than you realize. People who have fought in combat or lived in gang-infested areas are deeply affected by the experience and can dream about it in a literal sense, reliving battles and specific experiences of combat or shootings. Usually, though, it relates back to something within the person that is trying to find release or resolution. A dream-based technique that helps is mentioned in the entry for: Nightmare. Fighting with weapons can have specific symbolism. See: Fists, Guns, Knives The seriousness of a fight in a dream reflects the seriousness and emotional charge of whatever it’s connected to in your life. A fight might just be a squabble, but a war is next-level, and a nuclear war takes it to the max. See also: Abusing, Ambushing, Animals, Apocalypses, Stadiums and arenas, Armageddons, Armor, Armies, Attacking, Bullets, Bullies, Drowning, Emotions, Enemies, Erupting, Fists, Guns, Invading, Knives, Nightmares, Nuclear bombs, Opponents, Pain, Strangling, Tackling, War