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What are fist dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like fist.

Fists in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.

What are the major highlights of fist dreams?

Fists is a normal dream symbol. Having fists in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of fists are emotional

Fists have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include caesarean sections, the evening, pain, losing a body part, revenge, animas, depression, couldn't open eyes, things, and jealousy.

Fist dreams are friendly

Dreams of fists have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of fists will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of fists are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include princesses, metal, wanting and wishing, music, shoulder, running, movement, dirty, giving, and shirts.

Dreams of fists are aggressive

Fist dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all fists have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having fists in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include opponents, wind, wrist, ignoring, bobcats, general movement, guns, possessing, cults, and werewolves.

Dreams with fists might be a nightmare

Dreams of fists are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain fists might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with fists are not nightmares. But, dreams of fists are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include fantastic beings, ribs, televisions, obeying, fetuses, zombies, gas, vomiting, things, and eyes.

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

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Who is in fists dreams?

Overall, dreams with fists are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fists are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to different roles than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

more than 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 fists dreams?

Overall, dreams with fists are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fists are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to embarrassment, and more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in fists dreams?

Overall, dreams with fists are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fists are much more related to magical places than dreams in general.

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

much more than usual
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What happens in fists dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with fists are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fists are more related to nightmares, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do fists in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with fists are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fists are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to taste than dreams in general.

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Fist dreams are very uncommon. Among other things fist dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, friendly, aggressive, and nightmare.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of fists?

A clenched fist is an image of heavy-handed authority and conflict. Dreaming about a fist can symbolize the idea of “iron-fisted,” meaning inflexible or absolute. It’s authority that beats down any challenge.

A clenched fist can symbolize “tight-fisted,” meaning stingy. People can be stingy with money, but also consider how it applies to other situations, such as when someone won’t give compliments or they keep a tight hold on their emotions.

Dreaming about hitting with your fists can express frustration or anger. Hitting someone you know with your fists can connect with anger and frustration with that person. Usually it’s a way of acting out your feelings. The entry for Mother has a great example. If a character hits you, it can be a sign of frustration or anger directed at you, or anger with yourself.

An unfamiliar character you hit with your fists can be a surrogate for someone you know, or it might represent a side of yourself that’s unwanted or repressed.

For example, a teen male dreams about a pack of boys his age mercilessly beating up another boy who doesn’t appear able to fight back. The boy who takes the beating doesn’t look like anyone the dreamer actually knows, yet the dreamer feels that he knows him well. He joins in the beating and gets in a few blows of his own as he mocks and scorns the boy as a “pussy” and “fag.”

The character that takes the beating is the soft and gentle side of the dreamer. Now that he’s a teenager, he can’t allow any sort of softness or weakness to show around his peers or he’ll be labeled as a sissy. The action of beating the boy in the dream is a physical representation of repressing this side of himself, and his scorn of the boy is actually a reflection of how he scorns himself for being soft and gentle. He fears this side of himself, and he acts out all the related feelings. The action tells the story.

Another possible way of looking at the same dream scene is that it expresses the dreamer’s anger or frustration with himself. Scenes involving hitting are common in the dreams of people who are angry. If the person you hit is not someone you know or recognize, you might be expressing anger or frustration with yourself. The character is a surrogate. See: Anger

Described in simplest terms, hitting is abuse, and while hitting can manifest in dreams because of physical abuse, it can also refer to emotional and psychological abuse. Getting hit expresses how you feel.

Things aren’t always as they appear, though. In fact, in most cases your dream characters are based on your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. They are projections of your inner world. For example, you dream that your best friend hits you, and it reflects your feelings of guilt for letting that person down. Getting hit in a dream expresses the feeling that you deserve some sort of punishment. It doesn’t mean that your best friend feels that way. The character’s actions are scripted on the basis of your feelings.

And now for another twist. Some dream characters don’t represent people at all. They don’t represent something about you. They represent a subject, idea, or organization. For example, a math teacher getting beat up by a group of students in a dream is an expression of the dreamer’s frustration with the subject of math. Beating up a mail carrier can symbolize frustration over a package being delayed or lost.

Also consider that hitting in a dream can be a way of acting out other definitions of the word. For example, your best friend hits you in a dream and it means the person has been “hitting on” you, expressing romantic interest. Or you get hit upside the head in a dream and it means you finally realize something. Duh!

See also: Abusing, Anger, Fighting, Weakness

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 fists

Read some real dream reports of fist 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.

I punched a train so hard my brain crashed

So the title probably got you confused or curious, this dream I had was extremely short but very intriguing. All I remember is standing on a train track, I saw an empty train coming straight for me so I reached up in the sky and closed my fist, my hand glowed with light. The train came closer and closer, then with all my strength I punched the train stopping it in it's tracks, the front of it was extremely dented and destroyed. The train somehow started to accelerate faster, so I pushed harder, so hard that even the tracks started to break, I yelled and pushed one more time, the train began to be flung out of the tracks but then the dream started to lag. After a couple seconds my dream stopped and I woke up.

It's almost as if my head could not comprehend what was happening so it gave up on dreaming. What do you guys think of this dream?

So the title probably got you confused or curious, this dream I had was extremely short but very intriguing. All I remember is standing on a train track, I saw...

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Rollercoaster of a dream, what does some of this mean?

It was such a weird dream... I saw horses playing, lots of people throwing a stuffed animal around and it hitting me in the face (I got very upset at that), I met Dave Chappelle and asked him if he had any Tylenol or something (he did, we fist bumped), I was at some convention center for a yuuge event, I saw a past lover and locked eyes, and there was this 10 year old boy who I ran into several times and he called me by name each time.

So, there are things I think are symbolic here.

At one point I couldn't stand up or walk and was dragging my legs behind me. People were staring and I was embarrassed.

I felt like a very intimidating person at certain points, like people feared me. I felt larger and stronger than in my waking life. Not sure at all there.

I somehow ended up at my best friends house with him and his girlfriend. Him and I were drinking alcohol, it felt like a fun time. But I just couldn't shake this feeling of social anxiety, or like, feeling inadequacies.

Any help interpreting this dream is much appreciated, thanks.

It was such a weird dream... I saw horses playing, lots of people throwing a stuffed animal around and it hitting me in the face (I got very upset at that), I...

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Being chased by myself?

So it might be hard to explain this one, so bare with me. There was a giant overlooking tiny grain sized strangers and acquaintances. The gaint may have been me, but the dream wasn't focused on giant me, it was focused on regular me. I tried to save the strangers and acquaintances. But the gaint brutally killed me. I went back to the beginning and tried again a few times. I kept on trying until i saved a few people.After running for awhile, we came across a mini drug stand. It contained injectable growth. So i put them down and let them inject themselves. They immediately started to grow weird mutations and eventually died.While mourning the giant caught up to me and crushed me with the bottom of his fist. I woke up.

Thoughts? Interpretations?

So it might be hard to explain this one, so bare with me. There was a giant overlooking tiny grain sized strangers and acquaintances. The gaint may have been...

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I've made a fucked up dream and I would like to know the meaning of this (if it has meanings) (may be NSFW)

First of, a little bit of background :

I'm french, I live in Toulouse with a roomate (He will be named (Big Champ) and sometime a third friend (let's call him Nabe King)

So, here's the dream :

We are in my appartment, there is Big Champ and Nabe King sitting on the couch ! I was like : "Hey guys, there's this awsome and fucking weird hentai I found, maybe we could watch it together ?" And then, they're like "why not, it'll be fun"

So, I launch the DVD to watch it with my bros.

It's a First Person Hentai and the protag is nameless and voiceless, we see a Young Girl (19 maybe) with thick thighs and massive boobs. She has big red eyes and short purple hair. We obviously fuck for no reasons but then, there is no more Nabe King, Big Chump or I, I only see and feel through the protag. I now exist in the univers of this hentai. I see a gigantic tentacle monster who look slimy and petrol-like. He fucks the "Waifu" then sat us behind an office and the monster transform into a mafia fat dandy old godfather but he's purple, he say with the French Kratos VA : "you like to fuck my wife isn't it ? Sooo, how about a threesome !" Then, there is a friend of the mafioso who say "Boss, that's not nice, let them be !" The guy who said that looked like both Alvin from Tales Of Xillia 2 and Morvran Voorhis from The Witcher ! Then, a flash !

It's all just a video game, it looks like the interface of Jack And Daxter, we see the Purple Mafioso turned again in a Tentacle Blob Monster with massive fists. He's in an arena, he fights orcish rat mutants while trying to help his friend ("Alvin") to open the door.

Then, another flash, I'm me again, but it's in the past in Toulouse, before the pandemic. I run, stressed out, I know everything that will happen. I run into a very classy Cinéma. There's the Waitress, all dressed in red with a top hat, she's old (60's) and has short hairs. She is "worried" about how I look, so terrified and scared. I run off then, stumble upon a very beautiful, stunning blonde girl, she look like Thomasine from The Vvitch. I say "is it before the pandemic ? It is isn't it ? You must hide before the end of times ! The rats will come !" She calms me saying "Gosh ! I sure will never make you meet my patiens !" Then she smiles at me then...

My fucking alarm clock ring.

I want to know what I've experienced, everything was sooo true ! It feels so real ! ... it's random and strange too

First of, a little bit of background :

I'm french, I live in Toulouse with a roomate (He will be named (Big Champ) and sometime a third friend (let's call him...

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Stole a bmw with Sylvester Stallone

Quick summary of dream last night.

It’s sometime in the 1980’s and I’m friends with young Stallone. We steal a red convertible e30 BMW. Drive and drift that baby with the top down throughout all of LA until the damn thing breaks. I don’t think I’ve even been as happy In real life as I had in that dream, haha. We were both yelling with fists up tearing up the city.

Quick summary of dream last night.

It’s sometime in the 1980’s and I’m friends with young Stallone. We steal a red convertible e30 BMW. Drive and drift that...

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