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What are killing dreams about?

Killing and murder are events that happen more frequently in dreams than in waking life. Regardless, killing and murder are difficult and traumatic things to have happen. This symbol is identified by words like kill and murder.

Killing in dreams is a very common dream symbol, occuring in about 11% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 9 dreams.

What are the major highlights of killing dreams?

Killing is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having killing in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Dreams of killing are aggressive

Killing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all killing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having killing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include metal, legs, pretending, being shot, infecting, antlers, communicating, janitors, death, and unemployment.

Dreams with killing might be a nightmare

Dreams of killing are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain killing might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with killing are not nightmares. But, dreams of killing are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include knives, trying to scream, hell, vultures, slowness, beds, legs, hair falling out, arms, and The Holocaust.

Killing dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain killing are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include events, fugitives, coffins, seeing a dead friend, venom, The Holocaust, orphans, disease, ambushing, and opponents.

What are the symbols that help define killing?

The symbol of killing in dreams is highly related to death.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of killing

Who is in killing dreams?

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

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

more than 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 killing dreams?

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

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in killing dreams?

Overall, dreams with killing are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of killing are less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in killing dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than 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 killing in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with killing are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of killing are less related to smelling, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of killing in dreams?

Killing dreams are very common. Among other things killing dreams are very postively interconnected, aggressive, nightmare, and about death.

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

Examples of dreams of killing

Read some real dream reports of killing 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 murdered Santa, stole his sleigh and had to use a bigass parachute to get it flying because lack of Santa magic made the reindeer too weak to get it into the air by themselves.

I don't really understand why that dream happened in the middle of summer but oh well. Also, Santa was slimmer than usual and the seat in the sleigh was extremely uncomfortable. I still flew though. Nothing else happened.

I don't really understand why that dream happened in the middle of summer but oh well. Also, Santa was slimmer than usual and the seat in the sleigh was...

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Had a dream that everyone was a Satanist reptilian trying to kill me

it was like the trueman show where everyone I ran into had ulterior motives and they were all following me. Then carlos mencia came out of nowhere lol and told me what was really happening...he basically told me that all the people i knew were not actually human but reptilians trying to get me alone so they can kill me...shit made me paranoid as hell. I couldn't trust anyone but in a way it made me stronger/sharper/quick witted because I knew to stay on my toes

it was like the trueman show where everyone I ran into had ulterior motives and they were all following me. Then carlos mencia came out of nowhere lol and told...

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A Nightmare I Want To Forget

I debated wanting to share this since one- this dream is disturbing, and two- I barely remember most of it (thank God).

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Okay, here I go:

I remember that it was a long dream, and had something to do about experiments of "making the voice strong", whatever the hell that means. There were experiments regarding the throat, with needles being shoved in peoples' throats, or syringes of some sort drawing out phlegm. It was disgusting. I know that it had some cult like aspects to it, but it wasn't that entirely. The person doing the experiments was wearing a red robe, but still, the dream felt more "scientific" than "cult", if you know what I mean. But the main thing I remember from this dream, we're the cries of babies.

I so wish that I could get rid of the images my mind conjured up.

You're still reading? Oh...okay, please don't think of me as some disturbed individual. But the cries of babies is what I remember too vividly in this dream. And the sounds of cracking belts. You sure you want to keep reading? Okay...

The belts were whipping that of newborn babies; blood everywhere. They would take this blood and use it to inject in peoples' throats to, quote-unquote, "make the voice strong."

I remember an up close image of a toddler having his inner thighs whipped over and over, and I couldn't do anything to help him; couldn't do anything to end this dream. It literally felt like I was being deliberately held to watch this nightmare.

I remember an up close image of an experiment gone wrong, where a patient, a man, puked up this white slime, and was killed off.

That's all I remember but I'm sure there's more that mind is suppressing. I hope you don't get this nightmare, now that I put images in your head. I'm so sorry.

I debated wanting to share this since one- this dream is disturbing, and two- I barely remember most of it (thank God).

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Okay, here I...

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Strange dream last night - chased by a giant hostile Dark Souls boss kind of worm thing. What does it mean?

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream. Sometimes it can feel like this even in first person perspective, where I am somehow disconnected from being the person, even if I am the person, not watching a screen or using a controller.

So in the dream there was this giant worm creature. It wasn’t really a worm, more wormlike, as in it was oblong and had no limbs and wasn’t reptilian enough to be a snake. First it chased me through a corridor (this was in the perspective of a 2d sidescroller video game) trying to I think eat me or at least somehow kill me and I ran from it and it would smash stuff behind me. Sometimes I was really close to being caught by it but I managed to get ahead. Then I got into a chamber place (it was more in first person now) and it was at the bottom of some stairs. When I would go down the stairs there were smaller worm things that would attack me. I felt like I was struggling with fighting the worms and I thought I was not strong or skilled enough to fight the big worm.

When I am awake and I think about the worm it reminds me most of a Dark Souls boss since it was very strong and big and it was sort of eldritch horror-like. Through the whole dream I was scared of the worm and I felt like I was not strong enough to fight it but I was progressing forward anyways. I also was fighting it in some sort of ruin, like ruined stonework everywhere and stuff. The closest I can describe the ruin as is maybe the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but not as dark.

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream....

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anyone familiar with Jung wanna take a crack at this?

So, here's the dream ripped from my journal.

A man stole a heart out of a dog. I traveled behind him to figure out the mystery. He went back to his apartment building (I assume) and found me out. He was going to try and take my heart too.

We had a conversation and I showed him I could call down spirits of wrath to suck the very flesh from his bones in the case he tried to harm me.

He stole the heart out of another dog. He explained that when 5 hearts were collected, they could be combined to bring back the heart of your choice. Meaning you could resuscitate a dead whomever. Again, he attempted to murder me but I stopped him.

So, here's the dream ripped from my journal.

A man stole a heart out of a dog. I traveled behind him to figure out the mystery. He went back to his...

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