What are knife dreams about?
Knives are tools. They can be used to cut bread and prepare dinner. They can be used to craft new objects. They are also weapons. As a weapon they can be quite daunting because the use of a knife requires closeness. This symbol is identified by words like knife.
Knives in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 40 dreams.
What are the major highlights of knife dreams?
Knives is a normal dream symbol. Having knives in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of knives are aggressive
Knife dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all knives have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having knives in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include events, jury members, bankruptcy, apes, rental cars, toenails, vampires, bows and arrows, rockets, and horrors.
Dreams with knives might be a nightmare
Dreams of knives are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain knives might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with knives are not nightmares. But, dreams of knives are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include aggressive interactions, horrors, back doors, paramedic, parasites in body, Kuwait, scars, running, faces, and bedrooms.
Knife dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain knives 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 armor, seeing a dead relative, arrows, hunting, cannons, escaping, Madagascar, unique themes, shooting, and Guatemala.
What symbols more present in dreams of knives?
Knife dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, amputation, thieves, chefs, emaciation, stabbing, aggressive interactions, serial killers, calluses, decapitation, kitchens, wrist, cutting, castration, wrestling, necks, revenge, torturing, killing, fingerprints, tackling, stomachs, raping, detectives, blood, intruders, Frodo, chests, cannibals, bones, hostages, jury members, death, rage, threatening, paramedic, ribs, general movement, Kenya, dead bodies, psyches, protecting, strangling, characters, hazel eyes, masks, guns, carrots, movement, beggars, tools, locks, kidnapping, grenades, back doors, body parts, police, hunting, executing, Croatia, and Bahamas than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of knives?
Knife dreams are notable because they have substantially less seeing a dead grandmother, relationship events, spaceships, planes, bodies of water, general disasters, amazed, cancer, pastors, aquariums, seeing a dead grandfather, precognitive dreams, giving birth, clouds, recurring dreams, things, earthquakes, the earth, falling in love, love, nuclear bombs, seeing a dead relative, altars, heaven, sadness, facebook, Korea, crushes, the planets, rockets, flying, the galaxy, mermaids, the moon, romantic partners, frogs, oceans, beetles, universities, boyfriends, Donald Trump, pregnancy, specific people, and hamsters than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define knives?
The symbol of knives in dreams is highly related to weapons.
How does the dream symbol of knives affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in knives dreams?
Overall, dreams with knives are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of knives are more related to different roles and more related to distant people than dreams in general.
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What are the emotions in knives dreams?
Overall, dreams with knives are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of knives are more related to fear and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.
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Who is in knives dreams?
Overall, dreams with knives are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of knives are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.
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What happens in knives dreams?
Overall, dreams with knives are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of knives are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.
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How do knives in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with knives are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of knives are much 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.
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How can you make sense of knives in dreams?
Knife dreams are relatively common. Among other things knife dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, nightmare, and about death.
Do you think this is true for your dream of knives? How might your dream of knives 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 knives 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 knives in dreams. See how you feel about knives now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of knives?
The symbolism of a knife in a dream can connect with associations like “sharp,” “close,” and “cut.” An incisive intellect is “sharp as a knife.” Cutting with a sharp knife can symbolize getting to the heart of a matter or getting to the point, as in the phrase, “Cut to the chase.”
Cutting someone with a knife requires close proximity. To be close to someone in a dream can mean closeness in the personal sense, such as a close friend or relative. So a knife is more likely to be used as a weapon when a dream tells a story about something or someone close and personal.
Knife fights in dreams can symbolize intense, heated situations. Knife fights rarely play out as they do in the movies, where it looks more like dancing or boxing. Instead, they’re usually brief, up close, and brutal. The situation symbolized as a knife fight can be something that’s already happened, or something you fear will happen. For example, you know that breaking up with your significant other is going to be an intense situation, or that a confrontation with your sibling about a family matter is going to be heated.
Cutting in a dream can symbolize wounding, as in, “Her comment cut to the bone.” This use of the symbolism of a knife will usually be accompanied by fighting, cutting, and wounding. Marks on the physical body from a knife symbolize marks on the emotional body, on the psyche. It hurts! See: Fighting, Wounds
Think of what can be wounded in the figurative sense. Pride and reputation can be wounded. Self-image can be wounded. Emotions can be wounded. Dreams show these sorts of wounds as physical when really they are personal, emotional or psychological.
Cutting and stabbing are associated emotions like anger, frustration, and bitterness. When related back to the previous idea of having to be close to someone to cut or stab him or her, it can mean that someone close has really hurt you, or vice-versa. For example, a woman stabs a man in the heart while coldly looking him in the eyes. See: Former partners
Up close can also mean “engaging.” Though fighting with knives often has negative associations, it can mean simply that you are trying to get a point across or engage someone. For example, a teacher tries to engage students with the course material, and to do so he or she comes up with “sharp” analogies. The difference in symbolism is obvious in how it plays out in a dream.
Cutting can mean “cut off,” as in cut off support or cut off relations. You’re done, finished. This use of the symbolism is more likely when a rope, cord, or arm is cut.
An intense dream where the dreamer observes his sister cut their brother’s throat symbolizes that she doesn’t want to hear what either brother has to say about the man she plans to marry. The brothers know the guy is a player, but the sister is blinded by love.
Cutting your own throat can mean “ruin your chances” or sabotage your life. This symbolism can be projected onto a dream character that represents you.
Throwing a knife at someone can symbolize hurling nasty comments, insults, and sharp words. Words cross the distance between people as sound waves, so throwing a knife is an apt metaphor when those words are meant to cause harm. Also consider the idea of crossing the distance of time to engage with a memory of someone who hurt you. Basically, you’re fighting with a memory.
A dream about defending yourself from someone with a knife can symbolize defending yourself from harm, or from verbal or personal attacks. But again, remember that most dream characters represent something about you, so a person with a knife might represent the ways you criticize yourself, or some part of yourself that has turned hostile toward you.
Defending yourself in a dream can mean you want to maintain some sort of illusion about yourself, keep something repressed, or deny a fact. For example, a woman dreams about going into the basement of her childhood home and finding a homicidal child armed with a knife. It symbolizes her inner child that’s hostile because it’s hurt and she’s ignoring it.
Looking for a knife with which to defend yourself can mean you feel the need to defend yourself personally or physically. For example, you have a dispute with a neighbor and wonder whether the person is capable of creeping into your house late at night to harm you. The fear plays out in a dream in a scenario where you fear someone is in your house, and you look for a knife to defend yourself. A knife is used as symbolism because the neighbor is someone who lives close to you.
But also consider the ways you protect yourself from the world, from misfortune, from intrusion. See: Intruders
A Swiss Army knife can symbolize taking different approaches to solving a problem.
See also: Dissecting, Former partners, Intruders, Surgery, Wounds
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 knives
Read some real dream reports of knife 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 dreamed about killing and slicing someone limb from limb
Hello guys can someone here can translate a dream? Coz I had a weird dream just right now.
My dream was about my girlfriend telling me that someone that I know harassed her months ago. And I was so mad that she didn't told me this right after the guy did this. After knowing that, I brought a knife and went to the guy's location and kill him. I cut his body parts limb from limb and I was so satisfied on what I'm doing. Im not even scared or anything it's so weird. After killing him, I just leave his body and remove my fingerprints on that particular house. After doing that I realize that the house where I killed him was the apartment that my family we're living 2 years ago and I was shocked when I saw my dad there looking at the window and staring at the body I killed. He's not mad and has no reaction. Also I remember that I wasn't really planning to kill the guy, I just want to cut his arms. When I did cut his arm, I think about that I might go to jail if he survives and tell everyone who did this to him so I just chopped his body. that's when I woke up. Please can someone translate it? I'm so anxious about this and I really have a bad feeling like I'm so nervous when I woke up
Hello guys can someone here can translate a dream? Coz I had a weird dream just right now.
My dream was about my girlfriend telling me that someone that I...
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Suicide and murder? Please help!
I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I cut her with the same knife.
And then I was a baby cow eating pudding in a supermarket while hiding from an evil wizard.
What the fuck is even going on here? Where did this violent part come from? Why did it shift to nonsense so quickly?
I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I...
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My 13 year old dreamed that we were all murdered, apart from his baby sister.
So in his words:
We were all walking back from somewhere in the dark (mum,dad,little bro and baby sis) and a man was waiting on the corner with a knife and jumped out and stabbed and killed us all apart from his little sister who was still in her pushchair, but they pushed her away in the pram so she was rolling down the street.
Any ideas atal what this is all about ? It terrified him so much that it actually woke him up on a weekend day before lunch time lol.
So in his words:
We were all walking back from somewhere in the dark (mum,dad,little bro and baby sis) and a man was waiting on the corner with a knife and...
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I had the most disturbing dream of my life
My childhood cat died very suddenly two weeks ago. She choked due to water in her lungs. We couldn't save her. I remember driving home after my brother called with the intention of saving her, that she wasn't really dead. Her death really messed with me. Words can't express how much I loved her and I can't stop imagining her choking. This dream is very, very disturbing.
Today I took a nap. I woke up after the most disturbing dream of my entire life. I was sitting on the couch and realized my cat's body was next to me, at the exact spot she used to sleep all the time. Not only that, there was two of her. Someone picked one of the two up and took it out of sight. I asked my mom what it was doing there. She told me she took her out of the freezer (we are keeping her body until we can bury it since it's winter) because she missed her too much. My cat then started moving slightly. She started choking. I tried to save her. I started blowing in her mouth to clear her throat and doing the Heimlich method on her. However her body kept slipping out of my hands and falling in weird positions on the couch. She finally stopped choking. She had died again. I called 911 to ask them to come over and make sure she was dead. While I was waiting my whole family started chasing me with knives; even my disabled brother who cannot run and my very old grandma. They pushed me to the ground and started trying to stab me while laughing. I managed to get up and answer the door: the ambulance was here. Two men in a red suit were there. They were the chiefs of ambulances or whatever. They looked at my cat and confirmed she was very, very dead and that her moving was a response from her dead body the the stimuli around her. I thanked them and escorted them to the door. When I came back to the living room my cat was laying the exact same way as she is laying in the picture of her I have on my desk in my dorms. What's really freaking weird to me is that it was only her skeleton, which I found cute in my dream? Then her skeleton started shrinking and I woke up.
I called my mom and started crying while telling her about it. I still feel very weird and needed a place to share.
My childhood cat died very suddenly two weeks ago. She choked due to water in her lungs. We couldn't save her. I remember driving home after my brother called...
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I dreamt this morning a man sitting in his car cut off his head and threw it at me.
What the fuck is wrong with me. He literally sawed it off with a knife and threw it uphill as well, very aggressively. I had to get out of its way. Am I some sort of psychopath?
What the fuck is wrong with me. He literally sawed it off with a knife and threw it uphill as well, very aggressively. I had to get out of its way. Am I some...
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