What are opponent dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like opponent.
Opponents in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 1,000 dreams.
What are the major highlights of opponent dreams?
Opponents is a normal dream symbol. Having opponents in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Opponent dreams are friendly
Dreams of opponents have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of opponents will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of opponents are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include qualities, silence, fast, opponents, borders, spotlights, messes, warriors, camels, and the evening.
Dreams of opponents are aggressive
Opponent dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all opponents have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having opponents in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include ammunition, Bangladesh, biting, dying, obeying, Kuwait, jets, bullies, bombs, and dolls.
Opponent dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain opponents 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 bombs, hunger, decapitation, grandmothers, suffering, chemical weapons, innocence, Voldemort, El Salvador, and Afghanistan.
What symbols more present in dreams of opponents?
Opponent dreams are notable because they have substantially more warriors, fighting, war, stadiums and arenas, praising, Nepal, tyrants, aggressive interactions, presidents, kings, wilderness, exits, armor, games, antelopes, pus, monster, armies, friendly interactions, arrows, bankruptcy, broken glass, fields, magic, ovations, intrigued, playing, safety, dolphins, protecting, wrestling, weapons, bankers, wrist, below, lasers, imposters, lost, famousness, boxes, prostitutes, bullets, qualities, Japan, beggars, cheering, Ireland, arriving, hitting and kicking, fists, peninsula, guns, maps, cannons, Egypt, landslides, jets, endings, rage, and forwards than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of opponents?
Opponent dreams are notable because they have substantially less the morning, bedrooms, sleeping, robbing, pregnancy, best friends, living rooms, hospitals, old friends, nightmares, bathrooms, love, boyfriends, cats, beds, stomachs, general family, and mirror than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of opponents affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in opponents dreams?
Overall, dreams with opponents are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of opponents are more related to animals, more related to insects, and much more related to different roles than dreams in general. They are less related to family and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in opponents dreams?
Overall, dreams with opponents are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of opponents are much more related to embarrassment, much more related to confusion, and much more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to fear.
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Who is in opponents dreams?
Overall, dreams with opponents are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of opponents are more related to natural places and much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to transportation.
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What happens in opponents dreams?
Overall, dreams with opponents are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of opponents are much more related to aggressive interactions, much more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.
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How do opponents in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with opponents are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of opponents are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of opponents in dreams?
Opponent dreams are very rare. Among other things opponent dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, and about death.
Do you think this is true for your dream of opponents? How might your dream of opponents 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 opponents 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 opponents in dreams. See how you feel about opponents now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of opponents?
An opponent in a dream can indicate conflict, either with yourself, with someone in your life, or with a situation. Sometimes the imagery is pretty straightforward. If you have been in conflict with someone in your waking life and dream about that person as an opponent, the likelihood is high that the dream relates to the conflict. Or if you’re battling yourself over a decision and dream about wrestling a bear, then perhaps the decision is a “bear to deal with.”
Dreams have all sorts of ways of telling a story and using opponents to do it. The key is to figure out what an opponent represents, and to understand the opponent as deliberately chosen by the dream to tell the story.
In simplest terms, an opponent is something you oppose or that opposes you. That word can apply to a wide variety of situations and circumstances.
Sometimes, a conflict with a person in your life is symbolized as a surrogate dream character who opposes or works against you. For example, the coach you’re at odds with reminds you of your father, so you dream about your father as a surrogate for your coach. Perhaps they’re both inflexible and demanding. The supervisor you’re in conflict with reminds you of a teacher you disliked, and you dream about the teacher instead of the supervisor. Both have the power to judge whether you succeed or fail. The arguments you have with your spouse are just like the arguments you had with your ex-spouse, and you dream about your ex.
Using a surrogate gives you distance to step back and observe and react from your gut. Remember, while dreaming you already know who and what the characters represent, and you react according to that subconscious knowledge.
Conflicts with yourself symbolized by an opponent will usually feature a character or characters that don’t look like you, but that’s not always the case. For example, a young doctor dreams that he is in an arena, in a fight to the death with a character that’s himself. The opponent is “clean and angelic,” while the doctor sees himself as muddy and sweaty. The dream illustrates internal conflict about upholding the image of a doctor. He thinks doctors have to maintain a clean image, but he knows that’s not who he really is.
An opponent might represent something positive about yourself that needs to be integrated into your personality. An adversary in a dream can be anything with which you have an adversarial relationship, and it’s presented as an adversary because of your conflict with it.
The adversary in your dream can actually be a part of you that works against you or challenges you in ways that make you uncomfortable. Or it’s a rejected or unwanted part of yourself. It might represent a fear or bad character trait, something about yourself with which you struggle.
Dreams about an opponent can arise from conflicts with your morals, values, ideals, principles, or best interests. Something inside you disagrees with what you’re doing. Or you have competing desires. Your head and heart disagree. You are your own opponent.
The opponent(s) in a dream can symbolize a situation that’s difficult, a struggle. For example, a school office worker dreams about an apocalyptic battle against strange alien creatures, illustrating the battles she faces every day at work to accomplish everything that needs to be done. The opponent in the dream is represented as strange aliens because the battle against the constant onslaught of work is impersonal. See: Fighting
That last point is very important. When something is close and personal to you, the related symbolism is likely to be close and personal. The opponent in your dream is in your face. And the degree of the conflict is symbolized through the characterization. An opponent isn’t the same as an enemy. An enemy implies a greater degree of conflict or feeling.
An adversary can symbolize an obstacle, including your internal obstacles, and overcoming an adversary is a good sign of overcoming the obstacle. Dreaming about an adversary overcoming you implies that you are unsuccessful at overcoming something.
What do you see about yourself in your opponent? Do you recognize someone you know, on the basis of appearance, role, or demeanor? Are you battling yourself over something, or is your daily life like a battle?
See also: Stadiums and arenas, Enemies, Fighting, Games, Sports, Tackling, War
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 opponents
Read some real dream reports of opponent 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.
What the hell was this dream?!
Two nights ago I dreamed I was playing a game of quidditch, like real quidditch from Harry Potter, flying broomsticks and all. Instead of another sports team, our opponent was a group of Nazis straight out of WW2. The loser of the match was going to be executed. So yeah I was playing quidditch against the Nazis. Such a bizarre dream, never dreamt anything else even remotely similar to this that I can recall. Any suggestions what it means?
Two nights ago I dreamed I was playing a game of quidditch, like real quidditch from Harry Potter, flying broomsticks and all. Instead of another sports team,...
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I was in a physical fight, opponent laughed when hurt
(Not something that would ever happen irl. I hate violence so this was an uncomfortable dream)
It was against a young, small woman who was inhumanly strong.
At first she came after me and after I decided to confront she stopped attacking me and just let me attack her, which she didn't care about at all.
After a lot of trying I went for her head and tentatively banged it against a bath stamp. She laughed and laughed as I banged her head.
But I think this was the first thing that could have had any impact on her except I couldn't do it. I said "I'm sorry for banging your head" + an explanation I can't remember, and left. She kept following me around, like she hunted me.
Did I try to kill something in myself that scares me and not succeed?
(Not something that would ever happen irl. I hate violence so this was an uncomfortable dream)
It was against a young, small woman who was inhumanly...
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Dark dream of something that resembled Hel
I woke up in a big grassy field in bright daylight with a giant tent on it (so big it has multiple floors/rooms). The tent was partially transparent and of bright green color.
I was holding a drink. Suddenly, it starts to rain freaking hard. So hard that the whole place, regardless of how open it was, starts to fill with water. People ran and immediately went into the "apparttents" (pun intented (pun intended))
I ran into the tent as well, but could barely make it into the hallway (there was a big tent underneath that was housed under the apartments). The water got above the tent level and the pressure of the water caused the tent to collapse a bit with me caught in the hallway. I was now underwater and stuck inside the tent, and couldn't breathe anymore.
I tried to push myself out but it was impossible, the plastic sides are now pushed so hard against me there was no way to crawl out. The water slipped away quickly, and I got out.
I walked around the tent and saw how multiple people or families were in each of the apartments.
One girl walked out. She wore a black leather coat with black pants, had a katana on her back and a black bandana around her black hair. Basically, everything about her was black.
"You're the new guy?" She asked. "Uhm, I think so," I replied. "What is this place?"
"We consider it Hel," she replied. "Random people go in but they never get out, and bad things happen every day".
"Nonsense!" I said. "This is just a dream I can get out anytime!".
The girl sighs. "Please don't, we already tried everything."
I ignored her and imagined a portal in the grass - a large stone frame appears with a hole inside, with a sign on top of it saying: "Exit".
"See?", I say with a proud smirk on my face. "Now we just have to walk inside".
"Well try it then," the girl says with a smirk on her face as well.
As I walk inside, I notice that I simply walk through the frame, ending up at the other side, while still in that world, rather than waking up.
The girl catches up: "Nothing works, it's not a dream. It's not going to do anything".
I got more annoyed now: "The fact that I can place this door makes it a dream lol, let me try one more thing..." while I focus on opening my real eyes. This time again, proving futile.
"Fuck!" I said. "Ok maybe this is something different, what do I do now?"
The girl replies: "You just have to stay and make the best of it, but really, it's not worth it. I tell you what, we organize fights until death. How about we fight and I kill you, at least you are out of your misery then..."
"But what if I win?" I ask. "You won't, you just got here 1 day. I'm heavily trained compared to you".
"Ok... if that's what we have to do.."
The next day I walk in the cage which is where the fight takes place. It's a big cage made of a leather lattice that allows the audience to look through but without being at risk.
The audience starts to fill: Humans and other creatures such as anthropomorphic crocodiles sit down and my opponent comes in.
When the fight starts, she starts to make a helicopter movement with her katana, flies up, above me, and shoots down with the point of her katana pointed to the floor, straight through my head. The last I can remember/feel is the point hitting my skull as I heard the sound of "a katana piercing a skull". Everything became black after that. And it remained black for a while until I woke up.
I woke up in a big grassy field in bright daylight with a giant tent on it (so big it has multiple floors/rooms). The tent was partially transparent and of...
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I won a parkour contest and met Post Malone?
Okay, so weird dream I just had tonight, pretty long because I slept through the whole night uninterrupted, but most of it doesn't make sense until the end, which was pretty weird.
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I was in some parkour contest in my college, where you had to jump across a room by turns, the first person to reach the exit won, and you could also use your turn to throw something at your opponent, eliminating them if you hit them. It was the final and I was pretty ahead of my rival, just one jump away from winning, and he was getting ready to throw something at me. I crouched so that I would take the least possible space up, and he missed when he threw. I took the final jump, saw that the exit was also the prize room and felt really content as everyone was losing their sh\*t celebrating my victory.
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There was a person I really liked that came to congratulate me for my victory, and we hugged for a really long time. I was holding her with one hand on her thighs and the other on her back, her arms wrapped closely around me. When we finally let go of each other, I went to claim the prize, which was a bike. The room was full of them, so I took one and left (after repairing another small one).
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I exited the college, talked with some friends who were outside and headed back home. I realised I was in LA (don't ask, I've never been there), in some part of the town I didn't know. I started walking down the street, carrying my bike, when I saw Post Malone, and I went to tell him how much I liked his music and if we could take a picture together. He happily obliged and we took some pics while fooling around.
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Now, there's where I woke up. I found it pretty weird because I've never done parkour and I'm not that much into bikes or Post Malone. Not only that but I've been feeling sad and overwhelmed lately, so such a happy dream feels out of place. Can't make any meaning out of this, can anyone please help?
Okay, so weird dream I just had tonight, pretty long because I slept through the whole night uninterrupted, but most of it doesn't make sense until the end,...
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Dreamed a whole Netflix original and had to write it down
Female laywer works in the innercity with her two sons who work in the drug industry she’s trying to take down. They do this with force and encourage her to use her position to help. One day she represents an up and coming politician who unknown to her is corrupt and finds herself being arrested in her driveway only it’s not what it seems. Upon her release from prison she finds out her client is now president using the fame from her case to push him there. He had used his connections through politics to make a sham trial against her and brought false charges against her. She then goes on a tear representing first her town then district in congress and then fights for the presidency against her opponent and the patriarchy the entire way.
Female laywer works in the innercity with her two sons who work in the drug industry she’s trying to take down. They do this with force and encourage her to use...
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