What are raping dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like rape.
Raping in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.9% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 100 dreams.
What are the major highlights of raping dreams?
Raping is a normal dream symbol. Having raping in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Raping dreams might be sexual
Dreams of raping are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If raping is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Cyprus, love, abortions, beauty, underwear, mercury, captains, Chile, gambling, and breasts.
Dreams of raping are aggressive
Raping dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all raping have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having raping in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include Haiti, arms, enemies, bathroom stalls, ignoring, fences, librarians, Bahamas, decapitation, and movement.
Dreams with raping might be a nightmare
Dreams of raping are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain raping might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with raping are not nightmares. But, dreams of raping are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include robots, abandonment, parts of buildings, living rooms, Jamaica, emotions, turning, goats, dead bodies, and general movement.
Raping dreams focus on vision
Dreams of raping have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, raping dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include Singapore, precognitive dreams, disease, boyfriends, dream within a dream, carrots, Malaysia, pregnancy, cocaine, and going to the bathroom.
What symbols more present in dreams of raping?
Raping dreams are notable because they have substantially more abusing, talismans, molesting, sexuals acts, vaginas, characters, Congo, helplessness, screaming, torturing, sex, undressing, hostages, unnamed individuals, incest, therapists, kidnapping, genitals, anuses, crying, penises, revenge, being naked, trying to scream, Chile, distant people, tyrants, Venezuela, pants, mafia, police, crime, killing, drugs, dungeons, wrist, jails, yelling, rage, arresting, geese, jury members, animuses, underwear, touch, menstruation, unconscious minds, suffering, nightmares, Frodo, spying, tiktok, pretending, knives, bathrooms, masturbation, innocence, weakness, detectives, and being tied up than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of raping?
Raping dreams are notable because they have substantially less bodies of water, the planets, spaceships, natural places, the earth, being shot, water, eggs, the sky, weather, fish, snakes, flying, planes, cancer, animals, oceans, dragons, natural elements, the moon, teeth, west, bees, dinosaurs, earthquakes, east, end of the word, elements of air, foxes, Harry Potter, nuclear bombs, rockets, sharks, socks, time travel, museums, ants, airports, the galaxy, colors, hills, and spiders than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of raping affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in raping dreams?
Overall, dreams with raping are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of raping are more related to distant people, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in raping dreams?
Overall, dreams with raping are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of raping are more related to happiness, much more related to embarrassment, and more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to fun.
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Who is in raping dreams?
Overall, dreams with raping are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of raping are less related to work, less related to human places, and much less related to transportation.
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What happens in raping dreams?
Overall, dreams with raping are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of raping are much more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and much less related to disasters.
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How do raping in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with raping are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of raping are much more related to nightmares and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of raping in dreams?
Raping dreams are uncommon. Among other things raping dreams are normally interconnect, sexual, aggressive, nightmare, and focus on vision.
Do you think this is true for your dream of raping? How might your dream of raping 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 raping 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 raping in dreams. See how you feel about raping now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of raping?
Some of the most powerful and traumatizing dreams involve rape. Females and males have rape dreams. The first possibilities for symbolism to consider revolve around nonsexual definitions of the word. Think of times it’s used to mean something other than physical rape. It’s heard in reference to losing badly in sports or video games, with one side dominated and humiliated by another. It’s used in reference to exploiting the natural resources of the planet, and as an expression of helplessness and anger.
Dreams enact other definitions of rape, such as domination, exploitation, and violation, turning them into scenarios of sexual rape.
Another way that dreams use rape is to express the feeling that you’re being forced to do something you don’t want to do or be someone you don’t want to be. It’s a frequent theme in the dreams of males and females who resist living up to the cultural ideals and expectations of their gender.
Some females resent having to wear makeup and heels, and are discriminated against when they don’t. Some males don’t want to act tough and distant, or spend hours in the gym buffing up. Cultural pressure to live up to gender ideals can be intense, and the consequences of resisting it can be extreme. Even if a person tries to live up to gender ideals, it can still feel like being coerced or forced. It’s not necessarily “consensual.”
A man has recurring dreams about being raped and connects it with being forced to hide his homosexuality. Instead, he tries to force himself to feel and act straight and to be attracted to women. Rape sums up how he feels.
For another man who dreams about being raped by a woman, it’s shows his powerlessness over his sexuality. Sex and sensuality have too much hold on his mind. See: Sex
When rape is used to symbolize the force and coercion of gender ideals and cultural expectations, it’s often shown in dreams as gang rape.
Being gang-raped in a dream can be an exaggerated way of expressing the idea of being ganged up on. It can express the feeling that everything and everyone are out to get you or hurt you.
Rape is “next-level symbolism,” meaning not just humiliated, violated, or hurt, but very humiliated, violated, or hurt. Not just coerced but forced. It captures the dynamics of a situation and your feelings.
Rape in a dream can have roots in your inner life. In a graphic way, it shows how you treat yourself. Your ego uses threat, domination, and humiliation to get what it wants, or some aspect of your psyche overpowers the others. This is especially true of the Shadow aspects of the psyche and sadist/masochist dynamics of the Warrior archetype. If that’s how life is in your head, it’s likely to show outwardly. Some people are best described as rapists just on the basis of their personality and character, and some people live the role of victim.
Rape in a dream can have roots in personal experience. People who have been raped are likely to dream about what happened. It seems cruel to bring up a traumatizing event like that, but it actually helps by creating a psychological cushion between the present moment and what happened in the past. Once the dream is over, it is in the past, and when something can be thought of as in the past it creates personal distance. The same sort of process happens with other traumas, such as combat and abuse. Further, such dreaming gives you opportunities to run through threat simulations and devise strategies for protecting yourself.
On the other hand, rape dreams can show that you’re still chained to the experience even though you have the potential to move on.
For example, a woman dreams about finding her rapist working beneath a car. She coldly pulls out a gun and pumps rounds into him. The dream is an expression of her thoughts of revenge. She didn’t report the rape because her best friend’s brother did it, and it’s eating her up inside. Her thoughts of revenge rip open the scab and keep the wound fresh. In a bipolar way, she’s bouncing back and forth between being a victim and wanting to be the oppressor. See: Revenge
Dreaming about being raped can be a way of saying you feel very disrespected. For example, you decide to sleep with someone you’ve been dating, thinking it will be a special experience, and all your partner wants is sex.
Dreams exaggerate, and rape in dreams can be used to exaggerate a situation related to sexual tension or exploitation, such as when a person is used as a sexual plaything.
Rape may connect with a recent or ongoing situation that’s dangerous, sexually or otherwise. It’s the sort of comparison dreams are known to make because dangerous situations can lead to rape. For example, passing out at a wild party puts you in danger, especially if you’re young and female.
A rape dream can come in response to feeling vulnerable or powerless. For example, after being hit on at a gas station by a creepy guy, a woman dreams that night about being raped at that gas station by a similar guy. It’s an expression of feeling raped in the sense of having her dignity attacked, compounded by recognizing her vulnerability to men who are stronger than she is.
Dreams can act as simulations, and a dream about rape can be a way of acting out an issue related to it. For example, you hear a graphic story about a friend who is raped, then dream it happens to you. It’s a way of really understanding what that friend went through and perhaps fearing it could happen to you—or taking steps to prevent it, which is a possibility if you dream about fending off a rapist.
Dreaming about rape can express a rape fantasy. Something about the idea of domination and humiliation turns you on.
For example, a young man with a rape fantasy has two dreams that when looked at together present a choice. In one, he has normal sex with a girl he is attracted to, an imaginary character, and in the other dream he rapes a random girl and enjoys seeing her fear. The dreams are showing him his choices. On the one hand, sex with someone he is attracted to (normal sex) appeals to him but lacks the stimulation he feels at the thought of raping someone. The rape dream shows that the stimulation of rape comes at the expense of any sort of intimacy. He can have one or the other but not both.
A vivid rape dream is discussed in the entry for Devil.
If you were raped and want help, try dream rescripting for nightmares and PTSD. Look it up online.
See also: Attacking, Crime, Devils, Hats, Nightmares, Revenge, Sex
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 raping
Read some real dream reports of raping 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.
Trouble having sex with dream characters
So lately Ive [M19] been getting a little better at lucid dreaming, I found that the Wake Back to Bed method works for me best. And of course I want to use this ability to have dream sex.
I think the trouble started a few weeks ago when I had a dream where I woke up next to this cute redhead I knew, we were both naked so it was heavily implied that we had sex. Anyway, I climb on top of her to do the dirty and she starts freaking out. Naturally, I stopped and got off her. Tbh I can't really remember what happened after that. But anyway, I was pretty shocked after the experience because Ive never had a dream character act like that before.
Last night I had another dream where I was in a room with 2 other guys and 3 women. All of us were naked again and we'd been paired up. The woman I was with was the only person I knew from real life, Im pretty sure the others were randomly generated. So the woman that I was with decided she didn't want me and went over to one of the other guys. I wasn't having this so I used my lucidity to control the woman and we started having sex. After a few seconds however, she starts freaking out like the redhead in the previous dream.
This time I was able to maintain lucidity and got rid of all the dream characters so I could gather my thoughts and calm down, so I could change the dream to a different setting.
So now I feel like if I was to have sex with a dream character I'm essentially going to have to rape them. Which I'm obviously not going to do. I'm having this moral dilemma about what consent is in the dream world if I'm in control of everything that happens.
Has this happened to any of you? I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions.
So lately Ive [M19] been getting a little better at lucid dreaming, I found that the Wake Back to Bed method works for me best. And of course I want to use this...
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I raped a woman in my dream
I met a beautiful girl and she said i'm ugly, at this point I followed her to the toilet and I put a gun on her head and forced her to suck me and then to have sex with me.
Honestly this dream was nasty and I'm shocked. What does it mean?
In my opinion it means that I have some anger and frustation in my self and i should get ride of it, because I didnt want to rape her basically but when she said I'm ugly I had some anger and frustation feeling that made me want to rape her or something. I don't think I have sexual frustation (maybe a bit) but not that much, I don't care if I dont have sex with a woman over a long time, but In real life I'm not that confident (I'm 25) and I know that I'm somehow frustated when a woman doesn't tell me I'm looking good or something. That's a real problem I have to work on it. Honestly it scared me because I feel like, if I did it in my dream why would I not do it in real life? I don't want to but who knows, maybe this is my subconscious desire?
What do you think?
I met a beautiful girl and she said i'm ugly, at this point I followed her to the toilet and I put a gun on her head and forced her to suck me and then to have...
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Dreamed about a manipulative blackmailing politician accusing another one of being Pedophile
It was a very disturbing an elaborate dream involving politics blackmail and pedophilia.
There is this very powerful right wing politician R that bullies opposition around and is sadly very very popular. His party hold power in the equivalent of senate and the house and majority of state parliaments as well. I personally hate the politics and demeanor of R.
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In my dream I saw R holding a gigantic press-conference/political rally with audience in thousands. It was like he was on a stage down in a valley and the audience was in mountains around it. Was like a football stadium kinda view but valley and mountains. Its evening and dark. R walks onto the stage with a kid and says the kid has something to reveal. R starts talking about another politician N. N is a decently well known opposition politician. I don't love N but don't dislike him either. Seems respectable to be holding fort again R and his party. N belongs to one of the few opposition held states.
Now R and the kid starts narrating how the kid was kidnapped and disappeared in and around a guest house/resort which is in the political constituency of N. The kid was thought dead but was very much alive and a captive. The kid was repeatedly abused and assaulted and raped by N and his powerful friends. To the point where the kid almost felt hopeless and started accepting his fate.
Then R starts saying saying he has video evidence. He doesn't want to show the video evidence because of its graphic nature but has made an animation of it for public screening. He plays the animation. It was extremely graphic and bloody. The black and white (sometimes colored) animation had scenes from a very narrow walled space with a flickering clay lamp with oil and cotton wick at the far end, then the kid facing the lamp and the politician N. The place was so narrow it seemed once you get in you cannot turn easily and have to back out. The floor was bloody and the kid was in pain.
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It was horrible. I woke up extremely disturbed.
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Clarification: The politicians are real but not US politicians or of any large country.
It was a very disturbing an elaborate dream involving politics blackmail and pedophilia.
There is this very powerful right wing politician R that bullies...
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Whats your scariest nightmare?
What was your scariest nightmare?
Mine went like this:
I was trapped in a sort of maze, and was running away from a creepy old lady trying to rape me. It was really claustrophobic, no space to stand, i was crawling my way through. Throughout the maze there were many doors I had to open, but blocking the doors were amputated children. These amputated children were really heavy. The amount of stress and anxiety during this nightmare was insane. i was panicking because I could hear the old lady getting closer and closer, but I was struggling to move the children out the way. Also throughout the dream it felt like I had trouble breathing, there were moments where my throat felt like it just clogged up. It ended in a very cliche way when the old granny reached me and I woke up.
What was your scariest nightmare?
Mine went like this:
I was trapped in a sort of maze, and was running away from a creepy old lady trying to rape me. It...
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Trigger Warning: Had a disturbing nightmare.
Had a nightmare I was on this 2nd floor parking lot parked in this car with this girl who was my "friend". It was night time and this guy was banging on my window with a crazed look on his face. I got this disgusting feeling he wanted to rape me and my friend.
I told her to put the car in reverse and drive. She was so frozen and I had to put it in reverse and she pressed the gas. I got out of the car and ran. The guy chased after me and I jumped off the 2nd floor. I cut his throat with my thumb nail and he died of blood loss. I ran off to a building to wash my bloody hands.
I came out and I saw an ambulance as well as a candlelight vigil. I saw people carrying our individual pics with flowers even tho I wasn't dead. The pic was of me in my college graduation. I remember seeing a white sheet covering most of his body except his feet. I was in this white grieving room with my family and I told them what the guy tried doing to me and I cried.
Note: 25F - I never have been rape in my life so idk why I had this dream. I mean I've been sexually harassed before but not recently.
Had a nightmare I was on this 2nd floor parking lot parked in this car with this girl who was my "friend". It was night time and this guy was banging on my...
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