What are strangling dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like strangle.
Strangling in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 350 dreams.
What are the major highlights of strangling dreams?
Strangling is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having strangling in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Dreams of strangling are aggressive
Strangling dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all strangling have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having strangling in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include unnamed groups of people, innocence, torturing, spying, groups, weapons, legs, floors, bartenders, and Bolivia.
Strangling dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of strangling frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of strangling simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include seeing a dead father, places, hair falling out, collective unconscious, cheating on tests, vaginas, girlfriends, seeing a dead mother, hyenas, and fiances.
Dreams with strangling might be a nightmare
Dreams of strangling are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain strangling might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with strangling are not nightmares. But, dreams of strangling are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include yellow eyes, relief, paralysis, praying, dead bodies, hallways, torturing, stabbing, Kenya, and acid.
Strangling dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain strangling 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 burglary, The Holocaust, afterlife, grim reapers, hiding, suicide, stabbing, orphans, revenge, and tools.
What symbols more present in dreams of strangling?
Strangling dreams are notable because they have substantially more wrestling, killing, burying, Colombia, grooms, necks, pilots, death, jackals, widows, stabbing, kittens, characters, rabbits, Indonesia, torturing, knives, gems, dying, attics, leopards, rage, being tied up, cannons, trying, tackling, avalanches, weakness, suffering, geese, serial killers, screaming, skunks, escaping, caves, panthers, red eyes, Iraq, nightmares, elbows, kidnapping, biting, yelling, snack, Barack Obama, decapitation, backs, knees, attacking, jails, camels, police, scarves, abusing, trying to scream, sparrows, events, flies, pushing, and dolls than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of strangling?
Strangling dreams are notable because they have substantially less schools, students, elements of earth, rocks, large gatherings, planes, sadness, the planets, flying, lobbies, boats, epidemics, islands, ice, the afternoon, old friends, real locations, villages, spaceships, relationship events, the earth, bodies of water, colleges, transportation, crowds, waking life, and the future than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of strangling affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in strangling dreams?
Overall, dreams with strangling are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling are less related to different roles.
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What are the emotions in strangling dreams?
Overall, dreams with strangling are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling 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 sadness, and less related to fun.
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Who is in strangling dreams?
Overall, dreams with strangling are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to home, much less related to human places, and much less related to transportation.
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What happens in strangling dreams?
Overall, dreams with strangling are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do strangling in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with strangling are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling are much more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to waking life.
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How do strangling in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with strangling are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of strangling are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.
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How can you make sense of strangling in dreams?
Strangling dreams are very uncommon. Among other things strangling dreams are negatively interconnected, aggressive, lack places or locations, nightmare, and about death.
Do you think this is true for your dream of strangling? How might your dream of strangling 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 strangling 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 strangling in dreams. See how you feel about strangling now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of strangling?
Strangling, hanging, or asphyxiating in a dream can symbolize that something isn’t getting through to your head. You don’t want to acknowledge or know it.
For example, a young man dreams about finding his mom hanging from a rope in the basement of their home. In his waking life he’s doing something that his mom has told him not to do. The message isn’t getting through to his head. And on another level, the symbolism connects with his fear of committing relationship suicide if his mom finds out.
Strangling in a dream can symbolize “choking on your words.” You have difficulty articulating, or can’t express your emotions. Or you are repressing something, holding it down. See: Necks
Strangling is a very personal method of killing, so strangling can symbolize feeling angry—so angry you could strangle someone. It’s personal.
Strangling can mean a situation or relationship in your life is choking you. You feel suffocated. You need room to breathe. See: Snakes
Many dreams about trouble breathing or suffocation are related to a constricted airway or something related. For example, a young man dreams about suddenly finding himself in outer space without a spacesuit and experiences a vivid sense of suffocation. It occurs after a night this nonsmoker smoked half a pack of cigarettes and his lungs felt abused. See: Chimneys
To choke can mean freezing when the spotlight falls on you, or blowing an opportunity, such as when an athlete gives a bad performance in a big game.
See also: Chimneys, Hanging, Necks, Snakes, Suicide, Speaking
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 strangling
Read some real dream reports of strangling 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.
Unearving Dream. Please help
In the dream I am in some kind of abandoned mountain side station with 2 other men we are not friends but have teamed up so to speak. We are trying desperately to find our way out to escape but I don't know why. The facility is empty pale blue walls it has an almost clinical feel but I know it's not a hospital. I see a man run into a room finding light up the stairs he keeps running not looking where just desperately heading towards the light. He is blocked by a metal gate that looks out into the outside world, it must be a cliff face there are vines and moss hanging down on the other side then a trap door shuts behind him pinning him between the gate and slab to his back. There a 2 wholes in the wall and a level seemingly to lift the slab for. 2 men then rush into the room they go for the lever but the stuck man warns them about the trap that the lever will send 2 spear like spikes coming out of the wall to impaled those trying to operate the lever. With this knowledge in mind they proced carefully and manage to succeed. The 2 men are of myself or the one I feel most comfortable with and a hard looking tough man, the kind of man a shy kid sometimes ends up with to protect them from bullies not realising that they are the bullie. The 3 of us then proceed to explore the rooms in search of an exit still try to escape, not rushed or in fear just escape a maze of all look the same corridors and rooms. The man and my friend do not like each other I say that we should try to look for provisions food and the like. We search a group of rooms each taking one I find a small room with a table couple chairs and a fridge. I open the fridge to find some food, but what stuck out was 3 bottles of cold beer... I call my friend and the man into the room to what I have found my friend is happy about the beer and shares a quick drink with me seeming friendly towards me, I remember how cold and refreshing it was. The other man then comes in my friend makes no attempt to hide his dislike for him and grasps the 1 remaining beer from the fridge and heads out of the room. The man comes to the fridge in search but I know there is none left then I look and there is one more bottle hiding in the corner I get it and offer it to him I feel a disappointing gaze from my friend who sees the exchange and feel uneasy. My view now changes to the pov of my friend going to the elevator and pressing the bottom, something seems wrong though a he feels the need to wrap a cloth around both of the hands and pull tightly as if getting ready to strangle someone on the other side of the door. The other man catches up with him and he stands to the left of the elevator at what seems like a safe distance. Then seeing the door behind my friend begin to open his eyes go wide a d my friend turns to meet the challenge. What happens next is so horrific that I still cannot explain why I saw it. My view shifts back to 'me' the man in the small room with the fridge, I come round the corner to the elevator and am confronted with the terrible sight of the elevator doors trying to shut with a body inside the doors, these doors however do not close sideways these close from top to bottom. Between each half ly's a crumpled bofy of a strange man whos head is forced forward at an unatural angle his back straightlyind down between the two halfs of the elevator doors. His head being slowly crushed with the pressure. I feel sick and struggle not to vomit. I look to the right of this and see my friend in a similar condition not mangled or anything like that of the stranger but struggling to save himself from being crushed between another elevator doors trying to shut with his body in between. I then look left and see the other man in an open elevator shaft on top of the elevator itself moments before being crushed between the elevators roof and the shaft ceeling. At this point I wake up....
In the dream I am in some kind of abandoned mountain side station with 2 other men we are not friends but have teamed up so to speak. We are trying desperately...
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my doggy turning into a demon
so my Maltese terrier dog sometimes bangs on the backyard door signifying he wants to come in. so in the dream hes banging the door then suddenly his figure turns into a shadowy figure and gets bigger and the banging starts to get really intense and that's when i wake up in a sleep paralysis feeling half asleep half awake cant move my body and my breathing is shallow, actually kinda felt like my neck had pressure on it like i was getting strangled really softly though. not sure how long the sleep paralysis was but i think i fell back asleep and i wake up later and everything was back to normal.
so my Maltese terrier dog sometimes bangs on the backyard door signifying he wants to come in. so in the dream hes banging the door then suddenly his figure...
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Post apocalyptic sex cult
I had a really in depth, horrifying nightmare last night, probably from pneumonia kicking my ass and taking a plethora of meds,
so~
I'm gonna tell y'all all about it.
*Content warning, triggers and everything else disturbing.*
So, Earth was post apocalyptic, after Trump started WWIII, let's just start there.
Houses were gone, presumably burnt down in riots.
The small remaining population was made up of several hundred slews of people, kind of like in the movie "The Road"(look it up, and if you can't handle realistic cannibalism, don't watch it).
The herd of people I had joined, some co-workers of mine, a few neighbors, (thankfully my child wasn't existent) was meandering the streets, in search of refuge, maybe 10 of us? We happened upon a group who was seemingly harmless, but had an obvious leader, whose intentions were uncertain to me. They had found an old bunker and were creating their campsites within it. (Families, co-workers, children)
Here's where it gets FUCKED UP.
The leader, white man in his early thirties, let's call him John, let us know all of the young women needed to be initiated, because women were of lesser value. APPARENTLY that meant we were all supposed to engage with John sexually in competition with another woman (from our own home group) and one of us had to die to show one's dedication to survival. (Fucked, right?) Even more fucked up, all of it had to be witnessed by everyone in a stage-like set up, like the goddamn ancient Coliseum. We were allowed to bring weapons, and we could decide who we had to pit against one another. Obviously I was one of them, it's MY nightmare after all. Our weapons of choice were wooden spatulas and spoons, don't fucking ask me why, I'm just as confused as you at this point. I won't name my opponent, but she's someone I know in real life (yikes). We start the fight, an hour late, taking turns trying murder the other. While engaging in coitus with John. Ew, I know, right? Then, THEN, my sister COMES OUT OF NOWHERE with a long piece of twine, hands me one end of it, John stands up. My sister and I then RING THIS DUDE'S NECK with it. Until he strangles to DEATH. Everyone is silent, there's an audience of like 200 people so it's already really weird. Everyone cheers that John is dead. Me and the other girl are naked and crying, cause why the fuck not? And it cuts to me in a café where I'm waiting for a job interview after the new world order starts to civilize. My mom is with me.
She wishes me good luck, I walk to a large office with an opaque glass door, AND OUT WALKS JOHN TO INTERVIEW ME. At this point I forced myself awake cause I was just suffering lmao. The end.
I had a really in depth, horrifying nightmare last night, probably from pneumonia kicking my ass and taking a plethora of meds,
so~
I'm gonna tell y'all all...
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Weird Glimpses That Later Happen IRL
I feel crazy for saying this, but my family and friends do not believe me at all, and I feel so alone and alienated. It’s very rare for me whenever I dream, but when I do it feels like an entire minute of a situation, and I wake up and I think I’ve done it before or it’s some sort of weird dream, but later in a week or two the minute of a situation actually happens and I sort of have these moments like what the fuck?Deja Vu? It freaks me out, I sometimes have a mental breakdown because of how accurate things are, lately for some reason, a lot of the times I’ll be sleeping and I wake up and there’s this snake, big enough that can strangle and then possibly eat me, but every damn time I see a snake moving around on my bed or it jumps out at me, i then wake up and there was no snake at all, it legitimately terrifies me.. I don’t know what it is, and it’s probably something stupid that could be easily explained in a few sentences. I hate it, it’s the worst thing that I experience. I spend a lot of nights staying up and I do my best to get minimum of 4-5 hours of sleep in the span of two to three days, but of course I sleep in and fall asleep for 13-17 hours at most and I keep experiencing a few glimpses that later happens IRL, which I also keep experiencing snakes coming into the safety of my bedroom and kills me. Every now and then, I won’t experience glimpses or snakes which is very RARE but when it does happen: it’s always my family or somebody I know and love, killing me in assortment of ways, i tried talking to therapist but they call me crazy, I tried talking to my friends and families and they too, tell me I’m crazy, overdramatized, overwhelmed..and it’s so lonely..
I feel crazy for saying this, but my family and friends do not believe me at all, and I feel so alone and alienated. It’s very rare for me whenever I dream, but...
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Something for Freudians
I have a dream to share, I have my own interpretation, but since I can't really detach from my own persona my interpretation is going to be limited and that is when you come into play :) I am also going to add some basic context to the events.
All the places and people in this dream are real. I am in a cellar with my mother where we *question* my female friend. She acts like a dog in subtle ways - the way she looks at us and the way she sits on the floor (like our dog does). My mother claims that my friend is a chinese spy (The friend is in reality from Western Asia, meanwhile my family is from Europe) and wants her to confess it, but the friend denies it. I am defying my mom and trying to protect my friend. Eventually my mother or both of us (I am not 100% sure if it's just her) start to strangle her and scratch on her neck. But she keeps denying it. My mother then finds a teabag at her and tears it, spilling all the grains of tea until she finds one bigger grain which she believes is a *bug.* My friend then tries to bite me, but I flinch back so she doesn't bite my nose off. (This is also a thing my dog does).
I am very interested in your opinions and thoughts on this dream. Also feel free to ask about anything :) Also if so, judge my subconscious gently <3
I have a dream to share, I have my own interpretation, but since I can't really detach from my own persona my interpretation is going to be limited and that is...
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