What are threatening dreams about?
Threats are the expression of the intention to harm. These expressions can be intentional when people use words or gestures. Threats can also be unintentional. Things can be threatening by just how they appear. This symbol is identified by words like intimidate, menace, bully, etc.
Threatening in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 55 dreams.
What are the major highlights of threatening dreams?
Threatening is a normal dream symbol. Having threatening in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Threatening dreams are friendly
Dreams of threatening have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of threatening will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of threatening are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include messes, speaking, touch, suffering, laundry rooms, beggars, smiling, courts, needing help, and Congo.
Dreams of threatening are aggressive
Threatening dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all threatening have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having threatening in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include bankruptcy, heroes, floors, characters, strangling, stabbing, qualities, parts of buildings, bows and arrows, and torturing.
What symbols more present in dreams of threatening?
Threatening dreams are notable because they have substantially more abusing, characters, knives, Somalia, bullies, revenge, different roles, Ecuador, hostages, cowboys, students, rage, wrestling, movement, Congo, family homes, police, teenagers, Guatemala, fists, general movement, stabbing, principals, classmates, snack, places, bankruptcy, beetles, guns, raping, conflicts, things, protecting, scarves, enemies, tasers, orphans, distant people, courts, torturing, baggage, robbing, Bahamas, tools, anger, pretending, destroying, authors, attacking, alimony, hosts, evil, raccoons, wolves, general thinking, zebras, tackling, pushing, wasps, and arguing than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of threatening?
Threatening dreams are notable because they have substantially less giving birth, peeing, pregnancy, verbs, aggressive interactions, frogs, recurring dreams, going to the bathroom, bees, the night, tiktok, antlers, seeing a dead pet, excrement, geese, threatening, menstruation, boyfriends, seeing a dead friend, swimming, opened my eyes, sleeping, seeing a dead grandmother, general crashes, healing, water, hit the ground, kissing, acne, crushes, beds, monkeys, teeth falling out, epidemics, seeing a dead relative, earthquakes, relationship events, mirror, maggots, the moon, love, doctors, heaven, casinos, tsunamis, and objects in space than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of threatening affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in threatening dreams?
Overall, dreams with threatening are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are much more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general.
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What are the emotions in threatening dreams?
Overall, dreams with threatening are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are more related to embarrassment, more related to fear, and more related to pain than dreams in general.
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Who is in threatening dreams?
Overall, dreams with threatening are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are more related to home and more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.
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What happens in threatening dreams?
Overall, dreams with threatening are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are much more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.
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How do threatening in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with threatening are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to waking life than dreams in general.
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How do threatening in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with threatening are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of threatening are less related to smelling.
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How can you make sense of threatening in dreams?
Threatening dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things threatening dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and aggressive.
Do you think this is true for your dream of threatening? How might your dream of threatening 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 threatening 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 threatening in dreams. See how you feel about threatening now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of threatening
Read some real dream reports of threatening 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.
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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I got beat up for wearing a fursuit
Last night I had a dream that I was at a furry art show and I was having so much fun and really enjoying my self. However everyone was someone I knew in high school, then I saw an old bully who used to be mean to me as a freshman. Next thing I know I was in a fursuit and they where attacking me??? I have no clue what it meant (if it even meant anything)
Last night I had a dream that I was at a furry art show and I was having so much fun and really enjoying my self. However everyone was someone I knew in high...
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Unsettling dream about the COVID vaccine
This happened last night. So In this dream, I had declined to get the COVID vaccine for whatever reason. Next thing I remember was being in a local grocery store looking for donuts when all of a sudden I start having trouble breathing and I’m coughing out this extremely viscous green fluid. It’s got a foamy substance but doesn’t go away and the more I tried to spit it from my mouth, the thicker it gets and the harder it gets for me to breathe. The next thing I remember is seeing a live feed from my uncle who’s showing everyone how the government is threatening him and his family (because I didn’t take the vaccine) and he goes on to show everyone that someone stole my passport and sent it to him, I’m guessing as a warning message? (Idk). Except the passport had these strange, almost demonic or alien people printed on the pages. As soon as I see this, I start violently coughing out the green fluid which suddenly gets so thick that I can no longer breathe because it’s completely blocking my airways. I pretty much start to suffocate and that’s when I woke up. So yea, shit was weird..I couldn’t fall back asleep after this and I usually have a pretty easy time falling back asleep but something about this creeped me out a little. Thanks for reading!
This happened last night. So In this dream, I had declined to get the COVID vaccine for whatever reason. Next thing I remember was being in a local grocery...
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Dreaming of the Devil and Hell
Hello, atheist here so the heavy religious themes in this dream were very unusual to me but disturbing nonetheless. I'm posting for dream interpretation, not religious conversion.
My dream started in a strange post-apocalyptic world where the last humans lived in a tall building. Each level was for a specific rank of society, from one (worst) to seven (best). Social mobility was possible but hard and rare. Oh, and the lower ranks were harvested into some sort of sci-fi or magic brownies for the ranks above them. I was quite low on this pecking order but took part in a ceremony to decide who moved up and down for that year, being tortured after.
Then I woke up and went back to sleep. My dream returned to the seven-levelled weirdo world. I dropped my parents off to their work and witnessed someone threaten to shoot another. The Devil asked me to frame the victim so the shooter would be free to exact more evil.
He claimed my soul and tortured me in hell to get me to agree. My soul had been reincarnated many lifetimes and was a man (I'm a woman). The Devil threaten to torture me to the point of spiritual death each day, but he would go easier on me if I complied.
I needed to infect the victim with lycanthrophy for the devil to claim his soul, because he had been into the abyss of space and was driven mad by the forbidden secrets.
Oh, and the devil was pure darkness. A man with no festures, absent of light or colour.
Context: Atheist woman living in the UK, age 29.
Hello, atheist here so the heavy religious themes in this dream were very unusual to me but disturbing nonetheless. I'm posting for dream interpretation, not...
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Shadow people
I used to have this recurring nightmare/sleep paralysis episode (particularly in my childhood) where i would be in my bed or my crib and there would be like 4-6 shadow men looking down at me, seemingly without ill-intent just looking at me. I vividly remember them all whispering simultaneously so it was hard to make out what they were saying. Safe to say i never really felt threatened by them they were just sort of ominous.
I have only remembered it recently because i had one a few days ago. That was strikingly similar to the ones from my childhood. But they have been present all my life.
Wondered if anyone had any similar experiences?
I used to have this recurring nightmare/sleep paralysis episode (particularly in my childhood) where i would be in my bed or my crib and there would be like 4-6...
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