Dreams of torturing are more related to fantastic beings and much more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to peers.

Dreams of torturing are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion and less related to fun.

Dreams of torturing are much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human-made places.

Dreams of torturing are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to friendly acts, and more related to sex than dreams in general.

Torturing dreams are much more related to nightmares, more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams.

Dreams of torturing are less related to vision.

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.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience torturing in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

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 torturing in dreams. See how you feel about torturing now, in your waking life.

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. Dreams create physical representations of personal situations, and torture can be a way of describing something that figuratively tortures you. People talk about torture to mean something that ranks as less than actual torture, but in an exaggerated way it fits: “Sitting through that lecture was torture.” “Listening to that music is torture.” “I’m tortured by guilt.” Imagine how a dream could take those statements and turn them into a scene. The torture of sitting through a lecture could be turned into a scene of being strapped into an electric chair. Listening to torturous music translates symbolically into nasty insects crawling into your ears. Being tortured by guilt could be depicted as being forced to watch an innocent person executed for something you did. A key point is that torture in dreams is often a way of describing what’s going on in your emotions, based on how it feels, not how it is objectively. Torture is an exaggerated way of saying something is awkwardly painful. For example, “The meeting tomorrow is going to be torture.” Extend the idea further and it can apply to situations you dread, such as having dental work done or a proctologist exam. Torture is used to expose secrets, and might be used in a dream in relation to keeping a secret. Torture in a dream can mean you torture yourself or are tortured by guilt or shame. You hate yourself, or your life is hell. Something really needs to change. See: Guilty, Hell It can mean you can’t forgive yourself for something, or you focus on the pain and suffering in the world and these give you a bleak view of life. Of course, in some cases the traditional meaning of the word “torture” might be closer to the truth. For example, a painful illness or physical condition can be portrayed as torture, because torture is used to create physical pain. Or torture is an apt way of describing how you receive some shocking news. For example, you hear that a neighbor’s child was in a horrific accident, and it affects you deeply. You then dream about a child being tortured. See also: Dungeons, Guilty, Hell, Prisoners, Terrorists, Torturing, Wounds