For the past week I have been having dreams of me killing people I go to school with. We would get into a argument, and than a fist fight. In the end I would I through them to the ground and stomp on their head until death. I mean, I know that I am a very angry person, but in my dreams, I feel like I had accomplished something good by killing them. Something I would never feel in real life.
What could this mean?
Probably a lot of built up aggression that you’ve been repressing for a while. You’ll probably stop having these dreams after releasing your anger, safely and sensibly of course. Maybe participating in physical sports or exercise will help you blow off some steam.
It means you feel helpless at school and in your dreams you gain or take back control.
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Probably a lot of built up aggression that you’ve been repressing for a while. You’ll probably stop having these dreams after releasing your anger, safely and sensibly of course. Maybe participating in physical sports or exercise will help you blow off some steam.
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Actually when you dream of killing, it is about killing a bad habit, like you want to quit smoking, or break off a bad relationship, it isn’t about killing a person.
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www. dream moods .com
Hello, נσ∂у.
Sigmund Freud, a highly acclaimed but sometimes discredited psycholanalyst, is believed to have changed the study of dreams and greatly increased its relevance. He even published a book about his findings, titled "The Interpretation of Dreams", in 1900. Not everyone agrees with Freud’s statements about dreaming, but I have found them interesting. Perhaps they can help to answer your question.
The following paraphrased quotes are from a website (www.citehr.com) in which Sigmund Freud’s interpretations on dreaming were discussed:
" Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), considered the Father Of Psychoanalysis, revolutionized the study of dreams with his work ‘The Interpretation Of Dreams’. Freud began to analyze dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believed that nothing we did occurred by chance; every action and thought is motivated by our unconscious at some level. In order to live in a civilized society, we tend to hold back or urges and repress our urges and impulses. However, these urges and impulses must be released in some way and have a way of coming to the surface in disguised forms.
"One way these urges and impulses are released is through our dreams. Freud understood the symbolic nature of dreams and believed they were a direct connection to our unconscious, what Freud refers to as the id. The id is centered around pleasure, desire, unchecked urges and wish fulfillment. During our waking hours, the desires of the id are suppressed by the superego, which acts as a censor for the id. The superego enforces the moral codes for the ego and blocks unacceptable impulses of the id. Because your guard is down during the dream state, your unconscious has the opportunity to act out and express the hidden desires of the id."
The website goes on to discuss the meaning of these suppressed wishes of the id:
"What Do Dreams Mean? –Wish Fulfilment
"According to Freud, dreams are spyholes into our unconscious. Fears, desires and emotions that we are usually unaware of make themselves known through dreams. To Freud dreams were fundamentally about wish-fulfillment. Even "negative" dreams (punishment dreams and other anxiety dreams) are a form of wish-fulfilment ; the wish being that certain events do not occur. Very often such dreams are interpreted as a warning.
"Freud believed that although our dreams contain these important messages, they are encoded – disguised. The unconscious mind doesn’t speak any verbal language therefore it must communicate with us via symbols. Some of these symbols are near-universal, others very personal to us and our individual life experiences."
These paragraphs about what dreams mean might begin to help you understand your own dreams. Perhaps you repress anger, a must if you want to blend with society: you are subconsciously in danger of violence if pushed too far, and your subconscious wants to warn you of this. Perhaps you have acted out before, and you have a suppressed fear that you might do so again, and in a more extreme way. Remember that the best interpreter of your dreams is usually you, especially if you learn what certain things mean.
The discussion I previously cited from (www.citehr.com) tries to elaborate on these hidden meanings:
"Manifest Vs Latent:
"Freud thus distinguished between the ‘manifest content’ of dreams (what we actually dream) and the ‘latent content’ of dreams (the unfulfilled wish that the dream represents).
"Dream content is rarely presented by the mind in a simple and direct fashion. Instead a complex dream is constructed from the basic elements. The raw dream symbols are distorted via condensation (compression, conflation and omission of dream elements) and "displacement" (shifting emphasis). This is followed by a process of "secondary revision" that takes all these (by now distorted) elements and assembles them into some more or less coherent narrative structure.
"Freud went further and suggested that very often our conscious mind actively tries to reject the messages of our dreams; we ‘repress’ this knowledge. Dreams are often an expression of a repressed wish that we would rather not admit to – they thus indicate psychic conflict that can in turn be at the core of mental disturbance."
So, based on the information we have just learned, you might truly want to kill; not necessarily a person, just something. Perhaps it is the anger from arguments and fights that you want to kill… perhaps not. Here is the final portion of the discussion:
"Dreams [are] defined in Webster’s Dictionary as a ‘sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person’s mind’. Dreams have been a topic of study dating back to 4000 B.C. One may say that dreams have been around as long as the first civilization came to be and are just a normal part of human existence.
"In our dreams, we can go anywhere, we can be anybody, and we can do anything. When
References :
http://www.citehr.com
http://www.wikipedia.com
My own experiences.