What Does It Mean to Dream About Mace Spray?

To dream of mace spray represents a strong urge to defend personal boundaries by taking action that deters someone from repeating their behavior. Your efforts to maintain personal boundaries or distance yourself from a toxic or harmful situation or person. Your efforts to maintain personal boundaries or distance yourself from a toxic or harmful situation or person. A defensive mechanism you use to ward off emotional or psychological threats. A sense of being threatened or the need to assert your authority in a situation where someone is testing you or going overboard not respecting personal boundaries. Talking back or being assertive towards people that are uncomfortably getting to close to your personal life to make them feel that it's unwelcome or not a good idea. The need for protection and to assert control in a situation where personal boundaries are being violated by someone else. Feeling that others are oblivious to your personal boundaries unless you assert yourself. Defensiveness about not having to listen to something ever again.

Negatively, dreaming of mace may reflect overdoing defensiveness over personal boundaries. Defensive feelings about boundaries that you believe do not need to be discussed a second time, even though delving deeper into the issue might help. A dislike for any impact on your sense of autonomy and personal boundaries.

Example: A young woman dreamed of an intruder breaking into her home, and she chose to spray mace into his eyes. In waking life, her ex-boyfriend had visited her parents, which she found annoying and felt it violated her personal boundaries. In this case, the mace spray may have represented her defensive feelings, as she never wanted to hear about her ex-boyfriend from other people again.

Example 2: An older woman dreamed of her husband trying to kill a snake by spraying mace onto it. She felt bad for the snake and became angry. In waking life, her husband and children decided to cut off her allowance from their family business, deeming her financially incompetent. In this case, the mace spray may have symbolized her family's assertive and forceful approach to what they perceived as her financial incompetence. The mace spray represents their efforts to exert control over her and maintain their family boundaries regarding expenses.