What Does It Mean to Dream About Violence?

To dream of violence represents mental or emotional conflict or struggle with certain aspects of your personality. You have negative thoughts or emotions like fears, desires, guilt, envy, or other issues that you are confronting or struggling with in your waking life. Violence may also reflect waking life conflict or arguments.

If you win fights or violent confrontations it symbolizes negative thoughts, or habits you have overcome in your waking life. You may have successfully confronted a problem.

If you lose fights or violent confrontations it can symbolize negative thoughts or habits that you have given in to or that control your decisions. A problem may be too much for you or too scary for you to confront.

To dream of being violent towards yourself may represent self punishment, guilt, or feeling helpless or vulnerable.

To find yourself enjoying violence in a dream may represent your eagerness to confront problems, or overcome negativity in your life. It may also point to aggressive or sadomasochistic tendencies.

To see violence may also reflect repressed memories of abuse from childhood.

Violence can be a common theme when you may have unconscious pent up feelings of anger and frustration. Violence is a common dream occurrence that shakes up the dreamer for a reason. If you are doing the violence the persona who might be the victim might be a clue to investigate further. If you are being attack might suggest being victim in your walking life.