You Will Never View Violence In Dreams The Same Way

By Dr. Angel Morgan via DreamsCloud In recent years, dream sharing has become more frequent and popular online. When reading these dream narratives, I have found there are some commonly repeated questions about violence in dreams that deserve commentary and discussion. For the sake of dream education, let's get this conversation started. The most general question I see posted after sharing a dream with violence (and usually some kind of gory death) in it, is "Why am I dreaming this??!!" Usually there are other added comments such as, "I would never hurt that person," or, "I am not a violent person at all, so why did I dream that??" Of course, the answer will always depend on the dreamer's life circumstances, and we are all unique. However, there are some pieces of the truth that can be shared about the dreaming process that may help ease some of the fear and pain many dreamers suffer from unnecessarily. Unless the dream is extraordinary (1), our ordinary dreams tend to be symbolic, using metaphors or puns to tell a story about what we are feeling and experiencing that concerns us most at the time of the dream. So dream violence may or may not have anything to do with waking life violence. For example, if someone has experienced violence in waking life, then yes violence can make its way into that person's dream because they need to process and eventually heal from what happened. This is commonly experienced in PTSD nightmares (2). In these situations, sometimes viol...
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