Dreams about killing, murder, shooting others – what do they mean? (dream interpretation killing, murder)
Dream interpretation killing, to kill, murder. Dreaming that you are killing other people might mean many things. Those you kill could symbolize something in yourself that you can’t or won’t approve of (realise about yourself) or something you’d like to get rid of. Most will tell you however, that this simply isn’t possible. At best, you can be aware of these sides of yourself and work on accepting them in order to control them better.
It might also be the case that there’s an internal battle between different sides of you. For example, the “nice” man/woman is battling a more rough/straight forward/shameless side of yourself. In this way you might see another person (representing the “nice” version of you), hitting another person (representing the more rough or shameless side of you).
You might also dream about killing your parents. To a lot of people this will seem very intense and very difficult to understand at first. Why would I want to kill my own parents? In this case, you might ask yourself if you have any reason to be angry or upset with them. Maybe there is something in your relationship with your parents that has yet to be dealt with – something you haven’t spotted that would give you a reason to be (unconsciously) angry with them even though you normally think your parents have been nothing but “good”.
Similarly, you might dream that you are killing your children. Of course, this is out of proportion to real life, but again, you might ask yourself, hypothetically, is there any reason you’d somehow wish your children weren’t here right now? I’ve coached several people with this exact dream. They felt angry about having had children too early in life with the result of a “ruined” youth. In daily life, this translated into being excessively strict with their children (often telling them off for example, where this is not appropriate), and in the language of dreams this translated into killing the children.
In an internal interpretation, the dream might also symbolize killing your own “inner child”. In other words, you are not accommodating this (vital) part of yourself – the ability to let go, to let your hair down, to be curious and open. If you are killing another (maybe unknown) child, this may illustrate the same, but it might also symbolize that you are suppressing a part of yourself. This part could be anything: your musicality, your inner geek, or your inner square dancer – whatever the child could symbolize!
If you are dreaming that you are killing other people, this may symbolize that something in you does not want you as you are or that you would like you to see yourself differently – for better or for worse! Perhaps it is better that you “die” (that your current personality dies) in order for something else – something better – to appear (see also the blog post on Death). The dream might also be an image of a very self-destructive side of yourself that is making life difficult for you. Finally and as a further external interpretation, the dream might also be a real person in your life who wishes bad things for you.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
Best, Michael
NOTE: Dream interpretation isn’t always easy, and when you are dreaming about killing other people, it will most likely mean something different for you than for others with the same dream. For instance the people in your dream will be different from other people’s dreams. A good indicator of your interpretation being correct is if you strongly feel it applies to you – deep inside of yourself.
I would usually enjoy watching mysteries and reading the bible to discover my religion again, but the dream i had was not only scary but sad as well. I had a 2hr dream that it was my birthday and my best friend ,Jasmin, was gonna hang out with me. After a few photoshoot, I was sent to go home. Me, my mom and her friend were planning on what to do on my birthday. Few of my friends came in to play with me outside of my apartments. Of course, i was interested in planning my birthday with my mom and her friend. Later, Jasmin walked in the scene and told me how she noticed the “photographer” were keeping pics of me with my skin showing when i was having a photoshoot. I was pretty confused, and then “bang!…bang!” We all heard 2 gun shots from a far. Me, my mom, her friend, and her little dirty son were already hiding behind the bushes. Jasmin and my friends decided to keep having fun, dancing and doing Tik Toks. I asked my mom’s friend, “hey, do u want to go inside?” And before she could say anything, a man with a blue hoodie and a backpack came in..walking really slowly and tired..he turned to our streets and I had my hand covering the little dirty son of my mom’s friend. When the man stopped in front of my bush, he pulled out a gun and shot my friends. I dont even know this guy, neither do i recognize him!! While he was shooting, the dirty little son tried to make some noises to play a beat with the gun shots. I tried hard to cover his mouth until i looked down and saw my smiling plushie with a voice box. I was confused on what was going on. I tried to sleep more but my eyes just opened to take me back from my nightmare. In addition to my dream, my mom and her friend are Christians. Now, I felt bad for my friends not being able to have their best times for my birthday.
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I had a dream where my dad was running away from the law and I followed him. He told me to go back because my grandma needed me. I told him she’d be fine. So he finally let me come with him. He eventually got stopped by the cops and he was talking to them. but I didn’t want my dad to get put in jail for whatever he did, so while I was talking to a few cops, I grabbed their gun and shot them. I went back to talk to my dad who was currently talking to a cop, and gave him a nod. He then ran, and so did I. Our plan was to run away to Ireland(were Irish and that is the place we all want to go one day)We got to a location with a bunch of boats. My dad had somehow gotten my grandma there with us so she could come and we could take care of her. It was like a night beach-boat party outside. We got on a boat and we eventually got on the water to get away. I didn’t tell my dad I shot the cops until we got on the boat.
Hi Kylie – what an interesting dream! Of course quite hard for me to comment on since I know nothing about your life situation, your relation with your dad / grandma, their personality/characteristics etc – all of it important information when trying to decipher a dream. From an inner perspective (seing the dream as representing something inside yourself) the dream might be about an inner struggle that you are currently having – e.g. about going against “inner authorities” – i.e. for instance and inner police telling you what is right or wrong to do in life. Maybe you are currently fighting hard to life your own life free of external representations. You could ask – what does your father represent to you? The cops are trying to get him – so maybe you are trying to be more like your dad (again – what are your assocations to him) – or maybe (an outer interpretation of the dream) – you are actually trying to help your dad somehow in real life. Best regards – Michael
I havr a friend who keeps having nightmares and idk what to do to help him……
nightmares ending in either I’m dead and heartbroken or someone else dead and I’m happy.
Between dreams of friends to dreams of my ex all at the same time
Main thing is I see my friends and then instead of their face I see hers. And it’s only girls which is weird.
Then the spine tingling chill runs down me and I get scared and choke them out or stab em with a knife and yet I black out wake up and see the body with no idea it was me till I see whatever I killed them with next to me and me surround in a pool of blood with blood also all over me
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Ive been having nightmares about my daughters boyfriend killing me
I keep having dreams of killing my father and not feeling any type of remorse. It’s like I kill him and I just go on with my day like nothing happened. I do have so much hate towards him, since hes an alcoholic and mistreated me and because of him I was raped and harrassed by an uncle of mine. Instead of him defending me, he beat me up. In reality everytime im near him my blood boils and I just want to physically hurt him the way he hurt me, but I don’t wanna spend my life in prison. Anyways ive been dreaming about this for over a month already.
I had a dream that my family is under attack and the people who were attacking us were armed where I only had knifes I tried my best hit so injured almost died but didn’t let my family have a scratch what can it mean and also in real life I am way to protective for my family and know some things about them which they never told me or anyone else
I’ve dream about that i was running trying to hide w my children cause there were bombs going off and people shooting at everyone and we were like in a small town it was really scary