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
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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 dreamed of killing my grandparents but they healed, then i woke up and went back to sleep and dreamt about ghosts and our house being haunted
I had a dream thatbI kilked my mother and hud her body and didnt care. Didnt actually see myself doing it but I knew I had and I was only worried of being caught. The worse is that my husband dreamed the same night that I killed my mother and that he knew and didnt want me close to him. Weird. I called my mother to see how she was doing.
i had a dream that i stabbed a girl to death with a axe in the car in a save a lot parking lot and got away with it. (can someone tell me what that means)
I have many dreams where I am killed. Mostly by guns. When Im shot it feels very real. The area where I am shot feels very hot, burning. I can also feel the impact, and the bullet going into my body.
Sir I had a dream that someone has killed my father and uncle and was trying to kill my mother too . My mother was pregnant that time . I fought for her and got injured so much . At last I begged for my mother’s life . What does this mean ?
Thank you for posting interpretations for us. It helps alot
iv’e been having dream and visons of me killing people for a week now i mean it doesn’t scare me but the one i had last night it was me with a couple of my old friends and we are at a arcade and i shot one in the head when my favorite anime character appeared his name is Makoto Yuuka other known as ” Sniper Mask ” from High Rise Invasion and in the other parts we were killing lots of people with shots to the head and my gun stopped working and another person dressed as Mr Mask ( who i was trying to kill ) grabbed my gun and pulled a different one and said something like ” the FBI doesn’t even give her the right gun smh ” and im like ” what ?? ” and he grbas me and takes me inside a helicopter and we flew off and he gave me a new gun and told me to aim for smeone head and i did and shot and killed them without hesitation in my heart and i didn’t feel any different and usually i do inside my dreams but i din’t at all .
I had a dream a while back that I was running and one of my relatives was trying to kill us. She ended up stabbing my father in his chest and the blade went right through. Somehow, he was still alive. And when I told my mom what happened to my dad after he was stabbed, she brushed it off. This seriously has to be one of the most confusing dreams I’ve ever had.
I had a dream where I was in this apartment building room and I was in the bathroom. I had a vision of my dad shooting these men and suddenly he disappeared and I found the gun. These two men were trying to get to me and I was shooting them in the head but they kept getting back up. Finally I got one and I tried to kill the other man but he kept staying alive. I was shooting him in the head and finally I was out of bullets and he was still alive. He was up walking and everything. He said he was going to call police and he did and I just sat there yelling help help I’ve been kidnapped. What does this mean?
I had a dream where I was in this house with my family, it wasn’t ours but my mom was looking for someone/something so we were helping her. There was a woman and three kids in the house and then suddenly this guy pulled up and started yelling at us and then a few more came out and they all had guns. We told them we weren’t going to hurt any of his family but he was mad. He came into the house and ran at me and my sister so I grabbed a knife off the counter and started stabbing him. Specifically in the eye. This wasnt the first dream I’ve had where I either stabbed or poked someone’s eye out with my fingers because they were trying to hurt me. In my dream where I was being held captive I escaped right before they were about to kill me but I had to go back and save someone so I ended up killing a lot of people.
I had a dream I shot 6 people and killed them. Later on police were looking for the murderer and I was so scared to go to jail and envisioned my children all grown up the next time I saw them. I expressed my fear of going to jail to my husband and he replied “and you think I’m not scared of you going to jail” later that day we took the kids out to dinner and there was a note on the door from a detective asking if I could give him a call. This dream felt so real and I have never been so happy to wake up.
I had a dream, where I was in a auditorium with 50-100 people, I was giving a speech that went on about how they were going to die and the doors were all locked so it was pointless trying to escape. I had a huge smile on my face almost laughing. And I picked out one person to be my number one victim, they had large eyes popping out of their head, pale skin shivering in complete terror that’s when I started to laugh. I then went to my escape route and before I left I pushed a button that released toxic chemicals into the air wiping out everyone but me, as I climbed onto a helicopter I started to laugh then I woke up. What does this dream mean
I had a dream about killing about 5-6 people with a gun and drowned one person under water in the same dream. What’s the meaning ?
i had a dream where I killed 6 people, I shot 4 people with a pistol, impaled 1 with a object (can’t remember it) and stabbed another person with a knife. I covered it up later with my friend who was in the killing with me (she was giving me the guns and weapons) there was blood everywhere so it was difficult, there was blood stains on the bed and I left the knife and impaling object there,
Idk what this means but I have a dream where I was killed by my parents. What do this mean?
I had a dream it was i think my brother in the corner of are house and a girl i dont really like was holding a gun at us so my dad i think grabs the gun and places it in are cabnit but she sees it and then walks into are kitchen and then we get into a fight and then i grab her head and repeaedly slam her head onto the table until she was dead and their was blood everywhere so yeah