To dream of being strangled – what does it mean? (Dream interpretation suffocation / strangulation)
Dream interpretation strangulation/suffocation
Suffocation in dreams is not a rare thing to dream about. There are several angles to it; these are reviewed below.
Dreams about suffocation can mean that you are simply too busy. Similar to dreams about drowning, dreams about suffocating can symbolize that your current (hectic) life style will quite simply be the death of you.
If you find this interpretation relevant to your situation, it is critical that you take your dream seriously – you simply cannot keep up anymore, and your brain and body needs you to slow down.
Dreams about being strangled as an image of something within yourself that is ”strangling” you/hinders you from thriving and developing. This interpretation is the most common – you can even dream that you are strangling yourself!
…a very clear indication that you in a some way – in what you say, think or do – limit yourself in a way that is “killing you” (that is to say mentally, because you lack vitality).
A 30-year-old woman for instance repeatedly dreamt that a very old woman was going to strangle her. At this point in her life, she was single and often stayed at home and isolated herself, and because of previous experiences, she did everything she could to avoid contact with men, who were actually interested in her.
It was clear from the dream that she, way too early in her life, had habits more suited for an old woman. In the same way, there may be things within you that are quite simply “strangling you” and which therefore prevent you from realizing your true potential; things you may be unaware of.
In addition to this, it may also be the case that your current life situation, how you see yourself, your social circle, or your job, is “killing you”. There are numerous things – within yourself and in your surroundings – that can “strangle” you and prevent you from unfolding and developing.
Finally, there are also cases which suggest that a dream about being strangled simply can occur because you are having difficulties breathing during your sleep – perhaps you have been uncomfortable, or you may have a physical disability that makes it difficult for you to breathe.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
Have you had a dream about strangulation or suffocation? Please share your experience in the comments below.
NB: Dream interpretation is not easy – especially because dreams are always 100% individual. For this reason the above scenarios might not be relevant to your suffocation dream.
Michael
I’ve been having this recurring dream about a computer game created to make me do bad things. However, I can’t remember the specific things. Although, last night I dreamt that I found the person who created it – a close friend of mine (and my prom date). I’m in secondary school but I dreamt that he was chasing me around my primary school and I found the room where he was storing the original game. I tried to shut it down and he burst through the door and began to strangle me. This guy is very close to me and seeing him that angry (it was very realistic) has scared me a little. Any advice? or perhaps an explanation, please???
My name is Loryn, I just had a very strange and terrifying dream.. it started as me in school, and I was in the library and a man in a gas suit is catch a cobra, I go to my first period where my second period teacher is teaching and everyone has their pets, well I look out side my door and the guy in the suit is at the class next to me and he opens the door and there is a mountain lion in the room next door, the bell rings I grab my dog and walk the hallway, well somehow me and my fiancé’s family are in a line next to doors under a yellow light, and I see this man in a hospital gown thing start to choke my fiancé’s little brother, and the guy who was wearing the gas suit is in robes now and they can talk but he pushes at the man and the man pushes back but pointing at him to go away, he tries to go back to choke his brother and I run up and push him he slides away and then faces me and points at me, now I’m in a back yard it’s dArk but I can see outside, and there’s this blow up pool I’m setting on the grass with a friend away from the pool just looking at it, and I start thinking about her throwing a blanket in the pool with me in it, it rises and something comes toward me and I fall out of the pool and crawl back to where I’m already sitting, then instead of that happening I am sitting in the grass and my friend starts screaming and pointing behind me, it was the man in the hospital and he started leaning down at me his hands going for my neck I’m screaming for my mom, and then I thought I woke up, I thought I was awake, I was in bed but strangely opposite my head was at my fiancé’s feet and I was screaming for him and for my mother but I couldn’t wake up, and when I did it was a slow process I couldn’t actually wake up because I thought I was already awake… and when I woke up I was crying, and shaking I had my fiancé call my mother to talk with me.. it was terrifying, any idea what this means?
I saw a dream where someone i once liked, strangled me. And while he was doing it he talked about normal stuff and just acted like everything was fine and normal. What does that mean?
My name is daniel my mother died 9 years ago. A few weeks ago i was in a deep sleep and suddenly woke with hands round my kneck , it was my mother strangling me. I was on my knees in bed having just woke up wide awake and i was literally trying to take the hands from round my kneck whilst wide awake. I rarely dreamt about my parents but lately i have dreams about them . This particular dream has happened twice now and the scent of my mother i smelt on my partner today . Any reply would be much appreciated thankyou
You may find this odd, but just four days ago, I had a dream that I have no fond memory of but I woke up and I couldn’t move. I saw my ex boyfriends face , he was on top of me and he was choking me. Mind you “ I woke up from the DREAM. I woke up from whatever dream I was having and saw his face. The next night I didn’t sleep at all. I was up a whole 24 hours before I slept again.
Hi I’m 24 yr old and currently doing a job. Its about yesterday night. I had a dream inside a dream in which someone was trying to choke be really bad. I was not able to move as if it was real. When I woke up ot was really choking me,I could not breathe. What does this indicate? Do I have a threat or something?
My experience is on the run after sexually assaulting and strangling my 10 year old. He had a very volitle nature. I dreamt that I was somewhere and was at someone’s apartment at a party… They ended up running off with my 12 year old son to the woods where we were attacked… All of a sudden my son wasn’t around but I was on the ground trying to fight them off. I didn’t wake up until then. They were trying to hold my legs down.. Maybe three fully grown men.
It was supposed to say my ex is on the run not my experience
I had a dream my oldest child my daughter was trying to suffocate her brother my one year old son with a plastic bag over his face I found them just in time when he started to turn blue
I saw a bald boy, aprx 11 yrs old, he was inside our home, when my brother saw him he recognized him, my brother was trying to get him out. But he couldn’t. And then my brother trying to kill him. But I can’t understand the situation. and the boy did not want to go out. And then suddenly a earthquake coming, what is the meaning of this dream/nightmare plz tell me,
I had a dream last night that I was outside my body watching someone choke me. I was only focused on watching my face as I was being choked, so I didn’t see who was doing it to me. It was really terrifying
I had a dream of the devil choking me to death last night. Whail others was standing there watching. I had this dream 3 times in a row in one night. Each time I woke up but the last one I actually got up out of the bed. After praying about it I went back to bed. I was able to sleep peacefully after that. I have never had a dream like this before. how ever i have had other dreams/visions before about the end of times n spiritual ones as well. Could you please help me figure this one out?
As I’m writing this, I just woke up. It was a dream where my momom wanted me to go to school but just wasn’t feeling well so she made me sleep in her room while she was at work. So a couple minutes pass and start to get tired of the position that I’m laying in bed and thought about moving and I said : “Nah, I’m not gonna move. It might set of an alarm.” And I accidentally moved and the alarm went off. I could hear the alarm from the living room and I got up and opened the door and someone was pulling me back by the hood of my onesie. I undid my onesie and tried to run but I was wearing a hooded shirt under it and it pulled my shirt trying to choke me again. I ripped my hoodad and I ran into a bathroom, but not the one at my house. I saw my best friend and another girl I go to school with and I don’t know what they said but they both started crying and then I started crying and then I woke up.
Hi, yesterday I dreamed that i have choke myself to death… I also remember when i was choking myself to death the surrounding starting to change to a schene where i choke myself and was drowing.. It felt so real that i woke up and my neck felt so uncomfortable.. What does this means?
Hello,
I just had a dream where I was in some sort of magical mansion in which you would go through a wall an end up deeper in another part of it. Sort of like a dungeon. I was with two other girls I didn’t know, but we were solving puzzles in order to discover the mystery of the mansion. We had reached a point where it seemed we were almost to the end, I had just cleared a puzzle where I had to throw paint at a wall, when I came to an obstacle that seemed to have no solution. I saw people watching from the shadows, whispering to me not to go any deeper and I stopped at an empty counter with the words “Metereh” embedded in there. Just as I left and was about to leave for a another floor, I felt a presence behind, looked back to see a very tall unknown person with a face of no expression appear behind the counter. I moved to run away but I didn’t get very far before this person covered my nose and my mouth with is hands. I managed to pull those hands away but he would still catch up to me, and that happened two more times and I passed out. When I came to, I was back at the room where it all started. I tried going down again to the same floor, where it happened again, even if I tried running a different way – he still caught up to me and covered my mouth from behind, not letting me breath and making me panic. The whole thing was very scary and the whole magical mansion had this creepy feeling to it throughout, but I had this idea that I had to do it because I hated that I couldn’t get to the last floor of this “dungeon” of puzzles and at the same time that unknown very tall man terrified me. I woke up gasping for air and looking around me, scared.
I don’t know what it means. I am going to start work tomorrow, something I look forward to, I am worried about my free time since I am almost going to be taking an obligatory program classes at night in the next week for a following year, and I’m behind on projects I made for myself, since I’m an artist. Lately a lot has happened to me, my car breaking and getting me stuck in a flood, there was a massive typhoon that happened over here, and I’m suffering food poisoning at the moment.
Sorry for the long post and thank you!
I had a dream that I was the care taker for a monkey. In the morning, I went in to care for the monkey, and my boss was behind me. The monkey jumped down off the wall and strangled me, literally to death. Then the monkey stood up like a man and took over my job. I had the distinct feeling that the monkey wasn’t angry or hostile, he just knew that he had to kill me. He had to keep choking me until I stopped breathing. It was just what he had to do.
Its my first time to dream that i was being strangled & cannot utter a word. Before that happens, in the morning i am so stressed out because i was late for my morning flight to attend a seminar & i had to re-book it using our company’s account. My Lady boss advised me not to pursue of my plans going there but i have to pay back the expenses. Still I insists & had my flight in the afternoon. Two weeks before our flight also i dreamt of zombies.
I had an extremely vivid dream that my husband was strangling me…I felt in the dream the actual extreme fear and force that would have occurred from such an attack. This dream had occurred years after another real life incident had occurred in which I was lying very still in my bed waiting for my husband to go to sleep, so I could grab my car keys and get out of the house, because for some reason
I was fearing for my life. When I got into the car it was not starting right away and he appeared out of nowhere and jumped into the back seat, trying to take my keys and begging me not to go…I finally relented. I never really understood at the time why I was trying to run away and why I was so terrified…until I had this strangulation dream years later and I woke up thinking, “That is what happened, he had tried to kill me.” Any thoughts?