Dreams about war / fight – what do they mean? (Dream interpretation war / fight)
Dreams of war / fight.
A not very uncommon dream theme is a specific war, or that someone (you and/or others) fight with each other. Often this will be a picture of one of two things: a battle between aspects of yourself that dispute, or an image of some aggressiveness that you pursue too much or too little of in your waking life.
War / fight in dreams as an image of an internal conflict.
A classic inner conflict is the conflict between being driven by status / money / power – in other words, “external factors” as opposed to being driven from the inside (of “internal factors”), such as what gives you inner satisfaction. This conflict has probably been around almost as long as there is something that has been called civilization – if not even longer.
Similarly, the inner grubby / wild man / woman fighting with the inner neat / obedient man / woman is also a very common theme. That is different parts of your personality that dispute, which is something you should be able to know about in your waking life if you dream about it. In other words, you perhaps have a hard time finding out if you need to be “wild” or “nice,” or ambitious and structured, or more wild with a “do not care” approach. The possibilities are endless – it’s all about you and your life situation.
War / fight in dreams as a picture of (unresolved / excessive) aggression.
At the same time that you dream about war or a fight, can also be a picture of you being angry at someone without having expressed it. It can be a friend / partner or colleague, who somehow stepped on you / hurt you, but you might have slipped easily over it and said “never mind” to yourself and tried to unpack the anger / frustration away – but dreams tell you how angry you actually are.
The positive side can somehow be that you in dreams are able to vent your anger, and therefore you need not to take the “fight” with him/her in real life. The “negative” side can very well be that you really should express your anger / frustration in reality – not to carry around a lot of pent-up anger.
You can, for example dream that you scold a colleague – he might have made you angry the previous day but you have bitten it in you. Quite conversely, the dream of war and fight can also be an indication that you in your waking life have a very aggressive (usually not physically violent but verbally / “psychic” violent) approach to (certain) other people. It may be a good idea to look at whether you can either mark an unredeemed aggression / anger against others – or if you recognize a very aggressive (inappropriate) behavior / thinking in yourself.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
NOTE: Dreams are 100% individual, and when you dream about war/fight, it’s almost certainly about something else for you than it is for your friend, who also dreamt about war/fight. Dream interpretation / dream analysis is sometimes a difficult art, and a particular interpretation of a dream is only correct if you feel “affected” by it. Therefore, it is not certain that the above mentioned interpretations are relevant to you.
Hi Everyone, I woke up this morning and remembered my dream ver clearly, I feel like I dream about it early morning just before I wake up!
I had a dream that I was with my brothers (twins) , and old man annoyed me by making my backpack dirty and I started arguing with him and his son came out too and while my brothers were about to get involved, we realised there was something like an explosion happening, and we saw airplane coming towards us and other people, it’s like a war has been declared and they airplanes started firing at people, we started to run away (me and my brothers) and my brothers were running behind and the airplane sent fire to them a few times and I could see them behind me burning in fire and then I went to hide behind a car and I could see soldier killing people with their guns and I saw women soldiers mainly I remember , and one of them found me behind the car and fired at me, and some seconds later my high school friend came and hid behind the car next to me with her boyfriend and made me realise I’m alive and I was shocked and I thought to me myself maybe my brothers are alive too, it’s like the war was partially ended as I could see doctors and authorities helping people and giving them medical supplies and care , sorry for my English hopefully you unerstood, I read some meanings online and it says it indicated a separation with my lover, I have a boyfriends that I love very much and we live together and Waiting for him to propose to me but his family are against it as we’re from different religion but we want don’t care about it, and I’m the chaser lately and always afraid of losing him I don’t know if it’s related but thought you should know, please help with the interpretation of my dream ♥️Thanks
My mother saw the about me ,
That i am surrounded by crowd with weapons and they are trying to kill me , but she is supposed to hide me in the temple , and someone in the dream shouted that he killed me , but my mother saw that i am alive , what does this dream mean ?
Dear Stefmiff,
thank you for your comment and very interesting dream! I currently cannot keep up with the enormous amounts of comments I receive daily (currently more than 200 unanswered comments), so I have decided to no longer offer this kind of help. I would however love to help you understand your dream in a private online session – see more here. Best regards – Michael