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.
I have had dreams of war specifically world wars 1 and 2 and and the screams of the wounded is the roar of falling artillery and the putrid vapors of the dead is the scalding poison of mustard gas ive also dreamed a large evil beast devouring the plains of Europe this has taken a toll on my mind of course can anyone explain this
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Well,i dreamt about a war and in the previous day i was denied to regester for my exams because i had failed to clear tuition,and promised to register in two days to come.
Am not certain to whether i shall regester or not,thus it may be the relevance of my dream being at war!
Could that one be true surely?
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Thank you very much, this was very helpful to me, as i kept on dreaming about fighting against people and so many, and or sometimes against beasts/animals but i always win in against every opponents, so i found the interpretation, as i always keeping anger within me, not telling my partner about bad behavior i recognize to her, i kept on getting angry day and day.
i have had dreams of fighting by me and someone,she’s girl he dressed black coat she’s all black, chased me
But strange that I was running flight i dont know why,she want to take me,
when we went to church then he’d hurt me just to get but I fought
when I raised my hand suddenly there came a spade and i fought her?can anyone explain this dream
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i have had dreams of fighting by me and someone,she’s girl he dressed black coat she’s all black, chased me
But strange that I was running flight i dont know why,she want to take me,
when we went to church then he’d hurt me just to get but I fought
when I raised my hand suddenly there came a spade and i fought her?can anyone explain this dream
Hi Realyn,
and thank you for your comment. As I get many comments every day, I simply cannot keep up with answering all of them. That is also the reason why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hi my name is Cindy
And i have a nephew who is 8 years old and he dreams about the war and fighting to in his sleep is there anything my sister can do
Is it possible he could be holing back something
He wakes up crying amd screaming
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I dream that the Indians was killing anyone that wasn’t dark skin people. and i took up with them in the fight. but when I caught someone (I think he was Japanese) and I had a chance to kill him I didn’t and we became close in the fight. he and I (the Japanese) became close (I protected him) this was a crazy dream.
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After reading the article I found thag I am going through both the situatio. The first one is because of my career its not going in a way that o want to and the second one is because of colleague, sometime disastrous thoughts come in my mind which boils the blood inside me but then i let it go.
Hi I just have a dream of a war..more like a clan war.. They want to dominate each places my family and I join the war and in the end we want to stop the war b’coz we see and hear those people how they die and scream..its so painful and we all scared of what will the result is but suddenly the the setting is change they chase us instead ..so im so scared and I saw my nephew shaking and crying.. When I wake up I’m crying and shaking.. Please help me..thanks
You interpretation really seemed so true to me. This just describes the current situation and conflicts of my life. I do so little but want so much. There’s a conflict within me. It’s also true that I’m having a confusion of me being “nice” or “wild” and about the pent-up anger in me, omg, that’s also true. I wrote down the dream I had this morning. We were like invaded by armed soldiers and the war was horrible. I was so angry at my parents and some friends. My friends all died and both my parents were shot on the shoulder but still alive. I was so mad that my parents lined up at the back of the armed men during face-off when we’re supposed to be at the side. I was screaming and they just don’t care. I now kinda have an idea what this means. Thanks!
every single night I am fighting for my life, either against one or many opponents… the scenarios are always different, a knife-fight against several attackers, a hot firefight against several people trying to kill me, or knock-down drag out unarmed combat to the death… i have other (normal) dreams also, but eventually i end up fighting for my life against people trying to kill me, inside structures, outside in the wild, or street-side a war-torn battlefield or in a parking lot of a restaurant, etc… I often wake up soaked with sweat, rapid heartbeat and panting as though I have just run as fast as I can for as long as I can… It’s really getting old, and more than a bit concerning… My wife tells me I often shout while sleeping or make other violent sounds of someone involved in direct combat, such as grunts, expressions of pain, and so on. Not sure what o make of it or how to make it stop.
i had the dream that i was at a store and i went outside and the whole world was going crazy
I dreamt of war happenening and in the dream we were up on night and then I saw a plane bombing us so my stepdad turned the tv on and we were going to world war 3 and then I woke up and I don’t remember fighting or anything wrong recently so what can this be then
Well.. I had a dream..(ummm i dream quite often ),so coming back to the topic… I had a dream in which me and my friends came out of waters at the beach and we have our guy frds out there.We all were There at the beach and then i got offended after a friend’s (An unimportant friend in my Real life)comment( maybe Something Lustful regarding or stuff )and i got Mad at him.. so Much That i began to beat him up and his friends fierce .They were bleeding and they Jst go away. Then i saw myself going downstairs and it was completly dark and i Then i experienced that the friend was trying to give me electric shocks as a revenge and Yet again i got really furious aBout that and then.. I saw i was having an argument with his mother who was being defensive about her son’s act but i was more and more dominating and explaining to her that How severe it could get given electric shocks being wet And how it could have taken my life Away and stuff..