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.
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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.
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
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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.
Lately (like every night for over a month now)I’ve had some very disturbing and messed up dreams, sometimes waking me up in the middle of the night gasping for air or crying. Last night and the past few nights, however, I’ve dreamt vividly of war. Like blood, guts, men&children dying gruesomely kinda war. Most of the time I forget exactly what happened as soon as I wake up, but today I can’t stop thinking about carrying a child with half of his face blown off and watching another burn to death. And I could hear the screams, that’s what made me wake up. I also acquired injuries in the dream… I was shot a few times and I think I broke my ankle or something, but I could feel it in the dream. Like when I woke up I groaned with pain and threw my blanket off to check myself… of course I was fine. I’ve never fought in a war, so I don’t know where this is coming from. As I’m typing this I’m realizing that the dreams I’ve had the past few nights are like WW1 and WW2 settings, and I vividly remember fighting a man who was speaking German, or at least what he was saying sounded German. I’m not scared when I’m in the dream or when I wake up though, yes I sometimes wake up gasping for air or crying like I said before, but I don’t actually feel fear. I don’t know what is going on or why I dream of this, I just wanted to tell this to someone without sounding a little crazy lol.
I don’t know if this is common but I often dream about wars. For those many dreams I had, I can only remember some of it. The one that I won’t forget is being in a war that I was stationed somewhere in a middle of a huge battle ground located somewhere in the rural areas (I can’t tell where), running to take cover from the enemies. As I try to run, it feels like death is nearing upon me. It was very chaotic.
I also happen to have a friend in this war where I can’t already really tell who he is because when I woke up, I forgot how he looks like and whenever I remember this particular dream, my vision of his face is very blurry. We were close and do our own tactics to survive the neverending sounds of explosions and gunshots.
After this, I can’t seem to remember what happened after I woke up but as I said, I still keep dreaming about being in a war. A feeling like being stuck in a time loop. I don’t know of this is a good thing or not but it’s something.
I had a dream that was, war but not. We were in a large gym filled with water and fighting the war for goddesses-
I had a dream that the place i was in was in ruins because of the war. I was a soldier with a high rank, probably a lieutenant. I drove around in a Willy military jeep. I was assigned 22 soldiers, but for an extra fee of 3k, i can get 7 more soldiers according to the fixer. I got the money from my wife which she revealed she got from her boyfriend (only in my dream), she was so casual about it. I had no time to berate her because i had to go to war. so i had 30 soldiers in total. My uncle, who was a middle aged chubby chinese guy ( this uncle does not exist in real life) with white hair who just came from the barber wanted to come with me. He says he will bring a private car. He thinks this is a field trip of some sort. So we drove to our destination. Then the enemy was reached by my platoon. A firefight commenced. Many were killed. We all ran out of bullets( because resources was scarce )and the enemy and my soldiers resorted to hand-to-hand combat. I had a hard time with an enemy soldier grappling with me, my uncle helped me by using a club as a weapon. He killed the soldier and both of us killed some more soldiers grappling with my soldiers. Only 2 of my soldiers were left and me and my uncle. His car was a total wreck and burning. I realized if i didn’t get the extra soldiers and got my uncle to come along, we would have lost this battle.
I dreamt that me and my friends trying to escape from a war but the two of us leaving one of our friend behind and we were giving a gun that looks like a knife and we were instructed to take the other way to make a position with the others I was so scared and i shiver we hiding in the toilet and walldrop. What does that mean
I was on a walk with my family and we all got into an argument so half of us went to a old house with flowers in and the other half stayed where they where until the came up running because soldiers were coming and then they went through the back door and the soldiers arrived all the people in my room hid well so we were safe. The soldiers wore the German uniform but in blue! Then we all dwcided to run for it i stood infront of the soldier and made sure only i got shot and then i woke up.Any idea what it could mean?
I had a dream we were in the field fighting with fellow soldiers , I shot a soldier when I saw most of the enemy were charging. We then moved up I saw a civilian from across the field. I was hesitant to shoot them but I shot them.
I was in the military during WWII. We were fighting but we were eventually overwhelmed. I was with my friends, who were also soldiers. We were all captured. After awhile we decided to run away, and somehow escaped. We ran all across the landscape. At a certain point we came into a house, and we were rather far. I walked out the backdoor and saw figures who looked like french soldiers, based on their brown coats. I cheered and ran towards them as we were saved. We finally had someone who could help us, as we were helpless. But, they were actually our enemy. They turned around and I saw the red arm band. I froze. They grabbed me, and took me inside the house. They questioned me, and all my friends could do is watch. They held a gun to my head and at this point I was stumbling over words. I couldn’t handle the fear. I thought they would shoot me. That just made it worse. Now, I couldn’t even talk properly. They thought I was lying based on how I was acting, and thus, they shot me. It felt very real. My head felt very hot, burning, and I could feel the impact. Then I woke up.
Dreamt that I was somehow involved in a dogfight (WWII) near a town called Beau De’leau, but not sure if it’s a real place, because I can’t find any info on it. Wierd. But as of late, I’ve been beginning to pull names and places from my dreams, not something previously able to do. Any advice?
I rember having a dream where i was in some kind of helicopter firing some kind of gun that i had no business in carrying. The rounds were so large that it would blast chuncks out of them. Another dream i had i was running around an urban warfare setting and i was running around tearing people apart with my bare hands like they were paper.
I was in the military somewhere over seas in my dream. When out of nowhere bombs started dropping from the sky. It was like a war broke out. I took cover and even killed at least 5 enemy soldiers in my dream. That was the last thing I remember about it.
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
I had just woken up from a dream, I was in a different city with my baby and partner; roaming the streets, all of a sudden we were somewhere with hills and a lot of land. all of a sudden there’s bombing and shooting all over, my family’s bodies all over, these army guys showed up, 2 of my sister in-laws were with me, 1 of them had nothing below her knees, the other stayed upfront protecting us, making sure they haven’t seen us, a guy seen that I had a laptop, brought a wire for internet and kept walking, then the army realizes that he isn’t one of them and taking him somewhere, my other sister in-law cut the big dog cage that we were in, I looked around and I had gotten up. What does this mean?
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,
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I saw myself at a shooting scene…..one of the soldiers close to me was shot …not quite long a bus came in to convey us to safety..but each time i tried reaching for the bus it get occupied by the last person for some reason unknown to me i was just not fast enough to move…it felt like i was being held back