What it Means When you Have a Dream of Murder
Dream Interpretation of Murder
Dreams are very hard to figure out exactly what they mean. Analyzing your dream of murder may not relate to actually committing the act of killing someone. Often it can be connected to a recent activity in your conscious days. If you are someone that really needs to have a meaning behind such a terrible dream then think about the last 48 hours of your life. Likely there will be a relationship between day activities and your dream of murder at night. What you can recall may have a special significance when trying to interpret your murder dream. More times than not, a dream of murder has something to do with unfinished business or unresolved problems in your regular day.
Nightmare Meaning of Murder
Another interesting finding around repeat murder dreams is when dreamers stop trying so hard to get a true meaning they go away on their own. Nightmares that contain a dream of murder can often serve as a release and you may wake up in a friendlier world, feeling somewhat relieved. If you or your mate toss in bed at night, sleeping terribly and dreaming of murder; a therapist can begin to investigate the murder of a patient’s dream for a more precise meaning. In the meantime here are some simple interpretations related to killing someone…
- KILLING: a) If someone is killed in your dream and you are a terrified witness to the crime, you will change your place of abode and be sorry for it. b) Dream of killing a person, whether purposely or by accident, is an omen that you will be criticized for having bad manners.
- MURDER: When you have committed the crime in a dream of murder it is bad luck, especially with younger people. The nature of this dreaming of murdering is symbolic of losing your temper towards people that have no moral values or scruples.
- GUN: If there is an injustice done to you or a family member it is foretold by the firing of a pistol, gun, shotgun or high caliber firing arm. When you hear the sound of a gunshot it is a sign of unrest.
- ANGER When you are angry in a dream it can mean good or bad things. It is good when the source of your anger is from unjust wrong doing. It is bad when the source is losing your temper. When you have a Dream of murder where you are physically striking and trying to harm someone it means you have been shamed through amour.
In our conscious life we understand that homicide is unlawful. Killing another human being is usually the result of arguments, drugs, robbery or crimes of passion. There are two kinds of murder as defined by the judicial system: murder 1 (in the first degree) and murder 2 (in the second degree). Does any of this relate to having a murder dream? Yes, in the sense of our conscious mind being aware of the unconscious mind and vice versa. When waking, the acknowledgement of that a dream of crime, homicide or murder are not acceptable in society become real.
When your dream is reoccurring it is a good plan to seek professional advice. When an affected patient brings a dream of murder to professionals it is taken seriously. Some patients honestly believe that they are going to commit this act. Rarely is that the case. Finding a symbolic meaning is often not what you think it is. HYPNOSIS Mental heath care professionals will often use hypnoses to recover memory movement. It is often the best way to find the underlying truth! When under hypnosis you may also find other psychological issues that are causing your dreams of murder. Unfortunately our subconscious mind crosses into our conscious world and vice versa. This is a human brain behavior that we have no control over in our sub-conscious thoughts. An example of undesirable dreams that are deep seeded, which relate to being a murderer, is an adult woman that was abused by her father as a child. She may have a dream of murder and castration of the abuser (her father). With the right medical care and analysis this frightening, reoccurring dream can be overcome.
Dream Murderer Meaning Summary
Maybe you have had to refrain from engaging in a heeded discussion during the day. In your deepest thoughts you may find that there are serious feelings of resentment towards an individual or situation. Possibly the person you are trying to inflict pain on is someone you see as a threat. It could also mean that your are trying to destroy a part of yourself for reasons only you can resolve.
Carly says
Ok so I usually have dreams where I’m the one being killed in some way in a different century each time but this time.. I killed a man. Very early 18th century he tried to drown my baby brother and new born sister I caught him and caved his head in with my hands and boot. No anger, just fear. He hit me before I caved him in but as I woke up, I was still in fear and no longer in my bed but by my front door.
William Young says
I had a dream last night about a older man and woman and a middle aged man (son) that kidnapped my wife and I and held us hostage. I was telling my wife to just go along with what they said to maybe gain freedom. Then when the time came I pulled the pocket knife and stabbed the two men as the older women was cooking something nasty smelling in the kitchen. But when I stabbed the two men it was lile I could feel the bone scraping on the blade of the knife. Then I got to my truck and was trying to start it I woke up freaking out
miles says
I killed a baby and a woman in my dream then i buried them
and runaway
miles says
can you help me to find out the meaning of that?
Shar says
A couple of nights ago, I had a dream that I killed someone in my house and I had no regrets nor did I even worry about hiding the body. I did not see me kill them yet I saw my house already prepped with my floors and walls covered with heavy plastic drop cloths. The body was just lying there…then I awoke. It seemed soooo real.
Heart says
I had a dream that I killed my brother and then buried him and in my dream I didn’t feel bad.
Mila says
I just had a weirdest dream. I am a babysitter and I dreamed of killing one of the sweetest kid. It was like this: The kid asked me something and then I snapped and just cut him. Then the nun shows up and says something like ‘that’s not a way when you want someone dead’. Then she lights a match and you know. Next thing I am seeing is kids bones and spilled organs in the bathroom…. I am freaking out.
Sagar kumar jaiswal says
i dreamt of shooting myself on back with a gun, bleeding and feeling pain slowly but i don’t whether i survived or not, what does that mean?
Saida says
In my occurring dream someone(family members)is arguing with me and my mother cones to my defense and shes shot in the head. Tonight, it was several shots and I watched her brains hit the elevator door and I grabbed her to keep her from falling hard and I had to hold her open head together. The friends of the family member stood there holding us hostage while the others fled. I was screaming for help and then I woke up in tears. My husband & son wake & tell me I cry, like a hard hard cry in my sleep. I’m afraid to go back to sleep. Please helpRight-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.
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Sally-Anne says
Hey Saida: Family members that get injured in a dream are always terrifying when they occur because of your deep love. When you first awaken it is in your nature to immediately find the loved one and give them a hug. Do not worry she is still there and you mean her no harm. Your dream is symbolic and likely signifies something in your relationship with mom is coming to an end, which is normal as we grow. Perhaps you are no longer a child and are about to fly from the nest? When this happens it can seem like you are breaking-up when declaring independence. Do not worry my sense is this means healthy growth. Cheers -Sally-Anne
Heart says
Last Night
In Dream
I killed my ex girlfriend with two gun shots and also his mother too.I also killed some other persons around her house.
Then I fled away on my real life bike. Police is finding me in my state. But I They never Caught me.
So plz tell me what is the meaning of this dream
Morena says
So in my dream this guy kept following me I was lost in a different city and state well at first I thought wow is that my bf I was convinced he was my boyfriend but as he got closer I realized he most definitely wasn’t he has his same hair cut which isn’t very common he even wore my boyfriends favorite outfit any when I realized he wasn’t my boyfriend I got scared I was with my kids so we started running then my boyfriend came out of nowhere and struck the look a like with his fist and the look a like stabbed him with a knife several times and then stabbed him right thru the head and thru the forehead killing him I cried I cried hard the whole time I was looking for my knife in my purse but couldn’t find it till I saw the knife go thru his head… I tried stabbing the look a like but I couldn’t the knife wouldn’t stab it wouldn’t cut… Then my dream took a whole new twist the killer turned into a girl and I was in a shower throwing up and my ex husband was in the shower with me.
faisel sait says
Greetings !
Last night I found my self with my mother and brother who are forcing me to murder someone for them to be in a safer side, i exactly dont know what does this mean, can you please elaborate what does the dream talk about, one more thing i would like to expose, relationship with my mother and my elder brother is not good, i mean they betrayed me once before with taking my money and not saving it.
thank you’
your response will be highly appreciated
regards
faisel sait
Nathan says
I can not find answers to my dream, I was talking to a very tall man and women then the man grand women and me brings us together and pulls a gun to women’s head shoots them in head and the bullets nearly missed me then time just stopped. I felt the air of the bullet fly by my head. Then I looked around then woke up
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veronica chavez says
i always have a dream that me and some people i dont know are being chased by a bunch of men and that i hide with those people i dont know and when the men find us with guns we try to be quit so they wont hear us but they still do and they start shooting everyone next to me and then i tell a man for them not to shoot but im begging to them for them not to shoot me and they dont. what does that mean
Ash Aarons says
I keep having a dream in different forms but the same idea every night. Its always me damaging more important/self absorbed people then when i escape from them my mother always comes and abuses me in some form so I end up lashing out and stabbing her or something. I’m just really confused
Marco says
In my “murder dream”, the characters in the dream were me and my dad. My dad calls me to the garage and says “I need to tell you something”. Upon entering the garage, I notice he is hiding a gun. I reach for the gun and disarm him, but I don’t remember firing. In the other part of the dream, my dad and I have a knife. He is coming at me trying to kill me and stab me but I kill him. I woke up in fear, pain, regret, and sadness. I love my dad so much and I can’t imagine why I dreamt what I dreamt. What does all of this mean. I’m scared to know if any of this relates to me doing anything in the real world. PLEASE help me 🙁
Delana Weeks says
I dreamed that a cousin of mine that I don’t really know, I dreamed that her fiance killed her and I witnessed it and he made me go with him and their baby girl. We ended up in a field where he confessed I called my mom hysterical saying I can’t go back to jail. Idk what this means but in real life I am terrified of going back to jail.
Payal Mukherjee Basak says
Hi,
I am now 3 months pregnant. Yesterday night I have seen a bad dream. Generally I am very kind girl towards animals. I love cats & dogs. But in my dream I saw that two unknown persons were disturbing a
cat family. I was passing from there then & suddenly a black & white cat jumped on me & tried to bite me..
Being scared & in Self defense I have killed the
cat…
What is the meaning of this dream???
Dan says
I dreamt that I was in a dark house and I had murdered a woman and covered it up with a sheet. So I remember seeing the shape of the covered body on the bed. I tried to pretend (in my dream) that it didn’t happen and I left the room and closed thedoor. When I finally re entered the room (felt like days later in my dream) the room felt haunted with bad vibes and I was searching for something in the room while being terrified of the darkness and bad juju around me. Ugh it was such a nightmare
jackie says
I had a dream I met some new friends and we were all at her house I was grabbing my shoes to leave when I walked into one room and caught 2 of the new friends hooking up then I see him start stabbing her to death during sex. I ran so fast out to the same exact truck that we have in real life to my real fiance and real son. Everything looked so real. Later on he got alot of buddies to try to find me and kill me and when it all went down he was killing people that were trying to stop him and he came close to me and all I could think about was him not getting to my son so I stabbed him in the head sooo many times and it felt real b I can still remember how the knife felt going into his head. It was horrie.
Matthew says
What if you continuously have a dream, not a nightmare, about killing people. I’m 24 years old and I love my dreams especially when I’m killing others. It makes me feel invincible. Like I’m finally the one in control of things. I only hate it when I’m dreaming that someone else is helping me kill because they don’t know how to clean it up right. I guess I figure if i did kill someone I wouldn’t want to leave a trace. I consider these dreams more of a fantasy in my mind no worse than some of the strange kinds of porn people watch these days I guess. This is the first time ive looked the meaning up and this is the first link i tried dont plan to look any further some of your info is on point while other information has lead me to believe its not the case. I havent been in a serious relationship in quite a while and in my dreams I’m stabbing people to death but it usually only takes one stab but sometimes i get carried away with the feeling in my chest. I feel total exuberance in these dreams. I never felt more alive when I was awake than inside of these dreams I hope I continue having them because Ive never felt so well rested and relieved waking up in my life than when I have these dreams even still I beg God to let me fall back asleep only to experience it for just another moment. Im sharing this hoping you have good insight and not just a negative judgement on my perception. You were right when you said the things about bad luck, Ive always had bad luck.
Jenny says
I have a recurring dream of trying to prevent someone from committing a murder. In my dream, I know this person and he warns me of his act. He actually lives with the group, I mean we live with our friends that means he is also our friend. So what he does is to warn me that he will kill someone in our group or even people I don’t know every after 30 days or every time someone in our group has a birthday. In this case, what I do is protect my friends in any way I can and stay with him to watch of his possible acts so I can stop him from committing it.From all the warnings, I have succeeded so far to prevent him from murdering someone. But I don’t know why I dreamed of it again last night and the days of his murder were shortened. I mean instead of every after someone’s birthday or every after 30 days, it became after 9 days. I thought this dream is recurring but why is there a sudden change of event? So in my dream last night, we were together with some of our friends and him. We all slept in peace but I woke up early and fixed things for the other members of our group to sleep on when they come home. Then someone screamed and it awaken everyone however none of us was harmed plus this friend of mine who commits the murder just woke up together with the rest. Then there was a change in setting where someone bullied another friend of mine at school then he fought with his companion. I got angry over the younger one and he opened up their problem before he left. I shouted at the other and he immediately run after his friend. Then my friend who I said commits the murder eyed at me and said he will be back in 9 days to kill someone. And I woke up. But one thing that’s not clear for me is the sudden change of events. It’s as if this dream is a continuation of my past dreams which are completely alike with this. Is this even a recurring dream now? I don’t understand. I even don;t get what it really means. Why would I dream of that? And why am I the only one who wanted to prevent it? Why can’t I tell my friends to watch over their life? Can I get a clear interpretation of my dream? I’m afraid I might turn out to be an accomplice or what of a murderer.
Mari says
I keep dreaming about my father murdering my pet dog. In my most recent dream he cuts my dog’s throat after getting mad in my dream.I have read that dogs in dreams sometimes symbolizes family members but I don’t understand the part a dog being killed by a family member. I have recently have had conflict with my sisters to the point where we don’t talk anymore and my dad has been trying to make us talk. Does anyone have a clue to what my dreams on this could mean?
Jenna says
deep *seated*
heated
ticky says
I keep having a dream about where I’m working in a club and I poison my boyfriend but then it makes me happy and I start poisoning everyone else that I know and that’s there afterwards I go to pick up some more poison and someone with a scarecrow bagged like face comes out and tries killing me what could this mean as I am having thoughts about doing things like this to everyone and I don’t think that it is normal.
Ethan says
I’m 14 and last night I dreamed I murdered several people, I didn’t feel bad about it in the dream it actually excited me. When I woke up I didn’t feel bad either, I didnt recognize any of the people I killed either.
Anon says
So today I got this dream and it was about this girl who didn’t invite me to her party so I got mad and I don’t even know the girl I’ve never seen her in real life so anyway I was with my friend who I go to school with everyday so we wanted to get revenge so we talked to the girls little brother (who I’ve never ever seen him in my life) and he was like yeah let’s pull a prank on her so we took some pigs blood and poured it on her room so when she got in she saw us sitting and she took her belt out and hit her little brother then hit my friend and my friend didn’t get hurt or anything so then when the girl I killed turned around I stabbed her three times then cut her back open so then me and my friend laughed and my friend stood in front of the door to see the moms reaction and laugh so when the mom saw the girl dead she screamed and we ran into the roof and talked about killing people in my school.
britt says
it’s weird because you guys are saying that you felt bad when you woke up and all that, but a few nights ago I dreamt that I killed my family and I woke up and felt perfectly fine.
Tarah says
I had a strange dream last night and I’m trying to figure out what it means. Usually my dreams consist of people trying to kill me and me running away, but it’s like I’m running in slow motion and can’t go any faster. Then last night I have this dream, I’m in a building with a bunch of people I don’t know and my boyfriend is also there. I realize this guy (whom I also don’t know) is trying to kill me. So I go into a separate room and try to find a gun. I find two. The first one is an extremely old, antique gun with no bullets. The second is an old revolvor that looked new and shiny (I’m not sure how I knew it was old, or if it even matters) and it had 6 bullets in it. I was slightly relieved, but worried because I thought I might need more bullets, when suddenly this woman comes in and hands be a police issued gun. That was better. So I leave the room and I think I went outside. I see the guy walking towards me with an angry look on his face, so I fire and kill him. After that there was probably 5 more guys that try to kill me, but I kill them all. One thing I noticed ( I noticed this while still in the dream) was that everytime I shot one of them, there was no blood. Not even a bullet hole. But they all died somehow. I wasn’t scared at all. It didn’t feel like a nightmare. But after all that happened, I found my way back to my boyfriend and started crying. He held me, picked me up and carried me off somewhere. And that’s when I woke up. I’ve never killed anyone in my dreams before and I thought it was really strange so I was wondering what it could mean.
mango says
This happened just half an hour ago. I had a dream that I was in a RPG–much like Neverwinter Nights, and the gist of the game was that I accomplish a couple of quests, almost always related to killing monsters.
Then at the curve of the mountain I was at, there were two people up ahead. One was tied up and the other carried something on its shoulders. They looked human-like from afar. Then a chance quest appeared, saying that the user can take the chance between making a preemptive strike on them, as they might be monsters (thus claiming the bonus) or not striking them at all as they might be normal human beings.
There was that risk of getting killed and I didn’t think much of my decision. I first struck the tied figure with a knife, and it was only later on that I realized that ‘it’ turned out to be a /mother/ of two kids, the other being her older son carrying his sister on his shoulders. They were all wearing this material that looked like peasant clothing and the entire body of the little sister was covered so I never saw her face. But I heard crying as I blindly stabbed her, not knowing what I hit.
I realized my mistake half-way but I knew I couldn’t stop. I kept thinking, as I stabbed the brother who was running in circles with his sister on his shoulders, that I was an assassin in this RPG so that’s what kept me going.
The older brother was left alive and he was crying and shouting at me. Then the setting changed and I was back at home. I tried to run away, leaving the front door and locking it from the outside so he couldn’t follow me. But a second later, I felt guilty and left it open, accepting my punishment, and then I grew incredibly scared and then I changed my mind, hiding myself at the side of my house, curling up on the ground.
I then woke up, feeling awful. My heart was racing and my breathing was rapid. I killed three unknown yet innocent people in my dream and I honestly have no idea where or why this came to be. I’ve had plenty of these ‘murder’ dreams in the past, but they were usually of those who tried to kill me first. I hope I never have one like it again.