9 Spiritual Meanings of Violent Dreams (Extremely Violent)

Have you had a particularly violent dream that left you shaken and breathless when you awoke?

Don’t worry; this dream is a rather common one. It doesn’t mean you’re about to get into a literal fist fight with someone, of course.

Actually, in some cases, this spiritual message could be a good one. 

Let’s take a closer look and unlock your violent dream meaning, shall we? 

What Does It Mean When You Have Violent Dreams?

Violence can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and it can be meant in a lot of different contexts, too.

You can get violent with another person, yourself, or even an item or object. Most people believe there are different levels of violence, too. 

In the sense of a violent dream, however, violence is whatever the word means to YOU.

Your dreams are created in your mind, so they are going to be a reflection of how you think and feel. 

What Are Violent Dreams a Sign Of? – 4 Signs

The kind of violence you see, and who the violence is aimed at, will play a big part in the message of your dream.

Watching a violent act take place means something quite different to having a violent act directed at you. 

You’ve Committed a Bad Act (Is That Guilt?) 

• Are you watching someone else get hurt in your dream?
• Are you the aggressive one, being violent to that other person and potentially even going as far as killing them?

This is said to be a sign that you have done something that you’re not particularly proud of. 

Is that your guilt peeking through?

Do you have a constant fear of getting caught?

You can try and bury it down as much as you like; if that guilt wants to poke through, it will. 

It already is, in your dreams. 

A Taste of Karma?

This is actually related to the guilt of committing a bad act.

If you dream of being violent towards someone else in your dream, there’s a chance that you’re going to get bitten by a taste of your own medicine. 

Have you done someone wrong? Think back over the entirety of your life. Karma doesn’t wear a watch, after all. 

The old saying, “what goes around, comes around,” is true whether you choose to believe it or not. If you do bad and out bad out into the world, it’s going to come right back and hit you at some point.

It might be in five minutes’ time, or five months’ time, or even five decades’ time. 

Eventually, one day, karma will catch up to you. 

Maybe it’s time to do some good? 

A Sense of Injustice

Whether you’re the one being violent or not, a dream filled with violence can be interpreted as strong feelings of injustice and being wronged. 

Is your mind exacting the revenge you wish you could get in real life?

Maybe you don’t even realize you’ve been wronged or served an injustice, and you’re just starting to put the pieces together.

Either way, something inside you is feeling something, and it is feeling that something STRONG. 

It’s time to work out what is making your subconscious so angry and aggressive.

Make note of all the things you see in the dream, then make note of their meanings. Which ‘bits’ go together? It’s a process of trial and error.

Remove the things that don’t feel relevant, leaving you with the pieces of the puzzle to slot into place. 

Repressed Memories of Abuse

(Trigger Warning: Abuse)

Some experts in dreams, spirituality, and even psychiatry, believe that violent dreams could be a sign of repressed memories from somewhere in your past.

The violence indicates bad memories, such as physical, emotional, or psychological abuse.  

This can be something you do remember, or something you don’t remember but your subconscious does.

If the dream happens time and time again, perhaps it’s time you booked yourself a therapy session to try and unpack some of the repressed trauma.

Read the meaning of seeing your boyfriend dying in a dream.

9 Spiritual Meanings of Violent Dreams

How much of your dream can you remember? The weird, seemingly unimportant parts of those dream are going to be what helps you slot the puzzle pieces into place. Let me explain a little better… 

1) What Makes You Angry?

Look back over the dream if you can remember it.

• What made you angry in the dream?
• What drove you to a point of frustration where you had no other choice but to lash out at someone? 

If something is making you violently angry rather than someone, it might be an indication of unrest or distress within YOU.

The ‘thing’ in question will be what helps you to interpret the spiritual meaning or message from a dream. 

Here’s an example: You have a dream where you get angry with your car, kicking it, hitting it, and being violent towards it in other ways.

A car is something symbolic of the direction you’re going in life, or whether you have the drive to get there.

Therefore, getting angry with the car would seem to suggest that you are unhappy with the level of drive you have (wishing you were less lazy, for example), or the direction your life is going. 

2) Dreaming of Fisticuffs

Have you had a dream where you’ve become embroiled in a literal fist fight with someone? Did you know them? Was it a friend, a relative, co-worker; or was it just a complete stranger? 

If you know the person you were fighting with in your dream, you might find yourself in a situation where you need to save your reputation, your finances, or perhaps even your status. 

Could the person you were fighting with be stabbing you in the back somehow?

Maybe they’ve been talking badly about you, or preventing you from getting a new job, or trying to steal your romantic partner from you. 

Your subconscious (or the universe) might be trying to warn you. It is time to look at that someone with different eyes. 

3) Conflict with Yourself

If you don’t know the person you were fighting with in your dream, or you were fighting with a faceless person, it could be the case that you are fighting with yourself. 

Are two sides of you competing to break free?

• Perhaps you’ve been really good lately;
• Turning up for work;
• Not drinking to excess;
• Not spending lots of money, etc…

But another side of the you is urging you to self-sabotage.

It’s telling you not to go to work, and to drink to excess, and to buy everything you like the look of for the foreseeable future. 

We all have inner conflict, but it would appear that yours is giving you a little trouble right now.

Do you need to start paying a little more attention, to get to the bottom of what the conflict is?

Did you kill someone in your dream? Check here the spiritual meaning.

4) Part of You Isn’t Being Heard

Loosely related to inner conflict, dreaming of violent acts is sometimes linked to having a part of you that feels like other people aren’t paying attention, or they aren’t listening. 

Are the following scenarios familiar to you:

• You’ve asked your husband to do the same thing three times, and he still hasn’t done it;
• You’ve tried to implement useful and helpful changes at work, but other staff members are refusing to accept them;
• You’ve been arguing with a supplier at work because they keep sending you the wrong thing despite repeatedly calling them to put things right. 

If yes, or similar situations stand out to you, you might have found the answer to your dream meaning question. 

5) You Need to Accept Responsibility

That’s such a harsh thing to say, I know – but it’s not me (potentially) saying it.

The universe is sending you the message, or your subconscious, or perhaps even someone from another realm. 

Fighting in a dream, or other forms of violent actions, are sometimes associated with not accepting responsibility for things in your own life.

If you have a habit of blaming other people for your mistakes, you will only get away with it for so long.

People catch on to that kind of behavior pretty quickly, as does the universe. 

Rather than complaining about how no-one or nothing is working or changing for you, maybe it’s time to change yourself or your actions? 

6) It’s Time to Change (You Can’t Ignore It Any Longer)

Change can be really difficult for some people.

I am one of those people. I hate change, and I cope terribly with it.

Sometimes, however, change is good.

More than that, change is necessary.

Change is what gets you pay rises at work, and new relationships that make you feel good, and new travel opportunities that take your breath away. 

Fighting in your dream would indicate that you are resisting change as best you can… to the detriment of your health, success, or wealth. 

Embrace the change. Who knows where it might lead? 

7) Are You the Violent One?

If you’re not a violent person by nature, having dreams where you are being extremely violent (or even a little violent) can really shake you up.

Thankfully, being violent towards another person in your dream doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to literally beat them up in your waking life. 

Look at this dream from a slightly different angle… 

Your subconscious is attacking the other person.

• Could it be the case that your subconscious is warning you about that person?
• Maybe they’re super shifty, or perhaps they’ve got an ulterior motive in mind when it comes to being your friend?

Did you vomit blood in your dream? See what that means here.

8) Are You the Victim?

If you are the victim of violence in a dream, some dream-meaning experts suggest a connotation of victimhood.

You are currently a victim in your waking life, or you are about to be. 

Victim sounds pretty bad — and it is in some cases. But before you jump to ‘victim of murder,’ please remember that you can also be the victim of low-level victimization. Maybe someone will steal your sandwich at work?

Alternatively, perhaps that new friend of yours is stealing all the money in your bank account, behind your back. 

9) A Need for Structure and Discipline

Being out of control with rage, anger, and violence in your dreams could be a sign that you are coming dangerously close to losing control in your real, waking life.

They might even be feelings you aren’t aware of in your waking life.

If that’s the case for you, perhaps this dream is a warning of things to come. 

I Keep Having Extremely Violent Dreams: What Does It Mean?

Having extremely violent dreams could relate to a wide variety of things, including: 

• Turmoil with yourself;
• Turmoil with someone else;
• Feeling unheard;
• Not taking responsibility for your life/your actions;
• And more.

In order to work out what your specific dream means, you will need to put together the bigger picture.

• What else was happening in the dream?
• Who was there?
• How did you feel?
• Were there other objects around you, or certain things you were interacting with/noticing?

Those little things might seem insignificant at first, but they will help you to interpret the message and make appropriate changes to your life. 

Are Violent Dreams a Bad Sign?

No, violent dreams aren’t always a bad sign… But they might end up being a bad sign if you ignore them. 

In many cases, a message of bad news or a negative spiritual message is something that you can use to your advantage.

When you know that bad things are coming, you can take steps to protect yourself, and possibly even prevent the ‘things’ from happening.

Final Words

Having extremely violent dreams is scary. However, it is important to analyze its meaning. These dreams can end up helping us understand marks, signs and fears from our past.