If you dream of seeing abuse, it indicate a deep need for control and protection, points to a relationship or situation that requires a more delicate touch. You feel threatened or insecure in your life and are looking for ways to feel more secure, an alert for mass chaos or confusion occurring in your life.
The dream also indicate that you are in a situation where you have experienced or are witnessing abuse had to, hints your over-inflated ego. You try to process your experiences by repeating the scene in the dream, symbolises something or some situation that you need to handle with care.
It is also possible that the dream is used to reflect on your own actions in life, signifies love, affection and friendship. You feel like you are abusing someone or negatively affecting others, signals someone who is devoid of any emotion.
Seeing abuse in a dream make it difficult to recover from, represents feelings of insignificance, helplessness and unworthiness. It's important to protect yourself and seek help if you feel like you or someone you know is in danger, suggests enjoyment, social pleasures, grace and culture.
Encouragement: If you If you feel that you or someone you know is in danger, do not hesitate to seek support, stands for oppression, lowliness and vulnerability. There are many organizations that help victims and you turn to professional counselors for help, symbolises hesitation in expressing how you really feel.
Dreams perplexing especially when the content is related to unpleasant situations such as abuse, signals an extension of your reach.
Generally, dreaming of seeing abuse imply that the dreamer is feeling overwhelmed, helpless, or threatened in his/her waking life, expresses your willingness to confront any situation head on. The dream also indicate a warning to the dreamer, to be careful and avoid dangerous or abusive situations, you need to look at things from a different view or approach your problems from a new angle in order to successfully move forward.
If the abuse is done by someone familiar to the dreamer, such as family or close friend, the dream suggest a hidden issue or conflict in the relationship, denotes female emotions. Alternatively, seeing abuse done to others in the dream indicate feelings of empathy or emotional pain from witnessing similar situations in waking life, a clue for your changing emotional feelings.
In some cultures or religions, dreaming of abuse represent negative energy or spirits trying to harm the dreamer, sadly a warning for some negative, or even evil influence that you are confronted with in your life. In other belief systems, it suggest that the dreamer needs to seek forgiveness or be more compassionate towards others, a symbol for situations where you have been less than have acted in a devious manner.
For some cultures, such as Native Americans, dreaming of abuse symbolize the need for the dreamer to cleanse himself/herself spiritually, a harbinger for restrictions and limitations. In other cultures, the dream indicate that the dreamer has ignored important signals or ignored a difficult situation that needs attention, a portent for hidden aspects of your activities.
From a psychological perspective, dreaming of abuse suggest that the dreamer is repressing negative emotions or experiences, symbolises the things that you. It also imply that the dreamer is feeling guilty or shameful about something in his/her waking life, a clue for your desire to get away from certain restrictions or rules.
If the dream is causing distress or anxiety, talking it out with a therapist, trusted friend or family member help relieve stress, an evidence for your underlying strengths that you have not yet recognized. If there are unresolved issues with the person or people involved in the dream, it helpful to work on resolving those issues in waking life, a message for repressed emotions or feelings that needs to be released. Considering learning relaxation or stress-reduction techniques benefit those who have repeated dreams of abuse or those who experience recurring stress or anxiety due to stressors in their lives, expresses the clearing away of old habits.
Itâs also essential to remember that dreams not always have a specific meaning but a reflection of the individualâs experiences, thoughts, or emotions, suggests a bridge between your earthly, grounded higher, spiritual self.
Dreaming of seeing abuse a difficult and confusing experience, signifies hidden memories or repressed thoughts that are being revealed. It is important to take the time to interpret the dream in order to gain insight into what it trying to tell you, an omen for your thought process.
The most common interpretation of dreaming of abuse is that it is a reflection of unresolved trauma, suggests your emotional state. This from childhood or even from an earlier life, perhaps you are not ready to confront your feelings. It a sign that you need to take the time to process and heal these experiences in order to move forward in life, also this dream about your lack of spirituality. It also be a sign that you need to take steps to protect yourself from further harm, indecision, confusion, missteps, feeling lost or being misled.
Dreaming of abuse also be a warning about a dangerous situation that you not be aware of, also this dream about your connection with god. It a sign that you need to pay attention to your surroundings and take steps to protect yourself, a hint for your untapped resources. It also be a sign that someone close to you is in danger and needs help, means how do you see yourself with respect to the rest of the around you? you are repressing your inner child. In either case, it is important to take the time to interpret the dream and take appropriate action, a warning alert for suppressed aggression that you are unable to express in your life.
No matter what the interpretation, dreaming of abuse is never easy and should not be taken lightly, a metaphor for power, strength, faithfulness and intellect. Taking the time to interpret the dream help you gain insight into what it mean and how best to respond, expresses your and the emotional and rational.
If you dream of being the victim of abuse, then you are venting your connection to the victim archetype and are coming to terms with your own power. You are realizing that it is either time to stand up for yourself, or to remove yourself from a non-supportive situation.
If you dream of being the abuser, then you are venting your frustration and rage at feeling out of control. Your subconscious mind may be cautioning you to take responsibility for your feelings and actions and treat others the way you’d like to be treated. Dreams of abuse also reflect the way you treat yourself.
See Venting Dreams.
Feeling violated or exploited by an individual, a group, or a situation.
If you are the abuser in the dream, this may represent pent-up displeasure toward yourself or antagonism toward another.
A memory surfacing. Some abuse victims have uncovered their memories through dreams. However, caution must be issued here. Since this topic is widely covered by the media, what you experience in a dream can reenact some of these stories, engendered by your emotional response (fear, indignation, outrage, etc.).
To feel yourself abused, you will be molested in your daily pursuits by the enmity of others.
For a young woman to dream that she hears abusive language, foretells that she will fall under the ban of some person’s jealousy and envy.
If she uses the language herself, she will meet with unexpected rebuffs, that may fill her with mortification and remorse for her past unworthy conduct toward friends.
2. Fear of being abused or taken advantage of.
3. If dreamers witness someone being abused and liking it, it may be themselves if they were abused early in life (abuse equals love—attention—however represented).
4. If being attacked by an animal or other creature, the creature may represent someone who abused the dreamer when a child.
If you feel that you are abused, or if you are being verbally or physically abused, you will soon fall into the hands of an enemy. Being forewarned is being forearmed, and your dreams are advising you that you will be the sufferer unless you pay close attention to your dealings in the immediate future.
Something in your past that was (or felt) abusive.
Perceiving someone in your life as hurtful or disrespectful.
See also: Tormented; Attacked, Being; Attacking; Judgment or Disapproval; Hurt, Being; Weird
If you abuse someone in your dream, there will be negative results from not doing the right thing in a friendship situation. Obviously, dreams of abuse are also common among people who have experienced abuse in real life.
See ACCUSE.