Nancy Wagaman Interpretation: Hurting someone else can represent: Feeling vulnerable or the need to protect yourself.
Fear of threat or harm.
Unexpressed anger or other feelings that indicate an opportunity for inner healing.
Hurting yourself can represent: judging or punishing yourself; being overly strict or harsh with yourself; a sign that you may be holding yourself to unhealthy and unrealistic rules, standards, or beliefs; a reminder of the opportunity to love or be more gentle with yourself.
See also: Injured; Feeling; Bully; Abuse; Judgment or Disapproval; Offensive or Ugly; Scar; Problem; Advice or Opinion; Hurt, Being; Attacking; Ache
(2) Try to identify with and ‘converse’ with both the person / animal that is hurt and the one who inflicts the hurt, and also with the hurt itself or the hurt part of the person / animal. In this way you w’ill eventually unpack the meaning of the dream.
We tend to end up hurting the ones we love the most in our dreams such as kids, animals and husbands. Hurting others belongs more to the dreamers repressed feelings of frustration or anger mixed in with their inability to express in their lives.
Being hurt in our dreams represents our own inner sensitivity – the location of the pain on the body is metaphor clue. If a child is hurt it connects to the dreamers own inner child that needs attention. Hurt animals can relate to our unconscious masculine or feminine side that is damaged – instincts, behaviors and traits need your care.