Pamela Ball Interpretation: 1- We may be denying, or trying to control, a part of our own nature that we do not trust. We may also have feelings about other people which can only be safely expressed in dreams.
If we ourselves are being murdered a part of our lives is completely out of balance and we are being destroyed by external circumstances.
2- To be angry enough to kill suggests that we arc still holding some kind of childhood anger, since it is quite natural for a child to wish somebody dead.
If we are trying to murder somebody else in a dream, we first need to understand what that person represents to us before recognising the violence of our own feelings.
3- Wilful destruction is the relevant symbol here. Spiritually we need to take a look at what is in our path.
See Shot, Funeral, Corpse. Warning: A very important part of your emotions have been severed: unused talents, relationships to other people, the ability to love, and so on. These are frequent dreams during depression, and reveal repressed drives, as in Ashes and Abyss. This, however, is only one, although it is the most important, interpretation of this dream symbol. On the positive side, it is very healing that you are “murdering” something in the dream and thereby putting a radical end to it. You are standing by your aggression and thereby expressing a very important part of you. As in a detective story, murder can be stimulating as well as tragic and have a purifying effect.
If we flee from a murderer, it depicts a fear that is threatening our confidence or something we feel threatened by. Murderous rage in dreamer it is observable that repressed sexuality leads to feelings of murderous rage which may not be expressed socially, but do appear in dreams; may also express childhood anger linked with emotional bond with mother being damaged.
If we are trying to murder somebody else in a dream, we first need to understand what that person represents to us before recognizing the violence of our own feelings.
To dream of a murderer suggests that we are conscious of violence around us.
If we ourselves are being murdered, a part of our lives is completely out of balance and we are being destroyed by external circumstances. Consult the entries for anger, emotions and kill for further clarification.
Murder suggests willful destruction of another life. Spiritually we need to understand what has taken us in dreams to the extreme position of trying to kill.
Each of us are implicated in killing—by denying, repressing, controlling—some part of our nature. These denied areas of our sensitivity or potential can fortunately be resurrected through self-awareness of our deed. If we flee from a murderer, it depicts a fear that is threatening our confidence, or something we feel threatened by. Murderous rage in dreamer: it is observable that repressed sexuality or traumatized childhood love leads to feelings of murderous rage that may not be expressed socially, but do appear in dreams; may also express childhood anger linked with emotional bond with mother being damaged. In this case the dreamer will be the murderer—even if in the dream the murderer appears to be someone else. The murder will then be the killing of any love or emotional connection or bond between child and parent. The child often thus murders its own feelings of love for the parent in order to survive apparent or real desertion—as, for instance, a child being put in foster care. The bonds are so instinctive and strong, to survive parting, the child may have to hack away any emotional links. See father under archetypes.