what does it mean if you have violent dreams?
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Violent dreams can be a warning sign As if nightmares weren't bad enough, a rare sleep disorder — called REM sleep behavior disorder — causes people to act out their dreams, sometimes with violent thrashes, kicks and screams.
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These dreams are usually noted for violence and gore, and for lack of identifiable symbolism. Nightmares of the "normal" variety are usually caused by a chronic situation in your life that needs to be addressed. The source can be stress, fear, anxiety, trauma, worry.
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Getting beaten up in a dream means that you find a situation in your life to be unmanageable. You feel like you are not in control and it will hurt you, but you have no recourse. ... Look at the situations you are in, think of who in your dream was beating you.
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A dream about beating something or beating a person up physically means there is something important to you that you need to address. To be beaten, whether physically or in a game, can suggest that some things in life are acceptable, while some are unacceptable.
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It can mean that you would like to get out of a certain situation in your life because it makes you feel uncomfortable and lose control. Dreaming of killing a member of family. ... This dream symbolizes negative emotions that exist inside of you. You are full of anger and other negative feelings in your real life.
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Disturbing dreams often tell us that there are unresolved issues; your subconscious is like a pit bull who won't let any difficult memory or feeling go until it's resolved. I wouldn't be too concerned if the dream you is acting in a way that you would never do in real life.
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If you are beating others in your dream, like winning a game, then this dream suggests you have power over others. ... To dream that you beat a person or an animal means that someone is trying to ruin your mental equilibrium and sanity. Any physical fight between people could foretell a quarrel in your family.
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To dream of knives symbolizes emotional conflict, division, and separation. There are issues with loss or change that you are struggling with in your waking life. An emotional hurt or threat. Alternatively, you may feel threatened by a possible loss or change.
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Abuse dreams meaning. ... Abuse may point to self-defeating thinking patterns such as regret, guilt, or feeling depressed. To dream of being abused represents issues that you perceive to be hostile to your well-being. A reaction from a person or situation in real life that you feel is too harsh or overcompensated.
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Being attacked in a dream is not usually about wanting to hurt yourself or others, but can be about your own unresolved internal conflict. ... They can disturb with their violence, but attacking dreams often show a way to peaceful resolution.
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Dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg explained to Bustle that these kinds of dreams can just mean that you're "beating yourself up" over a mistake or some other problem you're faced with in your waking life. You might be mad at yourself for something you did and are simply taking out your anger in the dream.
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In some cases, dreams about a robbery or getting robbed, could symbolize feeling powerless or sad, or feeling as if you lack independence. It could also indicate being treated unfairly by someone or you feel as if you can't have some things your way.
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Stress. Stress and traumatic events can lead to vivid dreams. Researchers believe that this is due to the role that dreaming plays in memory and processing emotions. People who experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have bad vivid dreams than people who do not.
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Dreams usually represent the emotions you experience in real life. When you cannot process these emotions, they appear in your dreams. So, what does it mean when you dream of someone trying to kill you? ... The person trying to kill you in the dream represents that fear of failing.
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A dream about beating something or beating a person up physically means there is something important to you that you need to address. This is a warning to ensure that everything you carry out in your life takes others into consideration, and more importantly other people's feelings.
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Dreams, in which you kill someone in self-defense, often reveal that you need to take more care of someone in your life; this dream is often a sign of repressed nervousness, stress, anxiety, and often fear you feel. ... Killing in self-defense is often a sign of your inability to deal with some current issues you have.
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People with a mysterious sleep disturbance called REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, experience a sudden change in the nature of dreams. Dreams increasingly become more violent and frequently involve episodes in which an attacker must be fought off.