Thankfully, these types of dreams are not common, but they do have meaning.
Dream analysis is often used in psychoanalysis as a tool to understanding our subconscious thoughts, in fact, it was first pioneered by Sigmund Freud, who believed that dreams were the ‘royal road’ to the unconscious mind.
It is thought that our dreams can be a way of our subconscious thoughts coming to the surface. But obviously we are not all murderers, so what can it mean if we dream about murder?
Dreams about murder, being murdered or witnessing a murder are more often than not sending a powerful message to our consciousness.
Dreams about murder could also point to a release of built-up rage or anger towards a particular person in your life. Subconsciously, you might feel like ‘ending’ the relationship but don’t know how to.
If you know the person in your dream that has been murdered but you feel indifferent about them in real life, they might represent something in your life you don’t like and want to get rid of.
If you are being murdered, you could feel betrayed by someone that is important to you.
If you watched someone else commit the murder, you might be suppressing your own feelings and anger and denying a personality trait in yourself that you don’t want to see.
It all depends on the actual dream and who was murdered.
This could mean that something in yourself has to end or die. It could be a way of thinking or acting or a belief. In order for you to move on with your life and become a functioning human being, this aspect has to go.
If in your dream you struggled against your attacker, then it signifies you are not quite ready to let whatever it is you need to go just yet.
This could mean that you have problems with the person who was murdered and are either jealous of them or dislike them intensely. The person who was murdered could also represent an aspect of your personality that you do not like.
To understand further why this person was murdered in your dream you need to think about what they are to you in real life. What do they represent in real life and why do you want to get rid of them?
As for analysing particular aspects of dreams about murder, theorists believe that if you saw the murder taking place, you are emotionally cutting yourself off from someone important in your life.
If you were being chased by the murder, you are trying to outrun some aspect of your emotional life. And if you were the murderer, you could be feeling depressed at life and are angry at yourself.
Most psychoanalysts believe that dreams about murder signify the person moving on from some old or outdated practice or habit and trying something new. Much as the way the ‘Death’ tarot card does not mean dying, it symbolises an ending and new beginning, so does a murder dream.
However, there has been an interesting study on people that have recurring dreams about murder. Experts in dream analysis found that those who dream of committing murders are more likely to be hostile and aggressive in real life.
A new study has found those who dream of committing murder tend to be hostile and more aggressive when they are awake. When awake these dreamers were also introverted and found it hard to socialise with others.
The German study stated that dreams were often a magnification of real-life thoughts and feelings. During waking hours, people may find that they are bottling up feelings of hostility and aggression, but when they dream, these feelings are amplified into murder scenarios.
Lead researcher Professor Michael Shredl, of the Central Institute of Mental Health’s sleep laboratory in Mannheim, Germany, said that:
“Emotions in dreams can be much stronger than the emotions in waking life, if you do dream about killing, look at your aggressive emotions in waking life.”
So perhaps when you next dream of a murder you should ask yourself what is happening in your waking life and should you be worried?
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I dremt that my mom killed someone . I dont remember tha person who my mom killed .then suddenly i woke
I dreamed I killed this lady with a pitchfork stabbing her over and over but she was still standing and even talking. Then my brother was trying to help me hide the body and he said to put her in the lobster fryer whatever that is but in my dream I thought it was clever.
Just had a dream that someone i grewup with betrayed me and tried to get me jumped. But i stopped him and gis buddy with a rake i saw and hit both of them and i stabbed one up many times and injured another that got away which i was ok with. I was thinking as long as he got the message and ran.
I just dreamt that me and my ex bf who is now deceased in real life murdered two people who I didn’t know and disposed of their bodies in a trash disposal in two black trash bags. It was below a movie theater and when we came out there were blood tracks everywhere however they were from a different murder and we escaped in front of police as if we were just innocent movie goers. In the same dream I also gave myself a face lift and dated a 20 year old with a Ferrari. Did I wake up confused? You bet!
Wow mine is too similar to yours, a woman I didn’t know and the trash bags! Ugh too vivid !
I've never been an aggressive person. I have never had a situation that truly made me angry; I handle my emotions radically different from those around me. I'm not trying to boast, it's just something I've noticed. I'm pretty introverted yet find making friends is a pretty seamless activity.
The issue that I have - one that I've been dealing with since Junior High - is constant reoccurring lucid dreams in which I commit murders or mass genocide. I have stepped in to lucid dreaming in the past, and I happen to have them quite frequently, but I always find myself with some kind of weapon and a handful of bodies in my wake.
I have had several in which I commit such crimes and then spend the rest of my dreams running from the police. Anywhere from setting up timed bombs to straight up booking it through the woods.
I have no intention to "fix" these dreams, but I figured it would be decent input to one's research, if need be.