Anyone who has ever raised teenagers knows all about cannibalism.
(Just kidding!) This dream may reflect dark, destructive and forbidden desires or obsessions. Cannibals literally consume other people’s lives and, along with it, their energy. When interpreting this dream, consider those things which consistently drain you and take away from your enthusiasm and the general quality of your life. It may be any number of things, such as career or a relationship. However, realize that you are not a victim of life, but rather its creator. Thus, make changes which will increase your energies, but not take away from others. Some believe that dreaming about cannibalism is a dream warning the dreamer to stay away from things that are destructive and less than honorable.
[1]1- To dream of cannibalism usually represents unsophisticated or inappropriate behaviour.
To be aware of eating human flesh may indicate our dislike of unsuitable foods or actions. There is often a part of ourselves we have not ‘internalised’ which we need to absorb.
2- Eating human flesh in a dream can mean that we are taking in wrong information.
3- Absorbing powers or qualities belonging to someone else.
[2]Cannibalism often represents an insatiable lust to own and possess the life force of the victim(s). Being the victim of cannibalism denotes that the dreamer may feel “eaten alive” by work, a relationship, or a condition in his or her life. Like incest and murder, cannibalism represents the worst form of something forbidden.
[3]Dreaming of a cannibal or cannibalism shows that you are being tempted into doing something that you should not do leaving you with the feeling of regret ‘eating you up’, inside.
It is a warning to stay out of those kind of situations if you have not already been tempted into it.
[4]To dream of eating human flesh implies there is something about ourselves that we have not come to terms with; something that we may not necessarily want to “give up” so we continue to partake but to our own detriment.
[5]Psychological / emotional perspective: Eating human flesh in a dream can mean that we are taking in wrong information in everyday life.
[6]From a spiritual perspective the act of cannibalism is absorbing powers or qualities belonging to someone else.
[7]Symbolic of gossip and slander, Gal. 5:15. Also symbolic of injustice and oppression of the poor, Micah 3:1-3
[8]Bankrupting others financially, spiritually, or physically, for self-gratification
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