Fighting Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation: Fighting an Enemy – Inner Conflicts and Struggles

If you are fighting an unknown enemy in your dream, this may represent a struggle with the shadow side of your nature and the unwelcome aspects of your personality. For instance, there may be a conflict between your moral code and your sexual desire, or between your intellect and your emotional needs. These battles can also occur between personal drives and social, political, or economic influences. The fight may symbolize an internal conflict between your conscious and unconscious needs.

Fighting a Known Enemy

If the enemy is someone you know, this could suggest that you have hidden feelings of animosity toward them. The fight may reveal unsuspected hostility or unresolved issues in your relationship with this person.

Fights Between Different Age Groups

A fight between a younger and an older person in your dream may indicate a rivalry between the dreamer and authority figures. It could symbolize the conflict between youthful independence and the restrictions imposed by authority.

Fighting for Recognition

A fight between people of the same age may represent the struggle for recognition or sibling rivalry. Similar interpretations can be applied to any kind of struggle in your dream, as these fights often depict a desire for freedom, independence, or the pursuit of truth.

Subtle Resolutions and Conflict

Your unconscious may be urging you to reflect on why there is a conflict and suggesting that there may be a more subtle or peaceful way to resolve it, rather than with fists or aggression. According to Freudian interpretations, the struggle may also represent the battle for attention between your parents, symbolizing a deeper psychological rivalry.

See Also: Conflict, Struggle, Rivalry, Freedom.

(See Also: Abuse, Armor, Weapons)

Conflict or clashes with social strictures, other’s ideals, or your own sense of right and wrong.

Jungian: Self-conflict between what we wish to be and what we truly are or how we perceive ourselves.

A battle raging between the conscious and subconscious, between thought versus emotion, masculine traits versus the feminine, etc.

Releasing anger and related emotions that otherwise get subdued, or for which we do not have an adequate avenue of expression.

Fighting is a no nonsense dream of change, and the dream itself will have to point to the area of your life that will be changed. This signifies a change in job, or a change of enterprise if you own your own business.

The degree of change can be determined by how hard you fought, and if you won or lost the fight.

If you dream of others fighting it is telling you to be more careful with your financial dealings, and watch your spending.

It usually symbolizes anger and confusion that comes about in times of change.

If nothing is changing in your life, it may be a clue that a change is needed or that you want to change internally. Fighting with strangers usually represents an internal struggle. Fighting with familiar people may be an extension of daily life and a reflection on your relationship with them.

To dream that you participate in a physical fight, signifies that you will be threatened by someone about something related to your status or finances.

If you saw others fighting in your dream, you are unwilling to admit your own problems and turmoil. You need to take more responsibility for solving your own problems in real life.

Another example of an obstacle dream— the result will depend upon what happens; if you are beaten in the Fight, you must expect misfortune or a love reverse.

If you are successful in your dream, then you will overcome your difficulties.

You fight tooth and nail with your partner: you are to have a closer relationship with your partner. You’re beaten: you will receive much needed help.

A fight breaks out among family members: a separation is to take place

To dream that you are fighting, or boxing, indicates the will to be successful in spite of many handicaps, even with an inferiority complex or lack of talent.

The dreamer must find an outlet.

If you are fighting your relatives in a dream it is symbolic of shame and disgrace, Prov. 19:26. If you fight other people it symbolizes bitterness and anger towards them

Quarrels in families. Misunderstanding among lovers, if not temporary separation.

A bad dream for merchants, soldiers and sailors.

To dream you are fighting, denotes to the lover that you will lose the ohject of your affections through a foolish quarrel; it also forbodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of character and property. After such a dream, vou are urgently recommended to quit your presetrt situation, because such a dream indicates that you will not prosper in it; to the sailor, it denotes storms and shipwreck, with disappointment in love.