What Triggers Dreams About Being Attacked?

Author: Libby Pelham

Dreaming of being attacked is actually quite common. In some cases, people who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder or some other type of anxiety ailment due to an actual physical attack may dream of being attacked as their psyche still tries to deal with the incident.

More than likely though, a dream of being attacked is generally triggered by the suppression or fear of something going on in your life. While in your dream, you may be attacked by any number of things – a man, a monster, or a wild animal – but, what is actually attacking you is some disturbing area in your life that you may not notice or may think you have under control during waking hours. When we don’t openly acknowledge our fears, they show up in our dreams, where our minds are much freer and open to feelings.

Look at all aspects of your life and try to pinpoint the area of stress. You say you have had this dream off and on for 20 years. Go back 20 years and see what was going on in your life. Did you retire when you were 58? If you did, was it of your own free will or were you forced to due to an illness? Or, had you ever worked outside the home? Maybe you felt guilty and less than useful being a homemaker. It may be that at 58, you were re-examining your youth and realized you missed out on something – getting married, having children, having a career.

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And, it may be that at 58, you began to realize that your body was getting older and time was no longer on your side. Many of us think when we are young that we will never get old, but in your forties and fifties, you really begin to notice physical and mental changes and realize that age is creeping up on you.

If the anxiety that goes with aging is not dealt with, but only suppressed, what is “attacking” you in your dreams is the fear of getting older and eventually death. The dreams of clutter and mess could be that you feel if you died today, there would be areas that would be left in chaos, where it is something physical like the clutter in your home or mental like having a will or telling people you love them.

If that is the case, you may want to seek counseling. Twenty years is a long time to have reoccurring dreams and it may take a professional to help you deal with the issues. If you cannot afford counseling, talk to family and friends about this anxiety and try to come to terms with it. Meditate on seeking peace with this problem each night before you go to sleep. Recognize the anxiety, but concentrate on not allowing it to creep into your dreams anymore.

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HoneyB 2 Apr 2021

I just had a dream that I was being attacked from some guy. In my dream he was smoking in my yard so I opened my door telling him that I was gonna call the police if he didn’t leave my yard, he threw his cigarette and came chasing towards me as soon as I slammed my screen door holding it shut, my child was crying and screaming, I remember panicking in my dream thinking what should I do, all of sudden I had this piece of wood with nails sticking out of it in my hand so I went outside and started hitting the guy with it. He didn’t go down from being hit in the arms and back, he kept fighting back taking every hit i thru at him, my husband came walking up, seen what was going on and started attacking the man, he kept trying to go around him and attack me so I hit him in the head twice, first hit to the side of the head (he still didn’t go down) and last on top of the head, he started to seize out so my husband and I carried him out of the yard and when we were was doing that my neighbour was outside recording, saying he was documenting everything just in case I needed it when the cops came. A cop came rolling up, asking what happened so we were telling him and half way thru the conversation the man woke up and tried saying I attacked him, as this is all happening I’m thinking of my child, getting anxiety thinking about how dare he try turning this around on me so I remembered that I had a home security system and that my door bell caught everything so when I mentioned that, the guy got even more angry, ripped out the wood that was in his head and tried attacking me again in front of the police officer, the first time he tried the officer told him to back up and let me show him what happened, as soon as I took my eye off the attacker he tried attacking again and for some reason I was in handcuffs but my hands were cuffed in the front. I tried running around the police officer but he had hold of me not realizing the attacker had his weapon and was gonna hit him in the head with it, I remember thinking to myself in my dream that I felt unsafe so I started to fight my way out of the officer’s hands and as I’m trying to wiggle loose I see the attacker with a metal bar striking towards me and the officer so I swung myself back from being hit, I seen the officer standing there looking at me with a blank look in his eyes and blood dripping down from his head. I got caught off guard from what I seen and as soon as the attacker swung that bar at me, I woke up hyperventilating and overheating. I got up grabbed my phone to check the cams to see if my son was awake, but he was peacefully sleeping so that was reassuring for me to see but I still can’t fall back to sleep after what happened in my dream. I’m scared that I’m gonna repeat the bad dream which usually happens when I awake from any time of dream that to myself felt unfinished..

Br 20 Dec 2020

I had a dream for a week straight about my ex-best friend and my ex-boyfriend and mother attacking me. In one of my dreams, I had an anxiety attack so bad that I was shaking when I woke up. When I close my eyes at night even for one second I just image a figure attacking me. I feel like everyone is after me. A lot of people have been attacking me in real life too. I can't sleep at night because I am afraid that won't wake up. I really hate that feeling.

Carts lol 14 Sep 2020

Very real and vivid crazy dream Out socialising with a friend then a random drunk man approaches me for a cigarette, before I say yes he just throws himself onto me which at first felt like a mugging but then became apparent he is intoxicated. This same man then continues to re appear like 3/4 times harassing and attacking me and even throwing stuff at me which I felt the impact from off my head, No one helps but I manage to escape him and then I’m at home. The dream gets weirder at home. I’m suddenly walking down the stairs from being upstairs and find the front door open, I shut it too and as I inspected the rest of the house downstairs I can see from the kitchen the back door is open too which scares me, I’m thinking is this man in the house. I struggle to use my phone as tho I’ve got no signal. And this is the twist. My attention suddenly goes towards the bathroom and I can see the floor is covered in water. I enter to find the bath full with a dark purple coloured water and as I get closer I can see the outline of a body submerged. I grabbed the shoulders pulled up the body and it was my sister, She younger than me but the image in my head I can still picture it was a younger version of herself. her eyes were dark purple like the water very scary but then I realised she was okay and breathing, shouted at her as I thought she was dead and then I woke up. Any clue to the message of this disturbing dream please?

Shell 14 Aug 2020

I just had a dream that it was a windy night and I was living at uncle Henry’s house on Grubb Road in Elida, Ohio with my former bf Steve & Lani my dog, but Lani was a Shih Tzu. The wind blew the panel out of the screen door and so I went out the door in the dark to get the panel & to get the dog back in. A man jumped out from behind the fence and attacked me. He was tall skinny & wirey. I tried to scream for Steve because I Knew he would come save me but I couldn’t get the scream out. I knew I had to scream to save my life but it wouldn’t come out. I woke up to actually crying out in my bed here in sarasota Florida. As I woke up I wanted to snuggle with Steve for comfort...I went to roll over to do that and he wasn’t here What is the meaning of this?

Chad 29 Dec 2019

I been having dreams of being attacked/robbed while pushing a grocery cart while I’m waiting by a gas pump at a gas station while the person I’m with is inside getting something. It’s usually a group to 3-4 that I fight back against never see faces they are just big and menacing feel to them. Don’t know how it turns out yet as I always seem to wake up when the person I’m with comes running out of the gas station to help me. Also have dreams where cars/trucks are chasing me at my home in the mountains. They are bouncing around and jumping fences climbing the side of the mountains on our property but I do go out there to chase them off and fight back to protect our animals? Am I going nuts?? But about 7 months ago I was rear ended on the interstate have a lot of injuries from the accident and still currently fighting insurance and employer to get the care I need. Just trying to make sense thanks if you can offer any insight.

mack 27 Nov 2019

so it was me, ppl from school and a few random people that i don’t even know.. i was coming back from theater for some reason, i was walking home.. which i never do, but then there was these three guys who kept trying to harass me??? i was being strangled by one of em but i got away... i tried running but my legs kept giving out so it was hard for me to keep going but once i got to my house there was this creepy demon thing in the window and my door was stuck and i couldn’t open it all of a sudden the door flies open and i got inside, i then woke up.. the second dream i had when i fell back asleep, was me and a few other people from theater were in my front yard and there were these random people trying to attack us... so when they were attacking us basically they had like chain saws and knives and stuff but the random people snatched michael and then curtis got away, i never saw him later in my dream. but the dude trying to attack ME had a chainsaw, i tried to run away but my legs were slowing down so at the end i just laid down knowing it was the end... he cut off both my arms with the chainsaw and then in my dream i said “my head. just do it.” and he started cutting my head off with it and i woke up and now the back of my neck is burning.. later got up & found scratches on the back of my neck as well.

Ratatouille 25 Sep 2019

I was in my house, in my bedroom with people sleeping. No one would wake up so I went to the kitchen where I apparently found someone who woke up but I couldn't see them, just their laptop. They went to sleep because a monster came and killed those who didn't. As a monster reached inside with a slimy claw hand, I grabbed a wobbly stick and started jabbing it. I felt bad jabbing it, it was disguised as my cousin's wife. There was goo everywhere, but it just left. Went out the door. I barricade the door with chairs and try to find another weapon. I hear a chainsaw outside, after hearing that sound I yeeted the hell out of there.

Chubalishous 28 Aug 2019

It was winter. Somebody needed some sort of alcohol that required identification at a deli. I didn’t bring my wallet because the alcohol wasn’t for me. I asked my dad for his id because we look similar. He gave me an identification of a trans woman. I got angry and threw his money and identification up in the air at him in the deli. I storm out the deli. I get sucker punched from behind and I say “from behind” as I roll over and see my father; as I lose consciousness in the dream. I wake up in my parents bedroom with my father next to me. He says he took me to his friend hue’s house while I was unconscious. Hue told him I was maintaining. I look in the mirror and I have two minor black eyes.

C 1 Aug 2019

I was alone and drunk in my dream (by alone, I knew no one around me) I kept getting into very dangerous situations. Like I offered a cigarette to a group of men what seems dodgy and I got in an abandoned car which then flipped some now and I lost my keys purse everything. I was so drunk I couldn’t properly walk so to get home I had to use a shopping trolly to support me. People were laughing at me as I walked. Then a boy tried to ask me for money but I rudely declined when a woman, I assume his mother, came to me and asked me again. I said no. She pulled out about 5 different types of kitchen knives and ran at me. Being drunk I tried to run as fast as I could but she caught up and I grabbed her wrists before she could stab me. We wrestled for a while then she had the knife pointed at my stomach and threatened to push. Obviously scared for my life I pushed her away and ran again. I started to sober up at this point. I ran and I ran untill I got to my door. I’d losssed my keys so I was knocking on the door screaming “mum!” No one answering. She came running around the corner at me and I had no were to go. She was throwing butcher knives at me from the pavement and some I dodged and some I didn’t and I got slashed. (I could still feel these slashes when I woke up). Finally my mum answered the door and I ran inside and locked the doors. The dream ended with me bloody and my mum asking what was going on.

Richly 29 Jul 2019

I saw myself in a T junction, and suddenly I saw a man appeared to me dressed in black and said leave there you. And immediately I ran out of the place but my system changed like something changed about me and my head started swallowing like I was going insane. So, I ran out of the T junction and suddenly I met some men that took me to a upper house and told me to use the shower, and they also joined me in taking shower too. So I woke up.

Sagenope 26 Jul 2019

I had a dream where my boyfriend and I had for some reason or another left shopping carts of stuff on a trail we frequent. We ran to them with relief and some guy walks by talking smack so him and my boyfriend get into a tussle which causes him to pull out a shot gun/ grande launcher thing and start shooting at us ,we somehow managed to make it to the homeless shelter where we are currently staying irl, I got in and was injured in the chest and for some reason my boyfriend was laying outside the door some and a few other people that live there drag him back in and he’s fine . The same guy comes running up to the building (which is a big Victorian house ) so we all scatter to our units ,we went in and hid in our closet behind an old bassinet and cans we are saving and the dream ends just as i hear the first gun shot and children crying (I am 20 years old with a 5 month old baby and working daily both my boyfriend and I to get into a place of our own. Normally my dreams aren’t as vivid but still messed up .this one in particular has got me rattled and keeps repeating itself in different ways but the same gist)

Jen 17 Jul 2019

Hi, so I had a dream where it was night time and me, my friend and her brother were playing around. They locked there door and where teasing me. I was laughing as well until I heard a voice scream “HEY!” I struggled to open the door and my friends scrambled to open it too it was if nobody was allowed out after dark. Just then, a man out of nowhere ran up to me, grabbed me and started beating me up. The man started yelling at me until my friends brother (only two years older) tried to defend me. In the end, we both got beaten up and managed to escape. That’s when I woke up.

Gramps 8 Jul 2019

I am now nearing 79 years of age. I have occasional dreams, all where I am being attacked by various things. The most recent was large rats. In the past, when I was viewing a lot of WW II videos, it was sometimes Japanese soldiers. All have me kicking and flayling my arms to ward them off. I wake up in alarm and my wife has fled our bed because of fear of catching a punch or a karate kick used in my dreams to defend myself. I can handle the dreams myself, but they become a danger to my wife who wonders what is going on? Over the years, on the medical side, I have continued with an ongoing struggle with Meniere's disease and now have early-onset Parkinson's. I recognize there can be a tie in with what I am putting into my mind, in the case of the attacking Japanese, etc., but I believe it is more than that. I am very active in my Church and lead a good life, but the physical threat of these dreams, especially for my wife, have me very concerned. Any advice of what more I can due to eliminate these kind of dreams?

Syd 29 Jun 2019

I was in my local area in the dream playing with my sister and friend. Friends whom I don't know and suddenly a massive and brutal mob attacked on us out of nowhere. The attack was so sudden that shocked me and I felt that my heart is beating too fast that I'm gonna die but we all ran off that place but while running they were just behind me with there swords and with loud voices as a mob. Finally I escaped the mob And now I am awake but I'm still shaking What was that with the dream because I still feel it that was scary

Lexi 29 May 2019

I had a dream about me going to school and having a normal day and when i was switching buildings i saw these cars and they were dropped low Honda's and Toyota's and there were trucks every where and it didn't look normal so me and my friend... (which i honestly had no clue who it was) Kept walking a little scared and right before entering one guy ran up and took asked for our names and we asked why he said he jus needed to know and then said "once everyones in class we are blowing up this school" and all of them had guns in their hands.. So i just ran as fast as i could and a man started shooting but the man who was talking to me told them to stop and when i got into the woods i watched the school get blown up as soon as tht second bell rang and i watched people get shot. I then ran home and told my grandma and she didnt believe me and then i went to a milk shake place and that gang was driving by and the same dude that let me go spotted me but didnt say anything to his gang and out of no where my friend that i was walking with showed up and we were talking about it then we saw cop cars and fire trucks and ambulances rushing by and then i woke up.

Shell 23 Mar 2019

I dreamed I was out for a walk at dusk and just as I was passing a vacant school building I saw a gang that looked suspicious and felt they were going to follow me. I pretended to get a call on my cell phone and acted like I was meeting someone and kept talking loud as I dodged between a few cars on the parking lot. They did not follow me. A few nights later I had the same dream out for a leisurely walk at dusk. I get to the same vacant school building and spot the same exact people. My ex calls my phone and I tell him my location and to call 911 this time the gang is following me and taunting and laughing. My ex agrees to call piece but doesnt. The gang leader has brown hair and facial hair and a tan sued coat with a fur lining. First a male tries to take my phone but can't. I hold it tightly then a female attempts to take my phone we struggle she gets it I get it back. She has bright blonde hair cut very short and close to her head she is wearing a skin tight bright white one piece stretchy outfit. They take me in the vacant building. Every room is dark. I continue to fight each one that tries to attack me as I fight back they disappear. One guy almost defeats me so the others leave me and this guy in a brightly lit room he is Asian looking and has a sleeveless white ribbed tank top undershirt on. He slips and falls he is out of breath from fighting. I'm leaving the room and he is having trouble getting up to stop me but he wants to and is calling for help from others and I go back and stab him once then I stab him a second time and I see him bleeding then I wake up.

Hen 20 Mar 2019

I dreamt of killing my mums dog and when she got back we had a full blown argument and I was just about to hand myself in to the police but then we were out where we use to live and she got attacked by a man he just kept kicking her in the stomach and then I woke up please help me this is a very disturbing dream I woke up crying

Mel 27 Feb 2019

Hi, I had a dream where I woke up and there was fresh blood on my bed clothes on the floor by my bed. I looked under my bed and there was blood like something had been dragged from my bed side all the way under through to the other side of the room and into the bathroom. I walked around the bed and sat on the end looking down at bits of flesh over the floor. I was trying to figure out what all this was from. I was then attacked by a small creature who latched onto my arm. I tried vigorously to shake it off. It finally fell to the ground and died. I was more puzzled than afraid during this event. I would.love to know the meaning behind it.

Lew 16 Feb 2019

I have been having a pretty stressful time since breaking up with my ex, shes been causing me alot of trouble, anyway I'm only 24 and have 2 kids and have both my children over the weekend one is 3 and one is 1. I suffer with sleep paralysis alot. Anyway my dream, I was having a very soft normal dream about having to drive somewhere with some friends, when all off a sudden my dream was interupted with some bangs then screams of my daughter in reality and the sounds of her being attacked and hurt in the room next to me, however my body wouldnt move initially i was paralysed but i fought it so hard for about 3 seconds i was unparaylised, but everything was silent, everyone still asleep I'd imagined the noises/screams that interupted my initial dream?!?!

Witchbaby 22 Jan 2019

I’ve recently been having some very vivid and terrifying nightmares. In the most recent one, my mother and I are at lunch and I’m watching the scene from above (almost as if it were a movie). We finish eating and pay and my mother goes to the back of the car to do something with her purse, one hand on the side of the car. A man in all black walks by and then I hear my mom curse and see her yank her hand back, confused. She shuts the back of the car and tosses me the keys, telling me to drive. So we get in and get buckled and I start driving. It’s an out of body experience and I can see myself doing the actions, can even hear myself, but my body isn’t quite doing what my voice says. I tell my body “blinker left” as we transition from curb to road, then “blinker right” as we get to the intersection to turn onto the main road. But my body notices the man from earlier trailing close behind us and a shiver runs down my spine. Something about him makes my body speed up as we turn. I can hear myself saying “okay, now brakes”, but my body presses down on the gas instead. The light turns red and I scream “brakes”, but my body keeps going. My mom passed out from the shot that the man gave her earlier. I’m scared and starting to panic and then I hear sirens. I keep speeding, scared that the guy is still following. I call emergency services, the police station answering, and tell them I need their cars to stop chasing me and that I need an emergency escort to the hospital as my mother has passed out and that a man was chasing us. Somehow we wind up back at my moms house in the living room. It’s nighttime. My sister rings the doorbell and I flash the porch light to make sure it is her. That was mistake #1 as I guess I have confirmation to the man that that was where we lived. I talk to my sister for a little while and explain the whole situation and she tells us that we need to lock the doors and wait for the paramedics to get to the house. She says she can’t stay and that she’s sorry, but that she’d be by in the morning. She leaves, I lock the door and sit down. My mother’s girlfriend disappears from the room into thin air. We’re left with my mother, my female cousin, my two little brothers and I. Suddenly the doorbell rings again and my mother answers the door this time, the man that I recognize from the car chase is dressed in fake paramedic clothes and injects my mother with something, claiming it’ll make her feel better. I scream and grab the syringe and start stabbing him, but he doesn’t feel it. He tried to come in the house and I keep pushing at him to no avail, he’s in the house now, trying to come in further. I yell at my cousin to call the cops as he tosses me on the couch. I start kicking and screaming at him to get out of my house, but he doesn’t. When my cousin keeps staring at me, I scream at her to call the cops right that second. She looks at me blankly before slowly going “okay where’s your phone?” Somehow managing to kick him into the foyer

Teens 25 Oct 2018

I have been having this nightmare for 2 weeks every night,Im in a apt by myself an in bed to go to sleep an a man with all black clothes on with a black hat he attacks me everytime I fight back hes to strong an when I finally wake up my whole body feels like I'm beat up I'm in alot of pain alot of times I wake up then go back to sleep it continues its very scary I don't know wut it means I'm very scared an worried I don't want to b by myself everyone in my family I tell they say its just a dream wont happen in real life.plez to me wut it means

Bubbles 19 Sep 2018

Hi I just had a variation of the same dream 3 times back to back. The first 2 times where I think I wake up the dream stops. I don't become fully conscious until the 3rd time. 1st time: The dream occurs in a white mans house and the person threatens me to clean water up that was thrown on me. I along with 2 white girls he threatens to kill. All 3 of us manage to take him down. When he throws water on me He tells me clean it up and calls me a name. The phone rings and the person threatens me as well. After the phine call is when we attack. I wake up. 2nd time: back in the house the man isn't there yet and my sister, Dom, and Shawn are trying to show me how to attack him. I learn how to wipe something on th e skins and light it causing it burn open by testing it out on Shawn. The guy returns with a a white person holding a gun similar to an AK-47 I end up crawling on the ground outside and I maybe hear an attack/explosion. I wake up. 3rd time: back at the house waiting for the guy to return and this time my line sisters show up gearing up to help me. This time I'm crawling on the ground, the guy and others white ppl are there with machine guns. I'm crawling on the ground then I'm heading back inside successfully defeating the ppl. And my line sisters are sharing with me who all will be staying with me. I wake up. I go to the restroom to try and calm my nerves. As soon as i get back in bed the vision of the white guy with black hair, sky blue top with black cargo shorts is all that I can see. I begin to cry.

AnalyseDreams Editor 3 Sep 2018

I am sorry to hear this. This is more to do with post-traumatic stress than any deeper meaning to your dream. You are obviously still mentally recovering from this episode, which understandably will take time.

Nita 31 Aug 2018

I am going through a messy divorce where my ex had an affair(still with her) and he assaulted me so badly I spend 3 weeks in hospital I dreamed that my sister and were in the kitchen when I heard someone in a room elsewhere in a house, It was dark and when I got there I was sure I saw something, my sister did not believe me and followed me to the room, but on the way there I kept telling myself to look for a weapon in case there is trouble. Before I could warn her that a light was on the that room I turned around and a man all dresses in black attached me, I actually woke up from my own screams. please explain

Elouise 21 Aug 2018

Hello I was just wondering if you’d be able to tell me what this dream means? A man knocked on the door late at night, everyone’s still up so probably around 10pm, he’s wearing a blue tracksuit and has a black eye, I just got home with a couple that I don’t know, a boy and girl that are clearly together. Mum gets up and opens it and he walks straight in and sort of shakes his arms out as if ready for a fight and no ones seems to bother so I stand up in a defensive way. He goes to hit me and pulls out a knife, I shout for the boy to do something and he stands up hits him once then sits back with his girlfriend. The man is now on his knees but pointing the knife at me and attempts to stab me again so I hit him with the closest things I can grab but nothing seems to deter him, he keeps trying to stab me and he’s slowly getting closer. As he goes to stab me again I wake up.

RD 19 Aug 2018

Over the course of the week, I’ve been having dreams of fighting the getting attacked by 2 of more people. Not the same reoccurring dream.. all different situations but it always ends with me fighting multiple random people.

AnalyseDreams Editor 16 Aug 2018

I can only assume you have quite a bit of anger or resentment bubbling under the surface at the moment. It could be regarding an incident or happenings that are not connected to your dream or the people in your dream. It could be a school, college, job, family, friend or general situation. Or it may be that you are stressed and need a bit of a break or rest.

Princess 15 Aug 2018

Hello. I had a dream that my second to youngest (16) sister and big sister (25) were getting beat on by a man my sister was dating and the first night me (19) and my youngest sister (12) hid from the attacker. The next day all of us were packing to leave the house until it was safe to come back when in the process, I spotted three men at the door trying to break in. I asked my second to youngest (16) if that’s who the boy was and she said yes. So immediately me and my youngest run to the back to get bats and call the cops and as we’re running back my two sisters are already getting beat on. I handed them bats and we all started to beat them until they couldn’t move. And somehow The guy that my second to youngest sister was dating Who is also the attacker’s has a child that my big sister is holding. I’m not sure what a baby had to do with the dream but now I am holding the mans arms up asking my sister if she wants to kill him or wait for the cops and just in case he was to come back from jail and harm her she killed him then I woke up once the cops arrive. Me and my youngest sister didn’t get hurt during the two encounters with this man but my second to youngest and oldest sister did and I don’t understand why. Nor why a baby was in there can you explain?

AnalyseDreams Editor 10 Aug 2018

I am sorry to hear you have a horrible dream and I hope you have recovered. It may purely be that your life is a little chaotic currently, or it may just be a nightmare that has no specific meaning. The dreams that have symbolic meanings are usually the dreams that resonate deeply in some way long after the dream has ended, perhaps the next day or the day after. As the article states, it may also be because you have a level of stress and/or anxiety in your life.

Rastababy 10 Aug 2018

Hi I just woke up with this horrible dream,In my dream I woke up with noise of my youngest son friends he's 10 and it was about 10.30pm with them jumping windows in out my house I called everyone in next thing had 1male and 1 female aswell in my living room I asked the kids what they were doing there so late the male man a forener that i never meet say was not my bussines and i reply but ye all in my house and he reply back they just came out movies and it was not my business again, I strart shouting yes it's my problem cause all this kids are here was about 15of them and the parents could be looking for them so if was not happy I say that the door go way,next thing the door opens it was one of my oldest son friend screaming I ran out I see a bunch of is friends been held by others with knives and I scream were was my son and I saw him been held by another with hammer some kids were bleading, one of them grabe me and my son said let it go she's my mum, soon the boy let me go I woke up and pray to rebuke my dream. I'm still shaking written this is 2.10 am now I'm frightened by this..Any meaning ?tank you

AnalyseDreams Editor 30 Jul 2018

The may be no reason for this dream other than something in your day-to-day life has triggered flashback to your past and it has come through in your dream.

AnalyseDreams Editor 30 Jul 2018

I couldn't really interpret your dream from a 'dream' perspective, apart from to say you may in your day-to-day life have anxieties about this lapse of time or not being on time. Or that something is amiss with your thought processes and this concern is creeping in to your subconscious. I think this might be something you may wish to chat to your GP about in case you may have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury. It's certainly worth getting yourself checked out if you recognise you may have an issue.

FatheadBob 28 Jul 2018

I worked a job I liked for 8 years. That was about 24 years ago. I was planning on leaving to move to LA but before I quit I got pissed about something and yelled at a coworker. (I have since been diagnosed as bipolar.) So I got fired just a week before I was going to give notice. I moved to LA, and quickly got a job working freelance, then a job for a company I where I wanted to work full-time. On the third day I was on an errand and was hit while riding my motorcycle. I had to leave LA and return back east, and though I was able to go back to school, I haven’t worked for any body else since. I did start a business but I struggled and decided I couldn’t handle it. Anyway, for the past few years I have had dreams of working at the kon I had before moving to LA. I relive the good parts and the bad parts. But the weird thing is I keep wondering if I punched in, or if I called in sick for the years I wasn’t there, or even for that day or recent days. Then I wonder why Im not getting paid. ( I was making pretty good money) It’s just really weird! Not sure what it means, I have a serious problem with time. I often feel like it’s just after my accident. Like time isn’t passing. So that period must have aggected me more than I thought. I had a helmet on but had a slight concussion. Any ideas?

Me 28 Jul 2018

I'm just wondering what my dream could have meant I had a dream I was at a party with all my family and my children an my abusive ex from nearly 7 years ago came in told everyone he had my kids an to get out and leave me there. Next thing be was attacking me beating me up felt like my bones where getting broken It felt so real I woke up shaking. I don't understand why after all this time I am having a nightmare about him he has been out mine and my children's lives for 6 years now an I have been with my current partner for 5 years. This dream really scared me and I'm not sure what it could mean. Please try an explain

AnalyseDreams Editor 27 Jul 2018

It may not mean anything. It may purely be a nightmare, they do happen.

AnalyseDreams Editor 27 Jul 2018

Perhaps it is purely wishful thinking on your part (i.e you can play the knight in shining armour). However, the fact you moved away from her means you are conscious of whatever the situation your ex is happier where you keep your distance. Or you feel that your ex is a person that you have to keep your distance from. This could be seen as symbolic of you needing to step back and keep out of her life.

Mike 26 Jul 2018

Hello I just litterally had a dream where im laying down on my bed in my room just like right now and some man rushed into my room and was comin at me to grab me really fast and right before he grabbed or he did grabbed me i woke up to my own noise from screaming. My heart beat was at max like i just sprinted and my whole body was shaking. Man was tall with a bald head but i coundt see his face because lights were off but i saw him comin towards me. I've never been that scared in my life,now im sleeping with lights on. What this possibly can mean?

Raven 26 Jul 2018

I had a dream of a girl whom I recently broke up. In that dream we apologies to each other and then suddenly an unknown person begin to attack her by holding her head. Then I helped her and moved her away and after that she was somewhat happy. Now I am not sure what it means as it is very confusing to me as she has become so cold towards me lately..

AnalyseDreams Editor 23 Jul 2018

It may be some simple underlying feeling you have about your ex's partner and her general feelings towards you. Often feelings can become heightened during your dream state.

Sally 21 Jul 2018

I had this dream of my ex's partner sending guys to attack me and they injured me during that dream it's was abit confusing and they are not together why would she want to attack me.

AnalyseDreams Editor 17 Jul 2018

It seems in some way you feel threatened by elements of your past and your ex. It is a place that you do not wish to go back to. You see you father as a protector and your current boyfriend as where you want to be. You do not want the past to infringe on the present in any way.

Arm 17 Jul 2018

I had a dream that I was in my current boyfriends house but my dad was living here with me instead. One of my ex’s brothers from 11 years ago was trying to break into the house and rang the doorbell. For some reason my dad knew we needed to hide so we went upstairs but somehow my ex’s brother came up a laundry shoot that was connected to the bathroom in the upstairs bedroom where I was actually sleeping in but in my dream my dad walked into the room and the brother tackeled my dad onto the ground and gave him a shot to sedate him. In my dream I stayed outside the door and saw this through the crack and began to call cops and then I woke up from the dream. What does this mean?

AnalyseDreams Editor 16 Jul 2018

This must have been a very disturbing dream. There are two parts to it that have meaning. Firstly, the part where the apartment has no walls. This may mean there is either some lack of privacy in your son's life, or you feel you have no privacy due to your son's condition. A house is usually representative of your own mind. So, it seems perhaps there are people in your son's life have no real meaning and yet they are part of your son's life and you feel like either you are always intruding or they are. In other words, there is little privacy for him or you on occasions. The fact both your son and you were being hit may mean that you feel you are both being attacked from all sides and you feel powerless to protect your son. It seems this is a dream about privacy, intrusion and you feeling that you are fighting a losing battle in terms of your son and his welfare.

Anne 15 Jul 2018

So I had this dream last night that my mentally disabled son and I are walking through this apartment building when we come to an area where construction is obviously being done. I peek in one door that has been left open and it’s a kitchen with nicely arranged yet aged cabinets. I turn to notice my son isn’t with me and backtrack to find him. The next apartment is like the corner of a the hallway yet two walls are missing, one for a bathroom and one for a living room. I notice a guy on the sofa in the living room and my son is in the bathroom so I wait on the other side of an actual wall hoping my son comes back out the missing wall side. He finishes and walks into the living room where the guy jumps up saying he needs to finish getting the walls put up. My son bolts the opposite direction as I enter the living room apologizing and explaining that my son has disabilities and he mistook their bathroom as public therefore not meaning any harm. The man seems to understand and shows compassion so we head the way my son went to get him so we can leave. We enter the kitchen where a guy has a hammer and is striking my son on top of the head in slow motion yet my son is frozen against the counter with terror in his eyes. Me and the other guy try to tell the one attacking my son what is really happening yet he won’t stop hitting my son so I move forward to stop him. He then turns the hammer on my head. It doesn’t hurt me and it is in slow motion as the entire fight scene yet I’m fighting the slow motion to protect my son. With each hammer hit, I can only move slower then the hammer is gone and he’s putting his fingers in my mouth around my front teeth and I start trying to bite his finger landing a couple of successful blows with no effect to him at all. I pull his hair to yank his head back and he doesn’t move at all. Then I wake up. Usually I don’t remember dreams yet this one is vivid and clear. Two other people in the kitchen other than me, son, and the attacker that don’t move to help nor hinder. Living room guy was understanding of the situation yet the guy in the kitchen was calculated and such with his hits and where they landed. Top of my and son’s head and touching my lower front teeth of mouth. Never have seen any of the three men before in my waking life. Please help cause I’m really confused over this dream.

AnalyseDreams Editor 9 Jul 2018

There may be a connection of the dream to you moving back home for the summer. The key to the dream may not be about the attack, but about your relationship with your parents. The fact you have come from a busy environment back home may have unsettled you somewhat. Or, the fact your parents did not respond to the attack may mean you find your parents ineffectual, unresponsive or even lacklustre (perhaps in comparison to your busy life elsewhere). You may feel that the excitement, drama, active life you experience away does not translate into your home environment. Or you may feel your parents need some sort of protection right now which you are incapable of giving to them. The attackers are incidental to an issue you currently have being back home with your parents and your attitudes to each other. It's up to you to piece the rest together. I hope this helps.

TX123 7 Jul 2018

I wouldn’t say the dream was of an attack necessarily, but more of an intrusion with the with the fear of an attack. I remember it started out with my dog noticing some noises outside of the house, I then hear/see the garage door open. I go back to look through the peep hole on the front door to see what’s going on. I remember seeing a Dog, not sure what kind i just remember it being a large dog and the silhouette of a large man standing behind him on my front porch. I then hear them start to try to get into the house from different angles, the garage, front door, side window by my room, and the back door. I remember feeling scared and unsure about what was going on the whole time. I remember telling my parents ( p.s. they’re deaf and I’m 20 and home for the summer from college so not a super odd aspect of the dream) that something was going on and someone was trying to break in but they just continued to not do anything about it and didn’t seem worried by it all. i vividly remember arguing with my dad to do something, to get a Gun and protect us but he just kept sitting there shaking it off and saying he would do it tomorrow or later on. I remember feeling so outraged by it and also even more scared. The men finally managed to break in through the front door and once inside i notice there were 3-4 fully grown huge men that entered the house. The setting automatically shifted from the living room to the door of my parents bedroom where I had grabbed a two-pronged grilling fork ( not odd since i had just found one while cleaning the house earlier that day) to use to attack them with, but when I went to attack with it the prongs automatically became bent when i lifted it and ended up doing no damage at all. I remember feeling even more frustrated and confused and scared. I ten immediately try my pepper spray on them from nearly “point blank” distance, i remember i kept spraying and spraying but it wasn’t having any affect on them at all. The whole time the men were just laughing at my attempts. The dream continued on with the three men “comendeering” one of the rooms in our house and running their illegal “businesses” out of it. The whole time i remember pleading with my dad to go buy a gun because we can’t trust these men but he just kept shaking it off and saying he would do it later or that he would do it tomorrow like it was no big deal. Then the dream just sorta ends and i wake up.

Hank 5 Jul 2018

I know the color and the year of the car chasing me color is blue yours is like 19 47 automobile

Lil 18 Jun 2018

I had a dream that I was getting texts from someone I know from my school . 2 days earlier he tried to get my attention . Then I had that dream that he was texting me . Then couple of days later I had a dream that he tried to rape me couple of times but t somehow I got away. It was scary and weird .

AnalyseDreams Editor 18 Jun 2018

It could possibly be merely the protective instinct of you as a parent kicking in.

AnalyseDreams Editor 18 Jun 2018

I am sorry to hear this. Your dream is obviously the residue of the abusive relationships in your life. However, as upsetting as this dream was, it may also be a pointer that by grouping your abusive relationships together, it telling you that all this is behind you and it is time to move on. Dreams such as this can be your own subconscious telling you that you want to move on from such situations and that this is firmly in the past.

KT 16 Jun 2018

So I have tons of dreams of my children being attacked and I can’t save them. It’s uaully a little girl attacking them and my husband. Last time she was screaming and floating over me and then it just went black and the screaming continued til I woke up. Do you have any idea why I would be constantly dreaming stuff like this.

Kay 15 Jun 2018

I had a dream that I was being beat up by a lot of people.... more like a gang of people. Some people I knew as a child but haven’t talked to them in years. I just got out of this really complicated emotionally abusive relationship and have had messed up dream.. was getting beat up by these girls about them messing with my ex and I didn’t care and then my ex came over to me very intoxicated and he’s scary when he’s drunk and he pinned me down and was yelling at me in my face and also throughout the years of us dating he always accused me of cheating over and over and I never did, back to the dream... and then he picked me up and just through me to the ground and started yelling at me again and there was people just watching and those girls were laughing and I started crying and woke up cryin.

AnalyseDreams Editor 14 Jun 2018

Your dream may be a projection of your positive and wishful thinking. However, your dream may also be a symbolic and predictive dream that although your parents may be having money problems currently all will be OK and the money problems will not last. We know when a dream may be symbolic as it will be strong and leave a lasting feeling with you that you cannot shake off. Sometimes a symbolic or predictive dream needs to be only one short image, but that image can tell you more about what may happen. It feels like you are looking into a crystal ball.

AnalyseDreams Editor 14 Jun 2018

It is quite difficult to interpret a dream without having some background information of why the dream may have happened. For instance, the stalker you speak of, is he a real-life one or a dream one? However, the dream means that you are obviously feeling protective of your mother in some way. Is she having a bad time? Or is she vulnerable currently? If the answers are yes, then it is simply a dream of about the concern you have regarding something your mother may be going through. Somehow your protective instinct has surfaced and you would have to think about out what part of you or your mother's life this connects to.

K.P 13 Jun 2018

I had a dream that my mom was attacked?? She saw a man that had been stalking her at the park. We decided to leave the park and go home. When we got there the man was there. He barged into our home and began attacking my mom. I grabbed a knife and tried to stab him but he knocked it out of my hand and then held me at gun point and told me to back away. After, he took a knife and began cutting my moms arm off. This was the scariest, most real, dream I’ve ever had and I woke up feeling sick and disgusted about it.

Kila 12 Jun 2018

Last Night I had a dream That Me and my parents Moved to a New house it was full with pretty furnitures, I just see everyone in the dream so happy. During the day before I went to sleep We are kinda having Money problems So I guess thats what triggered it ? I don't understand what the dream meant. I'm 14 by the way I just been having really weird dreams.

AnalyseDreams Editor 8 Jun 2018

You are definitely having some internal battles with yourself here. Have you literally been beating yourself up about something, for instance to do with being disorganised, or regarding some part of your character you dislike or are frustrated with? In dreams such as this, it is always advisable to think it through and try to come to your own conclusion why your subconscious is feeling the need to attack your conscious self. There are always parts of ourselves that almost act separate from what our conscious self tells us we should act like, perhaps it this side that you are trying to resolve.

Smlcookie 7 Jun 2018

Had a dream i was shampooing my hair naked but not in the shower, i started blow drying it when i realized i didnt wash out the shampoo but didnt stop blow drying it. Just then i saw myself rush in the room from another door coming to attack me violently. I closed a sliding closet door on the attacking self which got the attacking selfs hair stuck in the closed door trying to get free when i forced myself to wake up and my real body was still shaking. Took me a bit to relax. Ive read most attacking dreams are internal conflict but why was it me attacking me? Double internal?

AnalyseDreams Editor 31 May 2018

Once your life settles down again your dreams will stop. It is understandable that you feel that you are being hit at from every direction (given the changes and disruption you have had to go through). However, as with every period of upheaval there usually follows a period of calm, then the dreams will subside. The person you are protecting in your dream is you. The key is to take the dream at face value and be a bit kinder to yourself and look after your own well-being through this tumultuous time.

Emily 31 May 2018

Okay, I know I’m stressed out because I’m getting a divorce, I moved, I had to get a new job, etc, etc. The thing is when I google how to make the nightmares go away they always say, “look for something to connect with why you are stressed”. There is ALWAYS a family member or friend I feel comfortable with near me, or like my nephew I feel like a need to protect when things start happening in my dreams. It’s usually dark, and it’s like a poltergeist attacking me. No one can see it, so no one can stop it. Objects get thrown at at very strongly or I, myself, have been thrown across the room (in my dreams). I don’t know how to stop it but I know where the stress is coming from and if I could chill out I would because these dreams feel insanely real and it’s getting harder to sleep at night.

AnalyseDreams Editor 16 Apr 2018

It sounds as though you have some stresses and it is your boyfriend who is coming to the rescue, or you would like your boyfriend to come to your rescue. Much depends about what the overlying feeling was in the dream. If your were happy your boyfriend came to help, it may mean that your dream is a reinforcement of the feelings of security that you feel when you are with him. This would signify that you feel your relationship is strong.

Disturbing Dream 15 Apr 2018

My dream began very pleasantly. With family on a outing to a store that somehow because a sort of theme park/obstacle course. Upon leaving I'm in my car with a man (a former neighbor/friend who I haven't seen for over a year). He driving. He starts trying to "make a move" on my and was extremely persistent despite pushing him away repeatedly and saying no. I ended up calling my boyfriend on the Bluetooth in the car and begging for him to come pick me up from wherever we were.

AnalyseDreams Editor 6 Apr 2018

It might be that you were lying on your arm and the physical pressure has overlapped into your dream. This, in turn has created an image to let you know you are in pain. I suspect this dream doesn't mean very much. Dreams that mean something specific usually have strong emotions attached to them which resonate strongly.

Shea-Shea 31 Mar 2018

My dream was about me and a friend in a small boat. Then, a huge alligator swims towards us.When it reaches us,it eats my friend and starts bitting my arm. I wake up, and the same arm that was being bitten hurt.

AngieG Editor 8 Jan 2018

@Mia - wow this does sound like a crazy dream indeed, usually we wake up after being injured straight away. Even though the boyfriend is not your boyfriend, he nevertheless represents him symbolically by wearing the same clothes. It seems that you either feel everyone is out to get you, except your b/f, or you would rather just you and your b/f be left alone to get on with your lives together and not have anyone else involved.

Mia 7 Jan 2018

I just had a dream that I was in a grocery store trying to find a journal and pen set and a man comes up to me. He looks and is dressed exactly like my boyfriend but I know it is not. We talk for a bit about what I’m trying to find but after a while he leaves to go to another part of the store. I go back to trying to look for this journal and pen and then another man walks up to me. Before he even reaches me I know he has ill intent. I stand up and go to reach for my phone in my bag but he grabs me and shoved me against the cart. I yell ‘Siri call police’ but my phone won’t work. I get up and run from this man and run to the front of the store. I yell at the cashiers to call the police but they won’t. Instead they lock the door and don’t say a word. Just stare at me with hatred. So I run to the fresh produce isle and crouch down next to that man who looks like my boyfriend but isn’t. I notice that not everyone is trying aiding this psychotic guy and some are crouching down. Just after I notice this, an older man comes at me with a knife and I try to fight him off but he still manages to cut me from elbow, down my armpit, to the bottom of my ribs. The guy who looks like my boyfriend shoved him away and helps me run and hide in the middle of this grocery store. We sit down, I’m grabbing this huge gaping cut I have, and we talk to keep me from not passing out. I’m crying, yelling ‘why is everyone trying to kill me’ and he tells me I need to be quiet. I talk about how I really wish my boyfriend was here, and that if he was he would kill every last one of them ( he is very protective of his family ). Which is really odd because I’m telling this to someone who looks exactly like him. I remember very distinctly him asking ‘you guys are never slow, are you?’ But it was sweet. Right after that, this older woman stabs me in the back and we run, but now they are catching up quicker. Eventually we are in the back, next to the loading dock and we see the cops pull in but just as they do, the original guy comes up and knocks the guy that looks like my boyfriend out and tackles me to the ground, trying to point a gun at my head. I fight him off and it goes black, but I hear a gunshot and feel a pain on the side of my neck. I wake up in the hospital and that’s when I wake up in real life. Crazy dream...

boo 9 Apr 2013

i had a dream that i was in a ballpit hiding from a deformed monster that could track you by your pulse or heart rate. it started to creep up my legs my heart rate went really quick it dragged me through the ballpit and started to rip me apart. at this i awoke abruptly shaking unable to breath properly. and can not find anything to interperet this dream and has left me shaken. if someone could get back to me id be gratefull.

Phantom 22 Mar 2013

I need help on interpreting a dream I have almost every night, and sometimes more the once a night. I'm having trouble trying to figure out what it means. I'm in an abandoned building with two other people and we find ourselves in a basement full of sand, patches of grass, and the sun barely shining in the corner of the room. A mans head is out of the sand, I go to touch him and he yells run away, get out before he gets you. One of the people that came with me is gone, and a tall figure appears and lookes at me. He wears a long black old jacket, long black hair, pale, and deep black eyes. he throws the head at the head that was in the ground and knocks out the the other man that was with me. I start to run down some stairs, and the figure is chasing after me. He keeps getting closer, and I start to throw up blood. I try to stop to rest, but I keep running. blooed still dripping from my mouth. I find a window and jump into a room in a different building. A small boy stands there. he doesnt talk. He melts into blood and the black figure come up behind me and wraps his arms around me. Thats when I wake up... What does this mean?

Queenie 8 Jan 2013

I frequently dream about my friends raping me or hugging me and refusing to let go and suffocating me. The hug is not friendly, it's more just grabbing on to me. The dreams are quite realistic - I can feel the assault as though it's real.

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