TO KILL SOMEONE

Dream Meaning

Dreams of killing rarely carry the literal meaning the dreamer fears upon waking — instead, they are among the psyche's most dramatic ways of processing rage, powerlessness, and the desire to permanently end something that has caused harm. The person being killed in the dream is almost never simply themselves; they represent a quality, a dynamic, a version of your relationship with that person, or even a part of yourself that you need to definitively leave behind.

Killing a stranger may symbolize destroying an obstacle or a self-limiting belief. Killing someone you know often reflects the depth of unexpressed anger toward that person or the need to symbolically sever a toxic bond.

Rather than alarming you, this dream is performing a kind of psychological surgery — dragging into full, conscious awareness the feelings that have been living in the dark, because only acknowledged emotions can truly be resolved.