Beating Dream Meaning

Beating someone in a dream, or being beaten yourself, usually expresses anger or helplessness buried deep in your mind. Resentment you get no chance to show in waking life often takes the shape of violent scenes like this in sleep. Notice who is hitting whom, because that makes the meaning much clearer.

• Beating a stranger

  You are fighting a part of yourself that you do not yet know well.

• Beating someone you know

  This dream brings up hurt feelings that have built up in that relationship.

• Being beaten yourself

  Here a tendency to punish yourself out of guilt is at work. If a mistake of your own has been nagging at you lately, this dream tends to come often.

• Seeing a fight stopped

  If someone tries to break up the fight, or there is a hint of making peace, your mind is looking for a way to resolve things by itself.

A dream like this is uncomfortable, but it does not point to anything harmful. It is a call to recognize the feelings you have held down and to deal with them in a healthy way.