Beheading Dream Meaning

Seeing a beheading in a dream usually stands for a feeling of losing control over your thoughts or your identity, and its meaning is almost never literal. The head is seen as the center of thought and decision, so however frightening the scene, its real subject is your inner world of ideas. The meaning changes a great deal depending on whose head is cut off.

• Your own head being cut off

  You are facing a decision or a change that could completely reshape your old identity. You are being forced out of your old ways of thinking.

• The beheading of someone you know

  The old form of that relationship can no longer last, and things between you need to be arranged anew.

• Seeing a stranger beheaded

  This scene often comes from an urge to drop an old idea or habit of your own.

• A calm beheading without blood

  This speaks of transformation more than suffering, the complete close of one chapter.

This dream is far less bad than it feels. It marks a hard but necessary step: shedding the shell of old thinking and learning to think in a new way.