Beheading

Loss of identity, self, authority, or the authority figure of a group (such as a company’s president being fired), or a fear of such.

You being beheaded can represent a feeling or fear of: the end of a phase in your life, losing your identity, your ego, some aspect of your life or yourself, or your authority over your own decisions.

You beheading someone else might represent your anger toward, fear of, or some other feeling toward whomever or whatever the person represents in your life.

For more clues, consider the motivation behind the action.

See Execution, Head, Killed, Being, Killing, Killer, Dying, Death of You, Life Force, Authority Figure

Like any other form of execution, beheading may symbolize punishment. We often punish ourselves, unconsciously, as a result of guilt-feelings connected with some traumatic experience in childhood or early adulthood. The dream, therefore, may be showing you a negative pattern in your life that needs to be dealt with.

(2) Alternatively, beheading may signify a need to get free of a too dominating head: you may have been relying too exclusively on intellect - in w hich case, you need to give more room in your life to instinct.

(Capital punishment, Death, Decapitation) In a dream, beheading means freedom from slavery or dispelling sorrows and dismay, payment of one’s debts, or it could mean prospering.

If one knows his assailant in the dream, it means receiving wealth at his hand.

If one is sick, it means that he will recover .from his illness, and ifhe is not sick, it means that he will attend a pilgrimage.

If the assailant is a young boy, then it means comfort, joy and relief from his burdens through his own death.

If a healthy person is beheaded in a dream, it means the end of his comfort or loss of his job or authority.

If one sees the governor ofthe town beheadinghim in a dream, it means that God Almighty will save him from his sorrows and strengthen him in this life.

If one sees a ruler beheading his subjects in a dream, it means that he will issue a decree of amnesty for all prisoners.

If one is beheaded as a result of a judgment or by robbers in a dream, it means that either one of his parents or a child of his may die shortly.

If a condemned person on death row sees himself beheaded in a dream, it means that he will be released from prison and his judgment will be rectified.

If an investor or a money exchanger sees that, then it means loss of his capital investment.

If a traveler is beheaded in a dream, it represents his safe return home. Ifrivals see that in a dream, it means loss of their fight.

(Also see Cutting off)