The Element Encyclopedia

by Theresa Cheung
If you are fighting an unknown enemy in your dream, this may represent a struggle with the shadow side of your nature and the unwelcome aspects of your personality. For example, there might be a battle between your moral code and your sexual desire, or between your intellect and your emotional needs. Conflict can also occur between your personal drives and social, political and economic drives. The fight may also represent a battle between yourself and another person, and your conscious and unconscious needs.

If the enemy is someone you know, perhaps you have unsuspected feelings of animosity towards them. A fight between a younger and an older person in your dream may suggest a rivalry between the dreamer and authority.

A fight between people of the same age may represent the struggle for recognition or sibling rivalry. Similar interpretations can be applied to any kind of struggle in your dream. Such fights usually depict a fight for freedom, independence or the truth. Your unconscious may also be urging you to work out why there is a conflict, and may be suggesting that there is a more subtle way of dealing with it than with fists. According to Freudians, the struggle depicts the battle between your father or mother for the attention of the other parent.

The Language of Dreams

by Patrica Telesco
(see Abuse, Armor, Weapons)

Conflict or clashes with social strictures, other’s ideals, or your own sense of right and wrong.

Jungian: Self-conflict between what we wish to be and what we truly are or how we perceive ourselves.

A battle raging between the conscious and subconscious, between thought versus emotion, masculine traits versus the feminine, etc.

Releasing anger and related emotions that otherwise get subdued, or for which we do not have an adequate avenue of expression.

Encyclopedia of Dreams

by Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen
Fighting is a no nonsense dream of change, and the dream itself will have to point to the area of your life that will be changed. This signifies a change in job, or a change of enterprise if you own your own business.

The degree of change can be determined by how hard you fought, and if you won or lost the fight.

If you dream of others fighting it is telling you to be more careful with your financial dealings, and watch your spending.