MURDER / MURDERER

See Shot, Funeral, Corpse. Warning: A very important part of your emotions have been severed: unused talents, relationships to other people, the ability to love, and so on. These are frequent dreams during depression, and reveal repressed drives, as in Ashes and Abyss. This, however, is only one, although it is the most important, interpretation of this dream symbol. On the positive side, it is very healing that you are “murdering” something in the dream and thereby putting a radical end to it. You are standing by your aggression and thereby expressing a very important part of you. As in a detective story, murder can be stimulating as well as tragic and have a purifying effect.

Each of us are implicated in killing—by denying, repressing, controlling some pan of our own nature. These denied areas of our own sensitivity or potential can fonunately be resurrected through self awareness of our deed.

If we flee from a murderer, it depicts a fear that is threatening our confidence or something we feel threatened by. Murder­ous rage in dreamer it is observable that repressed sexuality leads to feelings of murderous rage which may not be ex­pressed socially, but do appear in dreams; may also express childhood anger linked with emotional bond with mother be­ing damaged.

Psychological / emotional perspective: To be angry enough to kill suggests that we are still holding some kind of childhood anger, since it is quite natural for a child to wish somebody dead.

If we are trying to murder somebody else in a dream, we first need to understand what that person represents to us before recognizing the violence of our own feelings.

To dream of a murderer suggests that we are conscious of violence around us.