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Torture

Torture symbol
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💡Possible meaning

This dream symbolizes emotional pain, feeling trapped, and a sense of powerlessness. It may indicate that you are going through a difficult time in your life and are struggling to cope with the situation. It may also suggest that you are punishing yourself for something you have done wrong.

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Take a step back and evaluate the situation that is causing you emotional pain. Seek help from friends, family, or a professional if needed. Remember that you have the power to change your circumstances and find a way out of the situation. Be kind to yourself and forgive yourself for any mistakes you may have made.

❤️ Feelings

This dream of torture evokes intense feelings of fear, helplessness, and pain. It may leave the dreamer feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and traumatized. The experience of torture in a dream can symbolize deep emotional distress, unresolved trauma, or a sense of being trapped in a difficult situation. The dreamer may be grappling with feelings of powerlessness or facing challenges that seem insurmountable. It is important to address these emotions and seek support to process and overcome the distressing feelings associated with this dream.

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13 Sep 2024

dream-about-fae-sprites-and-dark-forces
Abandoned home
Anxiety
Betrayal
Conflict
Fear
Marriage

Dream

In my dream I was a small sprite, fae girl moved into a log cabin. The humans were hunting me. I’d watched the capture thousands of sprites of all ages and cage them in this chest that they would later attempt to drown in a dark summoning ritual. Hundreds of us. Some bounty hunters stopped the but some of those humans got away. Not without bullet holes. Blood was everywhere. During a storm. I wanted to cry the entire time. Forced into very dark places I met this fae man and we tried to run away together within the tree tops. It was super hard because of being of dark chaos, a snake like monster chased. We tried to get away but the raindrops would make us plummet to the earth. It was like nature itself was against us yet we used our abilities to hide within the groves of the wood. We’d talk to animals for directions but humans took up every street. We could find a safe place to reside. And then we were separated and I was no longer a small fae sprite but a tall humanoid unicorn. Once again I was running because dragons kept trying to capture me as a forced bride. I had been offered to a prince of some kind in a fae kingdom. I never met the prince but I might the princess. She was powerful and walk around with a sword and knights flanking her. There kingdom was so cleanly-sparkling almost. Like one you’d see in a video game. We’d met at another wedding, a forced marriage. And there they planned to exchange my hand to a king or something. Idk. People kept telling me I’d be with someone but didn’t say who and then treated me as more of a pawn then anything. Going about etiquette and low birth. How I must be trained in. And then they brought me to dark witches. Fae witches with wings or that could turn into spooky animals and they’d threaten me while taking my measurements. Show me strange things I couldn’t understand and praise me in ways to convince me to give them whatever I held on me. The wedding I had attended was between fae of some sort and a dark force had interrupted. Causing the walls to shatter and fall over. Something that could cause trees to rot with just a finger brush against it. And then there were more tests. Always testing me with terrifying things. Throwing me into natural disasters were the tsunamis would raise to the sky and I couldn’t escape the fall. And it would hurt and fear would be overwhelming but I forced my self to enjoy it. I was so afraid I was laughing like FUCK YOU GOD DO IT AGAIN. And the waves came again and again, and I ran and hide and took it like a champ. I didn’t want to be afraid and I was afraid. But I didn’t back down. Never in any of the challenges did I lie down and give up. I stalled but I returned too. A million times I was surrounded and beat by monsters, humanoid creatures. Torturers and I fought and ran, came up with plans to hide my scent or disguise myself. Unlike the others, my mind didn’t turn off in fear- no it expanded. And I fought wars, I watched civilizations fall and I was killed or eaten and I fought tooth and nail for every breath and the worst part is I never actually won so I can’t understand yet what I was learning. Because I fought against titans as a small little sprite, switching between veils and realms. And they chased and chasdied me and I didn’t die. And when I wouldn’t die I’d be given to someone. Or I’d be told that I’m to be married off. That soon a dark being would come for me. Someone who is cruel and kills all he sees and that would be my husband. And that happened a lot.

12 Sep 2024

dream-about-dystopian-prison-and-clones
Escape
Prison
Torture

Dream

This dream was very convoluted and I played various roles throughout it. The setting was consistent however and I dreamt from the perspective of several different people within this framework. It seemed to be taking place in a dystopian future, which felt like reality for the majority of experience except for one moment in which my step-father showed up to ask me a question about something unrelated to my dream. It was then that the setting took on a Jurassic Park, fenced off, alternate reality type situation where I could leave to deal with real life. I was a prisoner in a huge industrial type location that was filled with clones, not just of me but of other people who had similar genetics. The main purpose of this was to achieve interdimensional travel through space, led by a man who claimed to be my brother but I didn't recognise him. The people in this prison were horrible tortured and mutilated into semi-human machines in order to continue the research. These were sort of robotic machines that were using body parts to build structures, using muscle and skin to cover gaps and run a conveyer belt. I tried various ways to escape, in one scenario I was packaged in with whole corpses of my clones in order to get out but the container I was in was blown up. In another I was a worker type prisoner and tried to sneak out but I never reached a conclusion for that one, as I was interrupted by the question from my step-father during that period. The other scene I remember I was being tortured by another woman clone who was extracting something from me by raping me with a suction tube. I saw people cutting themselves in half after being forced to cut other people into pieces. It was really gruesome and detailed.

10 Aug 2024

dream-about-holiday-adventure-escape-nightmare
Blood
Torture
Holiday
Aunt
Jungle
Beach

Dream

i dreamed that i was in a hollyday with my mum my aunt my uncle amd my cousin. At noon i don‘t know why i was sonzired and i wanted to go out, my cousin decidwd to come with me and we legt. outside we were in some sort of jungle and we could go peft or right, i said left but my cousine said that we already went last night to that way so tonight we go to the right. we started our jpurney to the right and in the back of us was the summerween monster from gravity falls, and we scream that we love sweets. aftwr that we araived at a a beach near a mountain. there we heared about a masacre that happend some days ago. we sitted down on a banch with some people and in the time we talked about the masacre two children were on the montain preparing to dive into the water but the boy kiched the girl and broke her nose and yelled „oh girl bloud“. we were so scared and i taled my cousin to ho home because is already day outside, but she refused. i wanted to go alone and to zalked with of the people here to ho with me a little bit to no be alone, but when i looked at the person that looked free to go with me i saw a strange smile like he would hid something. so i didn‘t said anything and stayed there. After that a boy from the group find out about some photos of a murderer and that man looked ecxactley like the one with the strange smiley. in that moment we strated freaking out. we called him to come to us to tie jis hair to see if he realy is the one in the photos and he was after he realise why we do this he said to us to sit down and he started torture 3 of the 5 of us 2 boys and one girls, me and my cousin wwre fine. he cuted a little bit of one finger of each one. it was already night again, i don‘t know how but we some how escape from tehre and started runing and we went to some sort of room were you cold take a sheet and write your toughts, it was verry familiar that place like i‘ve seen it before. me and my cousin open taht door but instead of taking a sheet we went on another door to the bathroom. we sat there and looked at him going in circles waiting gor us to come out. And than in the most terifieng moment that i tought that is no escape the room started moving and the view on the window was with the interior of a subway, we traveled 3 stations with that train and after that i decided to open the phone to see were we are on the map, but when i tried to open the phone i waked up.

30 Jul 2024

dream-about-encounter-with-voldemort
Auditorium
Death
Fear
Torture
Friend
Hug

Dream

In my dream, an owl came to the house, carrying a letter, saying that I must present myself to Voldemort, the Dark Lord, at Hogwarts. However, it would not take place as usual in the amphitheater, but the process would continue, in the forbidden forest. When I went to Hogwarts, I saw some of my classmates from school looking at me strangely, I took a deep breath and greeted them. Next to them in a nearby bench, people who loved me were sitting. Among them one of my campers, when she saw me she ran to hug me. She looked... Happy, like she didn't know what I knew... That I was going to die.She was talking about my presentation to Voldemort as if it were some kind of performance, and she said she would come to see me. Then I was talking with some of my friends. I told them my fears. I even remember saying characteristically: "just being there, with him, is the most terrifying thing for me". After that it was time to present myself. I went to the auditorium first, as the instructions that came with the owl said, I signed some papers, to indicate my presence... Voldemort hadn't come yet. The auditorium wasn't full, but I remember my friends and my camper watching.Suddenly a whirlwind of black magic made me fall into a chair, which locked my legs and arms, i was terrified. And before me, Voldemort, the Dark Lord, appeared in person. Then the sky darkened. As soon as he appeared before me, he laughed and began to torture me. I started screaming. I saw the expression of my friends and my camper... All scared, all helpless. Then I don't remember anything, just a flash of green light reflecting in my eyes. I assumed it was the killing curse: Avada Kedavra.

27 Jul 2024

dream-about-escaping-from-saw-like-boss-in-torture-scenario
Bikini
Torture
Escape
Naked
Darkness
People

Dream

okay two nights ago I dreamt a very weird thing and scary thing it was like the movie saw there was this person who was actually my boss's boss he's really weird I don't like him he always creeps me out he's always moody and angry and I really don't like the guy and he was like saw and he had to torture us and I was with my two colleagues that I usually work with and we had to escape we had to find a way to escape and it was dark and I don't know we were looking for cues on how to escape it was really hard and at a certain point I remember not having being kind of naked I didn't have I needed my bikini because we were gonna dive into water for this torture thing and so I went looking for it and then I couldn't find it and then I couldn't find a toilet where I could change so I started changing in the open there was this big valet but there were people and I wasn't wearing my under part of the bikini and I don't know I don't know I don't remember then

25 Jul 2024

dream-about-escaping-capture-and-finding-safety-3
Dead
Torture
Escape
Police
Sister
Children

Dream

I guess it started when I figured out that my parents were found dead by some people who were after us. I took my sister and found a place to hide with this single mother and her kid, we heard the door knocking and we didn’t open it, thinking it was the person who was after us and try to kill us. Then I suggested that me and my sister sleep under the bed so we wouldn’t get caught so easily. Then this random person found us and took us to a secret hide out. But we got caught by the person and got taken away, I saw the person trying to protect us getting tortured, I tried to fight back against the people who held me back to punch the person torturing the person who tried to save us and trying to have my sister back close to me. But then we heard a phone, this guy called the police and the people let us go and went to that person. They killed the person brutally, the choked him and punched him to death. Then I started running, I grabbed my sister as we started running out of the building, there was also a bunch of kids running out as well. Then the FBI came and said we were finally safe. I pushed my sister in front of me as we were running to get out of the building, and as we were finally able to escape, I turn my head to see a corpse of a person’s face ripped off their body.

15 Jul 2024

dream-about-vampires-and-betrayal
Blood
Death
Torture
Betrayal
Love
Power

Dream

I was like five different vampires who had been like not from the same breed or something i didn’t really understand what the difference was. But we had been getting killed because we had been different, the way we had been getting killed was kind of brutal…. It was only like flash scenes when i was having myself getting tortured… one was having my organs taken out- like my ribs being beaten as well just completely destroyed…. Was laying down while it happened and bound with ropes. Then i remember this was getting closer to the end, i was then another vampire and rebellious a bit, because i overheard one of us being an exception. They had been apart of our deaths and torture too… one of us betraying us and partaking in our deaths… she was accepted because apparently her bloodline was also mixed with the ones she is killing with. she wore red. It was like the only color that stood out for me. Then i got horrible death. Then i switched to another vampire…. This scene particularly interested me tho…. This character was interesting… he kind of reminded me of Oh Sangwoo but like smaller and more vampiric… he had red eyes, he was wearing a grey hoodie. And he was coaxing me… saying that he loved me. And he asked me “remember what I love about you the most?” Then he shoved one of his fingers gently into my mouth and showed me, i have this sharp fang, its different from all my teeth is what he was getting at, he told me to bite… and i did.. because he kept pressing his finger tightly on that fang… and his finger suddenly started to pour his blood inside my mouth…. I could taste it… could taste the iron inside, then i started feeling dizzy and disoriented, i have no idea if it was poisonous blood to actually kill me because theyre trying to kill our breed or if he was giving me his powers and pretended he was killing me… i dont know… but it felt odd and intense and i woke up feeling dizzy and a headache. The color red was the only thing that stood out to me other than black. Girl in red dress, the ribs and organs ripped out of me red, his eyes red and his blood red.

7 Jul 2024

dream-about-terrifying-nightmare-control-and-violent-crimes
Dead body
Nightmare
Torture
Escape
Control
Apartment

Dream

This was one of the more powerful vivid and lengthy nightmares that I have had in my life. The story line was so frightening and meticulous and there was no difference between the dream and reality in that moment. It is so hard to put into words but at the center of all of it is a very evil and very cunning man who has total control of me and everyone around me. He can not be fooled he can not be escaped it’s like he is an all seeing eye in human form and he knows every move we (all those he has control and possession of) make. It is not just me. He has many pawns in his twisted game. And we are all terrified we are all being punished And we are being violently killed or tortured and/ or being forced to participate and carry out different murders and violent crimes that he chooses, all in order to stay alive and not have our loved ones harmed. The first thing I remember took place at the apartment complex I grew up playing at. I remember I was in the parking lot and there were 2 dead mutilated bodies laying on a grassy nole in the parking lot. Then I was taken. I became a part of a group of captives who were forced to commit similar staged murders and leave these bodies in the exact fashion that this man wanted. I was constantly terrified constantly trying to escape. But couldn’t. He knew every thing I did before I did it. I was stuck in this cycle a prisoner to murder and death

29 Jun 2024

dream-about-group-playing-game-lock-picker-dying-brushing-teeth-leader-guidance
Brushing teeth
Climbing
Death
Torture
Sick
Crying

Dream

Dreamed I was in a group of people playing some kind of game. Something happened to our lock picker, who instantly died. One of the other people got sick and needed to brush their teeth. One of the others was being rude and keeping then from brushing their teeth and were threatening the other person when I, wanting to avoid confrontation, quickly made a makeshift brush. The person thanked me and brushed their teeth. With guidance from a leader we made it to the next section of the game. We were to gather the right items. They called for a friend's boyfriend named Copper. She was about to step forward when a different leader was going to teach us something. One of the players said something really rude to him. He got so angry he left for a different group of people and started torturing them. I could hear cries fro help and screams. As this was happening our leader was getting us all out of the area. I was visably shaking and crying in fear, but my leader said "Its okay Julia, Ive got you, we're headed home." And led me to a group of pipes we were all climbing. I woke up.

29 Jun 2024

dream-about-cult-kidnapping-bizarre-love-stories
Abuse
Burning
Death
Kidnapping
Torture
Hero

Dream

I was kidnapped and made apart of this cult that kills people that have abused them. Torture them. And then when a member of the cult dies they string them up and burn them, dancing around them to send them off. Even insulting them to try to lighten the mood. It was like a big fucked up family. They were monsters but the love and comradey was real. They loved each other in a way I didn’t think was possible. And there was this dark haired man there. Was kinda like a ninja. He was obsessed or well in love with another member and kinda bullied them for attention. But secretly they’d kill anyone who hurt the. They watch them while they slept and studied anything they liked just so they could relate to them more. He was so desperate for this persons attention he was almost driving himself crazy tho everyone in the dream already seemed a bit crazy. There was a mentor lady that everyone loved. She reminded me of Miss Hoffman. She was so smart and wise and the day she died, the ceremony they performed was so very different from there usual. They did this dance were they summoned forth every element including lighting. And when they pushed over her burial- instead of insulting her like what was natural, they all ran forward and cried at the base of her shrine. Praying for her. Wishing her every good thing and to just be able to see her once last time. She was like a hero to these souls. She gathered cruel beings, killers, bad guys. And she’d find redemption in them. She’s give loveless people a family and purpose. They loved her on a way I’m not sure I could comprehend as I don’t ever really feel loved. She was extremely powerful and No one saw her death coming. Like she “gave up” her life for something. I saw a bunch of messy love stories within the dream. The final one being, a great love between a human Witch and a great Titan Prince. He was deathly sick to the point he couldn’t open his eyes or move. His family kept tryna feed him the human. Maybe to give him strength or something but he refused each time. Literally crying. The human was terrified of him cause he was so big. She was like the size of his cheek. But she did her best to relax against his skin because he was normally completely unconscious holding her in his fist. Everytime she’s tense a little his grip on her would tight painfully. She ended up realizing that he was protective of her unconsciously and didn’t realize was was the biggest threat when he squeezed her. If she wasn’t freaking out or his brothers threatening to feed her too him- She and the giant slept like kittens. When they both slept, the Titan didn’t look so scary and monsterious anymore. More like a younger kid holding on to his only life line. And sometimes, quite rarely, she almost seemed to cuddle into his face. To get closer to his warm. 800 or so years later the Titan wakes again and this time the witch girl is the one protecting them. She put a youth spell on herself so she can try to stay with the Titan because he’s like close to immortal and she was only meant to live a human life. But she can’t hold on much longer. The Titan doesn’t say anything as he’s basically just a little kid waking from a long nap. He doesn’t get angry as he can feel how weak her energy is. All he does is try to protect and persevere what little energy she has left. But he too is weak from 800 years of a coma like sleep. Not really eating or moving. Though he’s still extremely powerful. As soon as he awaking tribes start trying to hunt the two (for some reason 🤷‍♀️) as he brings her back to the mortal realm in hopes of giving her soul a lighter existence. He feels this despair, like no matter what he does he can’t save her. And it kills him because if she goes he knows he will not smile again. People are attacking left and right and she’s visually getting weaker and weaker. Her old age catching up to her now that he’s awake and refraining his strength. He knows she will die. Now I didn’t see this next part in the dream but here’s what I think happened. I think he cast some kinda forbidden spell or something to tie there souls together and force her into reincarnation. He would find her again and when he did he’d be a man, not a child. He’d keep her for real. Now to only find and convince her of that as there old situation wasn’t exactly a friendly one and he’s not sure if he even has a likable personality. She only knew him asleep. Also a lot of the monsters in the dreams. When they died, they’d be locked in these night cages and they’d be sad and lonely till random spirits would visit then they’d get all happy and dance around in there cages. Also the Titan had a grimoire of summoning to all his old friends real selves. Kinda like in fate stay night were you could summoning forth a champion but he was strong enough to summon as many as he wanted whenever he wanted. And the human he was facing casually summoned a copy version of stalker guy from earlier in the dream. He got kinda smirky and summoned the real original that easily kicked the humans ass. It was kinda funny to watch. I was the human in the dream that hadn’t died yet. Also the Titan at first looked like this massive scary pig man with tusks and shit. But later in the dream it was like he just turned into a really large young adult guy. Considered a young child amongst his species and hers. He had long, light orange like hair and light sun kissed skin. He looked like he was surrounded by sunlight light later on. Like really pretty

26 Jun 2024

i-dreamt-of-getting-kidnapped-and-facing-spiritual-consequences
Death
Torture
Alcohol
Drugs
God
Hospital

Dream

I went to 3 parties of my friends and got kidnapped at all 3. They all had demands of just apologizing and to stop doing wrong. I stop going to parties and went to Job Corp and got kidnapped there where they tortured me and I had to leave Job Corp. I went home and started partying and my boyfriend broke up with me and I started popping pills and smoking weed and drinking myself to death, I ended up in the hospital because of alcohol poisoning and I had a dream of god telling me if I don’t stop what I’m doing I’m going to end up dead. But I didn't listen I kept drinking and popping pills and doing weed and one day I passed out and I ran towards the white door. I seen god but he didn't look at me and my heart broke as I tried running to the golden-covered gate surrounded by white clouds a trap door opens and I slide down going to a gate. Its surrounded by fire a red, orange and yellow firey gate with 2 gargoyles smirking up me with their red eyes saying welcome and I sighed as the gate opens and I walk in as my dream fades to black.

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