Rape

Dreams about rape are dreams about cruelty. You can play the role of an attacker, a victim or a bystander. In dreams of this kind, your role and the feelings you have for those around you are key factors in understanding the meaning of the dream.

If you have recurring dreams in which you are a rape victim, you need to determine if PTSD is playing a role in your dreams.

A single dream in which you are the victim of rape - usually conveys a cruel, unfair or ruthlessly exploitative attitude towards you in real life. In dreams of this kind, the rapist is a person without a face. This is explained by the fact that people who are close enough to you to exploit you also maintain closeness in other, more positive guises. The dream does not indicate actual aggression against you, but warns that you have fallen into subordination to others.

The role of the aggressor in a rape scene usually indicates unresolved conflict or repressed anger toward anyone. As in the case with the victim described above, the character is often faceless. For example, if you are holding back anger against a boss, parent, teacher, or colleague of the opposite sex, you may dream of being raped. The nature of the source of repressed anger in real life can help unravel the meaning of such a dream.

The answer to the question of why you still haven't given vent to the accumulated feelings can also contribute to its solution. A 25-year-old woman describes her dream: "Even before I started living a full sex life, I often had dreams in which related men were present. I subjected them to sexual influence. Such harassment was always carried out against their will. The violence came exclusively from me, and I was guided by my desire. The men were strangers to me, sometimes I didn't even notice their faces. It's strange that such dreams came to me even before I knew what sex life really was."

The woman had an extremely difficult and turbulent relationship with her father. Although there were no attempts at incest or sexual harassment on his part, their relationship was not warm. According to the woman, their relationship with their father sometimes became especially heated and fierce. But as they improved, the frequency of repeating the rape dream decreased. Being a bystander at a rape scene is often anxiety-inducing because you feel helpless because you can't help the victim. Sometimes you intuitively feel the connection between the victim and the attacker. This may indicate hidden aggression or your position being exploited in real life. Observation is an attempt to distance oneself from the trauma. This state of affairs allows for a better understanding of the relationship between the attacker and the raped. Therefore, the psychological protection obtained as a result of indirect participation in the scene loses its power as the observer learns who is directly participating in the rape.