Hurting someone else can represent: Feeling vulnerable or the need to protect yourself.
Fear of threat or harm.
Unexpressed anger or other feelings that indicate an opportunity for inner healing.
Hurting yourself can represent: judging or punishing yourself, being overly strict or harsh with yourself, a sign that you may be holding yourself to unhealthy and unrealistic rules, standards, or beliefs, a reminder of the opportunity to love or be more gentle with yourself.
See Also: Injured, Feeling, Bully, Abuse, Judgment or Disapproval, Offensive or Ugly, Scar, Problem, Advice or Opinion, Hurt, Being, Attacking, Ache
[1](.1) Physical hurt in a dream may symbolize hurt feelings. But dreams will often be specific - if, for example, the dream wants to draw’ your attention to humiliation, humiliation will be felt in the dream.
(2) Try to identify with and ‘converse’ with both the person / animal that is hurt and the one who inflicts the hurt, and also with the hurt itself or the hurt part of the person / animal. In this way you w’ill eventually unpack the meaning of the dream.
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