I am not a violent person at all. The last time I got into a fist fight was when I was nine (I'm 26 now). Sometimes my dreams are violent, but I'm always the victim of said violence. This week, for the first time ever, I've had two dreams where I was the attacker - and I was brutal.

(also, I think it might be important to mention that I am a girl before you read on)

The first went like this: I was at a cafe and I grabbed a table and set up my computer and some other things. Then I went to the counter to get a coffee. I turned around and saw that some girl was sitting at my table, crying hysterically, and trying to sneak my things into her bag. I went to the table and told her to go away, that this was my table and these were my things. She just kept crying, saying that she was the victim here, and taking my things. I got really mad and started to hit her with my fists. Then I woke up because the anger I felt scared the hell out of me.

The second went like this: It was a long epic dream, so I'll only talk about this one part. I don't remember it fully but I almost beat a woman to death with a bat..and I think it might have been to get a guys attention. If I recall the logic correctly, I was trying to commit a crime (beating her down) and framing someone else (a burglar) and somehow this was going to make this guy and myself closer. I don't really remember the actual connection so the logic is a fuzzy and ridiculous. Anyway, she didn't die and she was magically not that hurt. I was really relieved. When I woke up, I wasn't sure if it was just a dream or if I had actually hurt someone. My recollection was odd. I could remember her lying on the floor, bleeding. I even remember the color of the rug (it was a brown long thread shag). But I couldn't remember actually hitting her. I remember dropping a bat but not actually holding one.

In both dreams, the women were not people that I knew. I have no idea who they were. The first one was an artsy girl, and the second one was a girl with a pony tail and a magenta sweater. The guy who I wanted to get closer to in the second dream is someone that I know, someone who I'm having trouble defining my feelings for.

I already have some ideas of what these might mean, but I'm not certain so I'd like to get some feedback before I draw any concrete conclusions. Any thoughts?