Fighting experiences in dreams ?

**Dpiiiius** · 11-07-2010 01:10 AM

Lately ive been fighting a lot in my dreams. Sometimes I completely beat the shit out of people, but other times I'll get jumped and can't even stand a chance. When I do fight it feels weird, like im not fighting to the best of my abilities I think 0.0 Or some other strange feeling that I cant really remember. I was just wondering who else has fought in their dreams and experienced something like me or unlike me ?

**NrElAx** · 11-07-2010 01:37 AM

Everytime I fight in dreams its like I'm punching in slow motion and can't hit the person. But I have yet to fight in a lucid dream, but I'd imagine I will be a to punch

**moongrass** · 11-07-2010 02:55 AM

just a couple nights I had a weird dream were I totaly beat the shit out of a good friend. IDK why but no matter how much I beat them up they were still fine...

**Dpiiiius** · 11-07-2010 03:20 PM

yeah it is kinda in slow motion

and i beat up this guy i thought was my friend but he betrayed me...

**proxide** · 11-07-2010 08:01 PM

I had a dragon ball z dream a few times in my life, they are the best!!! my most recent fighting dream I ws fighing two people and holding my own pretty well, we were pretty evenly matched though then i got hit really hard and then i got pissed and said "you think you can beat me?!?" then i created a ball of energy in my hand and threw it down near both of my opponents feet and then we flew around fighting like they do in DBZ. it was awsome!!

**Dpiiiius** · 11-08-2010 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by proxide

I had a dragon ball z dream a few times in my life, they are the best!!! my most recent fighting dream I ws fighing two people and holding my own pretty well, we were pretty evenly matched though then i got hit really hard and then i got pissed and said "you think you can beat me?!?" then i created a ball of energy in my hand and threw it down near both of my opponents feet and then we flew around fighting like they do in DBZ. it was awsome!!

OMG thats so kool wowww !!! I had a dream whree i was flying like dbz but i wasnt fighting and i wasnt lucid

**Zephyrus** · 11-08-2010 07:24 AM

fighting is in slow-mo for me, i can do damage, but it doesn't feel like it, like a will hit someones head against a wall, it doesn't feel powerful, feels quite slow, but it still knocks them out, All in non-lucid, haven't been able to fight in LD yet......

**kyle2516** · 11-09-2010 04:02 AM

Well, as cool as these dreams seem, they are attempting to tell you something. These dreams are trying to tell you that you are fighting against an aspect of yourself, and that that aspect is causing issues in your life, and within your personality. I suggest you try to figure out what it is that these symbols represent.

**Puffin** · 11-09-2010 04:17 AM

I love fighting in dreams. I've done some really cool, realistic, and stylized stuff before.

**proxide** · 11-10-2010 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by kyle2516

Well, as cool as these dreams seem, they are attempting to tell you something. These dreams are trying to tell you that you are fighting against an aspect of yourself, and that that aspect is causing issues in your life, and within your personality. I suggest you try to figure out what it is that these symbols represent.

i feel like you don't even know what your talking about. fighting can be fun! i've taken many different martial arts and fighting has kind of become apart of me, soo... what now?

**Oneironaut Zero** · 11-10-2010 04:43 AM

You should take a look in my journal sometime...Lol...

Seriously, though. I fight in my dreams A Lot. For some reason, a large majority of my dreams are somewhat violent. Like proxide, I think my love for (and practice of) martial arts just makes it so prevalent in my dreams. Fighting while lucid is one of my favorite things to do, and usually I have more than enough nasty, shit-starting characters in my dreams to keep me occupied. As in waking life, I never really fight anyone who wasn't asking for it.

When I was younger, I always used to have the problem of feeling like I'm punching in slow-mo, or underwater. One of the things I figured out is that, if you're lucid, it's best to just imagine your attack hitting the target - not traveling toward your target. I deduce that you give your subconscious too much opportunity to anticipate the possibility of your missing the target. Having that moment to think about missing it, unfortunately, causes you to be more likely to miss. This kind of mirrors waking life, and as a martial artist, I'm sure you can agree. When you think about accomplishing a technique, you tend to trip yourself up. When you don't think about it, and just do it, you seem to be at your most successful. Am I right?

It's the same thing when you're dreaming. Just imagine the impact(s). "Visualize the goal" as some might say. This might help you the most, while you are lucid.

Learning to do that while you're non-lucid, though, could be a bit harder. You'll have to ask yourself deeper questions - I think - like; how do you feel about hitting someone? I tend to make a clear distinction between hitting someone in a spar, and having to hit someone in an actual altercation. Do you feel the same way? Why do you think your mind might be seeming to steer you away from hitting someone? Are these characters people who have actually pushed you to fighting? Or are you going around looking for a fight?

Stuff like that.

**proxide** · 11-11-2010 01:29 AM

i'll have to gree with you oneironaut, you just do it, thinking about it is already to much. it's gotta be reaction.

**linz2d** · 11-25-2010 02:10 PM

I used to have many fighting dreams when I was a teenager, that was years ago though. The main reason I know I had them was due to a very strange occurrence in these dream. My punches had almost no impact at all, it wasn't like slow motion. I gave a full on punch but the impact felt like small tap on the opponents face. I think the result in most dreams was that I ended up getting pulverized and then I would wake up doubting myself. I was doing martial arts at the time and these dreams probably stemmed from my insecurity about wondering if I could knock someone out.

**Kallz** · 11-25-2010 03:01 PM

I also have many fight dreams, but mostly are knife fighting, i just love it. There is a lot of guns too.

I don't think it is a bad thing at all. For me it happens because i came from a military family, i have a lot of knives, some guns and I play a damn lot of videogames. As was said before, it is apart of me.

**CliffDreamer** · 11-25-2010 07:45 PM

Yeah pretty much everyone I know experiences the slow-motion/underwater/no force hitting thing during dreaming. But on the upside, if you can keep fighting in dreams like this you will become used to dealing less damage, so in a real fight you freaking BEAST (: