
If you were on the winning side, this suggests you are on the right track. An important aid for interpreting dreams of warfare is to remember whether you were on the winning or losing side. However, in dreams war is generally regarded as a warning that dangerous times lie ahead, as well as indicating inner conflicts and deep-seated grievances. If your life-and-death battle involves a war scene, the emphasis shifts.ĭespite war’s disturbing and destructive nature, it can sometimes be represented as a cleansing process that represents a victory of good over evil. You need to develop greater flexibility and tolerance, and by so doing you can find contentment and peace. In other words, you need to look at things that are intangible and reside in your spirit and in your emotions, because everything else-since it is out of your control-is at risk. If you are prone to life-and-death dreams, your unconscious is urging you to find a kind of security that cannot be lost. For example, small disappointments or minor upsets send you into meltdown and you are frequently dissatisfied if some invisible inner standard has not been met. On the other hand, you may be the kind of person who makes ordinary choices and decisions as if their survival were at stake. If you have this kind of dream, the chances are you are fighting for survival in some aspect of your waking life.

Even the landscape of these dreams is laden with death traps, sharp ravines, wild fires, dangerous animals and so on.

These are the sorts of dream in which almost every stranger turns out to be an enemy. Life-and-death struggles are common in dreams, but in some cases these dreams end with a struggle to avoid catastrophe.
