Dreaming about being shot
What does it mean to dream you are shot?
Reported, and as with knives, pain is usually absent, which is consistent with every injury report in this database.
Dreamers describe the event, describe looking at the wound, and describe feeling nothing. Many describe watching it happen to themselves, which is the dissociated viewpoint that attaches to catastrophes so reliably.
Pain is one of the things dreaming generates least well. The wound entry covers that finding and it holds here without modification.
Where somebody has real experience of violence these are not ordinary dreams and belong with the trauma material. Repeated distressing versions are worth taking to somebody qualified rather than working through alone.
Where this reads well
Dreamers usually find the absence of pain interesting once it is named, having not noticed it at the time.
Where it is harder
For anybody with a real experience behind it, this page does not apply and saying so is more useful than a reading.
Worth asking yourself
Did it hurt? Was I watching or inside it? Do I have a real experience behind this?
Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.
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