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A dream of murder suggests a tendency toward aggression.
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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Experts have long been interested in the topic of dreams. A recent study in this area showed that people prone to aggression often see suicidal scenes in their dreams. The researchers noted that dreams about suicide are often dreamed of by cruel, withdrawn people, focused on their inner world, who find it difficult to establish contact with others. But this discovery has already been criticized by independent experts.
In the sleep laboratory, which is located in the German Central Institute of Mental Health, they are convinced that sleep reflects a person's state during wakefulness in a hypertrophied form. Scientists made such conclusions after surveying 400 students. On average, each participant in the survey could remember 2-3 dreams that they had in one week, about 19% of students noted that the dream was connected with murder.
At the same time, scientists noted that men had aggressive dreams more often than women.
What really surprised the experts was that dreams of this kind were associated not only with a person’s aggressiveness, but also with isolation.
In all likelihood, introverts (withdrawn people who find it difficult to communicate with others) hide internal aggression, which finds an outlet in their dreams.
The experts also noted that dreams about murder did not bother the participants very often (about 4% of cases among men and less than 1% among women).
Another study in the field of dreams found that people who were blind from birth were more likely to suffer from nightmares (about 25% of their dreams). In people with normal vision, nightmares accounted for 6% of their dreams.
People who have been blind since birth have special dreams that are not connected with visual images, in this case the dream is more connected with taste, tactile, olfactory sensations. Specialists interviewed 50 people, as a result of which they found out what people dreamed about during the last month.
Half of the survey participants had normal vision, 11 people were blind from birth, and 14 became blind during their lifetime.
In the first group (with normal vision), nightmares were associated with what threatened the person in reality.
In the third group of respondents, in which people lost their sight, the scientists noted that sleep was associated with visual images, but the number of such dreams depended on the period of blindness (the more time had passed since the loss of sight, the fewer visual images a person saw in a dream), while 7% of dreams were associated with nightmares.
In the group of people blind from birth, dreams were associated with emotions, which led the experts to suggest that people blind from birth are more receptive and vulnerable, and therefore feel danger and insecurity more acutely and need psychological support.
Experts also recommend paying attention to children's dreams. Frequent nightmares may indicate a mental disorder.
Many children are tormented by nightmares, but you should really worry if your child constantly has nightmares, and he waves his arms and screams in his sleep.
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