Ripped
To dream of something being ripped by accident represents feelings about having overestimated the strength of some area of your life. An area of your life that is "coming apart." Heightened feelings of needing to be careful or that some area of your life is too sensitive to falling apart. Disappointment that someone didn't like your ideas. Unexpected relationship breakups. Unexpected weakness or flaws.
To dream of something being ripped intentionally represents feelings of disliking something. Dissatisfaction with the direction a situation is going. Insulting someone. "Ripping someone off" or feeling "ripped off." Not liking an idea or jealousy of other people's ideas. Feelings about a relationship being intentionally ended. Ruthlessness. Impatience with other people. Feelings about agreements endings. Insensitively sharing.
To dream of something being ripped in half represents feelings about eagerness and impatience to create separateness or division. Feeling that someone has "ripped apart" you story, arguments, or ideas. Arrogance or brute force that wants to cause division. Traumatic division or separation. "Feeling torn" from valued friendships or relationships. Feeling separated from something in your life in a manner that was neglecting your feelings. A lack of concern for feelings with a division in some area of your life.
To dream of something having a small rip represents feelings about some area of your life never being the same as it originally was. Feeling that something or someone wasn't very careful with an area of your life. Negligence that you can accept. Lingering feelings about criticism.
To dream of something being ripped out of something else represents feelings about traumatic changes, sudden ruthless actions, or feelings about a serious lack of concern for carefulness was exercised. Eagerness and impatience to reduce something. Hasty action to fix something. Desperation to avoid problems or embarrassment that is reckless.
To dream of clothing being ripped may reflect feelings of conflict or jealousy within the personality. Feeling abruptly separated or divided from behaving the way you want. Feeling "torn" from feeling or thinking normally. Feeling that someone mean doesn't want you to think or behave in a certain way ever again.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing a woman having her skin ripped from her flesh. In waking life he was experiencing himself living with the trauma of a sudden and dramatic event that ruined his life. The ripping in this case may have reflected his feeling about how traumatic and ruthless the dramatic event felt ruining his life.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of having flesh ripped from her arm by a spider. In waking life she had experienced a traumatic breakup with her boyfriend and believed that her life would never be the same again.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing her fiance vomiting so much that it ripped out parts of his throat. In waking life she felt that due to sudden traumatic changes to monthly costs that the fiancee didn't want to talk about money or their future goals anymore.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of having to "rip apart" her boyfriend from a female friend he had. In waking life she felt a need to assert herself to stop her boyfriend from getting to close to the female friend.
