Beating
To dream that you are beating someone in a game represents feelings of success, confidence, or superiority in a competitive situation. Confidence in your ability to outperform others. A sense of satisfaction of overcoming challenges or rivals. Feelings about being better than someone else. Your ability to overcome obstacles, solve problems, or achieve success through strategic thinking and skillful execution. Behavior that is arrogant or childish about believing in being competitive when it isn't important or appropriate. Situations where you feel that being ahead of someone or being best is more important than getting along.
To dream of someone beating you in a game represents feelings of inadequacy, defeat, or frustration. A sense of being outmatched. Feelings about losing in a competitive situation. Thoughts about the pressure to succeed. Feelings about the impact of failure on your self-esteem. Feelings about not being the best. Feelings of resentment or envy towards someone who appears to be more competitive or skilled than you. Doubting your abilities.
To dream of beating someone up in a fight represents feelings about confronting and overcoming obstacles, frustrations, or threats in your waking life. Your struggle to assert yourself and your desires or to dominate a situation. Your need to establish control in a challenging situation. A situation where you feel that standing up for yourself worked. Situations where your words or actions are more effective in a conflicted situation than someone else's. Respecting yourself enough to never want to put up with a problem ever again.
To dream of someone beating you up in a fight represents feelings of vulnerability, powerlessness, or victimization. Feeling weaker than a personal problem or another person in an argument. A situation where you feel that standing up for yourself didn't work. Feelings about being taught a lesson about not being allowed to believe in yourself in a certain way. Situations where you are experiencing a loss of control over a problem. Feeling overwhelmed by external pressures.
To dream of beating yourself up represents feelings of self-criticism, self-blame, or regret. A struggle with inner demons, insecurities, or guilt. Being too hard on yourself for perceived mistakes or shortcomings. A need for self-forgiveness.
To dream of beating someone in a race represents feelings of being ahead of others or outpacing competitors in a situation where being first is important. Thoughts about reaching goals more quickly and effectively than other people. Feelings about not letting others get ahead of you like it's a problem. Confidence about progressing faster than other people.
To dream of someone beating you in a race represents feelings of being outpaced, inferior, outperformed, or left behind in a competitive situation. Feeling about not being able to keep up, your concerns about falling short of your goals, or your anxieties about being overtaken by others. Feelings of being slower than competitors in a situation where being first is important.
Example: A young woman dreamed of a man beating her up. In waking life, she was being harassed by her ex-boyfriend and was considering getting a restraining order against him. In this case, dreaming of a man beating her up may have reflected her feelings about her ex-boyfriend faster and meaner about getting back at her while also feeling she wasn't deserving to stand up for herself while arguing with him.
Example 2: A young woman dreamed of being insulted and beaten up by her mother. In waking life, she feared her parents finding out that she was still with her boyfriend. In this case, being beaten up by her mother may have reflected her feelings about being unable to stand up for herself in an argument with her mother about her boyfriend because she feared her mother's parental authority.
