Hi everyone, I would love your help interpreting this reccuring dream I have.

It is very disturbing, and I dream it often, within the last year or so.

Someone is trying to hurt or kill me with a knife. Sometimes a big machette, sometimes a scalpal - various kinds of knives.

I can't get away from them, and I end up facing them.

The knife transfers to my hand, or else I am able to twist their hands to use the knife against them.

In order to defend myself, I begin to cut of their hands.

They don't run or scream. There is no struggle, other than resistence with the hands (no kicking or twisting of the body).

Slowly, I cut up their hands, piece by piece. It is a struggle. It takes a long time. I feel deeply disturbed and distressed.

I usually wake up after this, or else the dream suddenly changes.

The most recent occurance of this dream went like this:

I was in a forest. I was (and/or was observing from above) a pair of conjoined twin girls. We were fused together at the side.

In the forest, there was a witch, dressed in a black cape. I couldn't see her face. She was very still and appeared in the distance. She made the shape of a hunched triangle.

I knew that she wanted to cut me in half. It would kill me: both of us. But I also knew that this had already happened, and I was in the past. I knew I could change events that were going to happen. She tried to cut me in half and I cut her hands off (as described above).

I was frightened because I knew I had changed the future.

This was the most recent way this dream has appeared to me, but I have it in many different ways. Sometimes it is a man who wants to kill me. Sometimes it is even a family member. It is always with a knife, and I always end up slowly cutting away their hands.

Please help me find the meaning of this dream. I want it to stop.

Hands in dreams often have to do with control.

It sounds like your taking the knife from your attacker and then cutting off their hands has to do with a need or desire to take back control over something.

The witch wanting to cut you (and your conjoined twin) in half could have to do with a feeling that you are being made to give up a part of yourself.

Here is more information about the meaning of hands in dreams.