Abuse

Dreams about abuse can may connect to past trauma or related to people who take advantage over others. To dream of animal abuse reflects an attack on your unconscious behaviors and instincts. If you are witnessing abuse might reflect a situation that reflects someone using their power over others. If you are escaping abuse it suggest you are running away from a dangerous environment. Dreams of an abusive ex contains elements of PTSD from your past; see ex dreams.

Insulting someone in a dream could represent the dignity of the one impugning upon the other person, and the unworthiness of the person who is insulted. There is an exception to that interpretation when the person insulting the other in the dream has suspicious motives, and the one who is abused in the dream is supposed to command respect. It is also said that the one who is insulted or abused in the dream may owe something to his assailant and must repay him. If the one insulting is of a higher social rank, then the victim in the dream is better than his attacker. However, in general, an abused person in the dream is ultimately the victorious one in wakefulness.