Vampire Dream Interpretation: Insights from 28 Unique Sources

Universal Landscape: Drain of life force.

Dreaming Lens: Were you the vampire or was someone else the vampire? Was the vampire a stranger and a figure of mystery? Was the vampire someone you know from life? Were you the intended victim? Were you trying to save someone from a vampire? Were you bitten? What was the level of danger, intrigue, or sexual stimulation?

Personal Focus: Vampires are creatures of death that survive by drinking the blood of the living. Blood represents passion and life force. A vampire in your dreams represents some aspect of your personality or way of being that has the potential to drain you of your vibrancy and energy.

Because vampires can only move about freely at night, they are in the symbolic realm of the Shadow. This indicates that whatever issues are robbing you of your vitality, they are hidden from your conscious awareness and must be examined with this in mind. We keep in the shadow those parts of ourselves that we can’t accept and have difficulty integrating into our personal identity. Not integrating the Shadow can suck the life force out of us until we face what we resist.

Often portrayed as sexy or seductive, consider that the vampire may represent a situation or person in your life that seemed alluring at first, but is now exhausting or depleting. As a Character Aspect of your personality, there may be some habit, behavior, or emotional trait that is literally sucking you dry. Since vampires cast no reflection in a mirror, this may be a part of you that you may be unable or unwilling to see directly.

Feeling responsible for things can have a very draining effect on you. You may want to become more aware of those things you are attached to in a negative way. Holding on to old attitudes and beliefs can be draining. Consider that it can be just as draining to avoid responsibilities that are legitimately yours. It is the ignorant victim who foolishly leaves the window open and unwittingly invites the vampire to visit. Other internal vampires include neediness, self-doubt, lack of forgiveness, and judgments. All of these feelings kill passion for life. Commit to emotional healing and your vampires will return to the grave where they belong.

To dream of a vampire is a representation of many things. It represents your sexual nature as well as death and fear. It combines civility with violence. Consider who in your life wears these two faces. Someone in your waking life, who possesses a great deal of charm, may eventually turn hurtful and violent towards you and your feelings. You are most likely very aware of this possibility, but feel you cannot help but spend time with them. Vampires may also be a physical representation of the decision to have sex for the first time. Conversely, the vampire may indicate that you are exhausted, whether physically or emotionally, in your waking life. Otherwise, you may suffer from a debilitating addiction to alcohol, drugs, or sex.

To dream that you yourself are a vampire represents how you use those around you. You are using everything you have to further your own goals.

The fear associated with emotional or sexual rela­tionships; feeling that someone is too demanding; the sense of not being able to be independent of one’s parent/lover, and feeling any personal independence or will is sucked away by them. We create this creature out of our own doubts or fears.

If a man is afraid of sex—afraid his mother/lover will disap­prove if he has any sexual feelings of his own—the fear and perhaps anger will sap any good feelings about sexual rela­tionship. Such a man or woman, every time they have sex— because they still do not really wish to give of themself—feel bad after sex, perhaps sucked dry, even ‘dead’.

The fear or anger about not having a will of their own, and still emotion­ally dependent on mother/father, turns back upon them, de­picted as the vampire.

1- When heavy demands are made on us which we do not feel capable of meeting, a vampire can appear in a dream. We are figuratively being ‘suckcd dry.’ The vampire or blood sucker is such a fearful figure that il is accepted as an embodiment of evil.

2- Often the fear of emotional and sexual relationships can be represented in dreams as a vampire. Becausc the human being still has a fear of the unknown, ancient symbols that have represented this fear can still appear in dreams, ‘flic succubus and incubus preying on young people’s vital energy is often pictured as a vampire.

3- Life-threatening evil is represented by the vampire in dreams. However, it mav be that the dreamer has a rather fantastical outlook on the realms of evil and some reservation could be applied to their thoughts.

Vampires, for most people, represent powerful and evil creatures. Dreaming about vampires suggests that the dreamer may be feeling overwhelmed in some areas of his or her life and is struggling with negative thoughts, feelings, and actions. You may be currently concerned about ethical or moral issues and are experiencing anxiety as a result.

The vampire represents personal attributes or negative habits that drain energy and resources or cause emotional exhaustion.

If you are being attacked by a vampire, you may perceive yourself as a powerless victim. Interpreting this dream’s message may help you to identify the source of your negative feelings and helplessness.

Ancient meaning: Eternal life and the vital power of blood. Vampires used blood as their source of rejuvenation and, in a sense, reincarnation. Among ancient Greeks, the underworld was filled with souls who craved life’s blood in the hopes of finding this renewal. On the dream plane, such symbolism can equate to finding ways to make the results of your efforts more durable and abiding.

Someone or something figuratively sucking the life away from you a little at a time. This person or situation may be very appealing on the surface, but definitely has an agenda that isn’t in your best interests.

Vampires in dreams usually suggest that you are feeling physically or emotionally drained.

The vampire may also be symbolic for someone who is addicted to drugs or someone in an obsessive relationship.

To dream that you are a vampire suggests that you are sucking in the life energy of others for your own selfish benefit. You may also wish to look up the meanings of “Dracula”, “Movie Character” and “Vampire Slayer”, below.

Dreaming that you are attacked by a vampire signifies that someone close is trying to profit off of you. However, if it is you yourself who plays the role of the vampire, this is a sign that you get carried away by passions and instincts that are each time more voracious. You will have to try to conquer them, as your internal equilibrium could resent it. (See MIDNIGHT, FEAR, BAT)

Dreams of a Vampire symbolize that either you have been abusing your power or you’ve been allowing someone else to suck your life force from you. This dream is a message for you to set healthy boundaries with needy people, to monitor your dependence upon the people in your life, and to tap into your unlimited source and supply that allows for a win/win situation for all involved.

As important figures in folklore, vampires can simply be representations of our generic fears and anxieties.

As creatures of darkness, vampires can particularly represent fears and anxieties arising out of our unconscious. Symbolically, a vampire is someone or something that sucks the life blood out of us. Alternatively, vampires can embody anxieties about our sexuality.

Vision: Seeing a vampire: unbridled passions are taking over and depleting you or another person.

Depth Psychology: Fears, instincts, and primitive urges are producing a “cold” heart and depleting your strength. They will make your life difficult in the future—unless you can control them quickly.

See Monster.

Gives gender-specific: The succubus, a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men, and the incubus (the opposite) preying on a dreamer’s vital energy has traditionally been pictured as a vampire in both men’s and women’s dreams. Such dreams may originally arise from childhood trauma.

Material aspects: When heavy demands are made on us that we do not feel capable of meeting, a vampire can appear in a dream. We are figuratively being ‘sucked dry’.

The vampire or blood sucker is such a fearful figure that it is accepted as an embodiment of total negativity.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Often the fear of emotional and sexual relationships can be represented in dreams as a vampire. Because the human being still has a fear of the unknown, ancient symbols that have represented this fear can still appear in dreams.

A vampire featured in your dream is a symbol of anxiety and sharp emotional conflict.

It is likely that this dream relates to some ambition which you subconsciously feel is immoral or unethical.

Talk it over with a competent friend or adviser.

See Monster/ Mythological Creature, Bat. Guilt feelings, and the sense of being sucked dry. These dreams often appear during depression.

The vampire image points to insufficient boundaries toward the world of shadows.

Sucking energy from others, or someone taking your energy. Negative thought forms worry, anxiety, take away energy and power from the self. Each person is responsible for generating and maintaining own energy level.

Negativity, which has the effect of draining our essential energy, is represented by the vampire in dreams, particularly if there is an assault on our spirituality and beliefs.

1. Seduction, sensual pleasures.

2. Drain of vitality, life force; often in a relationship.

3. Bad bargain has been made (as in “bargain with the devil”).

A vampire may represent a shadow character who sucks the blood of others. He therefore may mention that you have been sucked dry by someone else’s psychic power.

One who walks in spiritual darkness, preying on the lives of others for self-gratification; see “blood-money” and “prostitution”

1. Sold out to the devil;

2. Principality power that seeks to take the life out of you; 2 Sam. 14:21 & 15:6.

This is symbolic of a person who sucks the life out of you, a bad influence in your life

A dream warning against thieves and other insidious persons (Gypsy).

A bad omen; you will marry for money and find it a bad bargain.

See SEX.

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being bitten by a: al of your fears point to an unpleasant encounter that must be faced.

chased by a: choose your companions stringently, no negative thinkers.

dead person coming back to life: your destructive habits have a seductive hold over you.

fighting with a: are responsible for maintaining your own envy level.

kissing your neck, a: a lover is draining your energy and you emotional y.

married person dreaming of a: have made a bad bargain with a selfish bloodsucker.

of a: wil triumph over resistance to your lowly class and marry for money.