What does it mean when you dream of killing your father?

It means like you've never realizing his importance as your guidance yet.

Answer:

This rather common dream refers to your growing independence and the natural urge to break free from the limitations of childhood. In dreams, your father represents the authority and restrictions that guided and protected you in your early years. Your dream does not mean that you secretly want to murder your own dad; the dream is a metaphor, like a cartoon. As you become more mature, that authority shifts from the "father" outside yourself to your own inner authority or conscience. In other Words, you become self-governing. The dream pictures this shift in the overly dramatic and very classic image of killing the father.

> Dreams of killing one's father received a great deal of interest and study in 20th Century psychology due to Sigmund Freud's development of the theory of the Oedipus Complex.