Cruelty in a dream is read symbolically as harshness felt or feared — a critical voice, a cold person, or the way you speak to yourself. Tradition sees it as a hurt that wants to be understood rather than repeated.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.