Transformation; there is now room in the psyche for a new way of life; a need to revise your self-image; the end of one type of inner personification. When we are turly about to die, our dreams contain symbols or images other than those of our death. However, as we age, we may explore death or transition more in our dreams, meeting symbolic figures of death. Dreaming of yourself as dead reflects a wish to get out of a situation or responsibility. Often the dream ego is still alive and watching the funeral. Consider the behavior of those attending the funeral for additional clues of how you behaved and their opinions of you. Each of them is, most likely, another or wished-for, aspect of yourself. Death can also represent an attempy to repress or kill off some aspect of yourself.
Dreaming of someone’s else’s death or funeral may be a message that your feelings about that person are dead; that a significant change or loss is occurring in the relationship; a wish to complete or end or repress that aspect of yourself represented by the other; anxiety; aggression toward other. It;s not uncommon to dream of somone close to you who recently died, although frequently you will dream of him or her as still alive.
Death and rebirth is an archetypal theme, and dreams of thise nature may have to do with initiation or quest; search for the spiritual in your life; growth or change; loss of power or identity;. After the symbolic death, look for symbols of escape or rebirth in the same or later dreams; Fertility or womb symbols, oncluding caves; the season of spring; seeds; new plants; trees; dawn; water; a snake; a bird, especially one resembling the phenix; a pearl. Intensely dramtic or emotional death dreams may occur for the addict or alcholic not yet commited to the recovery process.
See also asleep, crossing, sunset.
Related dream symbolsDrown, Drowning
37 Personal Dreams and Interpretations so far ↓
Montenegrina // Nov 19, 2011 at 6:42 am
…I was trying to kill a guy who had a a gun. I had a gun too, but mine just didn’t work. In one second the guy is holding a gun and pointing it at me, telling me that I am gonna have a baby and name him Luka, but I have to die… I woke up just before he killed me…
Charmayne // Jun 8, 2011 at 9:40 pm
I dreamt that I was in an unfamiliar area that appeared to be some type of industrial business area. The buildings were mainly white in color. A small pond (which was out of place) was in the area, and people where swimming. This one lady was on the phone calling 911. She was looking in a particular direction, and I followed her gaze. Then I saw what she was looking at. It was a man with a white t-shirt and blue jeans sinking in the water about 10 feet away from her. I did not know him. She did not look panicked but concerned, and she did not tell anyone else. She allowed everyone to continue swimming. As I looked closer at the man I noticed a bunch of sneakers. I looked closer and saw that it was not just sneakers, but a bunch of dead people. I started running towards the industrial buildings to get help, but there was no one around except the people swimming in the water. The water was kind of murky. I was thinking that I definitely would not be swimming in it. Then I then woke up.
Nana // May 5, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Okayy, well lets see how I can explain this. I have a couple of friends from out of town and I go visit them at football games and stuff like that. Well two of my friends from out of town are named Paul, and the other Jacob.
Okayy well in my town I have, well had, this friend named Jacob as well and he recently died a couple months ago.
Okayy well in my dream I went to Sinton (the out of town) and I was gonna go meet up with Paul and Jacob and I saw Paul but when I turned I saw Jacob (my dead friend) and I went up to him and it felt as if it was really him. He had the little scar on his face and the sweetness in his eyes and it just caught me by surprise because I don’t know why I dreamed of that Jacob instead of the other one.
-Nana
V // Feb 17, 2011 at 10:08 pm
I dreamed that I had a small bird, maybe the size of my hand. Every time the bird was left alone, it would turn black and lay down on its side and die. Frightened, I would reach out and touch it, and I would realize that it had just been sleeping. When it felt my touch, it would wake up and climb onto my hand. It would turn a brilliant white, with tiny red and green feathers on its head.
I immediately felt awful that I only had a tiny cage for it, because I had no way of procuring a larger one. But I also realized that every time I put it back in its cage, or let go of it, it would die again. I realized I would have to hold on to it forever, and that I wouldn’t be able to do the things for myself I’d wanted to do, but I was somehow completely okay with that.
What could this possibly mean? Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Jessica // Feb 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm
I had a really Crazy Dream the other night…OK I was standing around in a
park. I seemed happy Then I see my mom. She looks worried and she asks me were
is Dominic (my Brother.) I say I don’t know. She then tells me we need to find
him because she heard one of his friends saying my brother owed him money. So I
then start panicking and start helping her look for my brother. I followed her
to an area that had a big hole the size of a big swimming pool that was filled
with water but the water had ice chunks in it, so it was hard to see inside. We
look around but no one was there.
Then my mom jumps in because she says, no he was here, he has to be here. When
she jumps in she yells “He’s here!” I see her pull him up to the surface and I
see him. I start screaming and help pull him out. I start CPR on him, but all I
can feel is the coldness of his body and I yell, “Someone help! Please
help!”. Still doing CPR but I know he is DEAD …
Next I m at his memorial and I see all his Friends and I tell them, “You did
this. You guys killed him. I’m going to Kill all of you!” I was so ANGRY, I
started fighting.
Then I wake up out of it but I’m crying so much. I go straight to the phone and
called my mom to see if he was OK and yes he was in his room. BUT it felt so
real, I was so hurt …
Josie // Feb 12, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I dreamt last night about my brother and my cousin. They visited Las Vegas and were sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change. Then out of nowhere a delivery truck deliberately crashed into them. My cousin lived but my brother died. He came to me as a ghost several days after his body came home for the funeral. We started talking because I was the only one who could hear him. He then actually spoke to me and my mother was beside me. I held her as we started to cry. I told him I missed him and he said he missed us, too. I said I was sorry for all the fights we had and he even tried hugging me, but I felt nothing. The guy who killed him then for some reason came to my house. I hit him with my car then brutally stabbed him, repeating “Why!? WHY!? What did we ever do to you!? Why did you have to ruin a perfectly good family!?!? I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL!!!!!!!” I sat there crying looking at the bloody corpse with my mom holding me close trying to comfort me. I wished so deeply that my brother would drive home any second, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen. Right now I keep looking out the kitchen window waiting for my brother to come home safely. When I woke up I was crying. I went to look in my brothers room to see if he was there. My heart stopped for a moment, then I sighed a sigh of relief when I saw him sleeping on the corner sofa with my cousin. Lately dreams I have have been coming true. I dreamt my friend wasn’t in school and she wasn’t. I dreamt someone in my band class broke her leg and she did. I’m really scared that my brother might actually die. Even now as I write this I’m crying. The dream felt so real. I actually heard him talking to me and saying I missed him and he missed me broke my heart. I’m scared and don’t know what to do.
Sian // Feb 5, 2011 at 4:25 am
I dreamed I was in my bed but I was in some sort of hospital. And a weird figure came and turned all of my life-support machines off. I felt every bit of pain and dying slowly on my bed. My family came to see me, to find me stiff as a board, with blue lips. Then I became a ghost hero, searching for my killer. But when I woke up it felt pretty real to me.
K // Feb 1, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I dreamed of an old lover who, in real life, moved back to Europe couple of years ago. In the dream he came to visit me at an outdoor wedding (of someone else). I was so happy to see him again. In real life, I am currently in a happy relationship, but all I wanted to do was kiss him in the dream. And I did kiss him, and in my dream it felt so good and reassuring. I emotionally felt so close to him again… I actually missed him when I woke up.
However, towards the end of the dream, it turned out that he had been carrying a briefcase with a gun in it, and he tried to hunt me down to kill me. I survived, and he ended up killed.
samantha // Jan 31, 2011 at 2:53 am
I dreamed that my x.boyfriend had died but I had to tell everyone. But cause I am pregnant with my second kid of his, I knew I wanted to keep it!
Kim // Jan 3, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Last night I dreamed I saw a dead bird and I was taking pictures of it. Then this morning I was on my way to school and that’s when I walk right pass a dead bird that looks just like the one in my dream last night. I dont know what that means but I would love to know. Can anyone tell me?
Mickie // Dec 23, 2010 at 3:30 pm
OK, so I’m a pretty sensitive person and I was in the process of moving out of my house into my new boyfriend’s house (whon I’ve been dating for about nine months.) We work together and have been friends for years. We started our relationship after I broke up with my ex-fiance - not for this guy, but for other reasons. Well, I had a dream I was at my old house moving out and I looked down on my patio and there was my ex boyfriend smoking a cigarette and thinking some nasty thoughts. Well, I just kept watching him and he ended up walking up on to my patio and looked into my house. He couldn’t see me but I could see him. I was watching him and he loaded a gun, and started shooting into my house. I have my concealed handgun license and I shoot regularly. I was going to wait till he fired all his bullets so I would be sure I would be safe. Well, he ended up shooting me in the arm, and it just grazed me. I was counting the bullets and when the fourteenth one was shot I started to walk out to go shoot him. I saw him load another clip into his gun - another fourteen rounds. I knew I wouldn’t last so I lured him over to my bedroom. I was still inside and he was still outside. When I saw he was coming to the other side of the house I ran the opposite direction and ran upstairs. When I looked back he was just pointing his gun upstairs and just shooting. When the last bullet was shot, I ran back downstairs and shot out my window and shot him in the head and he died in front of me, with his eyes closed. It was so intense and then the next day I actually saw him.
Jessica // Nov 1, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Jan 2007 I had a dream I was in a house watching video and I felt this huge wave of sadness come over and while I watching the video I realize I was never going to see my mother again and that she died. When I woke up the next morning I called my mom and was your still alive right? She laughed at me and said yes why? I told her about the dream and she reassured me it was okay that she had to dreamed her mother died too when she was younger and it was no big deal. So I brushed it off. Three months later in march 2007 my mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died a less then a year from being diagnosed in jan 2008 ….
Allison // Oct 23, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I had a dream about someone who died. The thing is…I have never met them, or didn’t even know them…Then when I was telling my friend about this dream, she asked me to describe what the person, who was a guy, looked like. Well I described him and she said, “That’s what my cousin John used to look like. ” Later on I found out that he committed suicide and my friend was very close to him…. I really don’t know why I had a dream about him, and it sort of freaks me out… Is anyone having dreams like this?
abraham // Sep 22, 2010 at 8:07 am
I had this dream where my brother kept on chasing me and trying to kill me with a gun. I could never get away and every time he killed me it was a point blank gunshot to the face. Then it would start all over again with him doing the same thing over and over. I must have died at least 7 times.
Sammy // Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58 am
I dreamt I was trying to survive a green cobra snake that was in my backyard. I jumped up to elevate myself from ground contact and found a long wooden stick to protect myself. When it was coming near, i managed to stab the wooden stick into the cobra’s eyes so that way it couldn’t find me. Later in my dream I started to cry because I thought that I had murdered my boyfriend who I thought was the cobra. But I didn’t realize that the cobra was him in disguise until it was too late.
Does this mean that my boyfriend is poison to my soul, I wonder? My own interpretation would be that the green cobra snake is a representation of my boyfriend. That I need to ward off. Could this be true?
Sammy // Jul 28, 2010 at 10:52 am
I had a dream that I was sleeping and woke up in the middle of my sleep with my sister saying (while crying) you’re gonna die in your sleep. your gonna have a heart attack while you’re sleeping. I didn’t answer her, I just wish she never had told me. I was forcing myself to stay awake, while still laying in bed. but couldn’t resist any longer, and went to sleep…
I never finished the dream. I woke up to the sound of a ringing telephone.
ruthy // Jul 17, 2010 at 1:35 am
In the morning I dreamed that my husband tried to kill me he was sitting on top of me and choking me..It was very disturbing…
Pal05052003 // May 14, 2010 at 8:24 pm
I dreamed i met a beautiful lady. She was Death. I held and kissed her. As she was kissing i noticed her face changed to blue and I thought to myself: isn’t the hindu god indra blue? Then a headless man in tuxedo came. He was her husband. He sprayed something at me but i spat at him and the spray had no effect. He then sprayed at another man. An old man sitting on a desk. The old man drooped and the headless guy walked out the door. And we kept kissing. when Lady Death entered my room, which was dark i was warned to look under the door for shadows. I saw shadows of the secret lantern. When the door opened it was Lady Death.
dang // May 7, 2010 at 10:52 am
I have this recurring dream that I’m dying or someone or something will get or kill me. that I have an unfinished assignment which will cause me not to go to heaven. I have even been dreaming of my baby being taken from me and that I failed to do something for her that she will not go to heaven too. It feels really weird that I always beg for my life in those dreams and to spare me for my baby.
brooke // Apr 7, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I had a dream that my aunt had met with the “Shadow of Death” and it had grabbed her, being very rough. Then it brought her to me and it took me as well as my aunt. I woke up right after. Since this dream I am scared to even go to sleep now.
Jaded Reverie // Mar 26, 2010 at 10:31 am
A while ago I had a dream where I flew into a cemetery at night. I was jumping over tombstones like a cat. I sunk into the mud between the tombstones and felt comfort. I was wearing a clean white dress that was glowing. Afterwards, I went to a restaurant to order french fries. My hands were still dirty from the graveyard, and the server put the fries directly into my hands.
Lindsey // Mar 17, 2010 at 11:52 pm
In my dream I woke up, in a bridal gown, on the grass next to my great grand parents grave. I am named after my great grand father. For some strange reason I started to pray in a Catholic style (with a rosary that came out of no where) to him. The next thing I knew I was getting married outside, next to their grave.
elisa // Mar 8, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I had a dream that my boyfriend died; another, dreaming that my friend drowned.
kathy // Jan 14, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I had a dream I was at dinner with alot of realitives. And most of the relatives were ones that had passed aways years ago. Including my mother and grandmother. Why am I dreaming about dead people
Billie // Jan 6, 2010 at 9:41 pm
I had a dream my ex died and i had this dream before when we were together as well. I woke up crying in both.
Dave // Jan 1, 2010 at 8:25 am
My mother is dreaming about my sister (her daughter) who died 3 yrs ago. In this dream my sister is crying and it has really upset her. Normally she dreams of her laughing or doing something else but never crying….what does this mean
miko // Sep 7, 2009 at 5:03 am
I always dream I’m at a funeral and the person in the casket gets up and everybody is running including me, but they always seem to single me out chasing me through the whole damn dream.
katelyn // May 14, 2009 at 6:42 am
I dreamed that my dad died and I just kept crying and crying really bad, then I woke up. it was looong - it seemed like I cried the whole time…it felt so real.
J Diaz // May 11, 2009 at 11:10 am
I had a dream where my dad was killed. It wasn’t even in our current city, but in Nogales, Mexico (my birthtown). Noone would tell me as I was arriving to the funeral. I started to laugh as a means to diminish the thought that I knew something had happened. My mom called me inside and broke the news that my dad had been poisoned with gas while being locked in a garage. I started to cry in a way that I have never seen or heard myself cry. My dad somehow reappears at the end of this scene. I hug him like I never have and more tears come out. All the while, I know it’s just an image of him in my mind…not real.
At the end of the dream, death somehow turns to me. I am gunned down and trying to keep myself hidden from a group of uniformed men. Then I wake up.
The interpretation this site offers is ackwardaly correct. I am in a transition phase of my life where I am trying to gain redemption from my actions thus far. I have had troubles with bad company where I am now in a junction. Now I ask myself…take the correct road or continue living the way I have. Of course the correct road.
garza // Apr 29, 2009 at 11:57 am
In my dream I was at the funeral home. I wasn’t sure whose funeral at first until I had to take one last look at the body. I saw my best friend in the coffin. I was looking at him for the longest time. Then we took him to the cemetery. I saw his tombstone, but didn’t see any year numbers. I just saw his name. I was then in a car crying with my teacher. When I woke up, I was literally crying. Then I woke up, but after I fell asleep the dream continued. I was still at the cemetery after everyone left. After that I woke up. I don’t know what that means. I haven’t talked to my best friend since that dream.
amber // Oct 28, 2008 at 11:58 am
i think that it has to do with the “death” of their relationship and the “birth” of a new life. but i have also been told that it usually means that one or the other is going to pass.
amber // Oct 28, 2008 at 11:57 am
my boyfriend is having a dream that his soon to be ex wife dies while giving birth to their child. this is his first and her second child. she is due on halloween and this has been going on for about 2 weeks now. what does this mean please?
Frederick // Aug 28, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I recently dreamt of Death. The grim reaper guy. Chasing the moon. I have interesting dreams…
leslie // Aug 25, 2008 at 6:35 am
I dreamt that i just got a new apartment and i woke up in the middle of the night and there was a very large dead bird lying in the room near my bed. I kept leaving my bedroom through a window and everytime I came back the dead bird moved a little bit. Finally at the end of the dream I went to get my brother to remove the bird from my room, but when we got back to my room the bird was gone.
let_meBE // May 1, 2008 at 10:05 am
I had a dream that I lived in medival times. In that dream I found out that I died from cancer when I was about 8 years old. My mother hid my corpse and did some black magic (or something) and kept my soul so that I could be reborn. So I was born again amout 5 years later. My mother was very protective of me. She didn’t want me to know what had happened to me. But Long after I passed my 8th birthday (when I was already an adult) my mother finally told me all about it and showed me my corpse. I was terrified and confused in that dream, but I did recognize myself in that corpse…
Marina // Dec 28, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I dreamt I was waiting for death…I knew I was going to die and I was waiting….I was not frightened but kind of accepting… i was praying just like Jesus asking God to let this cup pass from me but if It is your will then so be it…However I was in my childhood home and when i saw the Hearse pulling out from a neighbor’s house and the driver of the hearse looking directly at me…I knew he was coming for me and I got frightened and started to pray feverishly asking God to please not let this happen to me now
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