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.
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21 Personal Dreams and Interpretations so far ↓
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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