According to Sumber, dreams about death often indicate "the symbolic ending of something, whether that's a phase, a job or a relationship. What can I learn about myself from dreams about death? He adds that a person can ask herself if she is anxious about something or angry at herself or someone else. Are there any tricks to avoiding or inducing dreams about this subject? The only way to avoid anything from the unconscious is to do our inner work and make peace with it.
Beyond analysis, what cultural symbolism can be found in dreams about death? Most people "wonder when it will happen, if it will hurt, and what will occur afterward. To comment on this article, you must sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. This dream would disturb me as well. Although the emotions and fears in the dream would be very strong for me and I would intensely worry the dream would, in some way, be predictive, I would want to see how the dream could symbolize something for me.
The little boy may represent some aspect of self or something precious to me. The head itself would relate to thoughts and beliefs. If I step away from my fears and worries, I may perceive the dream as showing me that something has blown my mind and I worry this new information could threaten something innocent or important to me.
I've got quite upset and anxious over my dream last night, I personally don't believe that dreams predict the future but it scared me so much it woke me. I woke up and now i keep seeing his tiny body in my arms, he's two. Thank you for commenting and sharing your dream. When people normally tell me about dreaming of a loved one dying they are very worried and anxious.
Your cultural belief that death means longevity for the person you are dreaming about certainly eases fears. The dream could still reflect someone's fears of losing someone or having something come to an end but a belief that it is a positive dream can be a great comfort. Thank you again for sharing!
This dream about your own death is an interesting one. The dream could show your thoughts of death as well as current feelings and beliefs about death. The failure of organs in general in this dream could show you a fear of your body failing and not working. Do you not want to die in a hospital? That is a common wish and may be reflected in your dream.
Thank you for sharing your dream. It is an interesting one and I think it relates to both your emotional and spiritual parts of self. The skyscrapers sound like they represent high expectations and personal goals. Being able to travel in the air would show how much control you have over your life as well as your ability to accomplish these goals. Falling then would relate to failure. In some ways, does failure feel like it is killing you?
The keys are interesting. I would associate the ctrl key with "control" and how overcontrolling your life or losing control may have played a part in this issue. Using the "shift" key is also interesting. I would associate this with maybe a change and having a fear of change.
The suicide would relate to destroying something precious. It would also to intense self-blame and internalizing failures. Wanting to write a message would relate to having trouble expressing all of these emotions. The purple blood to me would not only relate to feeling depleted and drained, but would possibly relate to how this dream could be symbolic of something spiritual for you. The old apartment may relate to something from your past you need to resolve.
All of the water would relate to emotions. The bathroom would relate to where you manage emotions. The laundry would relate to unresolved issues. Everything is filled to the brim- do you feel you are, too? I am still thinking about my dream from last night. It was very vivid but I don't remember much of it except for one main part - I dreamed that I was dying of multiple organ failure. But for some reason I refused to die in a hospital bed. So I got up, moved to the couch, and then died there. When I was actually gone gone, that is when I woke up.
I woke up feeling like the dream had litterally popped like a bubble above my head. There was no feelings of either way being happy or sad when I first woke up. Now I am just simply weirded out by it. There do not seem to be any interpretations needed for these dreams. It sounds like you may be experiencing PSI dreams are dreams that provide information you are not readily observing in your waking life.
These dreams may also reflect an intuition about what is going on for others. It is possible you may have picked up consciously or unconsciously that both individuals were struggling medically. Hi Sue, I just woke up from a terribly disturbing dream, and I was hoping you could help me interpret it. For a while now, I've been dreaming about walking between two balconies of a skyscraper in mid-air.
I can't quite remember why I would want to do that though. I'm not sure how these keyboard controls work but Apparently, if I pressed the 'Ctrl' button, I would be able to walk on air, but only the 'Ctrl' button. But, in my dream last night, I dreamed that as I jumped off the balcony, I just could not remember which button to press. I kept pressing 'Shift' as I fell through the air, and then, frantically, when I finally tried 'Ctrl', nothing happened.
I was already on the ground.
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Just then, a groundskeeper walked by and said, "Oh, another suicide. I wanted to let my family know that it was all an accident. So, I scooped blood from what was pooling beneath me and tried to throw it onto the ground to spell out, "Not a Suicide".
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When the blood hit the floor, it was clear purple in colour. I couldn't finish the message. I was transported to an old apartment of mine. I ran into my parents' room but there was no one there. There were clothes hanging to dry in the bathroom. The sinks and buckets were full to the brim and there was this constant dripping from the taps. If you have any insight as to what it could all mean, I would be so grateful. Hey my name is savannah I need help understanding what's going on in my dreams any why are they really coming okay ill start of by telling you what's going on in them.
Yesterday I was taken a nap with my 2year old and my month old and in my dream I was holding my sisters newborn and I was crying and saying I never had the chance and she died in my arms i know my sister was pregnant but never know she had the baby tell to day Wen I called to ask how she was and how the pregnancy was going she was only 5 months pregnant the baby was born 2weeks and 2 days ago she died at the same time I was taken a nap. I was running in my hometown down a street that I remember as a kid I walked down every day to get to school I heard my great grandma talking her voice was fading away I ran as fast as I could to find her and be hind me was getting dark like I was running in to the light I got to the end of the block and I almost fall in to an endless dark pit but a hand grabs my ARM and pulls me back i scream not knowing who it is I hear a voice one I will never forget my great grand ma was floughing above me she said to me baby girl don't be afraid I start crying and say gg what's wrong she says savannah its my time to go I'm ready to go its my time don't be afraid ill always be with you.
The next morning my grandma my great grandmother daughter calls me and says there's something I need to tell yu my heart drops she says your great grandma past away in her sleep.
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If this were my dream from the perspective of your sister's friend- not you , it would relate to either an aspect of self where you represent a part of self for this friend or it would symbolize something occurring within the relationship. Since you are dying in this dream, it could be a potential lost opportunity for a relationship, a neglected part of self that needs attention, or thoughts and feelings associated with you in some way that have been repressed or denied for too long that they are somehow harmful causing an imbalance.
This dream sounds like it could be reflecting a fear you have that you will lose your dad and Aunt Emi. Since death is a part of life, you may be grappling with the knowledge that you will eventually lose them and do not know when this will occur. Since you are at a boxing fight, it may relate to your internal struggles with the idea of death and my desire to somehow fight death. The dream leaves you with a feeling of powerlessness over death.
It is not something in your control and this dream may be reflecting how you are struggling with this concept. My first impression was that you are not sure how to express this other part of self and you believe that expressing this part of self is someone ending or killing off your current identity. I'm wondering if you have the false believe that you somehow need to choose which aspects of self to express and are not seeing that you can coexist and find a way to express all.
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Dying in many dreams can reflect the end of something old and the beginning of something new. This dream seems to focus on the ending and is not yet focused on what new things will come.
Dreaming in this manner- double dreams from two perspectives seems like it has been a powerful problem-solving tool for you allowing you to see your issues and situations from different perspective and truly examine what is going on in your life. Sue one of my sisters friends told me she had a dream about me dying. She told me she woke up crying and it felt so real. We have always had a thing for each other but have never acted on it. What is that meaning of that dream? Please help me interpret my dream. I had dream last night that I was waiting for a boxing fight to start then my grandfather my mom's dad who passed away came in and sat right in front of me.
In my dreams i was fully aware that he was already dead. So I asked "what are you doing here? Then I told him "pls not yet" and I started running away from him and to warn my dad.. In my dream i didn't get to warn my dad because while i was running there were bunch of people trying to stop me..
Hi, I came across something I wrote a few years ago about this reoccurring dream I had for a while:. I have these dreams. It's actually pretty interesting how I dream. It's been like this since I can remember. One night I'll dream about something from one visual point. I'm an invisible outsider, a watcher if you will.
I see and observe an event or a string off events, unattached and unemotional. The next night, the same event or series occurs, but through my own eyes. This time I'm in the incident s and feel all that is happening. I am the by-product of the cause and effect. If the night before, I had observed someone putting something on a table and I followed their actions, then they go back to the table and find the item is missing.
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That second night, through my eyes, I was the one that took it and carry out some purpose. Cause and Effect is the bottom line, and understanding of life events being intertwined. So here is one that has been haunting me over the last months. It's the same 2 dreams with some details different, one after the other. The first starts as me being the observer looking over a woman's shoulder. She's on her knees looking down on me. She's holding me and crying. I don't know this woman as the observer , but I watch as she cries. Then I see me crying. She says she doesn't want me to give up and that help is on the way.
Then I hear me saying that I'm sorry and I don't want her to cry. I watch my slowing breathe as I thank her for completing everything I wanted in life. Then I see me start to cry as I say that my only regret is that I was so sad that I just met her and now this is the end. As the observer, I just watch. I move around the two bodies. Then I wake up to my alarm ringing. For the next ten minutes, I do what I have to do, with this incredible calmness like I'm still in the dream as the observer. That ends as I'm actually waking up Cut to the second night.
I'm the one dieing looking up at what I can only describe as the only woman I could ever truly love on every level possible. She has black hair and black eyes. The hair goes down past her shoulder. Even in my predicament, all I do is think how beautiful she is. I start to cry because I'm thinking that when I die, I'll never see her again. I'm not scared to die, in fact, normally I'm comfortable with the notion. But I start thinking about how I'm just finally getting my life where I want it to be.
A successful career and a woman that I was going to marry. I can feel the blood that's coming out of my body. I can feel the slow onset of death, but all I care about is looking at her for as long as I can hold on. Everything gets said like the first dream, and I do everything I saw myself do the night before.
I wake up crying, and so sad. This time though, I quickly gain my composure and I get ready for my day without a second thought. I am sure this dream continues to bother you as it sounds very traumatic for you. Since you read about what death means in a dream, I would really reflect on the meaning you recently learned since it is likely you internalized it. Do you feel you need to move forward or need to remove yourself from the situation? My first impression from reading your dream is that you are not in touch with all parts of self. The idea that your skin is falling off gave me the impression that you are vulnerable, sensitive, and do not feel protected.
The image of bleeding to death as well gives me the sense that you are losing energy and are in crisis. It doesn't sound like you are in a state that you can sustain and just carry on. The dream does prompt change- whether or not it relates to your boyfriend is for you to decide. If the dream does relate to your boyfriend, I would suggest you not only review your thoughts on if he is the right person for you but if you have been approaching the relationship in a way that is best for you as well.
Has too much of your attention and energy gone to him? If he is demanding this then that is one thing but it is very possible that this has to do with your reactions to others and the way you treat yourself. Since your left arm was numb, it gives me the impression you have lost touch with your feelings and maybe what you've been doing in life or your ability to connect with others.
Since you are playing with a cat that you are allergic to in real life just prior to this episode, it made me wonder if this dream is about feeling as if you are poisoned in some way by connecting to what this cat is symbolizing for you. Cats can often relate to our more emotional or feminine side as well as our sexuality.
If this was my nightmare, I would review how I am grounding myself and nurturing myself and explore how this imbalance within me could be translating to my relationships.
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Recurring dreams can be very meaningful. There is also a related hub about this if you click on my profile. If this were my dream, I would also wonder if this is an actual message from my grandmother and I would be curious about the physical house. I would also explore the symbolism within the dream. This could relate to your processing of the loss of your grandmother and could also relate to an aspect of self that is your grandmother internalized or a very spiritual part of self that has been neglected and needs your attention.
The house could be a place within that you explore and retreat to at times. You are making new discoveries that could relate to different aspects of self or spiritual gifts. Hello- I came across your post and am wondering if you could Shed some light on a recent nightmare in which I die a bloody, painful and traumatic death. In the dream I am with my brother and mother.
It is nighttime and we are sleeping in one big room, where my brother is somewhat separated. Within the dream, all of a sudden I begin to have nightmares of supernatural nature and feelings of burning. At this point I wake up screaming, but then go off to play with my cat who I am allergic to in real life. We play for a short while and my boyfriend shows up and runs off to get the camera to take a cte picture of her.
All of a sudden there a moths everywhere and I kill them with a notebook. When I am done my skin becomes itchy and a large chunk of skin on my left arm moves and falls off. My mother who is with me again, insists we head off to the emergency room. On our way out, I yell at my brother for hanging wet towels on the curtain rod for fear the curtains will fall and become ruined.
As we arrive in the emergency room skin begins to fall off my whole body, and my left arm begins to turn blue and swell. At this time they bring me in, it's become urgent and a surgeon tkes a scalpel to the left arm to relieve pressure. I have lost feeling in my left arm and when they cut it to do so, hit an artery and I start to bleed out rapidly.
At this point I am filled with fear but say to my mother to tell my boyfriend I love him and die. That is the end and am quite traumatized by the whole ordeal. I have been with my boyfriend for 5 years and recently we have made an amazing turn towards the positive, but I've had issues deciding if he is the one. I've read death can mean moving forward or the need to remove, so maybe your expertise can help analyze.
Hi there, I was hoping you could give me some insight into my dreams that I have had over the past 11 years since my grandmother past. Yours is not an uncommon dream, nor was it a psychic vision. Dreams are symbolic expressions of our feelings about our life at the time we had the dream. Death and coffins are common symbols. Here are links to their definitions on this site: But, based on the symbols, it should be pretty obvious to you what it is. The silver lining of these dreams is that you are aware of the fact that something in your life has changed or "died" and you are witnessing the transition.
Just because you don't know what the future holds doesn't mean it will be bad. You still have the power to make the transition "resurrection" a powerful and rewarding experience. If you wouldn't mind, please share what was going on in your life with the community. Thanks and good luck.