Dead Dream Meanings

(1) Does the dream contain a dead person you actually knew? If so, the dream may mean you should take notice of what he or she said or did, or of what happened to him or her. The dead person is ‘coming back1, not to haunt but to advise and help you.

There’s really nothing ‘spooky1 about meeting dead people in dreams. Such encounters may help you to fulfil a long-desired deep relationship, or to put something right. For example, you may learn to forgive the person and as a consequence get peace and healing for yourself.

(2) If a deceased partner or parent appears in dreams, (1) above may apply. Bear in mind also that the dead do live on - inside us; and that it is important to realize when this is a healthy and life-enhancing thing and when it is purely negative, stunting our own personal development.

If it is the latter, resolve to have it out with the person the next time he or she appears in a dream.

(3) If the dead person in the dream is actually a living person - and especially if that person is your partner or parent or sibling - the dream may be expressing unconscious resentment towards that person, or a desire to be independent. Feelings towards someone close are often ambivalent: love or respect mixed with fear or hatred or resentment or jealousy.

The usual conscious response to such a dream will be anxiety, and you may even feel anxiety in the dream itself. However, Freud was convinced that in such cases anxiety was a cloak for unconscious - because repressed - hostility’. (On the Oedipus complex) See also Murder.

(4) The dead person may be you (and could stand for you even if in the dream he is distinct from the dream ego). In that case, consider the following possibilities:

(a) What is being expressed in the dream may be your own anxiety’ about dying. Death is inevitable, and facing up to that fact may bring great rewards: self-acceptance; new values; a broadening of one’s personality’, compensating for past omissions or lopsidedness and utilizing hitherto neglected personal resources. This would be specially applicable if vou were in the second half of life.

(b) The message may be that y’our old self needs to be left behind. This mav mean that you must stop carrying around with yrou the crippling burden of vour past (irrational guilt-feelings and martyrdom complex, or any other negative self-programming); and, instead, you must open yourself to what the present moment is offering. Alternatively, the ‘old self5 may be old attachments, habits, ambitions, values, goals; in which case the dream is telling you that the only way forward for you lies through giving these up and looking deeper within yourself for better values, etc. (where ‘better5 means more in tune with your real self).

(Primitive rites of passage, which mark transitional stages in a person’s life - birth, initiation into adulthood, marriage, death - all contain death-and-rebirth symbolism and express a recognition that the dissolving - ‘death5 - of past attitudes is a necessary prelude to the development of new attitudes more appropriate to one’s new stage in life. The symbolic death of the initiate in these rites may also be seen as a descent of the conscious ego into the unconscious: it is the unconscious that provides the means for new growth - ‘rebirth5.

See also Sacrifice.)

(c) It is just possible that, if your own death features repeatedly in dreams, it is an expression of an unconscious wish for death. Freud speculated in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that there might be, in everyone, just two contending basic drives: one towards life and love and pleasure (‘Eros’), the other towards death (Thanatos5). This is highly controversial, but it is indisputable that many people display a strong masochistic tendency.

Are you compelled to repeat a painful experience? Do you tend to interpret what other people say as a criticism of yourself? If so, you may be suffering from repressed guilt-feelings and an unconscious urge to punish yourself - which may sometimes take the form of a fate-neurosis and / or a wish (unconscious) to see yourself dead.

If you feel this applies to you, talk to a friend about it or consult a psychotherapist.

See also Suicide.

A wish for death may be a retreat from life’s problems and pains, or a response to (a sense of) failure.

If this applies to you, bear in mind, first, that a very sensitive person may also be burdened with an over-severe conscience (the product, perhaps, of having a stem father or a sin-and- guilt religious upbringing). In that case, see the previous paragraph. Secondly, what makes a thing a problem is usually one’s attitude towards it. For example, suppose you have been made redundant.

If your reaction is to see this as a punishment, see the previous paragraph.

If you see it as failure, try to change your attitude or perspective by asking what creative purpose may be being served bv your redundancy: perhaps, for instance, the demolishing of an inadequate or false self- image in order to make way for the construction of one that corresponds more closely to your individual ground-plan or ‘destiny’.

(5) If the gender of the dead person is stressed, the meaning may be that your masculinitv / femininity or your animus / anima needs reviving.

(6) A dead animal in a dream almost certainly refers to some part of you - an instinctive force, perhaps - and the dream will be telling you either that this part of you (e.g. guilt-feelings or inferiority complex) ought to die, because its effects are wholly negative; or that it is a valuable but repressed part of yourself that you must now bring to life, to rectify an imbalance in vour personality.

2. Not receive spiritual truth;

3. Literal, physical death;

4. Demonic deception if a dead person speak to you/soulties

5. An aspect of one’s life laid down; Mark 8:34; 10:31; Luke 9:23; 1 Cor. 15:30-31.

To dream that someone you care about is dead, suggests that you are lacking a certain quality that the loved one represents. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what do you like about them.

It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances.

To see dead people in your dream who you do not know in real life, forewarns that you are being influenced by negative people and are hanging around the wrong crowd. This dream may also be a way for you to resolve your feelings with those who have passed on. However, if you spoke with someone who is dead, you may soon hear very good news.

To dream of someone dead coming to life again suggests that you miss them and are trying to relive your old experiences you had with them. Also look up “Zombie”

If you see and talk with your father, some unlucky transaction is about to be made by you. Be careful how you enter into contracts, enemies are around you. Men and women are warned to look to their reputations after this dream.

To see your mother, warns you to control your inclination to cultivate morbidness and ill will towards your fellow creatures.

A brother, or other relatives or friends, denotes that you may be called on for charity or aid within a short time.

To dream of seeing the dead, living and happy, signifies you are letting wrong influences into your life, which will bring material loss if not corrected by the assumption of your own will force.

To dream that you are conversing with a dead relative, and that relative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you of coming distress, unless you follow the advice given you. Disastrous consequences could often be averted if minds could grasp the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self.

The voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane. There is so little congeniality between common or material natures that persons should depend upon their own subjectivity for true contentment and pleasure. Paracelsus says on this subject: ``It may happen that the soul of persons who have died perhaps fifty years ago may appear to us in a dream, and if it speaks to us we should pay special attention to what it says, for such a vision is not an illusion or delusion, and it is possible that a man is as much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body as when the latter is awake; and if in such a case such a soul appears to him and he asks questions, he will then hear that which is true. Through these solicitous souls we may obtain a great deal of knowledge to good or to evil things if we ask them to reveal them to us. Many persons have had such prayers granted to them. Some people that were sick have been informed during their sleep what remedies they should use, and after using the remedies, they became cured, and such things have happened not only to Christians, but also to Jews, Persians, and heathens, to good and to bad persons.’’ The writer does not hold that such knowledge is obtained from external or excarnate spirits, but rather through the personal _Spirit Glimpses_ that is in man.--AUTHOR.

being: shed tears of profound sympathy over death of one whom you asked for aid.

alive at the expense of others: wil be short of money to ensure project’s success.

enemy, an: a grieving process for a battle wel fought.

person, in the company of a: are harboring a death wish to join your friends.

bodies: a wedding wil take place; a divorce process wil begin.

feel anger toward a, person: rid yourself of their quality.

death, a: regain the part of you that you gave up at their death.

friend’s, a: you shun friends in your nervous and agitated state.

delight: are able to say good-bye again.

fear: report of a friend’s death is highly overrated.

grief: apologize for your pessimistic behavior; say your peace and forgive.

regret: are in possession of the powerful wil of one dead, that you would prefer he had.

fighting with the: are battling a contract, rightly so, because it is flawed in your disfavor.

fish being afloat: your life wil devitalize to a lifeless routine of business with strangers.

friend, a: replacement of an existing relationship with one worse for its idiosyncrasies.

gift to the, giving a: your fear of exploring darkness is gone; are restored to youth and vigor.

receiving, from the: slow recovery from the destruction of a prior stage of your life.

helping to put the, in a grave: your prosperity wil be ruthlessly yanked from you.

kissing the: a spontaneous expression of a happy home.

letter, a: a chance has been lost by your carelessness.

person, seeing a: the spiritual y alive message wil guide you.

afloat in sea or river, being: the transformation to gain your destiny is complete.

dying after already thought to be: slow down your ambitions or your health wil suffer.

husband: a widow’s grief process is complete; an opportunity for a new life.

lying in an open coffin: indigestion and a chil wil possibly cause permanent damage.

near a beach: your inattention to your affairs wil depreciate their value.

receive comfort from a: offer a neighbor compassion when cal ed for aid.

that is really alive: loss of legal matters, if they are not sorted out immediately.

and does not talk: are threatened by one who previously supported your actions.

touching a: are weighted in helplessness and misery at the il luck of those close to you.

unknown, an: a loss of kindred spirits to help explore beyond your destiny.

who is always loved: feel watched over, but that security if chal enged wil prove false.

appears as an angel: have resolved the grief and accepted their death.

criticizes you: a loss of one you can live without in your future.

curses: ask pardon and accept forgiveness and be done with him.

entices, toward dying: can cope with their loss, but not yours.

holds: a deathlike il ness from which your slow recovery wil bring vigor.

is reborn: a peaceful resolution of grief with tidings of good health.

orders, to avenge his death: be wary of the influence of the accused, evil or good.

praises: reinvest emotional y in your life and your absent friends.

threatens: encourage him into the light and bid him farewel .

urges, to go on with your life: eventual y you wil unite.

warns: take heed of the message; disastrous consequences could be averted.

wife, of a: simple, calm plenty makes showy poverty insufferable.

pet, a: volunteer at the ASPCA or buy a pet at the pound.

relative, a: mend family fences, however haggard and unkempt.

defy demands to protect yourself from a: do not turn aside ambitious struggle, ever.

speaking to: news from a living relative preparing for transition.

stranger, a: have dealt successful y with a difficult separation.

talking with the: are asking for the best recommended accommodation.

thinking of an elderly person now: prospect of death more appealing than disquieting.

famous: what is no longer obtainable must be re-created.

healthy: are learning things you wish would remain unknown to everyone.

sickly: a desperate il ness, untreatable as yet, wil cause a drain on your finances.