A lot of people have the mistaken idea that dreaming of death foretells of a loved one dying.
First of all, dreams are a many things, but psychic they are not. Our dreams reflect what is going on inside our minds and hearts. They deal with (and sort out) things that we are currently experiencing or things that we have currently experienced.
Now having said that, we can take the information and symbolism found in our dreams to help us in the future. So, in that regard, they can provide warnings and admonitions. However, please don’t ever think they foretell bad omens or that dreaming of darkness is a prediction for upcoming darkness.
If you have had a dream which involved death, rest assured that you are far from alone. We’ve all had death dreams and, while troubling, we all know that they slink out of our lives just as fast as they slunk in.
Death dreams generally mean that you are anxious or worried. You may not fully realize how much anxiety you’re actually feeling. Many times, troubling dreams like this wave a flag for the individual and cause them to realize just how much stress they’ve been under. The dreamer can then realize that they need to pull back a little bit – enjoy life more rather than just anxiously trying to get from point A to point B!
Almost all dreams of dying can be traced back to an overworked, overly anxious individual very much in need of some time off!
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But what about deaths of loved ones?
my aunt Pat { who i loved ALOT <3 } died in Jan. 2009 of last year..
i had a dream about afew months ago, i was outside and i saw a ghost-like image of her in my window, smiling at me. I seriously tried running, i go up to the deck, and i was just about to go inside and see her when i woke up…
Why do when i try and see them, i wake up? ):
Hi, I had a dream where this girl killed me. We were playing airsoft as a class in my school, and there were bb’s next to her and I asked if they were hers and she said yes. But one fell on the table and I picked up the bb to put it back, she got mad, and said, “now go away” and I said, “I was just picking it up I woulnt take your bb’s if you told me not to.” She then said, ” look at me one more time and I’ll kill you.” I mistakenly glanced at her and said, “What?” and then she started chasing me with a huge knife and killed me. But the way she killed me I feel like it happened before, maybe once in a past dream… After I died, I was like a ghost, and my grandpa just came home and I tried to tell him on my iPod notepad that I was dead, and I loved him. It was very strange, but what could all this mean? :/
Well about a year ago I had a dream that one of my good friends died by falling off a cliff and two week later he did,it didn’t happen again till about 4 months and it was about my brother,I dreamed he had got shot in the jaw by a sniper in Iraq and about 11 weeks after that my dad came home crying and broke the new to me,my mom and my brother Jake,then about two years ago I started having these dreams again about just random people I didn’t even now and how they died and then it would happen,I even dream about Patrick Shwazey(I cant spell his name right)but I dream how he died the time and place and I did the exact thing with Micheal Jackson,I dreamed about my friend Sarah s dad dieing in a house fire and it happened,I told my parent and they tried putting me on medication until the next day when I told them Micheal Jackson was gonna die and how and then thy believed but it really scares me that I dream about these things and I don’t what to do or think about this so I’m hoping for some answers if you don’t mind thank you.
what you say is also not true my family now has had dreams some of babys and some of death my grandpa and my dad could dream of both when i got prego with my first son my grandpa new about it b4 i did he new the sex of the baby b4 i did and this hasnt only happened with me all the girls in my family he nos about and all my grandpas children had these talents lets just call them also one of my auntys had a talent of seeing the dead and also the dreams but she got rid of it by telling herself that all thses things werent real and so it gets passed down from gerneration to gerneration my mother dreams about babys being born and i dream about death when my grandpa died i kept haing the same dream about him he was laying in a hospital bed and how he died in my dream was soo real and in my dream he only died cuz i showed up at the hospital.how my grandpa months later after i had these dream was the same way that happened in my dream the only diffrence was i stay in the hospital with my granny over nie and he passed away the next day rite b4 my own eyes i always have deams about death now some arent true or just havent become true yet so please dont say that your dreams arent true they are! very much so everytime a loved dies in my family i see it b4 then up to a month later it happens my grandpas not the only i seen die!!
in the post above i ment to say my brother not my mother
ok well i had a dream that my grandpa and dad both died…. I was freaking out in my dream…. I dont really remember what clearly happend i just remember that i found out that mi g-pa died… then while i was dreaming that i also remember ppl just start saying that my dad died…. i really would like an answer to my dream cus.. i cant stop thinking bout it….
i think that you see the future thats wat i think
Thank u so much for this my daddy has bad dreams all the time and I was starting to get worried about him. I rely think that if he reads this it will help him. Thank you thankyou thankyou
Hi I’m alanna I’m 14 and I’m sooo worried about my daddy he got stabbed a few years ago and ever since then he has horrible dream, one dream he often has is he’s just come out of the pub and these guys run up and stab him and just leave him and he dies another one is that hes having a heart attack and the last is that he’s standing infront of a coffin and when he looks inside he sees himself lying there dead wat does this mean? Please answer me your information would mean the world to me and hopefully help my daddy please reply xxxxxxx
well i am so happy to have read this.it really makes me feel better but the comments r upsetting me.u see my sis who i love alot recently dreamt that me and my bro got shot and died and it was terrible to hear that. now i am so paranoid and scared, but i know from experience that when u think abt sumthing alot u tend to dream it. my bro dismissed it as a bad dream, but i was so scared. but now i feel better. it was just a nightmare.thanx:)
Thank you so much for writing this. I just had a dream last night were my sister and I were playing in the snow, (she’s 4,) and one time she ran to get some more snow and she fell over the edge. She was still holding on, but I couldn’t get to her in time. She wasn’t strong enough. She dropped and I looked over as I saw her body bounce off the ground. It was the worst dream I have ever had in my life. I woke up sweating and crying. So thank you, this is very reassuring.
im 19 years old and i firmly believe that i see death it started out as dreams and i just ignored it until my great grandpa died a few years later i was about 7 or 8 i a nightmare that my uncle was murdered i woke up screaming and crying when i told my mom she said it was just a bad dream but the next morning police showed up at our house and said he was stabbed to death at a bar, needless to say we were all freaked out. it stopped for a few years but when i was at the park with a few friends and my brother, it was like 2 in the morning i sat against a tree and as soon as i touched the tree i saw a shadowy woman standind against the tree next to me crying and screaming then i saw a man rape and kill her i was so scared i just started running, i didnt know what was going on and i just chalked to it up to smoking to much herb but a few days later my curriosity got the best of me and i did some research on the park and found out that there had been a string of murders at the park one of wich was a young woman who was raped and stabbed to death by a middle aged man. after that i started having dreams again not all about death but they did come true and i still see past and future death, i’ve come to terms with it and know how to deal with it but in my experience it’s nothing to be affraid of. you can get rid of it by telling yourself it’s not true and by ignoring it but the more you believe the stronger it gets and the harder it is to get rid of. hope this helps keep your faith and sanity cuz there are some things in this world that can’t be explained and we just have to deal with it:)
friday night (1/21/11) i had a dream that my sister, who is my best friend, died and i couldnt get it to go away. i literally cried in my sleep. then sunday night (1/23/11) i had a dream that me and my mom almost died in like a car accident but it wasnt involved with another car it was with some pole on the back of a semi
a few weeks ago i had an incident when i was dreaming. I was always a vivid dreamer, and i could wake up from a dream, go back to sleep ten to twenty minutes later and continue it where it left off. Well it was almost the same incident but i was still dreaming. I dont remember the exact details but i remember the main points. In a nutshell, i died three times in the dream, but instead of waking up. I would just be phased to another point. Somewhere. One point was my old motel room that i vacationed alot in New York. How i died three times in the dream, was falling twice. From a very high altitude, i used to hike mountains as a child and i basically fell off it one time, and jumped off because i was getting chased i believe. The first time i fell, i actually was still dreaming when i was falling, and still dreaming when i hit the ground. I wasn’t in my body though, i was viewing it from third person and was sent somewhere else to continue my dream. The second time, was when i jumped off. I basically jumped off, same situation. I was still dreaming when i jumped off, still dreaming when i was falling. But instead of dying, i got caught by a tree which doesnt make any physical sence, but eh, its a dream. The third time i died, yeah, i was murdered. I used to watch ALOT of horror movies as a child and i’m guessing thats where that came from. Besides the first time, i would actually die, and be dreaming for a few seconds, or a few minutes, then awake. I had a day off of work so i decided to go back to sleep. I started dreaming again, not where i died, but a new place in the dream. Each place was thoroughly connected, the motel where i stayed when i vacationed, the very high canyon like mountains i hiked, and i guess a scene from a horror movie. Most people wake up from a dream when they die, but i don’t i do actually “die”, but im phased to a different point in the dream.
Just last night i was in my home, like on a regular day, it was night, and my mom was sitting on a couch. And then i came in and sat next to her. And then we started a conservation about something until i said, “I miss my big sister.” I remembered that we both cried, that there was a picture of my sister and that’s when i woke up. Once i woke up, i was nervous, confuse, and scared. I’ve had bad dreams before, but not about a family member. I knew that my sister died, in my dream. I didn’t see her body or anything, but the way of the mood, the way that my mom and i talked, and that it was at night. Once i read this, it made feel a little better, but there’s so many symbols and meanings that could be the conclusion to my dream. Was it even about me and not about my sister of this meaning in my dream? I’m so confused.
Although many dreams of death and illness are symbolic, they can be quite literal and prophetic, too. I have experienced dreams of death that were symbolic and premonition dreams about loved ones who died shortly after I had the dream.
As dream workers it’s important to remember that dreams can speak on many levels at the same time. One dream can be literal, symbolic, of the past, of the future, of our unconscious, of a day’s reflections, etc. When we look at dreams holistically we have access to innate wisdom on many levels.
thxs but im still worried
well i have dreams about people i hate telling me that my parents died. it was in seperate dreams tho. the most recent one was last nite wen my horrible step-dad said that my mom died. i also once had a dream where these people wanted to kill me and my mom said that if i let them it would be ok. it was horribly said. then one of the guys who was trying to kill me saved wen his frnd tried stabbing me nd he died. then in another dream sum guy in a white suit gave me and this other person that was my husband in the dream some sort of drug and i died from that and i woke up wen i died. nd just a few nites before i was watching a show where if u died in ur dream u could die in ur sleep nd so i thought i woke up before i died but really i died and woke up. but apparently that doesnt happen to evryone.
well if u dream about someone dying then u are seeing the future because eventually everyone will die
also when you dream about a loved one dying it could be your subconsious telling you that somthing is wrong with them already that could lead to death your mind is really quite an amazing thing and dreams sometimes give you messages that you could not find before when you are awake because they are hidden deep within your sobconsious because you dont want to think about them
I had a dream this past January about my grandfather who I love dearly, was dying or had died. I always thought that a dream about death meant that something near and dear to the person was about to end. The issue that has been bothering me the most is my relationship with my boyfriend. Should I assume that our relationship is in jeopardy or just as you said that I am overly anxious about us and just need to relax? Any incite would be good.
I keep having dreams of my little brother dying, either I kill him or my dad does.
I keep having dreams that my dad is trying to kill me aswell and in all of them I ask my dad if he loves me and he says no, so I thought if I talked to my dad about them I might solve some stuff thats happend in the past between us but having got everything out in the open and talking about things the dreams still continue, anyone know why this might be?
I have the same dream as charlotte!!!
just about most of my dreams come true, i dont know what this thing is talking about. not always exactly as they happen or to who my dream was about, it varies, but they dreams can be psychic, i dont care what this dream thing says
I keep having a reaccuring dream about my best friend, who is a guy (I’m a girl) in the dream he gets shot and killed I wake up crying my eyes out and I want to know why I keep having this dream. It happens alot and it’s scaring me, in fact it happened tonight and I still can’t stop crying, I don’t cry much normally so this is new and very weird to me. Please help me find out why this happening, I hate these dreams and I don’t think I can take it anymore
Hey yesterday I had a dream that my exboyfriend was planning to kill me
And latley it’s been a little more than 3 weeks I have been having bad
Dreams about my ex it’s a little scary I really want to know what that dream
Of him planning to kill me meant and also is it normal that I’m having all these
Dreams about my ex these dreams started right after I dumped him for
Cheating on me Plz help me
I never believed in ”physic” dreams.. Or dreams telling us what’s about to happen.. But Wednsday night I had a dream of getting tortured to my death, and a few days later.. ( Yesterday morning) My uncle had a major stroke and still hasn’t woken up. I really hope he’ll be okay, But for now, All I can do is keep Praying,.
hi i just currently awoke from my dream, i have had no loved one passed and i also had this dream many years ago this time few extra details were added from what i remember. From what im currently remembering the dream is me, my brother and mother were always mistreated in a way i cannot recall, it caused my mother to leave the stove on and put a cloth on top, she left a note saying she loves us and this would help us. Me and my brother were panicking and a very large gentlemen came into the apartmet and said we did this on purpose and he took out his pistol and aimed at my head. He pulled the trigger but nothing happen i dont know how my brother had a gun but he shot the large gentlemen. so the house caught on fire and we were able to move to a suburb area. We were always watched anywhere and everywhere we go. I cant remember this current part but i was in washroom lights off with candles beside the tub trying to drown myself of my dream but it skips to an added part of me driving near my ex gf house and parking between two large semi trucks i took a tablet and it was stuff with my ex gf and how she was cheating on me and my current girlfriend popped into the picture telling me to post it online and show what type of person she is. i dont know why that was part of the dream but after that cars pulled up yelling get out we are here to help, next thing i know i was driving into an ocean and i shot threw the window and kept swimming was planning to kill myself. I had my best friend swimming after me and when he caught up to me he pulled a gun out saying he was going to kill me. I grabbed the gun and shot him i then drowned myself. My current girlfriend woke me up as i was holding my breathe. I woke up to a harsh headache, lost of oxyen
there was alot more detail in my dream that i know of and cant really explain it, a weird. One weird one though was,
- was in apartment before fire thought it was filled with water and i was drowning went to get a cellular phone and text my family i loved them and i cant take it anymore.
and i definetely remember this dream, i believe i had this dream 2-3 times in the past 5 years just with some new added scenes.