Don’t blindly trust inadequate dream dictionaries or the many dream websites which regurgitate the same thing about dreams and symbols.

If you want to do your own dream interpretations, it’s important for you to understand the theory behind it. You are ready to let go.” Dreams about Death: Psychic Processesīefore I talk about particular dreams about death, I want to say something about the dynamics of the human mind. Because of this aversion to endings, people sometimes desperately cling to anything they don’t want to let go of.ĭreams about death: a message from your inner guide: If you are clinging to something and you have a death dream, this is psyche’s way of saying, “It’s okay. People have an abject aversion to endings, whether we are talking about the end of life or the end of some aspect of life. This helps you in every aspect of your life, but most especially in the face of suffering.įor many, any kind of change is hard to face, especially when it comes to endings. The aim of dream interpretation is to make your psychological processes as conscious as possible. Other times psychological transformation is unconscious it’s just a natural process happening beneath the surface of consciousness, for example as in maturation or the slow mending of a broken heart.

Sometimes psychological transformation is a conscious process, for example, when you are working through deep issues in psychotherapy, or, when you are going through a divorce. Dreams about death and life transitionsĭeath dreams are very common during periods of psychological transformation or major transition in your life. Accepting it means having a mature perspective on life. Rejecting death, hating it, and fearing it only causes you to shrink back from life. More often, death dreams symbolize a psychic death in the dreamer, the deeper meaning of which I will talk about throughout this post.Īs I said in the post on the Symbolism of the Snake, Death, whether we are speaking literally or symbolically, is a part of the life cycle: birth, death, and rebirth. I am not saying that death dreams are never about someone’s actual death because people do have premonitions of death, but in general, this is not the meaning of a death dream. Is it time for this aspect of yourself to die, or, are you killing some crucial aspect of yourself? The questions to ask yourself about your death dream is: Whoever or whatever is dying in your dream is a symbolic aspect of yourself. They are a signal that some part of you is dying or some phase of your life is coming to an end. In opposition to what we talked about in the Dreams of Pregnancy and Dreams About Babies posts, death dreams symbolize the end of of a cycle.ĭreams about death: synopsis: Death dreams are similar to drawing the death card in the Tarot deck. They are usually not warnings or premonitions about your own death or the death of someone you love. Want to learn more about working with dreams or Jungian Psychology?ĭreams about death can really freak some people out, so let’s go ahead address what death dreams typically mean.An example of a negative mother complex.Death dreams: what does psychic death mean to the ego?.Death dreams: ego death versus psychic death.Dreams about death: questions for your consideration:.Dreams about death: psychic death and changing our worldview.Dreams about death: a message from your inner guide:.

Dreams about death and life transitions.