Death

To dream about death represents change. Your personality or life situation is transforming for better or worse. An area of your life has come to an end, an era is over, or roles are shifting. You may also be preoccupied with someone else's death or illness. Alternatively, death in a dream can reflect failure or loss.

Dreams of death that come true are incredibly rare. They more likely to reflect fears of failure or feelings about undesirable changes than an actual death. In one study, people with heart disease who dreamed of death and taking journeys had a much higher mortality rate.

Seeing bad people die in your dreams is a sign that issues have been confronted. Negative aspects of the personality are being overcome by positive influences. Good people in your dreams dying symbolizes positive aspects of your personality being overcome by negative influences.

To dream of experiencing your own death represents feeling of watching yourself fail completely. Positively, it may reflect the experience of watching yourself undergo a powerful change or transformation.

To dream of experiencing your own death after helping others may be a sign that you nee to reconsider how you are handling yourself in waking life. You may be stupidly giving up too much of yourself to others. Unreasonable risks or endangering yourself.

To dream of dying while people laugh at you represents feelings about situations or people being indifferent or insensitive to your failures.

To dream of people you know dying symbolizes changes to certain qualities in yourself that these people reflect in you. It may also represent your view of these people succumbing to a problem as well as shifts in their personality or lifestyle.

To dream of a child dying represents a loss or unpleasant change to some area of your life that had potential. Positively, a child death may reflect a growing problem that has finally been dealt with.

To see your parents die in a dream reflects an inability to make positive or effective choices. Your father dying symbolizes your conscience or ability to make positive choices being compromised. Your mother dying symbolizes your intuition or ability to think ahead being compromised. A dead mother may also reflect feelings of being overwhelmed by bad luck. You can't find answers you want, or you feel unlucky. The death of parents in a dream is a sign that you need to seriously reconsider your current life path. Significant or fundamental changes may be in order.

To see a boyfriend or girlfriend die in a dream symbolizes a helpful or protective aspect of your personality that has been overcome by a problem. A habit or situation that had your best interests at heart may no longer be viable or has been compromised.

To dream of a spouse dying represents a permanent or secure aspect of yourself that has been compromised. A habit or situation that you've completely depended has changed. Something you were accustomed to may have been compromised. It may also reflect a loss of something in your life that you never believed would change.

To dream of a faked death may reflect feelings about having faked ending something. Faking failure of something in your life. Concerns that other people think you were not genuine in moving on from a problem or bad relationship. Tricking enemies by pretending to lose.

Example: A woman dreamed of her father dying. In waking life she had broken up with her boyfriend. The dream reflected the metaphorical "passing" of her decision (father symbolizes decision making) to give her boyfriend anymore chances in the relationship.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her child being hit and killed in a car accident. In waking life she had gotten into a big argument with her husband about future plans they had together which she felt would never happen now.

Example 3: A man dreamed that his best friend had died. In waking life his friend had joined a religious cult and he felt that he had lost his ability to connect with his friend forever due to his inability to accept his friends new life.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of experiencing a death that was different than real death. Shortly after she contracted the sleeping sickness.

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Death Bed

To dream of being on a death bed represents feelings about a final moment of accepting oneself the way they are before a change comes. A final assessment of your choices, actions, or regrets. Choosing to maintain choices, actions, or keep secrets no matter what.

Negatively, a death bed may reflect not feeling that it's a safe to stay the way you are or keep a secret. Choosing to maintain choices, actions, or keeping secrets even if it's dishonest or unhelpful. Worrying about something as though it's the rest of your life when it isn't. Feeling that it's too serious to stay the way you are until nothing is left. Feeling that it's hopeless to think of different things because change is inevitable. Not telling anyone what you are secretly up to until a change comes to pass that erases your secret.

Alternatively, dreaming about a death bed may reflect your literal thoughts about what will happen when you die.

Example: A woman dreamed of being on her death bed and telling her siblings that her life insurance was going to her ex-boyfriend. In waking life she wasn't getting along with her siblings over a serious family argument. In this case the death bed may have symbolize her feelings about a "final assessment" of her loyalty and inheritance if she should die after fighting with her siblings.

Father

To dream of your father represents your conscience, your ability to make positive choices, or choose between right and wrong. Dreaming of your father may also reflect your feelings about a decision you've already made or are considering. Feelings about someone with authority making decisions for you. Fathers in dreams can also symbolize your current feelings about him if you have issues with him that need to be dealt with.

Positively, dreaming of your father may reflect the decision to make a moral or positive decision. Deciding to stand up for yourself or feeling that a problem has gotten out of control and deciding to do something about it. Choosing to be realistic or practical.

Negatively, dreaming of your father may reflect decisions you dislike having to make. Feeling that you need to make a choice that doesn't feel good at all or one that will not benefit you or cause long-term problems. A decision to keep doing something that isn't a good idea. Letting someone with authority make decisions for you or that aren't in your best interest. Feeling that you've made a terrible decision or horrible mistake.

If your father is angry or sad in a dream it may represent your feelings or disappointment or frustration about how a situation turned out based on a choice you made. Being angry at yourself for having made a wrong or stupid decision. Alternatively, it may reflect anger with your father or anger towards yourself due to past issues with your father.

To argue or fight with your father represents an inner struggle in your waking life with choice. Internal conflict or debate with yourself over what choice to make. Struggling to stand up for yourself.

To dream of getting married to your father may represent feelings about permanent decisions being made. Negatively, it be a sign that you feel you will be permanently stuck with an undesirable situation if you make a certain choice.

If your father dies in a dream it represents moral decay. You have lost your ability to make positive choices, to stand up to problems, or are cold and uncaring in your decisions. No longer caring about your conscience or having to do the right thing. Feeling that other people with authority don't get to make decisions for you anymore. Alternatively, it may reflect failed decisions or choices that didn't work out.

If you father is dead in real life and appears in your dream he is most likely just a symbol for your conscience unless you have issues with your father from your past that you haven't dealt with.

Alternatively, your father in a dream may reflect a father figure, role model, or person that has authority over you such as a boss. Negatively, it may reflect feelings about someone totally controlling you or making important decisions for you that makes you feel less important.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing his father talking to his friend. In waking life, he was debating whether or not to call that friend on the telephone. In this case, the man's father may have reflected the man using his conscience to consider the choice about whether to call the friend or not.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being unable to find her father. In waking life, she was felt unable to make the choice to confront people who were treating her poorly. In this case, the woman's missing father may have reflected her awareness of how difficult it was to make the choice to stand up to people.

Example 3: A man dreamed of biting his nails and anxiously trying to avoid his father's criticism for it. In waking life, he was very nervous about not upsetting his new boss. In this case, the father may have reflected his concerns about his boss being an decision making authority figure and the need for approval.

Example 4: A man dreamed of his father slowly sticking his penis into his anus. In waking life, he felt that he was close to make a decision that would totally screw him over in business. In this case, the father may have reflected own internal conflict and feelings of vulnerability regarding the decision, as well as the potential negative consequences he feared would arise from making the wrong choice.

Example 5: A man dreamed of his father telling him about alligators. In waking life, he made a decision that certain financial choices he had on his mind were too dangerous and needed to be avoided.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing her father fall through thin ice into freezing water. In waking life, she decided to move knowing it was expensive and then began to experience financial problems. In this case, seeing her father fall through ice may have reflected her feelings of vulnerability and the potential danger of her decision to move, as well as her need for guidance and support in navigating the challenges that arose from her choice.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing her father worried and anxious. In waking life, she was worried about not being assisted spiritually by her deceased father. In this case, the father may have reflected her desire for guidance and support from her late father, especially in times of difficulty or uncertainty to the point of being irrational.

Dead

To dream of being dead represents feelings of loss or total failure. If your death takes on a more positive theme it may reflect positive changes or transformation. The end of friendships, relationships, or some important part of your life. A fear of change. Difficulty with a transition. The end of an era.

To dream of seeing dead people represents aspects if your personality that have completely changed or lost all power. It can also reflect your projection of other people that have changed or lost power. You or someone else may have experienced a noticeable change.

To dream of seeing dead loved ones who actually died in real life most likely reflect an aspect of your personality based on your most honest feelings about them. The fact that they are dead is most likely irrelevant unless it's the most powerful quality about them. For example, seeing your deceased father most likely symbolizes your conscience just as it would if he were alive.

If loved ones have recently passed away or you've been spending a lot of time remembering them then they may represent your grief or desire to be with them again.

Example: A woman dreamed of holding a dead baby in her arms. In waking life she had just received news from her doctor that she would be unable to ever bear children. The dead baby may have reflected her dead hopes to have a baby.

Example 2: A young boy dreamed of his mother being dead. In waking life his mother began to date again after divorcing his father and he feared losing his mother because as she began dating her personality started to change.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing dead people he was trying to hide. In waking life he contracted a disease that was causing his hair to fall out and was desperate to hide it from everyone he knew by wearing hats.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing his ex-girlfriend dead. In waking life he was very concerned about losing his friendship with his ex-girlfriend after he broke up with her.

Example 5: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally met up with an ex-girlfriend whom he had strong feelings for and learned that she had moved on leaving him with no choice to get back with her. He realized all hope was gone to ever have a relationship with her ever again. The dead bird may have reflected his feelings about accepting the potential for reconciling be impossible.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life his brother died of cancer and all hope for recovering from the cancer was lost.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing dead people. In waking life she was spending a lot of time thinking about and old friendship that she lost.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she realized that her relationship with her boyfriend was over.

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Death Sentence

To dream of a death sentence represents feelings about an inevitable failure or loss. You may be experiencing a crucial deadline you feel you can't meet, experiencing an untreatable illness, or a unbearable wait for an embarrassment you feel can't be avoided.

Alternatively, a death sentence may reflect feelings about the worst kind of punishment you could imagine. Your fear of the worst consequences imaginable. The ultimate sanction. Losing your job or being fired. A ruthless ending. Feeling permanently ostracized.

Father's Day

To dream of Father's day represents an event or special time in your life where you are very focused on doing the right thing, or making time to confront a problem.

The reason for this is because fathers in dream represent the conscience and fathers day is a time when you care about your father more than any other.

Father-In-Law

To see your father-in-law represents your conscience and choices that require compromises. You may be making choices that are in the best interest of others or a more positive outcome. You may also have to go up your own interests or principles to get something done.

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Children

To see your real life children in a dream represents ideas, habits, or developments that have potential. An area of your life that you are encouraging or feel supportive of. Situations or aspects of your life that you want to see powerful or flourish. It may also reflect an aspect of yourself based on the one thing that stands out the most about that child.

If you have more than one child in real life then each child will represent a different aspect of your life based on your most honest feelings about then or their most prominent personality traits.

To dream of children that aren't your children in waking life may reflect developing aspects of your life. Situations in life that are brand new or that you have renewed enthusiasm for. Creativity or "young minded" ideas.

Negatively, dreaming of children may reflect feelings about yourself or others being helpless. Powerlessness to overcome big challenges. Inexperience that prevents you from facing difficulties because problems are too big. Alternatively, from a negative perspective children may reflect problems that are out of control. New developments that are becoming frustrating. Feeling like an innocent victim. Vulnerability.

To dream of losing a child represents feelings of being overloaded or stretched beyond your limits. Juggling too much at once or "dropping the ball" with something because you are too involved with something else. Getting so caught up in minor details that you forget what's most important.

To dream of a child dying represents a loss or unpleasant change to some area of your life that had potential. Positively, a child death may reflect a growing problem that has finally been dealt with.

If you dream of children that you don't recognize it represents new ideas, or situations that are being encouraged. Something not thought of before. Negatively, it may reflect burdens, responsibilities, or problems that have to be looked after.

Evil children symbolize negative or corrupted aspects of your personality that are being encouraged. It may also point to a bad situation or problem that feels like it's getting out of control or scares you. Evil children may also reflect childish beliefs or habits that are getting out of hand. Frustrations with someone else's immaturity or misbehaving. Alternatively, children may reflect aspects of your personality that are playful, young at heart, or childish in intention. You don't want to be involved with anything too serious.

Example: A woman dreamed of a child driving her car. In waking life she felt that she had allowed her selfishness and childishness to control her decision-making.

Example 2: A man dreamed of trying to protect 2 children. In waking life he was trying to protect his 2 growing businesses from being overrun and controlled by his jealous abusive father.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing children. In waking life she was working on a project for her job that she felt required a lot of creativity and youthful ideas.

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Dead Body

To dream of a dead body represents feeling about an area of your life that has completely changed. It may also reflect a loss or sense of failure. A transition or ending.

Positively, a dead body may represent negative aspects of your personality or negative situations that have been successfully confronted. You have stood up to something or resisted negative influences. The end of an era.

Negatively, a dead body may represent positive aspects of your personality that have been overcome by negative emotions or situations. A mistake or failure may have spoiled an area of your life. The end of a relationship or something happy in your life. Feeling replaced. Feelings about experiencing a permanent loss of some kind. Feeling that there is nothing left you can do to keep a situation going.

To dream of trying to hide a dead body may represent your attempts to conceal your past or to cover up a failure. It may also reflect your wish to edit your tastes or beliefs for a special situation, group, or person.

To dream of burying a dead body represents a wish to due away with things about ourselves that we feel are undesirable. Hiding a liability or a concern that something about you will be brought to light. Positively, it may reflect progress of you move away from bad habits, negative influences, or things you feel are childish.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her own dead body floating in water. In waking life she separated from her husband and was beginning to realize that she could never love her husband again. Her desire to be married was lost for good.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally crossed paths with an old girlfriend and fully realized that there was no hope left to be her ever again.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she had broken up with her boyfriend.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing a number of dead people. In waking life he was thinking about how terrible it was to experience a friendship ending.

Example 5: A man dreamed of dead bodies being carried into a home. In waking life he was getting a divorce. The dead bodies in this case may have reflected his feelings about his marriage or aspects of his married life being over with.

Funeral

To dream of a funeral represents an acknowledgment that something in your life has ended. The end of a situation or aspect of yourself that you know you'll never see ever again. Letting go or a final goodbye. Experiencing the end of a bad habit. Alternatively, a funeral may reflect preoccupation with a loss.

If you are actually dying in real life a funeral dream may reflect your feelings or anxieties about your own death. Otherwise funeral dreams can also reflect your feelings of mourning for people who have died in waking life.

Positively, dreaming about a funeral may reflect acceptance of losing a negative aspect of your life. Feeling that you are better off without a bad habit or negative influence.

Negatively, dreaming about a funeral may reflect difficulties moving on or letting go of unhealthy situations in your life. Feeling bad that you have grow up or be a lot more mature than you want to be. Dependencies or addictions you feel forced to separate from without a choice.

Example: A woman dreamed of being at a funeral with pictures that came to life. In waking life her boyfriend had brought belongings of his deceased mother who died in a tragic car accident into their home. The funeral reflected her preoccupation with noticing these belongings and remembering the tragedy.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing animals that were buried at a funeral coming out of the ground to live again. In waking life he had fought hard against an addiction which he believed he had successfully overcome, but then months later the addiction returned. The funeral symbolism at the beginning of the dream most likely reflected his initial awareness of himself "saying goodbye" to his addiction as he tried to move on with his life.

Example 3: A man dreamed of attending a funeral. In waking life his friend was getting married and he felt that because of the marriage he was witnessing the moment that his friendship would end with the friend.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of attending a funeral. In waking life she was having a hard time quitting smoking.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of preparing for a funeral. In waking life she was in the process of a divorce. In this case the funeral symbolism may have reflected her feelings about having to let go of her marriage.

Grandfather

To dream of your grandfather may represent your conscience in situations that you have previous experience in. Your ability to make a decision or choose between right and wrong when you already have previous experience.

Alternatively, a grandfather may symbolize wiser choices or experience that overrides your own decisions. Grandfathers may also represents decisions made for you by someone smarter or more experienced than you. A decision to stop what you are currently doing because you feel it's in your best interest. Being objective about your own bad work or poor decisions.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her Grandfather showing her some beautifully crafted bookcases that were empty. In waking life she was beginning to think about making the decision to stop putting off her ambition to write. The Grandfather reflected the overriding decision to change her life towards writing from her current life.

Example 2: A man dreamed of walking with his grandfather and having a conversation. In waking life he was trying to decide what educational path he should take for his future. He was considering what was really best for him and what strengths would be best to develop.

Example 3: A man dreamed of his Grandfather screaming at him to wake up. This caused him to actually wake up from the dream. In waking life he had a serious medical condition that could kill him if he fell asleep for too long. The dream may have actually been a metaphor for experiencing God making the decision to wake him up from sleep to save his life. In this case the Grandfather would metaphorically represent God making the decision to wake him up, overriding his stupid decision to allow himself to fall asleep.

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Grim Reaper

To dream of the Grim Reaper represents closure or finishing. An aspect of your personality or a situation that forces transition. It may also reflect a situation in your life that is a omen of inevitable change. Feeling that "time is up" and you now have to accept a change or failure. The Grim Reaper may appear in a dream to reflect the end of a situation, habit, or relationship. Change or failure that must be accepted because time has run out. No more chances to change or alter a situation.

Negatively, a Grim Reaper in a dream may be a sign that you have a negative outlook on accepting situations that you believe are inevitable when they may not be. Telling yourself that you have to make a permanent decision instead of asking for help.

Example: A girl dreamed of kissing the Grim Reaper. In real life she had finally decided on what she wanted to do after school finished. The intimacy with the Grim Reaper reflected her concern with exploring a career possibility that took away her fear of being a loser with bad job.

In-Laws

To dream of an in-law represents compromise, abiding behavior, or decisions with a stronger interest in avoiding negative situations.

Like all people in dreams they may also symbolize personality traits in you based on your feelings, opinions, or memories of them that stand out the most.

To dream of having sex with an In-Law represents an enjoyable waking life experience you are having with a compromised decision. Liking something that isn't your first choice a lot.

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Necrophilia

To dream of necrophilia represents feelings about yourself or someone else inappropriately enjoying others failures. Secretly enjoying someone else losing. Enjoying some area of your life that has failed because it's so important or enjoyable to you that you don't care if it's a failure. Eagerness to enjoy someone else being a total loser. Enjoying having the power to never be resisted or argued with by someone who has lose power. Enjoying others insignificance or stupidity.

Enjoying not having to fight for your goals. Excessive enjoyment of a situation that is finished. Excessive need for revenge. Awareness of yourself not caring about others feelings or respecting them. No concern for the quality of an experience because you are happy to experience your desires in even a pathetic manner. Enjoying an experience being too easy.

Stepfather

To dream of a stepfather represents a decision that you have no control over. Fathers in dreams typically reflect the conscience or our ability to make a decision. A stepfather is then symbolically a substitute choice that is beyond our ability to control. You may feel a choice has been made for you or that you've been pressured into a decision.

Negatively, a stepfather may reflect a decision that you can't stand putting up with. Struggling to come to terms with a change that you don't like.

Alternatively, a stepfather may reflect tension or disappointment with your real father.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her deceased stepfather standing up from a coffin with bullet holes in him. She told him to rest and he didn't listen. In waking life she got into a big fight with her sister over an issue which she had no control over. She had accepted losing the argument so that she could move on with her life and stop talking to her sister. However, she started talking to her sister again which brought up the old arguments. The stepfather in this case may have reflected her decision to speak to her sister when she didn't like her sister as a person because she felt unable to avoid her sister.

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