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.

Deaf

To dream of seeing someone deaf may represent feelings about yourself or others having an impaired ability to understand instructions. It may also reflect you or others that are not listening to others or don't think it's important to listen to advice.

To dream of yourself being deaf represents an inability to understand what is happening around you. Feeling that everyone else "gets it", but you don't. Feeling totally closed off or like an outsider. Feelings of having lost the ability to stay informed.

Negatively, being deaf may reflect stubbornness or choosing to purposely ignore other people opinions, ideas, or feelings. Choosing not to listen to someone at all. Ignoring advice given to you because it's not really what you want to hear or because you don't believe it really matters.

Alternatively, being deaf may represent a situation where you are purposely closing yourself off from the world. Choosing not to listen to distractions. Taking a break or vacation without any disruptions.

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Death

To dream about death represents feelings about an ending, permanent change, loss, transformation, or the complete cessation of a particular aspect of your life. 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.

Death may represent the end of relationships, habits, beliefs, goals, identities, lifestyles, or ways of thinking that can no longer continue the way they once did. Your thoughts about transition, letting go, moving on, or confronting situations where something familiar is being forced to come to an end. Death in a dream may also symbolize inevitability, finality, or awareness that a chapter of your life is over and cannot be returned to in its previous form.

Positively, dreaming about death may represent personal growth, emotional healing, liberation, or the successful ending of problems that have burdened you. A willingness to leave the past behind, abandon unhealthy habits, or embrace a new phase of life. Renewal, maturity, or relief that something difficult, outdated, or limiting is finally coming to an end. Acceptance of necessary change, closure, or the realization that letting go of something is beneficial for your future.

Negatively, dreaming about death could represent fear of change, loss, failure, rejection, aging, uncertainty, or losing something important to your identity. Grief or anxiety about endings that you are not ready to accept. Perhaps you feel that an important part of your life is being taken away, that opportunities are disappearing, or that circumstances are forcing a change you don't want. Feelings of hopelessness, finality, regret, or concern that something valuable can never be recovered once it is gone.

Dreams of death that come true are incredibly rare. They are 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.

To dream of dead bad people may represent problems that have been confronted. Negative aspects of the personality are being overcome by positive influences. Good people in your dreams dying may represent 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 need to reconsider how much of yourself you are giving away to support other people. Unreasonable risks or endangering yourself in order to support other people.

To dream of dying while people laugh at you represents feelings about situations or people making you feel that your failure, loss, humiliation, rejection, or inability to stop an ending is being mocked or not taken seriously. Feeling embarrassed that other people may enjoy watching you lose, make mistakes, or experience a significant setback. Anxiety about being humiliated while an important area of your life comes to an end. Feeling that nobody cares about your suffering, or that people are insensitive to the seriousness of what you are going through. Feeling that people are insensitive to your failures.

To dream of people you know dying may represent failure, loss, or changes affecting the qualities in yourself that those people symbolize. 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's death may reflect a growing problem that has finally been dealt with.

To dream of your parents' death may represent the loss of your conscience and intuition to make safe choices for the future. Your father's death represents your conscience or ability to decide between right and wrong being compromised. Your mother's death represents your intuition or ability to make safe choices for the future being compromised. A dead mother may also reflect feelings of being overwhelmed by bad luck. You can't find the answers you want, or you feel unlucky when trying to escape problems. The death of parents in a dream is a sign that you need to seriously reconsider your current life path or moral standing. Significant or fundamental changes may be in order.

To dream of a boyfriend or girlfriend being dead represents 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 the loss, failure, or significant transformation of an aspect of your personality that is committed, dependable, supportive, or emotionally invested in maintaining stability in your life. A way of thinking, lifestyle, relationship dynamic, or long-term commitment that you have become accustomed to relying on may be coming to an end. Feelings about losing a sense of partnership, security, consistency, or emotional support. Something you were accustomed to may have been compromised. A habit or situation that you've completely depended on has changed. A loss of something in your life that you never believed would change.

To dream of a faked death may represent feelings about having faked the ending of something. Faking the failure of something in your life. Concerns that other people think you were not genuine in moving on from a problem or a 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. In this case, the father's death may have 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. In this case, her dead child may have reflected her feelings about the loss of potential for the future plans that she and her husband had made together.

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 friend's new life. In this case, his friend's death may have reflected his feelings that the version of his friend he knew and related to had permanently changed or ceased to exist.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of experiencing a death that was different than real death. Shortly after she contracted the sleeping sickness. In this case, experiencing death may have reflected her awareness of the sleeping sickness causing a dramatic and frightening change that ended her normal ability to function.

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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.

Deformed

To dream of a person or animal that is deformed represents an aspect of your personality that feels permanently corrupted or didn't turn out the way it was supposed to. Something you my feel can't be fixed or changed. A deformity may also reflect feelings of being emotionally crippled or helpless.

To dream of a deformed baby or child represents feelings about something being permanently wrong with a new or developing area of your life.

To dream of a deformed face represents feelings about something being permanently wrong with your personality. Feeling unable to change, be happy, or lacking the ability to be as interesting as you want to feel. Feeling socially inept or weak. It also reflect your feelings about someone else having a personality that you feel is unable to be normal.

Pregnant women often dream of deformed babies to reflect their anxieties about the baby being born with something wrong with it. There have been accounts of women who've had precognitive dreams about deformities with their babies. For example a women in her first trimester dreamed of seeing her baby in the hospital with deformities and then 6 months later her baby was born with a cleft palate.

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Dentist

To dream of a dentist represents an aspect of your personality that is unpleasant, but necessary. Unwanted situations that may be in your best interest. Changes to thoughts, opinions, and habits that increase confidence and vitality, yet feel bad. Something that fixes your problems and doesn't care about feeling good at all.

A dentist may represent a forced confrontation with a negative situation.

Depression

To dream of depression reflects a lack of belief in yourself or in a situation. You may have lost hope or confidence. Alternatively, depression in a dream may reflect how you are feeling sorry for yourself.

Depression in a dream may be a sign that you need to force yourself to make positive changes in your life or believe in yourself more.

To dream of experiencing a financial depression represents a total loss of faith or hope in your abilities. You may be having a big slump or feel that easy opportunities in life are drying up. It may also reflect common feeling of failure or a lack of opportunity amongst you and the people you know. You can't do anything because no one else can.

Diabetes

To dream of having diabetes represents a problem in your life that forces you to give up everything that feels good because not doing so may embarrass you. You may have difficulty enjoying the sweeter things in life. Pleasure or enjoyment may feel like it's dangerous for some reason. You may be experiencing very strict rules or spiritual principles.

Diabetes in a dream may also be a sign that you are doing everything you to stay stable by avoiding things you like. It could also mean you are going way to far to prove yourself.

Diarrhea

To dream of a diarrhea represents a sense of urgency to deal with a problem that sidetracks you from your real goals. Feelings about how terrible it is to be forced to cleanse something from your life. Removing something negative from your life faster than you feel comfortable with. You may be feeling a lack of control over how a problem is confronted. An urgent need to deal with a problem quickly and completely.

Negatively, diarrhea may reflect feelings about an embarrassment never stopping. Feeling uncomfortable having to get rid of a problem. Issues in waking life that make you feel stupid for believing that they weren't going to be serious or have consequences. Urgency to avoid looking guilty or cover up your guilt. Regretting indulging or enjoying yourself too much. A fear of humiliating yourself looking like novice or inexperienced idiot. Embarrassment of having to face your problems harder than anyone else.

Positively, dreaming about diarrhea may reflect feelings about your choice to uncomfortably get rid of a problem faster than other people. Feelings about removing negativity from your life the fast and hard way.

Example: A man dreamed of having severe diarrhea that got all over his clothes and wouldn't flush. In waking life he had spent a lot of money on a new house and was having problems balancing his finances due to all the unexpected expenses. The diarrhea may have reflected the sense of urgency and embarrassment at having to reduce spending so quickly in order to stabilize his finances.

Diseases

To dream of a disease represents a problem in your life that you feel never goes away or keeps encroaching on your happiness. Feeling that you can never be as perfect as you'd like to be or that other people are always able to do something better than you. A constant burden that you carry. Feeling compromised or ruined. Never getting to realize your true potential.

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Disfigured

To dream of seeing someone disfigured represents a permanent loss you feel in some area of your life. Your perception of long term emotional or physical scarring. A past trauma or relationship still effects you or makes you feel like you have to live with a problem forever. You may feel that you can't be yourself anymore.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a horribly disfigured man. In waking life he contracted an embarrassing disease in his youth that prevented him from ever enjoying himself socially.

DNA

To dream of DNA represents feelings about your core being, fundamental identity, characteristics, or the core essence of who you are. Everything about you that makes you who you are. Personal strengths, weaknesses, and the unique traits that define you. An understanding of how your background shapes your identity.

Positively, dreaming about DNA may symbolize a deep sense of self-awareness and self-acceptance about your core being. Confidence in your innate abilities.

Negatively, dreaming about DNA could represent feelings about aspects of your personality or core being that you feel are unchangeable. Feeling limited or defined by your core personality traits. Feeling that you can't change who you are as a person.

To dream of white DNA strands represents fundamental changes to core areas of your personality. A situation is encouraging discipline or total removal of negative personality traits. A powerful lesson that completely changes who you are as a person. Transformation into a more disciplined, morally upright individual.

To dream of rainbow DNA strands represents harmonization or balancing of core areas of your personality. You may be doing a lot of self-reflection or gaining powerful insights about yourself. Feeling that your core being or who you are as a person is happy to move on from negativity or weaker aspects of yourself with ease.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a white strand of DNA. In waking life, he was starting boot camp in the army. In this case, the white DNA reflected the enormous fundamental change boot camp had on him as a person as he had to get rid of old habits and beliefs.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a white double helix DNA symbol. In waking life, he was challenged with the most powerful spiritual conflict of his life which forced him to purify who he was as a person to be perfectly moral to survive. In this case, the DNA symbol may have reflected the profound and fundamental changes he was undergoing in his core identity and belief system. The white double helix DNA symbol in the dream could have represented the intense purification process he was experiencing, as he strived for moral perfection in response to his spiritual conflict. The dream may have highlighted his transformation into a more disciplined, morally upright individual, reshaping his personality at the very core.

Doctor's Uniform

To dream of seeing someone wearing a doctor's uniform (white overcoat) represents feelings about the personality being focused on healing or improving your life in some manner. A role of problem-solver or someone who is trusted to diagnose and correct what is wrong. A sense of authority and responsibility with healing or improvement of well-being. The ability to help, heal, or guide others.

To dream of a friend or family member wearing a doctor's uniform represents an aspect of your personality that is healing you or encouraging positive change based on you most honest feelings about that person. It may also represent your projection of that person helping you to heal or solve a problem.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a man wearing a doctor's uniform with a white overcoat. In waking life, he had received advice to remove an allergic food from his diet and experienced an improvement within days. In this case, the man wearing the doctor's uniform may have reflected the man's perception of the advice-giver's personality as an authoritative figure whose guidance led to healing and improved well-being.

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Doctors

To dream of a doctor represents an aspect of your personality that heals or purifies of something negative in your life. Whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual a doctor in a dream means there is something wrong that is being fixed, or that you need to care more about correcting.

Spiritually, doctors in a dream can represent guidance and a sense of intuition about your health. It is not unheard of for people to dream of doctors that provide advice or reassurance about ailments one is experiencing.

Doctors will usually appear in dreams when there an imbalance of some sort that needs to corrected, or shortly before you experience one in waking life.

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