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Death the walking dead or rigor-mortis
Death dancing with or meeting dark figure
There are two forms of death and any study of death needs to be aware of them.
- The easiest one for us to confront is the death if the body. This occurs when the body is badly injured, has suffered a bad illness or is dying from old age and so cannot support the intricacies of consciousness, then consciousness can longer function in the body.
- Another one that many people are not aware of is ‘ego death’. There are many descriptions of ego death, in fact the term Ego Death is misleading, because nothing dies in this process of enormous process of growth, instead it is a huge enlargement, a massive shift of our ideas and experience of who and what we are. The history of those who obviously have experienced this enlightened state, does not show that their experience of themselves has disappeared, it has been transformed. It occurs when we have stopped living in our thinking, beliefs and opinions – or what is sometimes thought of as our personality.A man, Anthony, describes the experience of it by saying, ‘I was sitting opposite someone during an enlightenment intensive workshop. We had been posing the question for days – “Who are you?” Suddenly I realised that it was a silly question, because I was the answer. All thought stopped and I existed as the answer. My being had always been this. In this state there was an awareness of being connected with everything around me, in the beginning of creation. This was the first day.While in the state of simple existence I was able to observe many things I am usually not aware of. For instance while I simply existed, my usual pattern of behaviour and thought went through contortions to be the centre of attention again. I could see them almost like habits, systems, that have life, like a body does, and they were dying and twitching in their death throes. Also I saw that I knew that all thought is like a mimic, so all our thinking is like photocopies, without any real life. Also as I saw this I had an image of a monkey that was actually my normal thinking self running alongside my every motion and trying to mimic it. It was almost as if as I as a person walked along, another mechanical person ran alongside trying to keep up and mimicking everything I did in an attempt to be alive and real. Yet thought can never be life. If you think of dog, the thought can never be a living creature, just a word.’
Another person says, ‘Unexpectedly everything changed and my fundamental self was something that existed throughout all time. It didn’t have a beginning or end. There was no goal to achieve. I am.
I am a wave on a shoreless sea.
From no beginning
I travel to no goal,
Making my movements stillness.
Constantly I am arriving
And departing,
Being born and dying.
I am always with you
And yet have never been.’Slightly different but still the same enlightenment. ‘Everything seemed to slip away and I felt as if I melted back into the primal being of the universe. It didn’t seem as if my ego was gone, just melted into everything else. It was blissful.’
Dreaming of death: Some aspect of your outer or inner life is fading, or being superseded by a changed approach or attitude, so may be shown as dying. Your drive to achieve something might die, and be shown as a death in your dreams. Changing from adolescence to puberty, maturity to old age, are also shown as oneself dying. Lost opportunities or unexpressed potentials in oneself are frequently shown as dead bodies.
But death of anything also involves a tremendous release of energy as the form breaks down. But the various levels of energy involved in the death of a person are never lost, for energy cannot ever be lost, it is transferred and used elsewhere. A transformation takes place. The consciousness and energy that gave the body life also goes through a process of transformation into universal life.
All of us unconsciously learn attitudes or survival skills from parents and others. If these are unrecognised they may be shown as dead. Sometimes we have killed the child or teenager in us because of difficulties or trauma at those ages, and these may be seen as a dead person in one’s dream. Some death dreams may show the awakening of new life in the dreamer. For instance, Sue worked on a dream in which she was told her baby had died. She woke shaking with grief and tears. The dream and emotions appeared to show her becoming alive enough to feel the grief of her past pain as it connected with the death of her hopes, love, and ideals. She had suppressed her pain for so long. In now coming alive enough to feel her emotions, she was feeling at last that something had died in her.
Because you cannot actually die in your dreams. It is like you become totally involved in a movie that you can only escape from by waking. But when you wake things are the same – you are not dead – but you have been enriched by a lot of new experiences. I feel so deeply that our society does not let us die. What a terrible thing! The process of death isn’t just your heart stopping, it is a long process of shifting values, of creating a self that is no longer so deeply identified with the things of the world. The way our society is structured forces the ageing individual to go on and on almost like a hunter or warrior tied to processes in the external world trying to pay their way. Why I wonder? It seem so strange that the Stone Age societies living in very difficult circumstances, without our massive technological back-up, could manage to support their ageing and allow them a period of sinking into death. We, with massive resources, cannot do this. I felt a tremendous desire here to let go of all my worldly activities. I wanted to hand all my savings over to my sons and say, look, you care for this. All I ask is for a small amount of money to pay for my food and basic needs. I dearly wanted to give up and live from within myself.
Also parts of ones feelings sometimes die. Our love for someone might die for instance, and so our dream illustrates this with a death, perhaps of that person. Some teenagers dream of their parents dying as they start to become independent. This is a form of killing of dependent feelings about their parents as a means of growth. This happens in some relationships too, where we want to break with the person. See Dimensions of Human Experience
“The dead differ from the living only in this respect: they are in a permanent dream state the subconscious state because the conscious mind of the physical body no longer exists. But the body is an expendable shell, and all else is intact. On the astral level of existence, the sub-conscious mind replaces the conscious mind of the soul, and the superconscious replaces the subconscious. Hence, in dreams, we find that communication with those who have passed on is more logical than the average person is able to comprehend.” Quote from Edgar Cayce.
Death of someone known: Frequently, as in the example, this might express desire to be free of them, or unexpressed aggression. Perhaps your love for or connection with that person has ‘died’. We often ‘kill’ our parents in dreams as we move toward independence. Or we may want someone ‘out of the way’ so we do not have to compete for attention and love. When someone we know dies lots of things happen to us. First of all we have always thought of the person as being outside of us. Then suddenly they are gone from the outside world, and we either think of them as gone forever never to be seen again; or we do what dreams often do and find them inside of us. In this way we can discover a new relationship with them, either because they now communicate with us as a dead person, or we receive from them what they left in us.
Example: ‘During my teens I was engaged to be married when I found a more attractive partner and was in considerable conflict. Consistently I dreamt I was at my fiancé’s funeral until it dawned on me the dream was telling me I wanted to be free of him. When I gave him up the dreams ceased.’ Mrs. D.
Death of yourself: You might be exploring your feelings about death, or retreating from the challenge of life. Sometimes it expresses a split between mind and body. The experience of leaving the body is frequently an expression of this schism between the ego and life processes. It could also be death of old patterns of living – your ‘old self’, or the loss of the traits that limit your awareness to an identity connected only to your body.
Example: ‘I dream I have a weak heart which will be fatal. It is the practice of doctors in such cases to administer a tablet causing one painlessly to go to sleep – die. I am completely calm and accepting of my fate. I suddenly realise I must leave notes for my parents and children. I must let them know how much I love them, must do this quickly before my time runs out.’ Mrs. M.
This is a frequent type of ‘death’ dream. It is a way of reminding yourself to do now what you want – especially regarding love.
Example: During a major operation I dreamt I saw my little daughter – dead for many years – standing in a corn field. When she was actually buried the cemetery was skirted by a corn field, and later in life, coming to terms with this early death of a child, I imagined my daughter walking into the corn field. In the dream I walked into the corn field. My daughter was waiting for me with her arms held up. I put my arms to her and we greeted each other smiling. At that point I felt it wasn’t time to die yet, turned and walked out of the corn field. Ken S. Example: I was upstairs watching T.V. with my dog laying on the bed. I heard a motorbike out in the yard. I went downstairs and the dog followed me and this person on the bike tried to run the dog over. My husband came out and told me to go back to bed. I picked the dog up and started up the stair, reached the top and there was a big gap from the top of the stairs to the bedroom door, so to get to the bedroom I had to jump across this gap. I tried to jump this gap but missed and I fell and hit the bottom. The next thing I remember was I was floating up, I looked down and saw myself lying face down with arms spread out and I suddenly realised I was dead. I was so frightened that I woke up. I had the feelings of fear of dying and that the dog had been killed. I felt no pain.
The dream is obviously about her fear of dying, and also shows that even if one hits the ground one does not actually die, but experiences feelings of dying.
Death of child: Dreaming that your child dies can have several meanings. In some dreams a parent, much to their horror dreams of killing their child; or as one dreamer said, “I saw him jump off a bridge to his death.” This occurred at a time when her young son was making his first moves toward independence, and it was a difficult thing for the mother to face – the loss of her son. So it can easily be shown as the death of ones child in a dream. Another women describes it differently as follows:
‘I am standing outside a supermarket with heavy bags wearing my Mac, though the sun is warm. My daughter and two friends are playing music and everyone stops to listen. I start to write a song for them, but they pack up and go on a bus whilst I am still writing. I am left alone at the bus stop with my heavy burden of shopping, feeling incredibly unwanted.’ Mrs F
Mrs F was dreaming about her young daughter leaving her, and she has to grieve it, almost like a death.
This can mean a lot of other things than your actual child dying. For instance a man told me a dream that worried him enormously about walking with his wife and his young son fell down a hole and was apparently dead. But in fact he had had a terrible row with his wife that day, and it was showing the child as what they had created between them. In fact the dream child recovered as did their marriage. Your child dying can also be a warning that your inner child is dying. We each carry some awful memories from childhood that are shown in our dreams as our child. So it is worth taking hold of your apparently dead child – nothing can actually die in our dreams – and hold it and tell it you love it. Watch any feelings that emerge as you do this and any tears you shed. See what you understand from what you feel. Of course this could be a ‘mother’s’ dream in which your terror of losing your child is dreamt. A woman ones told me a dream in which her daughter was murdered. As we helped the woman explore her dream – not interpret it – she burst out into enormous sobs, crying that her daughter was leaving home and she was terrified of losing her. The girl was never murdered. See Baby or child hurt or killed So ask yourself what your fears are about.
But our dream child can represent many things, and it is useful to realise that any person, object or scene in a dream is not a symbol – it is not dead thing that has to be interpreted – it is a living part of you and can only be understood by relating to it. So in this way I have found that a child can represent whatever our strongest feelings about them are. It can represent your marriage or partnership because it is what you have created between you. In that case the death of the child can depict something like an awful argument that feels as if it the marriage has died.
A child and its death can also show you how you have killed out the growing or adventurous side of you; or if you see your child as vulnerable and needing protection it could show you the death of that part of your feelings.
So you need to ask yourself what your dream child depicts as a living part of you.
When our child actually dies it is one of the most heartbreaking experiences we can meet. Sometimes it takes years to adjust to what has happened. Not only is the adjustment emotional and psychological, but also your way of life is often built around the person you have lost. Therefore the changes we meet can be enormous. However, we each have enormous resources of healing and ability to meet the new if we can access them. Very often there are experiences we have, or dreams, that continue our relationship with the child. Unfortunately we live in a culture that often denies the possibility of this. See Life’s Little Secrets
For instance, Dr. Morse, in his book Closer to the Light, tells of a mother who came to him because she hadn’t slept properly for 1041 nights after the death of her son. She showed him a picture of her son, but Dr Morse was suddenly called away to a ward emergency. Having dealt with the sick baby, he was writing up the notes and a nurse who had been helping said to him, ‘Who was that person who came in with you? Is he a student?’ Morse did not understand what the nurse was talking about as nobody had come into the hospital with him. As he was trying to find a pen for the notes he was writing he pulled out the photograph of the woman’s son. Immediately the nurse said, ‘That’s him. He kept trying to get your attention’. When he returned to his office Morse asked the mother if she had ever been contacted by her son after his death. She said, ‘Oh yes. After he died, for several nights he would stand at the foot of my bed and tell me he was alright, and that I should stop crying. But that was only a crazy dream.’ However, such things are not crazy dreams, but insights into a greater reality. After her converstation with Dr. Morse the woman slept properly for the fist time in nearly three years.
Death the walking dead or rigor mortis: Aspects of you that are denied, perhaps through fear.
Death dancing with or meeting dark figure: Facing up to death and developing a different attitude to it – unless of course you are running away. If you turn around and face these figures you will break through to a different way of life. Death of someone close to us: As explained above, this often refers to ones own feelings or talents that have been hurt, denied, or ‘killed out’ by events and your response to them. The following example illustrates this.
‘My son comes in and I see he is unwashed and seems preoccupied and as if he has not cared for himself for some days. I ask him what is wrong. He tells me his mother is dead. I then seem to know she has been dead for days, and my two sons have not told anyone. In fact my other son has not even accepted the fact.’ Anthony.
Anthony is a divorcee. Processing the dream he realised the two sons are ways he is relating to the death of his marriage – the children’s mother. Although the unconscious has a very real sense of its eternal nature and continuance after physical death, our conscious personality seldom shares this.
Also we all we all carry within us ideas, behaviours, talents and ways of life from those now dead. The farmer today unconsciously uses the collective experience of humanity in farming. What innovation he does today his children or others will learn and carry into the future. This aspect of a life beyond the physical is shown in many dreams.
For instance a man I knew dreamt of walking with a friend of his. As they walked they came to a river. The friend crossed, but the dreamer was unable to. Even in the dream he felt crossing the river meant his friend had died. Some time later he discovered that his friend had died at about the time he experienced the dream.
As the dream points out, the friend died, but continued another type of life ‘across the river’. A woman told a similar dream to me. Her teenage son came down to breakfast looking very unhappy. When she asked him why he said he had a dream that deeply disturbed him. In it he was walking with a friend and the friend walked through a door. When her son tried to follow he could not pass through the door. They could not find a rational explanation for the dream, but on arriving at school, her son heard that his friend had been killed in a motorbike accident on his way to school.
The river and the door are often used in this way, suggesting a change to another dimension of life usually unreachable by the living. Idioms: Dead and buried; dead from the neck up/or neck down; dead to the world; play dead; dead to the world; dead tired; drop dead; stone dead; at death’s door; brush with death; death wish; kiss of death; sick to death. See: Dreams of Death; Illness;
Useful questions and hints:
What feelings about death does this dream highlight?
If I imagined the dream being carried forward, how would I change it?
Am I changing and my past self dying?
If this is someone I know what are my feelings about them – and where are those feelings arising in me at the moment? What part of myself have I killed?
See Being the Person or Thing – Near Death Experiences – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Journeying Beyond Dreams and Death
Comments
I keep having dreams that my therapy dog ends up turning into my son as a baby, whom by the way is now 18. After my therapy dog turns into my son he dies, Cab you tell me what that means?
Last night I had a dream My Mother(who was already dead in reality) saying My daughter(my younger sister) is dead. I M saying to her in dream No You are Daughter of Someone and You are dead now..My Sister is still alive nd She’s Fine..So she also said yes she’s not dead.. please interpret this dream.. I am very afraid now..
I dreamt that a man was being chased by police and got out of his car shootin gun in air my sister and I are in my car and we get out to run and he comes towards my car yellong for keys as police surround him but not trying to stop him as I turn back aknowledging it’s My vehicle I see my two year old son standing not far from shooter who is now pissed I didn’t give him keys I’m assuming and begin to run to my son the man then shoots My son in the head moments before I reach him I litreally saw and felt my sons brains being blown out in my dream very vivid, and especially scary I still can’t get it out of my head scared to sleep and mh son is at his dad’s what does this mean what do I do cause sleep is troublin now been having terrible dreams but they’ve been about me dying now this I need answers plz I’m desperate and getting scared
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Sasha Lou – I take it you live somewhere where guns and crazy people firing them are fairly common. If so, and because you are a mother, your love and care for your child or children can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about your children. You see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams show. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased. This is natural in all mammals, and acts as a warning making you aware. It helps to check whether your child or children are okay, and if they are, say to the part of you that is worried, “It’s okay, I checked, but thanks for keeping me on my toes, you can relax now.”
When my son Leon was working for a year prior to entering Cambridge University, he met people who owned wolfhounds, and often walked the dogs. I went with him a couple of times. The dogs were kept in a large pen, and owner went to get the keys for the pen. While we were waiting at the door one of the dogs, a bitch, was kept in the house.
The bitch came to the door to look at us, then ran back, only to reappear again a few moments later to look at us anxiously. This was repeated a few times. I asked my son if she had pups and he said yes. So as soon as she saw we were strangers she rushed back to her pups to check they were okay. Then, for the short period we were there she continued to come and look at us with obvious tension, and then run back to check her pups.
I had a dream that I was at kindergarten and we were all inside with my teacher learning when all of a sudden there’s shooting and all of my friends are dead and they shoot me when i wake up and I’m in college and my professor tells me if I read the news and that there was a shooting at a nearby elementary school and everyone was dead in it including me
Hi I had a dream last night that my 4 kids and I was in a hurricane and the water drowned my baby’s and me and my husband was trying to save them but I couldn’t my youngest was laying in my arms not breathing and I started crying in my sleep and my husband woke me up can someone please help me I’m so lost right now and can’t stop crying
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Sandra – Your whole dream is about your anxiety about caring for your baby.
Your love and care for your child or children can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about your children. You see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams show. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased. This is natural in all mammals, and acts as a warning making you aware. It helps to check whether your child or children are okay, and if they are, say to the part of you that is worried, “It’s okay, I checked, but thanks for keeping me on my toes, you can relax now.”
When my son Leon was working for a year prior to entering Cambridge University, he met people who owned wolfhounds, and often walked the dogs. I went with him a couple of times. The dogs were kept in a large pen, and owner went to get the keys for the pen. While we were waiting at the door one of the dogs, a bitch, was kept in the house.
The bitch came to the door to look at us, then ran back, only to reappear again a few moments later to look at us anxiously. This was repeated a few times. I asked my son if she had pups and he said yes. So as soon as she saw we were strangers she rushed back to her pups to check they were okay. Then, for the short period we were there she continued to come and look at us with obvious tension, and then run back to check her pups.
Hello, so i just had a really weird dream, i was at the house where i grew up, and all of the sudden comes in a stranger saying that he was going to shoot me to death, i was trying to run away from him but he wass to close, it was too late so he shoot me 7 times and i tried to go to my neighbors house but couldn’t(we actually are suppose to meet for dinner today) and then the stranger sees me watching my baby that was playing on the floor and shoot her too, he asked me that if i was at deli the past saturday and i told him no because there’s no deli close from my house, then he kills himself. Im in really big pain but i don’t die because i kept thinking of my daughter and that i had to be strong for her, so the ambulance came and took my daughter first and then a helicopter came for me. The helicopter had no seats so we had to hang ourselfs with a wool piece, then we get to this house and the staff including one of my friends started eating, i was trying to rush them explaining to all that i was dying and that i couldn’t breathe and that my stomach was swelling i waited and waited till they decided to leave when we get to the hospital i went straight to see my 11 months old baby, she was playing on the bed and i asked my mom if the baby have had surgery already and she said no so i asked her why and she didn’t answer and thats it i woke up after that!
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Ylka – The house you grew up in you were presumably with you parents at that time. When we are young we are like any mammal, we learn the positive and negative survival skills without any words being used. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-conjuring-trick/#NoWords
It seems you absorbed a great deal of anxious feelings, shown by the fear of you and you baby being shot. These are all fears that you have adopted from the outer world because whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
Also your love and care for your child or children can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about your children. You see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams show. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased. This is natural in all mammals, and acts as a warning making you aware. It helps to check whether your child or children are okay, and if they are, say to the part of you that is worried, “It’s okay, I checked, but thanks for keeping me on my toes, you can relax now.”
The pain you felt was out of anxiety. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/masters-of-nightmares/
The end of the dream shows that your baby was okay, and you had tortured yourself unnecessarily. Here are ways to deal with such fears http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/fear-dealing-with/
My oldest daughter was murdered in our house under rather disturbing circumstances. My younger daughter and I keep having the same reoccurring dream. The dream is that my daughter comes to my other daughter and I tells us she is not really dead but she had to falk her death because someone wanted to kill her. So what I we suppose to make of this???
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Nedra – Of course your daughter is not really dead, her body has just been destroyed. This often leads to people who go through this enormous change without any education about it believing they are alive in their physical body.
Your daughter is now in the dimension of the dream. As such they experience, as in dreams, surroundings and people and animals that appear as external and solid. She will usually see herself in the body she experienced in the last life, but it may be younger without any illness, and she may feel as if she has woken for the first time because her mind, her awareness is super alert. Also, sometimes, people who had never known that you survive after your body has died, feel as if they are still alive in a body, and create dreams in those people they know, that they are still alive n their body, and a mistake has been made.
Although you probably cannot be aware of people’s thoughts, your daughter can in the dimension she exists in. So if you sit quietly and explain to her, either by speaking or thinking, that she has passed through a great change and is no longer alive in her body. Tell her that she can now do things that were impossible before. If she closes her eyes and imagines being with any friend she knows, she will immediately be with them. It takes a little practice, but ask her to think of any person she knows who has died, and she will be with others who are in the same dimension she experiences.
I had a dream about a song called “Death” by White Lies. In it I was at the Baltimore convention center & I am not sure what kind of convention it was but there were quite a lot of people all dressed in casual clothes(I’ve only ever gone to this convention center for Otakon). They were playing clips of songs over the loud speakers & everyone participating had to write down the title & artist. I wasn’t participating in the contest but I turned around & told my younger sister the name of the song. We were walking to a mezzanine & some gut with a strange hair cut wearing sun glasses was walking ahead of us the whole time. He was in all black & I remember I wanted to keep my distance cause he freaked me out. We passed him at the too of the stairs then we walked to the end of the mezzanine & started to talk about China.
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Laura – Well, the dream starts with the theme of death. Your younger sister, which usually indicates you’re your younger self, is told the name of the song – Death.
The only other thing I feel is important is the man in black – another suggestion of death. Your feeling of being freaked out is important. Why are you freaked out by feelings about death?
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/near-death-experiences/ – http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/journeying-beyond-dreams-and-death/#WHappens
I was awaken by a horrible Dream. The events that lead to the end were so vivid I can remember in detail. A police officer which in my dream I knew came into my house smelled of whiskey sweating like a pig I escorted him out but he then came in another door with his own key. I proceeded to walk him out and we circled a car he had a phone in hand I can’t remember what he said in to the phone but something was definitely said. I locked all my doors and was searching for a knife and so were my two younger children. I proceeded to my room where my bathroom had flooded there were people all around the small window in the back of the bathroom they were trying to repair the broken pipe and I yelled ” someone please help me, the cop from next door is trying to get into my apartment. One teenager said “I’ll come with you and see if it’s true.” My child was standing there one man (not the cop) was standing close to him laughing with his forearm against his chest I could see the expression on my child’s face afraid bit yet brave his lips moving pleading”please don’t” the cop standing behind saying something but couldn’t hear over my cries as I banged on the glass door yelling to stop he slit his throat no blood gushed out but I could see wound the flesh ripped open. And I sobbed but was in a war with myself to open the door and save him knowing they would kill me and my younger child or just stand there crying knowing I’d morn him forever and the guilt would eventually eat away at me.I stood there with this battle in my mind I didn’t save him. I woke up with my heart racing questioning why I had such a horrifyingly dream. Can anyone tell me why these dreams are so vivid in color and seem so real? ?
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Dear April – Many mothers have such dreams, especially if they have powerful mothering instincts. But it would have been useful to know your son’s age as it makes a big difference in understanding the dream. But first know that whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
There are two possibilities. Your love and care for your child or children can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about your children. You see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams shows. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased. This is natural in all mammals, and acts as a warning making you aware. It helps to check whether your child or children are okay, and if they are, say to the part of you that is worried, “It’s okay, I checked, but thanks for keeping me on my toes, you can relax now.”
Example: Hello, I am a single mom. My son Just turned 7 two days ago. I have had numerous dreams where he has died or the dream will be as of I can’t find him. I Just had a dream about my son and he was playing with some friends and one of them knocked at my door and said that my son was going to die. This woke me straight up out of my sleep. My son gets to the point now to where he wants to be independent at times and I try to tell him he can’t do the things he sees other big kids doing because he’s still so small. I am so protective of my son and don’t want to lose him. I wish I could stop having these dreams where he’s dead, or dies,or I Just simply lose sight of him in my dreams. I worry about him all the time when he’s not with me. What can I do.
Another reason for such dreams is illustrated by the woman dream above, it was because her child was becoming independent. A mother has spent years 8 to 15 year of her life caring, protecting, worrying about her child. It is difficult to let go of them. Perhaps a change has occurred in your or your daughter’s life. I know when my last child had become independent, and my partner was gone also, it felt as if I were dying.
Example: I have this dream frequently. It is about my two young sons. In the dream I am with them, standing near the edge of a balcony or at the edge of a bridge. As we stand together, one of my boys falls over the edge to his death. This usually happens because I have let go of his hand for a moment.
Such dreams of the child becoming independent can occur as soon as the child starts school, persisting until the mother finds a new attitude.
Hello, maybe you can help me understand my dream.
Last night i dreamt of my son being shot.
My husband his sister and i were driving in los angeles we went though a very ugly place like an alley that was very dark. All of a sudden we see sirens (a cop puling us over) we pulled over and all of a sudden we see a lot of gang members approaching us. The cops kept telling them back up back up but they wouldnt listen. So they started shooting the cop. The cop was hit but somehow managed to kill one with a shot to the head the other cop kept shooting but as the shooting was going on they were hitting our car. We then sped off and none of us seemed to be hit. My husband looked down at our 2 month old son and he was acting strange he picked him up and felt he was wet he looked at his hand and it was full of blood he pullged the wond with his finger and told us to drive to a hospital we got stuck in traffic but would see the hospital so my husband got off and started running towards the hospital as he got there he yelled “help please my son has been shot” a doctor took him from his hand my husband put his hands over his face paniking and my dream was over. I cant find what it means for a child to get shot. He didnt not die in the dream. Would anyone be able,to tell me what this could possibly mean. TIA
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Nayeli – As human women we tend to bottle up our enormous anxiety for our child, or are frightened by it. Your love and care for your child can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about the baby. They see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams shows. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased. This is natural in all mammals.
Also whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
Obviously your mothering care should not be repressed, but this is natural in all mammals, and acts as a warning making you aware. It helps to check whether your child or children are okay, and if they are, say to the part of you that is worried, “It’s okay, I checked, but thanks for keeping me on my toes, I can relax now.”
I just woke up from a dream of my son that is living about five hours away from me but we went to visit him he wanted to go to the skating rink we went some men got into a altercation and one seemed to have a gun my son was walking I believe to the restroom and the other man grabbed him and started to shoot at the other guy he was hit but didn’t die it made the news and everything but then I woke up in tears and heart racing wanted to know if someone could help me understand what this means
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Alesha – Two things here. Your love and care for your son can trigger your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about the baby. They see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what such dreams shows. Your imagination for such dangers is enormously increased.
But the dream is also trying to teach you something, for a man was shot but didn’t die. It made the news because it was important information, for whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
I’ve dreamed about a church that kills children if they don’t follow directions and they have to lay down and pray what does that mean? Or they die.. the music start at the church and the children have to stop in place and lay on their back..
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Essie – It seems that you have been exposed to the dangerous and poisonous lies often told by ministers to make children – and adults – conform. The bible says again and again that all the creation of the world, animals and people was seen by God as Good. Even the story of Eve’s in was an awful translation.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/na-hash-the-serpent/
I had a dream I was told by a unknown woman that I would die at 60 years old. I’m 31 now.
A lot of times when I get to know new people they dream that I kill them. They usaly describes the dreams as really real, and got strong memorys from it.
What could this mean?
i go bad news last night about my brother and when i went to sleep i dreamed my son passed and i woke up in a bad mood. I know some people say that mean if you dream about death its someone having a baby. can some one tell me if thats true
Could you please lemme know as to what can be the cause of the dream ? or any message ?
I think the lady has appeared twice in my dreams
I got a dream where a woman asked me to support her child as he’s alone at home, needs to go to school and no one to look for him.
My friend and my friend agreed to help her.
The lady accompanied us at her home just before the sun was about to rise and told us to open the door,she also handed us the house keys.
while we were opening the door , she said us to hurry up coz her child was scared and she wants to go back, she seemed afraid of her husband to return back anytime.
We opened the door and in the mean time we saw her going up towards the building terrace. I dint even knew when my friend stepped back.
I saw her lonely, scared 4-5 year kid peeping and crying, I felt pity for the child and rushed to console him, prepared food for him and made him ready for the school.
At noon when i again went to check if all ok with his kid, i saw the kid having lunch with his Dad and Grand mom at home.
I asked for the lady and the answer that they gave panicked me.. they said that the kids’ mom passed away since 2 years.. why you looking for her ?