The young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.
To see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles to the dreamer.
To see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend or some desperate business entanglement.
To see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general dissatisfaction between countries and political factions.
To see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation, both as to business and health.
To see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death to that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious rupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.
For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of a sacred nature.
To put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see unscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.
If you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after an almost hopeless struggle.
For a young woman this dream denotes distress and loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.
For a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in which she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him that his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below the standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.
If she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is warned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract from the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store, foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned. There are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing. There will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work. [1]
If the dead person was known to you, it signifies an estrangement or unhappy love affair.
If your dream involved a number of corpses but without any particularly distressing aspect, it is a forecast of success where you least expect it.
If your dream featured a medical examination of a corpse, such as an autopsy, it portends an unusual new and interesting experience to come.
See also: Death, Goddess Persephone. [3]
If these dreams appear frequently and are accompanied by fear, it would be a good idea to consult a therapist. This is a frequent dream among women when they are oppressed. On the other hand, the dream symbol may also suggest putting an end to something, letting go of it. [4]
To the businessman it threatens failure or involvements that can destroy his reputation.
To a young person, disappointment in love.
To dream of being the corpse, a desire for absolution from wrongdoing inflicted upon others; a desire to escape, even by death. [5]
The corpse of an animal betokens a small financial loss.
An ancient corpse, such as an Egyptian mummy, is an omen of the raking up of an old wrong. [7]
If you are the corpse, you will be assured of a long, happy, and healthy life.
If someone you don’t know is the corpse, you will have a long and interesting life (not necessarily happy nor healthy). [8]
animal, of an: need to face up to the fact that the current project is a dead end.
clothes on, with: old problems can be solved despite a disappointing friend.
cutting open a cadaver: leave old conventions buried.
dragging a suitcase with a: your conscience is getting heavier.
lowered into a grave, being: realization of mortality and lessening of bodily functions.
morgue, at a: death of a marriage that you do not want.
others, of: wish to rid that person and his bitterness from your life.
relative, of a: fear you are losing control of your love affair.
rigor mortis, in: fear has armored you against your own feelings.
rotting, a: others are disgusted with your disregard for your health.
seeing yourself as a: an apology from one who has deeply wronged you in the past.
several: feel peril of death from those you have harmed.
walking around: wil be required to perform a disagreeable duty and die prematurely.
water, in the: wish death to escape from an intolerable mental outlook. [16]