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Death Of Oneself Dream Meaning

1- To dream of our own death is to be exploring our own feelings about death; the retreat from the challenge of life or the split between mind and body. Leaving the body is frequently an expression of this breach between the ego and life processes.

2- One’s own death can often be used in dreams to explore others’ feelings about us.

3- Death is a transition from an awareness of the gross physical to the more spiritual self. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary by Pamela Ball [Back to dream]

What does DEATH OF ONESELF mean in a dream?


1- To dream of our own death is to be exploring our own feelings about death; the retreat from the challenge of life or the split between mind and body....

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1. Fear that someone will work his/her way into one’s life.2. One’s image of oneself is very negative.3. Someone is perceived to be taking advantage of someone.3. To view oneself...

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Depends what it is used for in dream. Can be secu­rity for life if floonng, or sense of losing basic support if a rotten floor.See Jloor under house, buildings.If for...

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The inner world of our feelings and fantasies, the unconscious. Sinking into: becoming introverted; giving up on trying, or expressing oneself. Looking into depths: self awareness, looking into oneself. Dirty...

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Dreaming about death is very common and it can be interpreted in many different ways. Death is usually a symbol of some type of closure or end. It implies an...

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Perfuming oneself with sweet incense in a dream means having a good friendship.An incense burner or holder in a dream represents a certitude that is praiseworthy. Perfume in a dream...

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1. Rejected by others because one feels worthless.2. One does not belong to a group.3. One does not feel capable of coping with a particular situation.4. Desire to rid oneself...

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Losing something of oneself. Always restricted and needs are ignored (see Abortion, Funeral, Divorce, and Death). Expression of fear of loss and an invitation to discard nonessentials. Important: Which limb...

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The limiting depths one digs for oneself. Inability to take action. Creative thought mobilizes energy and helps one dig out again. Self has to propel self back into aliveness; no...

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Exerting efforts to one’s utmost, or to the point of straining oneself in a dream means the death of a sick person, or it could represent laboring hard to sustain...

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Dreams about the dead or about death are not usually omens of literal death, although they may indicate anxiety about death. Violent death may represent anger and aggression, although much...

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Harvesting one’s farm in a dream means ease after difficulty, or seeing a fast return on one’s investment. It also could represent destruction, or it could mean receiving admonition.The portion...

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The end of a phase of your life before entering another one.Some aspect of your life situation coming to an end (or a fear of or desire for such).A fear,...

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Relaxation; letting go of activity; introversion; sex. Or retreat from the world; feeling injured, afraid to stand up for oneself, non-involvement, negative introversion, weakness; death. Idioms: lie low; lie at...

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Relatedness; the son of exchange or give and take which goes on in a relationship, even the internal relationship with oneself, or the environment. One can give afTection, sup­port, sex,...

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(Height, Size) To see oneselftaller than usual in a dream means increase in knowledge and wealth.If a man of authority sees that, it means expansion of his power.If he is...

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Symbol: The bed symbolizes regeneration, love, death, and birth.Vision: Seeing an empty bed in a dream means bad news, perhaps news about a death. Seeing oneself in bed: pay attention...

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(Bed cover; Cover, Lioncloth, Mexican blanket, Overlay, Overspread) In a dream, a blanket represents a woman.If one sees himself wearing a blanket over a wrapper, or a lioncloth in a...

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An aspect of our own past or character which we do not wish to acknowledge.It is easier therefore to view as not about oneself; an attempt to view oneself objectively,...

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1. Imagining oneself as a giraffe is to think of oneself as odd.2. One should take a broad, overall view of things.3. To have a giraffe as a pet signals...

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(Knowledge, Town, Village) Entering a city in a dream means appeasement than leaving it.A city in a dream also represents a learned person, a wise man and a scholar.If one...

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Marriage in a dream symbolizes commitment of oneself to another. It can also represent the inner marriage of formerly disjunctive aspects of oneself. (See also Bride / Bridegroom.)

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A coffin may represent physical confinement or a restricting of the freedom to express oneself physically. There may be a dead or decaying situation in the dreamer’s life.As with the...

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Physical appetites; life directed only by physical needs, sensuality.The sow represents giving of oneself and suste­nance; lack of spiritual directive. Idioms: pig in a poke; happy as a pig in...

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If one sees himself struggling with death in a dream, it means arguing about his religion, or doubt about God’s revelations. Death rattling in a dream also signifies preparing to...

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As a house of royalty, a castle may show reward or honor bestowed to the dreamer in the form of recognition and praise for outstanding achievements. Alternatively, a castle may...

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In a dream, to see someone or oneself being brought to the gallows to be hung means malice, rejoicing at the misfortune of others, fame or perhaps it could mean...

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To dream of looking from high places, out of windows, or in a well denotes ambition, imagination, confused desires. Looking in a mirror, to married folk betokens children; to the...

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The pit, like the abyss, represents the void and possibly death – not necessarily a physical death, but more a death of the old self. We have no choice but...

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(1) A cypress tree symbolizes death and mourning.See also Dead / Death.(2) Being evergreen, however, it also symbolizes immortality; the hope of new life on the other side of death.See...

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Seeing oneself digging one’s own grave means one will build for oneself a house in that town or place.

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Makeup in a dream can imply a cover-up to conceal one’s inner self, indicating discomfort about revealing oneself to the world.At the opposite extreme, the dreamer may feel that putting...

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Strong bonding to the mother, regression, food, symbol of the female.If the dreamer is a man: passion, patience, true friendship. Rest and healing, as in Breast. Often the task is...

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(1) As a sexual symbol, a tunnel represents the vagina. A train or car entering it symbolizes the sexual act.(2) It may symbolize the unconscious.(3) It may symbolize death; or...

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Death of old emotions and attitudes no longer needed for your highest growth. Death of fear and insecurity. Also, hiding from life, burying aliveness, emotions and sensitivity.See Death.

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Owls have the ability to see in the dark, and therefore represent your intuition or ability to really see what is going on around you and within yourself. The owl...

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If it is the dreamer dying, it never has any connection to a real impending physical death. Rather, it is a reference to the need to change one’s path in...

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To dream of a wedding is a sign of a death and a funeral. There are various other meanings, but this one has always been the cardinal rule for weddings...

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The whole sphere of sexuality and sensuality, not just the sex act. Our unconscious often connects sex with giving oneself, a death of self, and making connections or bonds— obviously...

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(1) A tomb may symbolize death, literal or figurative.See also Dead / Death.(2) It may symbolize (death and) rebirth, literal or metaphorical (e.g. a new lease of life, or a...

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Symbol: The skeleton is the personification of death, as well as a promise and “instrument” of a new stage in life.Vision: Seeing a skeleton is a reference to your innermost...

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What is superior or has a wider view or possibility than our present standpoint; sense of inferiority in relation­ship to what is above us; what we strive for.If we are...

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also see Scythe1- The sickle is no longer such an important image to man. Now that we have moved from an agricultural to a more technological society, we arc left...

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(Ease, Leisure, Repose, Rest) To see oneself relaxing after toiling in a dream means wealth after poverty, or a happy marriage after a miserable one.If a sick person sees himself...

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It is a manifestation of death. This does not necessarily mean that the dream is premonitory of such an event. More than anything, it alludes to the dreamer’s desire to...

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Fields often appear with animals, and suggest the dreamer’s contact with what is natural in themselves. Also freedom from social pressure; one’s sense of oneself when away from other people,...

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Dreams about this ritual represent that you are embracing of the death process, an acceptance of the shadow, an integration of the life/death/life nature of life and represents that you...

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Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: To recognize that you feel alienated within a dream suggests that there is the potential in everyday life for experiencing oneself – or a part of...

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State of being which is free of preconceptions; recep­tivity; girlhood or innocence. In woman’s dream, oneself if still a virgin; a daughter. That one has had sex doesn’t mean that...

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The sphere of one’s experience; one’s own world of awareness and activity; the way one experiences the world/ life. End of the world: end of the way you have been...

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(see also Burial)Your own funeral may appear in dreams because you are anxious about your health or for some reason preoccupied with thoughts of approaching death.If so, probably no good...

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If you dream of reading an obituary in the newspaper you may soon receive some disquieting news of a death.If the obituary happens to be your own then it denotes...

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If the dreamer is killing an enemy, this implies the end of a difficult time in his life attained through his own efforts.If the dreamer accidentally kills someone, caution in...

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also see Sex1- Dreaming of having intercourse with somebody of the same sex as oneself usually indicates a conflict or anxiety about otir own gender. We may find ourselves attracted...

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Fears of death and dying are often translated in dreams as entering into a valley – the so-called valley of death.The less fear we have over dying the easier our...

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Liberation from the limitations of the world is symbolized by the crocodile. Though we are consumed by our fear of death, or perhaps the death process. We must work through...

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(Repentance, Throw up) Vomiting in a dream means returning things to their rightful owner, divulging secrets, or of regaining one’s health through control of his stomach. Throwing up clean food...

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Bones in dreams represent the basic structure of core beliefs. They may symbolize the legacy of your ancestral roots. Bones represent death and decay and thus may point to a...

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(Beggar; Enamored; Emaciated; Hobo; Homeless, Indigence, Love, Mendicant, Poor) Poverty in a dream means richness in wakefulness. Seeing oneself poor and hungry in a dream means that one will wake...

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(A place near the holy city of Mecca, First segment of God’s Messenger’s Nocturnal journey.) Seeing oneself performing a ritual ablution, then performing prayers in the Aqiq canyons in a...

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