Dreaming is a healthy and perfectly normal physiological phenomenon. But unfortunately, you tend to ignore the state of your subconscious mind in your waking life. But dreaming lets you explore your hidden emotions and allows your subconscious to open up. Therefore, it is a great way to connect with your subconscious mind, introspect and teach mindfulness in everyday life.
However, some dreams can be terrifying. For example, seeing someone dying in your dreams can be a bone-chilling experience, especially if you have witnessed a loved one’s death. This article attempts to dispel fear and anxiety by providing meanings of dreams involving somebody’s death.
Someone dying in your dream does not necessarily mean that the person from your dreams will die soon. Instead, the dream can have certain indirect messages or interpretations to convey.
What are they? Let’s explore the meanings.
Seeing Someone Dying in Dreams – What are the General Dream Meanings?
There are no specific mythological origins to explain dreams involving the death of someone. But we have listed some scenarios along with their possible interpretations.
Did you know – According to the beliefs of Hindu mythology, dreaming about someone dying is a good omen, and there is a possibility that it could bring good news.
1. Pregnancy
In most cases, it is caused due to hormonal changes during pregnancy. Another interpretation is that it is a way to anticipate pregnancy. There is scientific evidence to back this up as it is an ancient belief.
2. Fear of Failure in Relationships
This is quite obvious. If you feel like you are losing control of your relationship with a loved one, you tend to become insecure and anxious. Such anxiety is also likely to induce dreams where you see your partner dying.
It represents that the relationship might be falling apart, or it could be a subtle message to work on the problematic aspect of your relationship to get it back on track. Losing a loved one is painful, and the dream mirrors that fear of losing the other person in the relationship.
3. Disloyalty
Seeing someone die in your dreams can also represent deception or faithlessness. People are reported to have experienced dreams about the death of disloyal people in their life. This is because humans have a tendency to remember people who have deceived them.
The hatred and the emotion of revenge are a part of the subconscious mind which finds a way to get unleashed in the dreams.
It is not easy to forget people who have betrayed or embarrassed you every time, so your revenge-seeking subconscious is activated, inducing the death of such people. Imagine the feeling of being conned or betrayed.
It is a general human tendency to try and delete bad memories from the brain as they affect everyday life at an emotional level. The reason being it is so bad, you cannot stop thinking about it.
For example, getting over unrequited love or the fact that your partner cheated on you. These are memories worth erasing, but despite all your efforts to get rid of them, they still happen to reside in your subconscious mind and pop up in your dreams, representing the death of the person who took you for a ride and disrupting your mental peace.
4. Low self-Confidence
Lack of confidence in oneself can lead to a feeling of dissatisfaction, discontent, and extreme insecurity. It will end up making you feel worthless. You might feel that you are not good enough for things or the people around you. This can bottle up and also cause you to keep doubting yourself and your abilities all the time.
This is when self-esteem and confidence hit rock bottom, making you feel that you will never be able to achieve the dreams and goals you have always wished for. The building up of such kind of discouragement can show up in your dreams. Since you are feeling psychologically low, that feeling of self-hatred can possibly spew in the form of someone dying in your dreams.
So, if you have been seeing the death of some person but could not really establish a solid connection as to why that may be happening to you. This could be one of the reasons.
Here are different death scenarios in your dreams based on who you see dying:
What Does it Mean When Someone Dies in Your Dream?
1. When You See an Unknown Person Dying
An “unknown” individual is too vague a word to understand this dream scenario. It simply means you see a random person dying in your dream who you do not know very well. This person could be an acquaintance, your office colleague, or a popular celebrity.
Experts have often stated that the random person’s death in your dream is actually a representation of you in a transitional phase of your life. It symbolizes a transformation of some kind of a major change that you are undergoing at the moment.
Such dreams symbolize an intense period of your transformation on the personal front. And these transformations are not only intense but also very baffling, quite similar to the unknown person dying in your dream.
You do not know who they are, but they do strongly represent a change, something you are probably unaware of because change is always an ongoing process. You realize you have reached the end of the transformation when the final results are revealed. This confusion is represented by the death of the stranger in your dream.
When your subconscious mind becomes aware of this, it might even reveal the key to the unanswered questions of your life. And answering those might finally lead you to achieve that transformation in the end. So, in a way, this dream has a positive connotation as it helps you attain your goals.
2. When You See Yourself Dying
If you see yourself dying in your dream, no matter how scary that sounds, it is not a red flag, so you can relax. The symbolism associated with experiencing your own death in your dreams is nowhere close to actually dying in real life. So, in a way, that is good news!
Your death in the dream represents the pre-transformation version of yourself before you embark on a journey toward your renewed personality or individuality. So, every death of yourself you see in your dreams symbolizes the different stages of the self-improvement process.
It means that you are gradually becoming a better version of yourself. It essentially represents you getting rid of the negativities in your life. These could be bad habits, bad people around you, or bad relationships.
So, if you have frequently been seeing dreams involving your death, it is a message to your subconscious mind to embrace your personal growth and transformation. It teaches your subliminal mind that you cannot and do not have to be the same person if you want to be wiser and more mindful.
Therefore, it tells your dormant mind to focus on improving little by little and move toward a larger, more fulfilling goal of superior personal growth – a state of being more positive wherein you have reached your full potential. In a nutshell, this dream fosters positivity and empowerment in the true sense.
3. When You See a Loved One Dying
A loved one dying in your dreams signifies fear of abandonment. If you experience such dreams, you should be relieved because it is a sign that you are on the right path – the path that leads you to improve your relationship with that person.
This is one of the best ways to make amends with people you are really close to if you could manage to uncover the real meaning of such dreams. Simply waking up shocked to a dream like this is not going to be very helpful since you need to put your dream symbolism decoding skill to the test.
Relationships are quite dynamic in nature and are subject to change over time depending on different situations and circumstances. And with that being said, you should always be prepared to deal with the highs and lows that come your way.
So, do not expect a rosy land when it comes to relationships. They are hard work and effort! If something does not seem to work out, you and only alone, along with the other person involved, can decide the fate of that relationship based on the decisions you make.
Such dreams can guide you to make these crucial decisions. They tell you what it is that you are doing badly or incorrectly in your relationship that might be a possible hindrance. This can help you ditch the unhealthy manners of interactions and become a better partner, family member, etc.
It is a unique journey in itself wherein you become not only emotionally intelligent but also immensely empathetic. Such dreams thus handhold you through the positive transformation process of troubled relationships into successful and happier ones.
Verdict
So, in conclusion, it has been well established and explained that seeing people dying in your dreams is neither a disorder nor a bad omen. These are the possible dream meanings and interpretations and the different scenarios in the most basic form. Every individual is unique and is going through a unique process or set of circumstances giving rise to different transformations.
So, what your dreams mean exactly can further be drilled down to more clarity and specificity based on your personal experiences in real life. These experiences add context and further enrich its overall meaning.
For example, if you are a parent and witness your child dying in your dream, it will surely shock and disturb you. But it actually conveys a message of positivity! The death indicates your child maturing over time and hitting different moments of achievement in different forms through the process of transformation.
I am sure a child taking huge strides on the personal and professional growth fronts is a proud moment for all parents out there!
I hope this article was useful and has probably helped you calm down a bit since you know that seeing someone dying in your dreams is completely normal. And, in fact, promise greater things to come in the future.
