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someone i care about deeply told me about their dream last night.
in it, they died. after they were dead, they woke up.
i didn't think you could die in a dream?
in light,
jade
Hey Jade,
I have always thought of dieing in dreams to mean a similar thing to the way we might read the :TJUDG card in tarot. Perhaps this person has left an aspect of herself and has graduated to a new phase :) Was it a sad/scary death?
i have had a couple of people tell me they died in their dreams before. i've never experienced it myself in a sleep state, but in shamanistic journeys, which are similar, it's very common to have a physical death. the soul continues to live.
kayne,
i don't understand what card you are showing.
she said that when the machine gun was put against her head and went off. three bullets entered her skull.....but there was no pain. everything went blurry and she couldn't hear anything anymore.
then she woke up.
zorya,
what did it mean though?
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is it like the death card in tarot...........letting go and moving on?
oh and she's been having alot of dreams lately where she almost dies........this is the first one that she actually did.
Sorry jade... it's the Judgement card. :TJUDG
Wow... that is nasty....
i believe experiencing your own death, is primarily about facing fear, watching yourself die is scary, so it's about letting go and having trust in the universe. i hope this makes some sense.
i think that, in a dream, when someone is trying to kill you, it represents a feeling and fear of not being in control.
i'm not sure that this relates to your friends experience, but to answer your question..... in a shamanistic death, we are reminded that our bodies are but shells. the "death" helps us detach from material concerns. often it's a kind of shedding of something we're too attached to, usually fear.
purplelady
13-04-2002, 10:35
Could it possibly be a dream of a past incarnation? Your depiction of the actual event sounds kind-of realistic. But from a dream perspective of experiencing or seeing it impartially , without the total trauma of experiencing it as if you were totally in the body.
Had a series of self death dreams years ago. I remember they were very vivid, (I have always dreamed in color…here is a laugh for you, in awake life I am partially color-blind), and in color.
In retrospect, they scared the be-jeesus out of me. Soon after my life, which was at a crossroads, took a zig, when I should have zagged.
Tell your friend it is okay to dream of dieing, but to judge their decisions carefully.
thank you all.
in light,
jade
Malachite
13-04-2002, 17:19
I have never experienced this, or met anyone who has. I once almost experienced it through someone else's eyes while spirit-wandering, but got out before we actually hit the ground...*blood running cold*
My first instinct was to ask what they saw...*d'oh*
However, on serious note, I feel that Zorya's reply is good...*well done Zorya!*...I think it might have something to do either with an actual fear of death, or , metaphorically, an unwillingness to sacrifice in order to grow. Is your friend coming up to any hard decisions? *straining for an example*..like...giving up a job to pursue a dream career/college course,
...a feeling of insurmountable issues, coupled with a knowledge that you can still actually change the situation if you give up time from other things you love doing.
Oh!...and i think its a basic stage of growing up to realise your mortality at some point...at least, I know I did, and several of my friends did...dreaming death could be a manifestation of this if it is blocked conciously...
no.
but i do know that she is moving soon to a new city with no there she knows. do you think that could be it?
she's a really together, amazing person. hence, i am lost as to why she would be dreaming of being gunned down by a hit man.
in light,
???
jade
Malachite
13-04-2002, 17:41
Might be...apparently moving house is the third scariest thing you can do, after marrying, and divorcing...
although I'm guessing the person that ranked such things never gave birth, never got chased by a lion, and never went to war...
Perhaps if she sits down with a friend/family...be it you or another,... and thinks of all the things that would be scary, says them out loud, and discusses ways for them not to be so scary?..also out loud...
Not sure...
I have died in dreams, and in retrospect, these heralded significant growth. Sort of like I had to lay one aspect of my old life behind before I could move on. I have also fallen - sometimes hitting and sometimes not - and sometimes *saving* myself by soaring thru the air. I'd often heard that falling and/or dying in a dream was bad, but I have never taken it to be so, actually.
I suppose it can be very disconcerting to *watch* yourself die in a dream, but if you are spiritual, you likely believe in some sort of death as a door to another level. This can mean in this life, too, I think.
Just my opinion.
Spasticgirlie
14-04-2002, 22:52
I think of death in dreams kind of like rebirth. Also moving on to something new in your life. I have never died in a dream that I remember. But I do have friends that say they have. However they didnt wake up and their dream continued as if they were a ghost of something. I think the dream just really needs to be looked into so that the significance of death can be figured out.