Our dreams may provide guidance and warnings but not in the forms we expect.
In films and books, a character may dream of dying or seeing a funeral and upon waking find that these images relate to imminent danger and death. According to those who study dream imagery, however, the signals of impending death that we receive in dreams tend not to be so literal. Different spiritual traditions have differing concepts of what dream symbols relate to actual physical death.
Death as Union
According to "The Philosophy of Dreams" by Sri Swami Sivananda, dreaming of weddings, marriages, brides and bridegrooms does not, as you might expect, signal joy and celebration. Instead, the author says that these type of dream images may be omens that you will attend the funeral of a friend or relative. If you dream of a sick person marrying, this is a harbinger of that individual's death. On the other hand, according to Sivananda writers, dreams of death indicate a long life (unless the dreamer is sick), and dreaming of a corpse reveals not approaching death but "hasty and imprudent engagement."
Warnings of Death at a Distance
In his book "Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully: The Profound Practice of Transference of Consciousness," Geshe Kelsang Gyatso lists the physical, mental and dream signals of death being on the distant horizon. Gyatso emphasizes that these signs give the dreamer opportunities to prepare spiritually for death. He uses the examples of dreams that involve falling from a high mountain, being naked, traveling south or traveling alone through a desert .
Illness
Some who have studied dreams feel that dreams can indicate the onset of illness. They suggest paying close attention to dreams in which attention is drawn in some way to a specific part of the body. If left untreated, some of these ailments may lead to death. If you have a dream about receiving pain or injury to a certain part of your body as a result of events that have occurred in the dream, you may want to visit a physician for a check up, with particular attention to that portion of your anatomy.
Learning Dream Language
Robert Moss, who has written several books about dream experience as an opening into the shamanic world, points out that each individual has a unique dream language based on personal life experience. He notes that psychic Edgar Cayce dreamed of death as an attractive, fair-haired young man carrying a pair of shears. Moss writes of one of his own dreams that warned him of possible death at a fork in the road near his home. His knowledge of how his dreams spoke to him enabled Moss to avert a potentially fatal car accident.
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