What are afterlife dreams about?
The afterlife is a concept that refers to something after our deaths. We have many words for types of afterlife that include hell, heaven, nirvana, and so on. The term 'afterlife' does not specify what type of existence occurs after death. There is a mystery in this term. This symbol is identified by words like limbo, after life, and afterlife.
Afterlife in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.
What are the major highlights of afterlife dreams?
Afterlife is a normal dream symbol. Having afterlife in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Dreams of afterlife are emotional
Afterlife have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include vision, lovers, jealousy, couldn't open eyes, exhaustion, revenge, regret, amazed, events, and aggressive interactions.
Afterlife dreams are associated with lucid dreaming
Dreams of afterlife are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of afterlife are lucid dreams. But dreams of afterlife are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include subconscious, closed my eyes, chimneys, general body parts, sparrows, ascending, nose bleeds, floating, Greece, and souls.
Afterlife dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain afterlife are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include plane crashes, suffering, characters, unique themes, afterlife, coffins, grim reapers, car crashes, grenades, and purgatory.
Afterlife dreams are about love
Dreams containing afterlife are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of afterlife are about love. It simply means that if you dream of afterlife, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include conflicts, psyches, foreshadowing, animas, kissing, Portugal, dating, my children, taste, and ovations.
What symbols more present in dreams of afterlife?
Afterlife dreams are notable because they have substantially more stags, the earth, heaven, seeing a dead friend, purgatory, dying, hobbits, death, numb, the planets, souls, family homes, events, seeing a dead mother, armageddon, ghosts, ascending, being shot, hit the ground, movement, Madagascar, going to die, gems, seeing a dead relative, general movement, judges, jackals, servants, hell, large celestial bodies, camels, end of the word, general thinking, accepting, angels, nazis, bobcats, verbs, tents, overdoses, spirits, the galaxy, spirals, tranquility, deluges, devils, suffering, coffins, general body parts, cowards, train stations, depression, haziness, calendars, rodents, seeing a dead grandmother, qualities, constructing, floating, and cancer than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of afterlife?
Afterlife dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, birthdays, genitals, legs, penises, recurring dreams, chasing, shoes, sexuals acts, nightmares, lips, sex, mouths, lunch, cats, romantic partners, birds, flirting, food, robbing, crushes, places, wolves, pets, bathrooms, parties, and eggs than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of afterlife affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in afterlife dreams?
Overall, dreams with afterlife are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of afterlife are much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to distant people.
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What are the emotions in afterlife dreams?
Overall, dreams with afterlife are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of afterlife are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment and less related to fun.
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Who is in afterlife dreams?
Overall, dreams with afterlife are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of afterlife are much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.
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How do afterlife in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with afterlife are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of afterlife are much more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How do afterlife in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with afterlife are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of afterlife are more related to hearing and more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling and less related to touch.
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How can you make sense of afterlife in dreams?
Afterlife dreams are very uncommon. Among other things afterlife dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, are associated with lucid dreaming, about death, and about love.
Do you think this is true for your dream of afterlife? How might your dream of afterlife be different?
All dreams have meaning
You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience afterlife in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about afterlife in dreams. See how you feel about afterlife now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of afterlife?
To dream about the afterlife can connect with trying to escape a hardship in this life. You want it to be over.
It can represent something you have been putting off. For example, people say they will do this or that when they get time or reach the next phase of life—after this phase of life. “I’ll start painting once my kids are grown,” or, “There will be plenty of time to travel later in life.” Perhaps it’s something that shouldn’t be put off.
Some dreams about afterlife address spiritual beliefs. People who strongly believe in an afterlife can dream about it as a way of processing information they receive, such as scriptures they read or sermons they hear.
People who don’t believe in an afterlife can be challenged by powerful and vivid dreams about it. Atheists have been known to become spiritual after having dreams that rearranged their notions and beliefs. It’s one thing to conceptualize something you have not experienced and quite another to experience it fully and realistically in a dream.
It’s also possible to dream about deceased loved ones in the afterlife. It can symbolize something such as the hope that the person is “in a better place.” But you can also dream about deceased loved ones as a way of actually connecting with him or her in the afterlife. It’s an idea that will severely challenge people who think that death is the final end. It’s something that you have to experience for yourself—don’t take my word for it. It’s a fact in the dream world, and dreams have to be treated as a reality unto themselves. See: Seeing a dead relative
However, usually the afterlife is used as symbolism. For example, a man dreams about being in the afterlife and going to a sterile white office building. He waits to be told what his job assignment will be. Everything is very orderly and subdued. A supervisor tells him that his job will be janitor. It’s upsetting, but he figures he can work his way up.
The dream reflects a situation at his work; the company he works for is being sold. The owner tells him he will be hired by another company owned by the same person, but his position will be entry-level. The dream sums up the situation and his feelings about it. Being a janitor in the afterlife means he’s starting over and working his way up from the bottom.
See also: Angels, Seeing a dead relative, Heaven, Hell, Souls, Spirits
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of afterlife
Read some real dream reports of afterlife dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
Hell
So I kinda don't want to die now. There's a chance I'm wrong and the afterlife is real, if so, I'm definitely going to hell, and I might have gotten a taste of what that'd be like. Worst dream of my life (and I've woken up screaming at dead brothers over stupid forgotten fights) was last night. I broke a "reality stabilizer/creator thing" in my dream and everything went straight to shit. Like radioactive interstellar insanity shit. Imagine a bad trip on six hits of acid only it's not just your inner monologue and perception of reality that's horribly fucked and constantly shifting, it's reality itself twisting into depraved horrific possibilities, then resetting just as fast. I watched myself die horribly at my own hands. I honestly don't want to go to sleep tonight. Looked up this reddit just to say something to someone. WTF....
So I kinda don't want to die now. There's a chance I'm wrong and the afterlife is real, if so, I'm definitely going to hell, and I might have gotten a taste of...
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Dream about reincarnation and the afterlife
I ‘woke up’ in a house on the porch, alone on a field and it felt super real, I looked around and then I saw this person coming to me, they welcomed me and offered to tell me everything.
I died and was reincarnated but my body and face was exactly the same, they explained to me that in every life I lived my face stayed the same that’s because it’s how my soul looked.
They also went on to explain how I can take up a free slot for now if I wish to be reincarnated again, as there’s a woman pregnant with a girl right now in Paris and if not I can wait for another or I can stay in the field forever. In my one of my lives I was called Mia and in another I was an artist. They told me they couldn’t let me access those memories as some of my existences were painful and traumatic and they wouldn’t want to burden me with them now.
They also went on to say how there is no heaven or hell, simply this what I’m existing in now, everyone has a different variation and mine was to be surrounded by nature and live alone (as I wished for this for years irl)
Some details are extremely fuzzy but this is the best I could do.
I ‘woke up’ in a house on the porch, alone on a field and it felt super real, I looked around and then I saw this person coming to me, they welcomed me and...
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This is the dream I had last night, the emotions I felt were so intense it was stange
It begins with me overlooking a deep pit which I know to be the gate between universes, I am preparing for a large battle. I am me, not a hero or anything just me. I enter deep into the pit with glowing lava all around and summon heroes from other universes to assist in the battle. We then exit the pit to another pit where they are able to power up. One becomes powered up then the battle begins. Huge scope thousands of heroes fighting, massive destruction all around. Then one of the strongest enemies arrive, I am assisting the heroes to become stronger when we see the enemies have taken over the area. The enemy is near and I get attacked. Then I wake up in a house. I am with someone, I dont know who. I ask where I am. He tells me that I’m dead and this is where im staying as a ghost basically. I didn’t want to die so I had a plan in mind. As I was about to leave the building (on a hill, single room, two couches front door) As I’m about the leave the building my mom opens the door and walk in. My heart sinks as I know this means my mom died. She says hello and I ask what happens, she doesnt answer. I run out the door. I run down the hill and see where I am, near my school (not my actual school but a representation) I run and run and end up in the field behind the school, hundreds of students and people are there. I walk through the area and nobody acknowledges my presence. I then come across some students tossing a football. One is standing there sadly holding the ball, in the distance is a fenced in area, to protect students as this is where the battle occurred. I try to grab the football out of his hand and am suprised that I’m able to grab it. The people around look up in suprise as I’ve appeared out of thin air basically. I ask the student “can you see me, can you hear me” they say “yes” It’s clear they don’t know who I am. I give them the ball and run off towards the fenced area, behind the fenced area you can see some of the destruction of the battle. But much of it is repaired. I approach the fenced in area and walk though one of the closed gates. This is when I came across some of my friends from the school. I approach from behind and say one of their names. “Nate?” I ask and they turn around, visibly sad looking. Then they notice me. The look on their face says it all. I feel a chill down my spine as they recognize me. I walk through and see dozens of faces I know as they’re getting picked up by their parents. They all look at me shocked looking. I walk into the tent and come across who I was looking for, I think the people I know are behind me following me. I find who I was looking for Doctor Strange. I break down saying “ I dont want to die, I have so much I want to do, I’m not even 18, please, help me.” He then says to me, with a shocked look on his face “Blake? Why are you here?” I say “I dont want to die” Then his face relaxes, which is reassuring to me. He says “you’re lucky your will to live has allowed you to remain, if you didnt fight your death you would have rose into the afterlife. He then takes my hand and restores me to the world of the living. He then says “welcome back, I’ve repaid my debt to you.” I then was about to ask about my mother when I felt a tap on my shoulder, it was the people who followed me. Many of them were in tears and many crowded me hugging me. We were all crying. Then I realize I have a phone on me and this is when I learn 2 weeks had passed since the battle. Then I woke up
It begins with me overlooking a deep pit which I know to be the gate between universes, I am preparing for a large battle. I am me, not a hero or anything just...
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Anyone know what (Greek?) god this is?
Had a dream yesterday night about a god and can’t find out what god this must’ve been, or maybe I made it up lol.
I met him in a abyss in the night sky with shallow waters and low mountains and a starry sky, it kind of was like an afterlife but not heaven kind of thing, not earth in any case.
He had dark looking skin, almost navy, fiery gold eyes and I think gold hair but can’t remember. I thought it must’ve been Anubis at first but he didn’t have a dog head. Ideas?
Had a dream yesterday night about a god and can’t find out what god this must’ve been, or maybe I made it up lol.
I met him in a abyss in the night sky with...
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Last night's dream about the afterlife.
So I have this weird dream about dying that I would like to share with reddit.
The dream kind of starts off with me being in a bus accident and dying with a bunch of other people Then we were all waiting in this medieval looking room with two doors and large round tables. I was sitting at the top table with these random people and one was a cute gay looking chick. I was like hey do you want to find a back room to make out in? She acted kinda stuck-up like we just died and we are waiting to be judged and that's what you want to do? Then someone peaks out one of the doors and yells "next three for judgment in heaven!" So four of us instantly jumped up. I hate waiting for things and that's why I got up. But after I saw the others I was like y'all go ahead. I dont even want to go in there with a bunch of pretentious christians. And then I go sit at the other table. At this table , one of my friends was there and she was kinda up set about dying. After a short wait, the other door opens and is like "taking one for judgment in hell!" My friend gets up and starts to walk in and I was like girl don't you dare. You are the nicest sweetest person I know. Go sit by the other door and go to heaven as you should. So I take her place and step up for my judgment in hell.
When I go in and this demon is like you have to step into the lava. it will be as hot at as deserve it to be. So I was scared because I thought it was about to be painful and she kind of pushes me in. Then I was like oh this is nice. It was like perfectly warm and it felt really nice. And I just kept sinking into the lava. And while I was there I thought about all of my regrets in life and the people I hurt but the lava didn't get any hotter. Then after a really long time and after I thought that I was just going to stay in hell forever, after I accepted it and thought it was a nice afterlife I got yanked out. The demon said that I wasn't bad enough to be in hell. But my clothes were all burned off and I was naked and I was confused because the lava wasn't hot. But it was because it is lava. it just didnt feel hot to me because I didn't deserve it to be hot.
Then as I was leaving my ex was being brought in and he was in handcuffs. And they threw him into the lava and he turned into a demon. When I looked at the demon that gave my judgment she said that only a few humans live on earth and the rest are demons, Angels or NCPs that guide you throughout your life and that life is just a test. And I looked at my ex and thought about all the girls I saw him hurt in my lifetime and how being in a relationship with him was a test of my faith. And was like... That makes alot of sense. Then he tells me that next time he will make sure I end up in hell because he knows what to do next time and I was like bitch I'm already dead.
So the demon sent my naked self out back to the waiting room and then I was instantly taken into heaven for judgment. While I was there, the angel weighted my heart against a feather and it was the same weight and she was like well... I have to call the big man in. Then God comes in and said that I have to be reincarnated because I didn't pass or fail the test. He said that I need to listen to my conscious more because that's my moral compass and will tell me what's right and wrong. And I will live the same life again with mostly the same choices depending on how many good or bad things I do and if I do things differently. And I said I don't want to be reborn I don't like life and humans and he said because that's be you aren't meant to stay there forever. that it's just a moral test. Then i was like what if I don't really want to be in heaven with the judgmental Christians and the ones that are bad like crusaders who kill in HIS name to spread Christianity! He explained that religion is flexible and that no story on earth is the correct one. That Christianity isn't the original story. That all religions come from somewhere, the truth. That I should trust him that only people who deserve to be in heaven are good people. And so I did and I thought about how I was going to try harder to be a good person this time. And he said that I wouldn't remember any of this after being reborn and then I woke up.
So I have this weird dream about dying that I would like to share with reddit.
The dream kind of starts off with me being in a bus accident and dying with a...
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