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What are dead body dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like dead body and dead bodies.

Dead bodies in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 150 dreams.

What are the major highlights of dead body dreams?

Dead bodies is a normal dream symbol. Having dead bodies in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of dead bodies are aggressive

Dead body dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all dead bodies have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having dead bodies in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include entrances, cars, arrows, other verbs, feet, ambushing, Russia, running, erupting, and psyches.

Dreams with dead bodies might be a nightmare

Dreams of dead bodies are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain dead bodies might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with dead bodies are not nightmares. But, dreams of dead bodies are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hallways, crime, shadows, beginnings, hunger, silence, tools, paramedic, yellow eyes, and summoning_demons.

Dead body dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain dead bodies 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 Afghanistan, calluses, coffins, burying, criminals and outlaws, cursing, bows and arrows, dead bodies, cannons, and talismans.

Dead body dreams are scary

Dreams containing dead bodies are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of dead bodies are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of dead bodies, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include trapping, panic, running, hearing, descending, abscesses, baboons, vision, escaping, and Saudi Arabia.

Dead body dreams focus on taste

Dreams of dead bodies have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, dead body dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Other symbols that are like this include embarking, roosters, Kuwait, Poland, precognitive dreams, dissecting, Colombia, Venezuela, orphans, and rainforests.

What symbols less present in dreams of dead bodies?

How does the dream symbol of dead bodies affect the different aspects of a dream?

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Who is in dead bodies dreams?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are more related to different roles and more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to close people.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in dead bodies dreams?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are more related to grief and sorrow and much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in dead bodies dreams?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to human places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

much more than usual
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What happens in dead bodies dreams?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do dead bodies in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are much more related to nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do dead bodies in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with dead bodies are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dead bodies are much more related to smelling and more related to vision than dreams in general. They are much less related to taste and less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

much less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of dead bodies in dreams?

Dead body dreams are uncommon. Among other things dead body dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, nightmare, about death, scary, and focus on taste.

Do you think this is true for your dream of dead bodies? How might your dream of dead bodies 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 dead bodies 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 dead bodies in dreams. See how you feel about dead bodies now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of dead bodies

Read some real dream reports of dead body 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.

A odd dream

I had a dream where it seemed to be everybody’s last day on earth. We were all free to live out the rest of our day doing what we all wanted to do before dying. The things I did seemed to be fighting someone I had disliked, as well as meeting my favorite music artist. As the day reached closer to the end figures dressed in all black stood on the sidewalk seeming to stretch on endlessly. Standing like soldiers. A deep fog rolled in, and soon people were getting killed in seemingly random fashion, but as soon as I was killed I understood. The deaths were ones that represented whatever sins the person committed. An ironic death for all. After I died, and others too, the souls remained and got to see the ‘dark parade’ thats what I am calling it anyways. In it wooden carts with dead bodies stroll down the road and into a tunnel where me and other souls were. Many souls began crying as their family members pass by on the wooden carts, the souls disappearing when their own bodies pass through the tunnel completely. After all bodies pass including my own, which seemed to reach out to me as it passed, the black figures began to do some kind of ‘marching dance in place’, while they did some strange maneuvers that I really cant explain. After they finished, every single figure walks into the road and simotsiniousloy die at once. This is where I woke up.

I had a dream where it seemed to be everybody’s last day on earth. We were all free to live out the rest of our day doing what we all wanted to do before dying....

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I might be a murderer

It was maybe 6 months ago when I had a vivid dream of finding my professors dead body in school. He was decapitated and bloody. I didn’t kill him but I was not thinking straight and thought they’d think I did it so I hid the body by putting it in a trash bag and dumping it. They found the body the day after and I was lucky there were no cameras at the basketball court where I found him. They did an investigation and I was in no way linked so I wasn’t questioned at all. I guess they didn’t check the cameras by the hallways because that’s where I passed to get the mop and clean the blood.

The thing is, I thought this really happened up til this day. I’d be up all night thinking what I have done and scared that any minute they will find out I did it. It wasn’t until this day that I dreamt in the same universe again, where it made national news and they kept on looking at the culprit that I realized nothing made sense. We’re in a pandemic and I haven’t stepped in school for the past year. I don’t even remember who’s body it even was. I just remembered it was a male professor I know that I knew.

I know I sound dumb for not realizing until now and bearing the weight of it for 6 long months but you have to know that it all felt real. I was constantly thinking of it at night and I blocked myself from national and local news to ease my paranoia.

It was maybe 6 months ago when I had a vivid dream of finding my professors dead body in school. He was decapitated and bloody. I didn’t kill him but I was not...

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My boyfriend had a dream about me dying. Any interpretations would be appreciated!

My Boyfriend had a dream about me dying in a hurricane!? What could it mean?
He said that in his dream, we were in the ocean and we were playing around, then someone called to him and told him that he had somewhere he had to be, so he got out to leave, and I got out with him, I gave him a hug and a kiss and he said he lifted me up and playfully threw me back into the ocean... he said he turned away, but when he turned back to look for me, he said that there was a huge hurricane where I had been, and he knew that the storm took me away. He said he went looking for me, and he found my dead body! He said that the scene changed and he was in my bedroom, he saw my brother and he felt so sad because I had died... he said the whole scene then started over and I came back to life and repeated the same thing again. Any idea about what this could mean? I feel a little bit distressed that he would have such a bad dream about me 🥺 thank you in advance for any insights x

My Boyfriend had a dream about me dying in a hurricane!? What could it mean?
He said that in his dream, we were in the ocean and we were playing around, then...

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Scary dream I had this morning

Okay, so this morning I went back to sleep because I was missing school and .. I had a pretty horrifying dream. I’ll try to remember best I can.

First, there were these people, who seemed like they were in a cult of some sort or something like that . And I lived with them somehow, but it wasn’t normal. This was NOT a normal dream. This had a very eerie vibe that made me feel like I was actually in danger. I know weird stuff happened, but I just can’t quite remember or explain it. Now, there’s a section of this dream I remember almost perfectly. These people invited me and my friend to Chuck E. Cheese , to do something (I can’t remember), and I said yes. My mom was driving us there. The town we were in was very ghost town-ish and deserted and eerie. I remember the feeling I had in the dream, which was incredibly nervous to do whatever this was and if my mom found out we were meeting with people, then I started thinking about all the possibilities of getting kidnapped, murdered, etc. so I said we should go back home, so we started to. Then, my friend gets a phone call and I know she shouldn’t answer it but she does. My mom and I can hear it from her phone, and it’s a strange voice repeating a sentence over and over. My mom tells her to put it on speaker so we can hear what she’s saying and she does. They’re talking and I can hear what the voice is saying, but I can’t make out the words at all. I ask them what she’s saying and then , I wake up. Since it was a scary dream, I wake up with that same relieved feeling that we all do when we wake up from a scary dream. I start looking around but everything is somehow fucked. I wake up again, once again relieved and weirded out. But once again, stuff is weird (I can’t explain how), I wake up again. And again. And again. Each time getting less relieved and more scared. The final time, I don’t “wake up again” I’m just still awake. But I can’t move, so I know Its sleep paralysis. I do my trick to get out of it (which is moving ur toes) and then I’m out of the car with my friend in front of Chuck E. Cheese. For some reason we decide to go around the back to look, and there are the people. We then go back to the front and walk in the actual Chuck E. Cheese (it looks like the middle of Chuck E. Cheese, but it’s grey and eerie and deserted) a door opens with one of the girls telling us to go back there. Then, for SOME reason, my friend disappears, the people disappear, and I’m on my schools track. I’m in a track practice with other people. I run, much faster than I can actually in real life and am not last place. The coach, (I forgot what she looked like) went up to the girl in last place and started telling her she’ll be her assistant and stuff. Then the dream switches to me in a room. It’s a really dusty, plain room, almost like a hallway with a bed. And there are 3 doors on the wall. I guess I turned into Sarah from the movie “labyrinth” and I forgot who I was, or something. I forgot that whole portion of the dream though. Then these people at some point come up into the room without acknowledging me, and someone, I’m assuming my imaginary dad, says “someone is in one of these doors” the two other men open the last door, and there’s nothing, and then they open the door next to me, and there’s nothing, and they say “I guess there’s nothing here” , and my imaginary dad says, “you didn’t look in that brown door” and they ignore it. So I go up to the brown door in the middle, open it, and I’m startled by uhh, this is kind of when things get silly in the dream..Dobby from Harry Potter, but then he disappears. I can’t remember what happens next, but later, I help a lost Harry Potter remember who he is and he returns to hogwarts. Very weird ending.

I then woke up. Normally. Though. Like in real life. Or is it...? 😱😱 also very scary thing to add on to my eerie day!: they found a dead body at a local park I was very recently at with my friends! Not related, but I thought it was creepy.

Okay, so this morning I went back to sleep because I was missing school and .. I had a pretty horrifying dream. I’ll try to remember best I can.

First, there...

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Seeing a dead body in water

In my dream I was swimming with my cousin, in an indoor family swimming pool. There were many kids playing and in the water I noticed it was pink, well it ended up being a little girl who drowned, the kids were unaware that she was dead and were playing with her dead body. The song tiptoe through the tulips was playing. I then was out of the water and choking on something, my cousin just stood in fear, she didn’t do anything about it, nobody knew how to the the heimlech meneuver. I woke up at 3 am with the song tiptoe through the tulips playing. It was scary and I felt pretty traumatized

In my dream I was swimming with my cousin, in an indoor family swimming pool. There were many kids playing and in the water I noticed it was pink, well it ended...

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