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What are funeral dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like last rite, memorial service, interment, etc.

Funerals 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 funeral dreams?

Funerals is a normal dream symbol. Having funerals in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Funeral dreams are about family

Dreams of funerals are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of funerals will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include guest rooms, seeing a dead grandmother, infidelity, facebook, dinner, communicating, yards, romantic partners, Congo, and houses.

Funeral dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain funerals 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 knives, paramedic, serial killers, events, verbs, unique themes, strangling, venom, infecting, and losing a body part.

What symbols less present in dreams of funerals?

How does the dream symbol of funerals affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of funerals

Who is in funerals dreams?

Overall, dreams with funerals are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are more related to close people, much more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to insects, and less related to different roles.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in funerals dreams?

Overall, dreams with funerals are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are much more related to sadness, much more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to fear, and less related to fun.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in funerals dreams?

Overall, dreams with funerals are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in funerals dreams?

Overall, dreams with funerals are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are much less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

much less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

much less than usual
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How do funerals in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with funerals are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as 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 funerals in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with funerals are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of funerals are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Funeral dreams are uncommon. Among other things funeral dreams are normally interconnect, family oriented, and about death.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of funerals?

A funeral suggests that something has come to an end—a time of life, a relationship, a situation.

It can mean that something about yourself is changing. For example, there comes a point when you are no longer a child or teenager and that part of yourself recedes to allow a more mature version of yourself to take over, and to mark the passing, you dream about a funeral.

The idea extends to anything about yourself that changes. For example, someone who used to stutter learns to speak fluently, and the stutterer and the stigma that came with it is buried. You are “closing the lid” on the past, like closing a lid on a casket. See: Coffins

A young man dreams he’s with two other men as they hold a funeral for a teenage Cherokee warrior. The warrior is in a canoe, and they push the canoe into a river. At the last moment, the dreamer thinks it would be funny to pull a prank by dropping a Pez dispenser into the canoe, then he feels bad about disrespecting the young warrior’s funeral. The funeral symbolizes that an immature part of the man is receding, but his action of pulling a prank shows that he’s holding onto some of his childish ways.

Funerals are associated with burial. See: Burying

They’re associated with graveyards. See: Cemeteries

Dreaming about attending the funeral of someone you know can mean you are growing apart from the person or separating yourself from his or her influence. For example, dreaming about the funeral of your still-living parent can mean escaping the parent’s sphere of influence, becoming your own person, or escaping the parent’s restrictions.

Dreaming about the funeral of a friend can mean you recognize that your relationship with the person is changing.

Funerals are associated with death. You might be thinking about death because of a recent brush with it, or because someone you know is seriously ill or has recently died. Or perhaps you heard about a tragedy involving death. See: Death

Along this line, consider the phrase “it’s your funeral,” often associated with taking a risk that can end badly.

See also: Body parts, Burying, Coffins, Death, Cemeteries

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 funerals

Read some real dream reports of funeral 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.

Half lucid emotional nightmare. Days later I’m still upset.

(Context: My dad who has been my kindred spirit/best friend my entire life has seriously fucked up. I am grieving and not speaking to him currently)

A couple nights ago I dreamed that I was screaming at my dad in front of our entire extended family, calling him a piece of shit and saying I hated him. Everyone was on my side.

To get back at me responded by texting me “If you and your brother died today, I wouldn’t go to your funerals.” I was thinking hat things would never be the same again after him saying something like that.

During my dream, I kept thinking “Just wake up, he didn’t say that, just wake up, you’ll see.” And indeed, he didn’t say that. I feel traumatized by it and keep thinking about it. Not talking to him is hard. Things have never been like this.

(Context: My dad who has been my kindred spirit/best friend my entire life has seriously fucked up. I am grieving and not speaking to him currently)

A couple...

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Weird dream that I remember in great detail

I dreamt that I was at my grandpa's funeral. My mom's dad. My wife was on her phone which pissed me off. My mom kept trying to talk to me and I kept telling her to shut up. I decided that I needed to take a bike ride through Selkirk and look for a red leaf. When I found one, my mother-in-law appeared. She was on her way to the laundromat so I chatted with her for a bit and showed her where it was. I went back to the funeral and they had started a church service so they moved my grandpa to room 6. I went to see my wife and she was still on her phone so I yelled at her and ended up with chilli on me somehow. So I had to change into pjs. I found a pencil and went looking for room 6. I was going to write a message on a leaf. I ended up down a dingy hallway where some guy was cleaning windows but there was none there. I couldn't find the room so I asked him. It was between 7 and room 9. There was an 11 there too. When I opened the door, a gurney with his body was blocking the door. So I had to push hard. I started writing the note and people came in from somewhere wanting to steal his medication. The woman with them wanted my leaf and I told her no, I needed it to write a note. When I was almost finished writing, the corpse got up but it wasn't my grandpa, he was on top of him hiding from me I guess? All I basically wrote was that I have to take over the silly jokes and pranks since he's dead.

I dreamt that I was at my grandpa's funeral. My mom's dad. My wife was on her phone which pissed me off. My mom kept trying to talk to me and I kept telling her...

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Dreamt I was hanging out with a recently departed friend, had to tell him he was dead. Felt so real...

Hi all,

So recently a friend of mine passed away. He was the loveliest and kindest person I’ve ever known and his death has impacted our community. Although we wasn’t close, whenever we would see each other we would always chit chat and catch up for a few minutes.

Last night I had a very long and intense dream that me and him were hanging out, having dinner, walking around our area and just generally talking. Talking about nothing majorly important but eventually in my dream he mentioned that wanted to hang out again on Friday. At this point, I felt as though my mindset in the dream changed and I suddenly come to the realisation that I had to tell him we couldn’t and why so.

In real life, this Friday is the day of his funeral.

I tried explaining to him that we couldn’t hang out because it was in fact his funeral then and he was dead. He then got really worked up, stressed and disoriented and worried. A horrible feeling of guilt for telling him the news, and an overwhelming feeling of sadness came over me. The dream became really depressing and I couldn’t find him as he walked off and for the rest of it I was “searching” for him.

This dream has been the first in a very long time I’ve had where it felt so real. When we were hanging out, I swear I could smell the restaurant food, hear the surroundings, had a general feeling of being happy that I was chilled and having a good time. I think I possibly was sleep talking as well. But then after the “we can’t hang out” moment, I felt as though his emotions were real and I had the sunken stomach feeling. I woke up with my heart pacing, tears running down my face and in a sweat.

I don’t know why this has affected me so much this morning. I think the intensity of it has knocked me a bit.

Has anyone else had a dream like this? I sort of believe in the paranormal to an extent but I don’t think this dream was a signal that he feels lost at the moment. I just thought it was a very random dream to have. He was just obviously on my mind even though I haven’t spoken about him (or consciously thought of him) since the news come out a few weeks back.

Anyway, thought I’d share. A bit therapeutic for me to have written it down!

Hi all,

So recently a friend of mine passed away. He was the loveliest and kindest person I’ve ever known and his death has impacted our community. Although we...

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A dream told me when I'd die?

So basically the dream started with me at my school,lost, looking for something until a girl came up too me and led me too the school bathrooms where I saw this man. He said ask me any question so I asked him when I'd die. He said you'll live a long happy life and die in 9 years.. keep that in mind. I looked over at the girl and she had an evil grin on almost like she wanted me too feel scared and lost and terrified. I woke up in a sweat.

I had another dream today where I was on reddit and I asked a similar question to this and someone said it might happen. so im scared but.

My mums friend had a funeral before I think so that mightve triggerd it idk

Any answers on what this means?

So basically the dream started with me at my school,lost, looking for something until a girl came up too me and led me too the school bathrooms where I saw this...

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Had a dream that Conan O'Brien died in a car wreck, and at his funeral his wife and kid were crying. Except, the "wife" was just conan O'Brien with longer hair, and his "kid" was Conan O'Brien but...

I guess my brain doesn't know what they look like so it just auto filled

I guess my brain doesn't know what they look like so it just auto filled

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