Dreams associated with death attract attention more than others. The people have long noticed that the dream of death cannot be taken literally. If, for example, a person is seriously ill, then seeing him lying in a coffin often means hope for recovery. “It was his death that died,” they say about such an omen. However, dreams are subtle matter, and there are no simple rules. Let's see what the options are.
Dream omen
Such a dream usually foreshadows some event, and a person learns about it in a dream. The message is most often in symbolic form, as the people noticed. But here, and for example, the national hero of Italy Garibaldi recalled the following incident: “I was at sea, and one day, amidst a storm, I fell asleep in my cabin. I dreamed of my homeland. I see the funeral procession approaching me. I recognized the dear features of my mother in the corpse … Then they told me that on that very day and hour she died. As you can see, everything is very simple and unambiguous.
It happens that a person himself can warn about his death in advance. This is what Olga P, a Muscovite, said: “I was ten years old when one day at the end of winter I had a dream. My mother's brother, Uncle Misha, entered the window and said to me: “I will die on March 18th. You are already big, and I tell you this so that you do not worry. " At that time, Uncle Misha lived far from us, I did not see him. And about three weeks later, on the named day, he died."
Finally, quite symbolic omens, from which it is clear what will happen and with whom. True, it is not difficult to guess that some kind of grief awaits the family. Here is another story of another woman on this topic: “I dreamed that I was standing in a tunnel, on the rails. I hear a terrible roar, something terrible is rushing towards me - either a steam locomotive, or some kind of monster. Screaming - no screaming, no one hears. To run away - the legs seemed to be rooted to the ground. Then I threw myself to the ground, and all this swept over me. Then I get up as if nothing had happened. Around the cloudless sky, the sun is shining, and I am alone. I wake up in horror, I run to my mother: “Mom, I had a dream, I want to tell you!” And she told me: “Wait, I want to ask you to fulfill my three wishes.” And she told me her wishes. "Will you do it?" I say: "I will." And then my mother lost consciousness and died the next morning. I realized what kind of monster it was. I lay for a long time, could not get up, for six months I did not talk to anyone. And then everything went away."
How does all this agree with the interpretations of numerous dream books? Very approximately, and often not at all, because everyone has their own language of dreams. Nevertheless, science is trying to find some general principles in this diversity. This is especially true of all sorts of warnings. Let's talk about them.
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Sleep-warning
Even in the last century, the content of dreams, the famous physiologist I. M. Sechenov defined it as "an unprecedented combination of experienced impressions", and most scientists tend to reduce them to purely physiological reasons. For example, Doctor of Medical Sciences V. N. For more than half a century, Kasatkin has been collecting dreams, conducted numerous experiments, as a result of which he found out that a hungry person dreams of a hearty meal, and if a hot water bottle is applied to the heels of a sleeping person, he will dream of a coast with burning sand, a desert or burning coals. In addition, dreams can indicate an illness: with a headache, tight hats and swollen heads dream, with skin irritation, spots on the body and unpleasant insects, etc. etc. Moreover, such dreams come long before the appearance of signs of the disease.
But the possibilities of science are not unlimited. The Swiss scientist, founder of analytical psychology C. Jung wrote that it would be a great folly to admit the existence of a ready-made reference book - the interpreter of dreams. No symbol can be understood independently of a person, just as it is impossible to classify symbolism itself once and for all. Before interpreting the dream, K. Jung talked with the patient for a long time about what he saw. Sometimes - to no avail. “Such a dream often comes straight from heaven, and one can only wonder what prompted it to be like that,” the scientist writes. To illustrate, let us give one more category of prophetic dreams.
Dream request
In the book "I am from a fiery village" A. Adamovich talks about the village of Lozovoy, Mogilev region, which was burned by the Germans together with people. One of its residents, Viktor Prokopovich, returned home after the tragedy. And then one day his wife Alesya dreamed and asked: “Why don't you bury me? I've been lying under the stove for a whole year already.”The old man disassembled the stove, and only bones remained there. Many have seen such dreams. Local residents remember how they came to the ashes again and again, having heard in a dream the same question of the dead fellow villagers: "Why don't you bury us?"
Many elderly people know that when a dead man dreams and calls to him, then this is not good. And if after obsessive dreams of this kind a person dies, then they say that the deceased loved him very much and took him to himself. If you dream of this, they are advised to resolutely refuse this offer (in a dream, of course).
There are many cases when a patient dreams of a deceased relative and calls to him. Then the crisis passes, the patient recovers, and the deceased stops dreaming. So you should not be especially afraid of such dreams. But one should not neglect: most of us rarely see really serious dreams - maybe two or three times in our entire life, but they usually report important things.