The Death

 

The dream has a lot to do with death, to the dreamer's fright. Because he believes all too quickly that such dreams announce his own death or death in the family or in the circle of friends. 

From the experience of thousands of small and large dreams one gains the certainty that dreams of death never announce physical death, that they are not dark predictions. Dreams in which death is spoken of, in which often strange pictures of dying taking place, in which we have to die ourselves, or even take part in our own funeral, mean nothing other than that something is dead in the soul, that the relationship to people , which we dream of as dead, lacking at the time of life. The dreams of death are of the greatest variety. It can happen that we suddenly walk in black mourning clothes. Then, if we don't understand the dream, we have to ask ourselves for whom or why our inner being is sad at the moment, why we are, as it is popularly said, 'in sorrow'. Rarely, without a personal relationship, do we feel that anyone around us is dead inside. The dreams of the dead almost always concern us. 

Perhaps a love in us has died, although we may not yet consciously admit it. Yes, perhaps we consciously emphasize that relationship particularly strongly because we feel that life has escaped from it. We ourselves are perhaps currently in a process of 'dying and becoming', whereby 'dying' has to be brought very close to us first. Especially at the turning point in life, when we have hiked to the summit of our existence and in the distance the dark gate of death appears on the near or far horizon, dreams of death and death approach us and help the hesitant insight to accept the unchangeable not only in bitter fear of life anticipate, but consciously and then shaping our way of life, to accept. 

It can also happen that in the dream itself, as in the dances of death of the late Middle Ages, death enters our room as a bodily figure.