The dead come to our dreams with a message, advice or warning that should be understood in order to avoid unnecessary troubles and keep ourselves from making mistakes, according to mystics.
Psychologists believe that dreams about relatives or friends who have passed away are just a manifestation of depression or feelings of guilt towards them.
However, let’s take a closer look at the mystical point of view and try to understand what messages can be carried by people who are now alive only in our memories and can talk to us only through our dreams.
Modern dream books often do not pay enough attention to many important nuances: what the dead people look like in our dreams – dead in the grave, alive and happy, or they come to life right before our eyes, or maybe we just do not remember in our dream that this person passed away long ago.
It is commonly assumed that the dream of a dead person (talking to him, listening to his advice, and doing what he tells) is a sign of unexpected news or changes in life. Christian dream interpretation books sometimes explain that we have such kind of dreams when the soul of our deceased relative or friend has not found peace yet, and advise to hold additional ceremonies at the funeral and repose of the deceased (for example, if in the dream the deceased asks for water).
Pagan interpretations of dreams that have come down to us recommend to implicitly obey everything that the dead person asks for, in order to avoid the anger of the gods. And while dreaming dead people may be scary, sometimes it can be a good omen.
In case if in your dream a dead person comes back to life, it may mean that something lost will soon return (money, a thing, or even social status).
An English dream book interprets the dream of dead people as a sign of good events in the family, such as a wedding or the birth of a child or anything happy and prosperous. Another dream book says that seeing a dead relative in a dream before the wedding is a warning against the union. This dream indicates the unhappy marriage and warns that the children born in it will be sick and weak.
At this point, there is no definitive interpretation, and you should always take into account many confounding factors. But most interpretations concerning dead relatives (especially parents) appearing in a dream indicate a warning of trouble.
Sometimes the dreams in which a sleeping person communicates with their deceased parents, help find inner peace, confidence, and even affect the success in business and the well-being of the family.
It is also believed that it is impossible to influence the dreams in which we see our dead loved ones. Mystics claim that even if you manage to do it, it is absolutely useless, since it is not us who call them in, it is them who decide to come to us.
For further information, check my recent article about the dreams of the deceased.
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I had a dream about my kids father.Me and him was at his aunts funeral and she had passed away but he was still alive what does it mean.And another dream that we was in the house together but he never talks to me.But he is always there.
I dreamt about my Grandfather who passed away 5 years ago. In the dream my whole family were in an airport and our flight home was delayed, he was sitting on the ground in a white tshirt against a white wall and he told me "I'm giving up" and i was trying to help him by giving him medication and calling him an ambulance but he didn't want to be helped he just wanted to sit there and give up. It was a really upsetting dream I don't like to think he might be suffering now wherever his soul is. Can anyone offer some opinions? My heart is broken since I had the dream
I lost my grandpa 4years ago and ever since he comes in my dreams very often.. I miss him soo much . He was my favorite and so was I, as I was his only granddaughter. Dreams are soo natural as if he is around me..talkin to me .. what does all these mean.. kindly somebody help me.I m desperately waiting to know about it
My uncle passed away in July. He had been my best friend and like a second father to me. When he died a piece of me went with him. He died in a paragliding accident in Slovenia. I was never able to say goodbye. The morning of his death I had a dream he was teaching me to fly. (To paraglide) but as he was showing me the wing messed up and he fell. I ran over and asked him if he was okay. He got up dusted himself off and laughed. He told me he was okay and he smiled at me. Then I woke up to the sound of my other uncle knocking on my dads bedroom door. My dad opened the door and I heard my other uncle tell my dad "I hate to wake you up like this man.. But Bud was in an accident. He didn't make it."
Just this morning I had a dream I was outside and he was alive again but I hadn't seen him yet. Then I look up and see him walking towards me with his big smile and his laugh and I burst into tears and ran to him and hugged him and I wouldn't stop crying. He just held me and then I woke up..
I dreamt about my dead grandma..dad's mom nd my mother..both seemed to be missing me..i wanted to stay back with them but i had my exam i could not stay back.what does this mean??????