The need of changes and the fear to take responsibilities You are getting to go from a known situation – perhaps leaving your home – so this points out that you break away from old and familiar patterns of behavior. Perhaps you feel the need to grant yourself with freedom and independence. Departure generally stands for the constant change of life, towards which direction to move we decide ourselves. A hasty departure may indicate that you want to shrink a duty or responsibility. It describes a certain fear that you need to take over responsibility for anything in particular. The departure by car, plane or train announces that you will avoid a hazard and danger. To interpret the dream you must always consider the accompanying circumstances, for example, the aim of the departure.

Psychological Meanings:

The wish to avoid responsibility or difficulties and run away from daily routine You pack your bags in a dream, rushes to the train station, airport or gets in the car. Your suitcase can not be closed or you missed the train, the way to the airport is blocked by a traffic jam, the car couldn’t start. It is certainly not a warning before dangers of your travel! You prefer simply “to go away” – from the dreary daily routine, an extreme stress situation, the marital quarrel or flee from the responsibility. But we also know that you have no chance to do like this! Behind the vision stands the wish to avoid responsibility or difficulties. Here caution is announced in any case!

Spiritual Meanings:

The deliberate rejection of the past can be represented in dreams by a departure.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Improvement of present situation if ready to leave – You are dreaming that you are ready to departure from somewhere, this indicates changes with an improvement in conditions or situation;
• Important decision if prepare – In the dream you are preparing to leave, announces that soon you will be faced with an important decision which will change your life;
• Positive changes if expect a joyful journey – This dream signifies that the current situation soon will change into something positive;
• Pressure from other if sudden departure – A sudden departure and hasty packing of your bags in the dream, means that somebody tries to push you to take more responsibility;
• Avoiding tribulations and mischief if departure – This dream means that you will go out of the way with adversity and calamity;
• Running from responsibility if see yourself leaving – In the dream you are leaving yourself means that you want to avoid and run away from responsibility;
• Fear to miss the opportunity if miss any kind of transport – In the dream you miss the train, the car, the bus etc.  at the last moment, shows your fear that you can miss an opportunity.

* Please, see meaning of farewell, railways, travel.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Present if unpack something – In your dream you are unpacking something and then put to a chest, dresser, a suitcase or a cabinet then this denotes that you will get gifts or pleasant surprise.

Fire is mostly seen as a symbol of anger. Also, it represents some combination of difficult circumstances in waking life that is mentally painful and very hard to accept. Do you feel intense bitterness currently in your life? Or maybe there is a situation that goes far away from what you have expected.

Anything what is being on fire could represent the complete loss of something. Fire stands for destruction. And that destruction occurs because of some problem in life has gotten out of control. In other hand, dream of fire may indicate your personal fear of possible knowledge about losing something very precious to you. The more fire you see – the more control you have lost in relation to the control of a loss. Alternatively, fire dream mean destructive impulses, ground breaking jealousy or hard reaching emotionally intense reactions that is taking over a logical mind.

To dream of a house on fire symbolizes a loss of solid clear thinking. Maybe your mind-set has changed recently due to personal experience that was not expected. Additionally, fire in a house might show that security and safety being lost because of not giving careful attention and doing some mistakes. In your waking life might be some huge problems that are destructive and consume everything in its way until all become lost. Alternatively, house fire means enormously strong feelings which control you more than it should be. That makes you weaker and eventually those emotions totally overrun your clear thinking. But if a house in the fire dream becomes rebuilt after all devastating fire, it may represent you will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes. You will recover from serious troubles or unavoidable crisis.

Dreaming of starting fire on various things denotes your deep desire for doing damage to something. Maybe you have a wish for complete destruction in some aspects of your life. It could be a situation or a person, which you want to get rid of. Alternatively, it could represent lack of success in your dealings. Maybe you had a failure and it shows up in dream of setting fire.  In other hand, you might be in a situation which puts you in position where you have to start a problem. Anyway, it shows that you might be doing intentionally some troubles. Also, setting fire dream could mean your burning desire to start something new.

Dream of city on fire could symbolize social connections that are being damaged or completely destroyed because of strong enough emotions to be out of your control. Some relationship might look like being eliminated from your waking life forever.

To dream of an evil alive fire, it could be a monster or a demon, feeling like nightmare, means something very horrible has been experienced physically or mentally. It shows that some troubled situations gives for you very terrible feeling and seems like to be intentionally out here to destroy you.

Fire dreams also can be a reflection of our agitation that something is going to burn. It shows our anxieties about fire safety. Dreaming about fire is very common to people who have been touched by fire, have some burnings or have experienced trauma from a fire just seeing something burning. Mostly after seeing serious fire in waking life, the dream of the fire will visit you soon.

To rescue people from burning buildings in a dream means our ability to solve problems and to help others. Also, it represent that we are able to receive good outcomes of any bad situation. Something is going to change and will give a lot of joy.

As prognostication, fire dream might be very helpful to keep in order with requirements of fire safety. Try to install smoke detectors and other devices, like fire extinguisher in your home.

Sometimes we dream what is going around us in waking life while we are asleep, so the fire could be induced by external and internal stimulus. Smell of the smokes, the sounds of burning fire or a memory about forgetting to turn some electrical device of also can be the reasons of dream about fire. Those can be seen as external stimulus. For internal stimulus, increased body temperature or some issues with health of the heart can be the reasons of fire dream.

Children may have nightmares about fire if they have anxiety of fire or fire safety drills. Also, for those kids who witnessed a serious fire, the fire dream might rise in sleep.

Spiritually dreams of fire could reflect constant anxiety of eternal after death punishment. It also might show that the dreamer is feeling guilty and has powerful tendency to be very punishable personally with moral issues. Alternatively, fire dream can mean spiritual re-birth since it is devastating natural power after which something new must come.

The mourning time The dream of a burial is an indication that the dreamer has come with feelings about death. It is not necessarily about your own death, it may be of another man. The dream may be a sign for the fact that there is a need to mourn because of an event or a person in the past. This time of mourning will give you an ability to forge plans for the future and to bury the pain and the past.

Wish to forget sad things The dream of a burial or an interment can be the desire for sympathy or to imply for a part of the personality which is dead. Burial as a dream symbol can sometimes symbolize the unacknowledged desire to forget another person who was dead or at least gone for ever from his own life.
The most frequent meanings why you dream a burial:

• Fear of own death or loved ones, the wish to protect from death people you love, this meaning is derived from the real life circumstances.
• Dramatic changes in personality and / or the circumstances. This may announces many hopes, wishes, goals, attitudes, beliefs because the past was buried in the grave. The burial dream can be interpreted positively because only with this funeral will pave the way for new life possibilities.
• You were overwhelmed and shocked by a variety of duties and tasks which you are unable to solve so the one way for you really to bury everything in order to find the solution.
• The feeling of loneliness where you feel like being in a grave by the life and isolated from other people and you recognize that there is no way to escape from it.
• Unbearable feeling of guilt because of perceived or actual past mistakes for which ones you really ashamed. You prefer to bury them in the ground (grave). Such a feeling may be a sign of depression which indicates suicide risk and has to be taken seriously and psychotherapy is urgently needed in individual cases .

Psychological Meanings:

The new beginning A dream of the burial symbolizes a first step toward independence from parents or also forgetting painful events of the past. Often this dream means that it is better to bury something then to have a dispute with what is already “dead” ( a relation or a useless object).
Get rid of negative things To bury yourself in the dream usually gives you an ability to see what wrongly you do with yourself – inhibitions, inferiority complex or self-pity – this urges you to self-knowledge. What has died within us or wasn’t useful or restricted us these objects we should carry to the grave.

Spiritual Meanings:

On a spiritual level, the burial is a rite of passage.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Long life if be buried – You are dreaming that you are buried, then this dream is very good sign, that you will have a wonderful health and long life;
• Healthy life if see your own funeral or participate in it – This is a generally good sign, which predicts you a long and a healthy life;
• Anger if see burial of good friends – When you see burial of your good friend in your dream, then you may expect annoyances and problems with these people, because they have done something what was not reasonable for you;
• Warning if see a strange funeral – The funeral are strange and unusual for you in the dream then this dream wants to pay your attention and to admonish you that every time you have to think about the end of life do not take really risky actions;
• Happiness if participate in a foreign funeral – This dream will bring you unexpected joy and happiness. For single people such a dream indicates about late but wonderful marriage.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Sadness if see a burial of a stranger – This dream signifies about a grief and discontent in near future which will be caused by a stranger;
• Joy if see burial of friend or relative – You are dreaming a burial of your friend or relative, then this dream will bring you good news, joy and happiness;
• Well-being if a foreign burial – The burial of a foreign person was magnificent, then this dream denotes that you will gain wealth;
• if a foreign burial – The burial of a foreign person was poor in your dream, then you will have life struggles and lots of worries;
• Happy life if see your own burial – The dream announces you long life, health, family happiness (symbolic contrast!)

* Please, see meaning of grave, funeral, coffin, death, mourning.