Monument, Memory, Recollection

Question:

How do I want to be remembered? What will I leave in this life?

General Meanings:

Welfare The dream symbol of Gravestone stands for prosperity and a happy marriage. New beginning and old friends Dreaming a new gravestone, means that you have good opportunities to begin new and interesting things. Old gravestone announces that you will renew your relations with your old and forgotten friends.

Psychological Meanings:

Eliminate typical properties In the dream you leave an inscription on the grave. The name of a person that you know. This means that you think of his typical qualities / features, because in such cases the dreams say to us that you have to eliminate these qualities in yourselves and change them to better ones.
Change your attitude The inscription is sad on the grave of the person you know, this means that you have to change your attitude to that person and to be or to become more considerate, more gentle or more thoughtful.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Loss of a friend if see epitaph on the gravestone without name – In the dream you see and epitaph on the gravestone, this announces that you will loose your close friend or a relative;
• Welfare and happy family if seeing a gravestone – You are seeing a gravestone in your dream, this signifies happy and blessing marriage and prosperity;
• Illness if see crumbling or broken gravestone – This dream is a bad sign that you will have disease and some difficulties in your family;
• Meeting lover if admire the gravestone with other – You are dreaming that you are standing and admiring the gravestones with other people, the dream shows that you soon will meet the right partner and will be very happy about that;
• Getting back important things if see burial mounds – You are seeing burial mounds or gravestones on the hills, this denotes that you will remember something what was forgotten long time ago. Or you will get back something what had been taken or lost. The thing which was very important to you;
• Help from an old friend if see a tomb – In the dream you see a tomb announces that your friend who has great reputation and was absent for a long time, will come back and he will help you to reach your goals;
• New family member if seeing a gravestone or a sepulcher or a tomb – These symbols announces a good news about birth.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Long life if see a gravestone – In your dream you see a gravestone, this is a good omen that announces that you will reach a great age;
• Warning if standing and falling down from the tomb or a gravestone – Very bad omen about upcoming difficulties and mortal danger. You have to be very attentive.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Seeing a gravestone, headstone, tombstone – These symbols have very positive meaning. These symbols announces prosperity, marriage, happy family and birth in your life.

Seeing or reading name, an epitaph or inscription on the gravestone of the known person or your friend – Such dream shows that you admire this person attitude and feature that he has. So the unconscious marks that you have to follow his model and and try to change and eliminate your bad features to better ones. You have really good example and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Seeing broken, damaged or crumbling gravestone (tombstone, headstone, sepulcher, tombs) – Signifies about upcoming difficulties and worries in your life. In some cases this also may be a warning about health. You have to take care of your health if you want to avoid serious disease.

Dreaming a gravestone (headstone, tombstone) with your name – This dream doesn’t mean the end of your life. This is the sign that you are now in the new phase of your life, the new beginning, radical changes. You have left the old life behind you and don’t look back you have to move forward and reach the new goals.

In the dream  the tombstone (headstone, gravestone) of former partner (ex-husband, ex-wife, boyfriend, girlfriend or partner) - The unconscious shows that you still miss one of them in your life. You have to forget and keep moving on without them. You have to throw away him/her from your heart, because this will disturb you to find your soul mate or love of your life.

Seeing nameless gravestone (tombstone, headstone) – Such a dream is a bad sign. This is a mark of death and the end of life. The nameless gravestones announces loss of relative or a close friend.

* Please, see meaning of grave.

You have to handle with the problems do not run away The dream of a grave is an indication that the dreamer must consider his feelings which are connected with the death. Grave represents that you edged out the unpleasant feelings such as fear and insecurity deeper into unconscious. But the dream prompts you to handle with these conflicts. Partly fear of own death or of another people is expressed in it.

Psychological Meanings:

Fear The grave as a dream symbol stands for existential fear and resignation, this is the last place of refuge, where he looks and at last finds peace. The grave may be interpreted as a sign of unwillingness of life.

Killed interests and desires The dream possibly signifies that the dreamer has killed a personality interest and has hidden from the exterior world. Who is dreaming of the own grave or anyone else’s shows that he buries an idea or a plan whose implementation promised much for the dreamer.

Buried problems Also the grave as a symbol may mean that you have buried a problem that has been around you for a long time.

Enjoy your life For older people, dreams of the grave are often a sign that they live more in the past then in the present. With this picture the unconscious perhaps remind, that even the older man has still a future for which it is worth to live.

Spiritual Meanings:

At the spiritual level this dream indicates that the person fears perhaps less the physical death than rather its consequences.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Keep secret if see a closed grave – In the dream you see a closed grave this signifies that you have to maintain secrecy of your friend;
• Divorce if order one – This dream announces that you will have short marriage because you are not happy;
• End of worries if digging a grave – You are digging a grave, this dream announces that you will end up with troubles, but also you have to be very attentive. Your enemies, again try to make harm to you;
• Defense if dig or trench – In the dream you are trenching a grave, this shows that you will assert yourself against your opponents;
• Better future if digging when sun is shining – When you are digging and the sun is shining, this signifies that apparent difficulties will apply to the good;
• Recompense if see freshly dug grave – The dream denotes that you have to repent for the mistakes that you have done and try to ransom them;
• Losses if seeing empty grave – Means disappointment and loss of friends;
• if return to bury the corpse which is missing – The problems and worries will come from unknown sources;
• Better life if lying in the grave – In the dream you are lying in the grave, this announces you glad events, which will change your life into better;
• Changes in your life if be buried – You are dreaming that you are buried, this is a sign of a mental development and an upcoming change and transformation  of personality;
• Disease if see damaged grave – This marks about misfortune and illness in the family;
• Serious risks if visit freshly made grave – The dream threatens serious dangers;
• Inner pain if set flowers on mother’s (father’s) grave – In the dream you set flowers on your parents’ grave, this shows that you want to find solace, because you still miss them;
• Warning if see your own grave – The dream is a warning that you have to be very careful and attentive because your enemies wants to damage and make harm for you;
• Pay attention to your health if see your name on the grave – In the dream you see a written name on a grave, this is a sign that you have to take care of your health;
• Hopelessness if see your own corpse in the grave – Your body is in the grave in your dream, then prophesies misery and despair and you will lose hope in your life;
• Marriage if move between graves – In the dream you are moving between graves, this indicates marriage for you;
• Unhappy and short life if go on graves – This is a bad sign that predicts an early death or an unhappy marriage;
• Welfare if inspect well-known deceased graves – Very good omen which announces rapid progress to wealth and honor;
• Losses and problems if see full grave of buried people –  This person will get into difficulties and even threatens loss of assets;
• Temporary worries and after that joy if you are in the cemetery and the graves are overgrown – Signals of sorrow and temporary despair. But if you master strokes of fate then you will be rewarded with bigger joys;
• Worries and concerns if a woman is sleeping in the grave – A woman in a cemetery and in the darkness, she finds only an open grave to sleep, she will have many worries and disappointments through experiences with death or false friends. She has maybe even bad experiences in love.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Marriage if digging your own grave – You are digging a grave in the dream, this means that you will have a good and happy marriage;
• Feast if see open  – This dream announces you cheerful party;
• Health problems if shut a grave – In the dream you see somebody shuts the grave, then this is a bad omen. This announces you disease and your health is in danger;
• Weddings if to be in a grave – You are in the grave in your dream, this brings you quick and desired weddings.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Conflicts if seeing a grave – In the dream you see a grave this announces discords in your family;
• Misfortune if stepping into the grave – In the dream you get or step into the grave, this announces that you will experience falsehood and disaster;
• Worries if seeing open grave- When you open the grave in the dream, this signifies that you will have lugubrious experiences or death;
• Warning if digging a grave – You are digging a grave in the dream, this warns you that you have to be very attentive if you want to avoid misfortune and worries;
• No worries if lying in the grave – In the dream you are lying in the grave, this denotes that you will not have any worries in the near future.

Contexts’ Meanings:

If seeing grave in your dream – This is a symbol for the life conflicts which are not solved yet. Also this symbol shows your personal feelings such as insecurity, desperation. It feels like you are imprisoned in your worries and this will never end. This may be the key to start resolving the problems and to move out from bad period of life.

The sand or ground is being leveled upon the grave or it is freshly buried – This symbol shows that you will gain money, because you have already solved all the problems from your past. Now it is time to start something new. You will improve your inner feeling, you will destroy your fears and now you have the reason to life.

The grave is closed or empty – This has the meaning that something is completed in your life. Now you can leave this in the past ant to start new things.  A grave points to personal growth as you discard negative way of thinking. Now you are like an empty box which can be filled with new experiences.

Digging your own or someone else grave - Digging a grave in a dream means getting married and home building. The dream shows that you are ready to commit with the loved one. Your unconscious sends you a signal that you are mature to build your own family.

To be or You are in the grave – In the dream you are in the grave, this is a signal of your unconscious that you have to look deeper into yourself. You can find the aims and issues of your life. You are the only one who can fight and stand up for yourself because no one else can do this for you.

* Please, see meaning of Monument, cemetery, gravestone, coffin, death, burial.

Work on worthiness or recognition.

Question:

What I like and adore about myself? How do I want to be remembered?

General Meanings:

Work with your own memories Dream symbol of monument (a war memorial etc.) has a role which transports the dreamer back to a bygone era. Perhaps that became “print in stone” in your memory. The dreamer must work on his memory, before he can farther move forward in his development. Monument stands often for honor, recognition and success, but sometimes also for nausea, overconfidence, unrealistic expectations and hopes.

After all the accompanying circumstances in a dream, mainly distinguishes the following meanings:

• To see monument – this promises upcoming successes with recognition, but at the same time warns not to be so careless and snooty.
• Build monument indicates the beginning of a work with which you will submit honor, if you want truly and sincerely to help and take care of this.
• Your own memorial warns about lofty plans, exaggerated hopes and exaggerated opinion of yourself which leads to damage and mockery.
• Can see monument base – encourages to exert you to reach more. The statue lies near the base, this can be understood as a warning before a failure, a fall in trouble and misery, perhaps because these has previously even increased.
• The monument in the form of a gravestone signifies a long life.

Psychological Meanings:

It can be understood also as a symbol of power and as a fossilized image of a position of power, which must be observed, but no longer is current.

Spiritual Meanings:

A monument is a figurative representation, which should reflect respect and appreciation.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• The end of the work if see a monument – In general a monument shows completed work, plans. Also this symbol indicates exaggerated hopes of achieving your own plans;
• Success if see handsome, beautiful good-looking monument – In the dream you see very beautiful monument, this is a good omen. Your efforts and hard work will be rewarded with success;
• Glad if see and sit – In the dream you see a monument and sit on it, shows that you will be happy about progress in your life;
• Recognition if help to build – When you are building a monument or even help to build a monument, this indicates that your own achievements will soon be reaped with deserved recognition;
• Career if see and admire – In the dream you admire the monument, this announces honorable career, you deserve this because put lots of efforts in reaching such a position;
• Warning if see and envy – When you are dreaming that you are watching and feeling envy about the monument, this warns of ambition and addiction of fame;
• Acknowledgment if see cemetery monument - In the dream you see a monument in the cemetery, this denotes longevity and recognition from the people;
• Harm and ridiculous if see your own huge monument – This symbol shows that you incline for overconfidence and hubris. The arrogance and exaggerated hopes can now only make hard for you, this means that you can make yourself ridiculous;
• Success because of other if see of a friend or stranger – This means that you will participate in the success of another persons;
• Prosperity if see a monument of a great personality – The monument of a great person announces that you will thrive in the work, thanks to your own merit.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Honor if see a monument – This symbol announces that glory and honor will come to your house, but also this points that you do not be so too proud about it.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Award if see – In the dream you see a monument, you will be blessed by a distinction, your work will be rewarded;
• Good sign if see your own monument – Very good omen if you see your own monument, this signifies about honorable and rich life;
• Be careful if see overthrown or damaged monument – This is a warning that you have to beware of dangers in your life.

Contexts’ Meanings:

To see a monument or build – The monument in the dream is very good and positive sign. This symbol  announces you prosperity in your life. You will be awarded because of your hard work and all the efforts that you did. Also a monument will bring you honor and respect from other people. You are on the right place.

Seeing own monument – In the dream you see your own monument in different places (park, fields, on the hill and etc.), this is not good omen. This symbol denotes that you are too conceited. Your exaggerated hopes and confidence will make you harm, you will make yourself ridiculous.

Your own monument in the cemetery or like gravestone - announces long and honorable life. You have worked for this for so long and the life will give you respectable old age.

Seeing and dreaming damaged, ruined or destroyed or even falling monument – This is a warning that you have to be very attentive, because there are danger and worries in your life.  You will get some king of challenges from the life, but this will make you even stronger in the way of reaching your goals.

Seeing historical, ancient or of a great known personality monument – Such symbol shows that you are trying to improve your life. You wish to leave something after you, you want that people will remember you after your death like these great personalities.

* Please, see meaning of grave.

Death,Transformation

Question:

What is above me? What is over in myself?

General Meanings:

Buried past and painful feelings Each of us have a grave for loved one in the cemetery. However we all have cemetery inside ourselves, many graves of lost hopes, desires, farewell. This can indicate buried thing or thoughts in your life. The meaning of the dreams of the cemetery is clear: we talk about the place of the dead.

Trying to solve the problems with the help of the death people Who goes to a grave through the cemetery, he seeks to visit a world which for him still contains secret life. When the dreamer goes through the cemetery, this shows that in the waking life the dreamer has conflicts, worries and can not find the answers why this happens. He tries to find answers in the cemetery. The meaning of the cemetery dreams is not unambiguous. Some people have to visit a certain grave because they have a problem which hangs together with the dead person and it is not solved yet. In this case, the dream may be a form of trying to contact with someone you know who is dead and left unfinished works.

Buried habits and new begging To dream that you are in a cemetery signifies the end of a bad and wrong habit or behavior. Now you are ready to rebirth. You respect your past because you have got inestimable experiences, and now you live for the future, for creating new things, habits.

Psychological Meanings:

Buried past and things that are not used anymore In the dream a cemetery can present the dreamer’s connection with the death and the personality characteristic features of whom he “has destroyed” or doesn’t use it any longer.

Attitude and feelings connected with death On the other hand, this may symbolize thoughts and feelings which the dreamer has with the death, or usual attitudes and traditions associated with death.

Seeking for help and advice In the dream the graveyard appears at the time when the dreamer has conflicts and disputes in real life conflicts. Then we search for an advice with those which we visit there in the cemetery – from the deceased parents (or a parent) who promises you comfort, which denotes the overcoming of problems and worries. In the grave you try to find the way out of the situation which is dark and evil-threatening for you.

Cemetery sometimes can signify a fatality, if there are evidences and indications in real life. Other traditional meanings arise from the following circumstances:

• Standing, sitting or walking in the cemetery promise that you can expect a peaceful, quite and happy age.
  
• Seeing a cemetery points perhaps to the separation (not by death) with a very close people.
• Observing or watching when someone is carried to the grave in the cemetery, shows that you have to give up with expectations and attitudes in previous situation, so only then you can move forward.

Spiritual Meanings:

On the spiritual level a cemetery (churchyard, graveyard) is the place of the dead persons and the spiritual renewal.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Anxiety if seeing cemetery – This dream denotes that you will have some worries and problems particularly if you have to make very important decisions, but you will overcome everything;
• Recovery if seeing – Also this dream announces recovery after an illness;
• Worries if seeing military cemetery – This announces that you will have political turmoil, this can be interpreted as your family turmoil. You will have some changes in the family or even business;
• Bury past if entering – In the dream you are entering into the cemetery, this signifies that you will remember your past events, which you want to bury, because they do not fit you any more;
• Good sign if you find a beautiful cemetery – You have found a beautiful cemetery, this is a very good sign. You will get a good news that the person who was really sick will recover;
• Bury your past if staying for a while – When you are and stay for awhile in the cemetery in your dream, this shows that you are stayed too long in your past. You have to bury everything what bothers and makes you feel unhappy and keep moving towards;
• The end of relations if bringing flowers – You are bringing flowers in the cemetery, this announces death in the relations, this is not your soul mate, so do not be so sad about that;
• Healthy family if mother is bringing flowers – In the dream you see that your mother is bringing flowers to a cemetery, this shows that durably good health of the members of the family;
• Happiness and grief if a young widow visits cemetery – This shows that soon she will exchange her mourning clothes into bridal. But if she is sad and depressed, signifies that you will have grief and concerns in your life;
• Disease if seeing open grave in the cemetery  – This may be a warning about death or serious illness, you have to take are of your health and have some rest;
• Loss of love if the bride going to wedding place through the cemetery – Very bad omen, that she can lose her husband in a journey accident. You want to avoid such an accident, then you must visit cemetery and bring flowers on the unknown grave in your waking life;
• Finding peace if old person seeing cemetery – The old person is dreaming cemetery or graveyard, this shows that soon you will leave this life and at last you will find the peace;

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Fail if visiting – In the dream you are visiting cemetery or graveyard, announces that your plans will fail, because you didn’t put all your efforts to finish this;
• Long life if seeing - You are seeing cemetery in your dream, signifies about quite and ling age.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Loss if you are in it – In the dream you are in the cemetery, shows that you will lose a close relative or friend because of disease or death.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Seeing and walking in a cemetery, graveyard or churchyard in the dream –  this symbol shows that you have buried or have to bury your past, sad feelings or pain. This also can show that you are seeking for help from your death family member, which were very important to you and always helped you. Now you are in confusion and you need the advice.

Walking, going trough the cemetery (graveyard, churchyard) with the wedding dress – This dream is a bad omen that you can lose our partner and the one you love. Not only by death but also your relation is in danger. You have to work harder if you want to keep your relations and have a merry family.

Being, staying or sitting in the cemetery (graveyard, churchyard) – The dream is very good omen. This shows that you are ready for new life. You have buried all your past, bad habit or behavior, painful feeling. You are saying goodbye for the past. Now you are clean to create “new you”.

Cemetery (graveyard, churchyard) with lots of flowers – The flower signifies fresh and pure life. You are in the new stage of life. You are pure and ready to bloom with new opportunities and possibilities. The life gave you new beginning.

Dreaming cemetery (graveyard, churchyard) with crosses – The symbol cross in the cemetery is like crossroad. You have worries and problems in your life. You need an advice. If the crosses are white and bright, this is a good omen, that you find the way out from the worries. But if the crosses are dark and damaged, this shows that you need help from the others, because you will not overcome everything with your own efforts, you need the support from the others.

The cemetery is wet or in the water or can not find the way out – This means that you are overfull of hardship and you can not find the exit. You do not know how to manage with all this. You are too tired. You have to relax and try to stop for awhile, if you want to solve everything. Do not be afraid to fail, because only then you can see all the mistakes that you have done and this will help you to correct them and free yourself from hardship.

* Please, see meaning of grave, burial, funeral.