Includes the end

Question:

What am I ready to bury?

General Meanings:

The importance of death When the coffin appears in the dream, then the dreamer remembers his mortality. Such a dream symbol is used to recognize the importance of death and the rites related with this. Perhaps the dreamer successfully came up with “the death” of relationship, now he can pure or overcome a sense of loss.

Luck and Worries Coffin also urges to bury the past, so that you can make life more carefree. If you lie in the coffin, this announces you luck, but you can not rely to much. The empty coffin indicates unnecessary worry.

Psychological Meanings:

With the death the symbol of coffin does not have much to do. There are some common dreams that may appear in the dream:

•  If coffin is decorated richly, this can symbolize that a person has an important turning point in his life, he would like to make clear transition in any way.
• The coffin closes something in the dream, paraphrases to say goodbye “that is all with the past now “. This also may be that the dreamer closes his mind against negative feelings and kills a part of himself.
• If coffin is closed, the farewell of a person, or a professional position is approaching and this is imminent.
• If coffin swims like a boat on the water, something will be swept away that frightened us.
• If see a corpse in the coffin, perhaps wants to make separation with a friendship or even the loved one. This can also indicate a divorce.
• If lying in a coffin, should forget the past and build only the new future.

Spiritual Meanings:

At the spiritual level the coffin symbol in the dream symbolizes redemption, resurrection and unhurt, salvation.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Buried past if seeing – This dream shows that your inner world says goodbye to the past. The new intentions can be realized when the old are buried;
• Worries if a farmer is dreaming a coffin – This dream signifies that the harvest will be destroyed and cattle will get ill;
• Debts if dreaming a businessman – Then he/she will have a pile of debts;
• Hurt if dreaming young person – This is a bad omen, means that you will lose your loved one and announces bad relations which will damage your feelings very deeply;
• Overcoming problems if seeing empty – The coffin is empty in your dream, then this denotes that in near future you will have unnecessary worries, but you will overcome them. also this marks that you will have a long age;
• Unhappy family life and losses in business if seeing a body lying in the coffin – When the coffin is with a body in your dream, this indicates unhappy marriage and irrepressible offspring. Also announces a misfortune in the marriage or a partnership. From professional side  you will emerge setbacks or losses;
• Troubles if seeing your own coffin – This shows about approaching family concerns and defeats in business or at work;
• Happiness if seeing yourself lying in the coffin – Very good omen. This dream promises a happy event in marriage or partnership;
• Contempt if seeing yourself as a corpse – Your corpse is lying in the coffin, this shows that your brave behavior will end in insulting and disgrace;
• Examine your behavior if one sit on in a moving hearse - In the dream you are in the coffin and the hearse is moving,  it is a serious but not fatal disease on one or a closely related person, this may be connected with homosexual. You must reconsider your behavior with a friend or relative, because we have to love people such as they are;
• Happiness and sadness if coffin is moving by itself - This dream shows that illness and marriage are close together, joys and sorrows will exchange with each other.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Good sign if seeing – In the dream you are seeing a coffin, this marks that sick persons will have recovery, for healthy people – long life;
• Not firm luck if lying – In the dream you are lying in the coffin, indicates that you will have mutable and unstable luck.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Bad experience if seeing – In the dream you see a coffin, this announces you will experience bad destiny. This announces of great trouble or suffering;
  
• Long life if lying in coffin – You are dreaming that you are lying in the coffin, this signifies about long life;
• Hurt and worries if see somebody is lying in it – This dream symbol indicates , that the death will bring and prepare you pain and sorrow. Also you must reckon on difficulties in the business environment or your family affairs;
• Illness if seeing empty – The coffin is empty in your dream, this shows that you will get ill, but you will recover. If you want to avoid disease , now you have to rest a little bit.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Seeing coffin in your dream – In the dream this symbol can mean great wealth. The coffin might mean the death of some part of yourself – this might be a hope, feelings connected with a relationship, buried behavior or habits. Also this shows that you have buried your past and now you are ready to create new future.

Dreaming that you are in the coffin / Being in the coffin – This dream symbol appears when you are thinking about your mortality. Maybe you are thinking what have you done in your life, will you leave something after you. You can feel that you are trapped in worries  and troubles. You are stuck and can’t find the way out.

Dreaming of coffin with a person ( mother, father, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, partner, relative ) – In the dream a coffin with a person that you know, may mean that you have fear about this person’s health. Also this can show that you need more attention from the certain person which was in your dream. You are afraid to lose the connection or relation with him/her. But sometimes this may indicate the end of relation with that person, your conscious shows that it is time to separate, to bury the past.

You are hiding under or covering something in the coffin in your dream – These actions shows that you want to hide from your enemies or worries in your waking life. You try to cover yourself from unpleasant things. Also this may show that you want to hide your shame or bad behavior from the others, with such an action you try to bury this.

Seeing coffin of different colors ( white, black, brown, grey) – When white coffin appears in the dream, this symbol shows that you have already buried all the negative thoughts, habits and now you are pure to create new you with all the superior features. This will bring you prestige and prosperity. Black coffin – This dream refers that you want to hide some bad habits or even your unacceptable behavior. You want to bury your shame, to cover it that nobody will ever know this. Brown coffin –  Such color coffin announces illness or health problems. Your body and unconscious sends you a signal to take care of your health because you are near very serious disease. Grey coffin – This symbol appears when the dreamer step by step gets rid of painful feelings and thoughts. His mind is getting brighter.

Seeing empty coffin in the dream – To dream of an empty coffin presents a desire to change your thoughts or your life about something. Perhaps you have started to create new personality and get closer to yourself, your desires.

Dreaming the coffin with a child (kid, baby) – The coffin with a child appears when the dreamer has a desire to have children, but unable to conceive because of disease. And with this dream the dreamer buries the wish to become pregnant. Also it may be that the dreamer has a fear to lose the children or a child that he/she already has.

Dreaming of closed coffin – In the dream to see closed coffin, this may be interpreted as the end of something. This can be the loss ( not only by death) of friend, partner or professional position. This is a sign that there isn’t any possibilities to renew.

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

Member of the community For many people, a ballot box is the symbol for their life as a member of the society. The dream of it, indicates the ability of the dreamer to adapt himself in a community and to act for the common well-being.

Psychological Meanings:

Desperate and sad mood which is connected with death presentiment Like all vessels, the urn also stands for the feminine principle. A covered urn is associated with the death, when in the dream the urn emerges in connection with a crematorium. Therefore, a dream of an urn can also rouse a premonition of the death. The vessel which holds the ash of a deceased person, indicates a bereavement, however, this could be mood position, in which we currently find ourselves.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Disease if see an urn – In the dream symbol of urn promises dangers in near future which will result sadness and illness;
• Honor relative if see – You are dreaming that you see an urn, this signifies that you will get news about a young relative who comes with his own big pride and will delight with honor;
• Unhappiness if broken urn – In the dream you see a broken urn, indicates that accident stands at your door, the misfortune is coming.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Blamed if see an urn – In the dream you see an urn means that you are assigned responsibility for so many inconveniences and domestic strife;
• Long life if see buried urn – In your dream the urn is buried, this shows that you can hope to live a long life.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Embarrassment if seeing and using – You are dreaming that you see an urn or you are doing something with it, denotes that soon this will bring you in a big self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.

Contexts’ Meanings:

* Please, see meaning of vase, coffin.

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.