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.

Vegetation can stand in a dream for the obstacles which the dreaming artificially built before himself to obtain a growth process. So he can be hindered by thorny bushes in making headway. However, stinging nettles represent perhaps people who consciously confront the progress.

Psychologically:

While the obstacles which the dreaming constructs before himself can cause difficulties, on the other hand, the picture implies also lavish fullness and fertility, which can be granted to him. If you want to clear vegetation, possibly in a kitchen garden, can point to the fact that the dreaming clears what is no longer useful to him.

Spiritually:

Vegetation in the dream symbolizes fullness and growth possibilities at spiritual level.

* Please, see meaning of growth.

Hidden value Gilding points out that you cannot be deceptive by others with a splendid facade, this will become eventually see through and will see its real worth. You have to be very attentive and do not give in to the first impressions.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Wealth life if see gilding or gilded things – To see the action of gilding or to see gilded things in your dream, this is a sign of prosperity and honor;
• Be careful if get a gilded thing as a present – The dream marks that you will get a present or an offer which you have to consider very carefully, because behind this may be not so attractive and friendly intention.

* Please, see meaning of facade.

Improvement The dream of ornamentation may stand as a desire to improve something in your life that you already have. Like a diamond which needs to be polished in order to show its beauty. You want to estimate the things you have, you want to increase values for further.

Psychological Meanings:

Improving situation When the dreamer dreams of ornaments, then this dream points that his personal space may be used even better, and thus may become more successful. The dreamer does not pay attention only to the basic situation, but he actively improves its internal and external situation.

Spiritual Meanings:

At this level, ornaments stand for tangible and demonstrable spirituality.

* Please, see meaning of necklace, jewelry.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Bad sign if be in presentation (exhibition) – This dream is an unfavorable sign. This means that you take rival in business and love and this will not bring any satisfaction;
• Warning if make presentation – In the dream you make presentation then this dream denotes that all your difficulties are arising from your own actions, so be careful.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Be yourself if be in presentation – The dream of presentation may be a sign that you have to take a look at yourself and try to be more yourself or not to pretend someone else.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Need to show if be in presentation - The dream where you are in presentation marks that you want to show something important to other people and to get their evaluation.

Wonderful time to start something new Cornerstone stands for strength and safety, which may connect with personality or plans and goals that you will be able to make successful conclusion. Now you are ready to implement your desires.

* Please, see meaning of corner.

Entrance, privacy.

Question:

How well the different parts of myself consistent with each other?

Traditional Meanings:

Arabian (Islamic)

• Warning if break floors – In your dream you break floors then this marks that near you there is death or serious accident.

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.

First of all you have to notice where are you on the upper or lower deck in your dream. The lower deck symbolizes that you do not find your own goals and you implement only others’ goals. The upper deck of the ship is a reference to a very good and prosperous life phase, in which your spiritual goals are focused to target and well known.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Worries if be on a deck and see a storm – You are in a dream on the deck of a ship and watch upcoming storm, then this dream announces troubles and unfortunate connections that you will not be able to control;
• Happiness if be on the deck – You are on the deck and the sea is calm, then this dream denotes that you will have success and perfect happiness with a loved one.

* Please, see meaning of ship, sea.