I understand your concern. Dreaming of your death as well as the death of your child must be very stressful.
Despite this stress, I believe that this dream is almost certainly a very positive dream. But, to understand why I say this, a little background on dreams is needed.
A little background on dream interpretations –
Although all dreams and dreamers are different, I have noticed that some of our most powerful, stressful and confusing dreams will have a spiritual or mystical meaning (or symbols).
Additionally, I’ll typically use the theories of the late Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to help with my dream interpretations. Jung stated that the mind (which he called “the psyche”) consists of the consciousness and the unconscious. At the center of the psyche is an archetype called the self. At the center of our consciousness is the ego (which is not to be confused with egotism). The unconsciousness consists of the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The personal unconscious consists of those things that we used to know but have since forgotten. The collective unconscious consists of those things that we do not know and never knew.
More on the collective unconscious –
I believed that Jung invented the concept of “the collective unconscious.” It is the source of archetypes. An archetype can appear in our dreams as almost anyone or anything. For examples, a circle, a tree, an animal or a person could all be archetypes. An archetype could also be an event. For examples, hiking in the mountains, rowing across a river and a wedding could be archetypes. Archetypes have at least two things in common:
• The archetype is a symbol of something that is unknown to us and, as such, its meaning can never be completely understood by us. (Thus, by extension, we can never have a complete understanding of any dream that contains an archetype.)
• A dream archetype typically has an emotional content. This emotion might be amazement, fear, love, hate etc.
As we start to look more deeply into our dreams and try to understand them, the unconscious will send us dreams that are more meaningful.
Back to the dream –
In this dream, the dreamer is the dreamer’s ego. Thus, the death of the dreamer is the death of her (?) ego. The death of the ego is almost always a good sign in a dream. This is a shamanic death and is associated with increased spiritual and psychological development. The death of the ego lets the unconscious become conscious. This is very good. As Jung stated, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/443...ll-direct-your
The bedroom is “a place like Hell or Heaven….” This is a shamanistic experience. The shaman journeys to these realms during dreams, visions and self-induced trances.
And now for the child:
• It may be that the child actually represents the dreamer’s real-life child. Whenever feasible, we should consider that relatives and others, who are known to us, represent these real people.
• With this in mind, it may be that the child is also a shaman. Among shamans, it is commonly accepted that the ability to shamanize runs in families. Thus, the dreamer or perhaps a relative may be unusually spiritual or sensitive. Or, the dreamer may have an ancestor who was a medicine man or a shaman.
• The child may be a symbol of an archetype from the collective unconscious. The near-death (?) of the child could symbolize the death of a part of the dreamer’s psyche and then her rebirth. And, here again, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
• If we accept that the dream is shamanistic, then it could be that the child’s condition represents (what shamans call) soul loss. In shamanism, soul loss is what happens when a part of a person’s soul has been broken off and is in hiding.
• The dreamer had put her hand on the chest of her apparently dead daughter. She is not breathing. But, almost immediately, she is OK. Air and wind are dream symbols of the spirit. Thus, the child’s recovery may be due to the touch of the dreamer.
A couple of additional dream comments:
• Although we call this a “dream,” it may be more accurate to say that it is a vision or even a trance – another shamanistic indicator.
• The images and people that the dreamer sees before going to sleep may represent actual spirits or perhaps glimpses into the non-physical world of the shaman.
Hope this helps and is not too confusing. Be sure to get back with me if you have any questions or comments.
Lugus
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