Okay so my pregnant sister called me this am and told me she had to make sure I was alright b/c last night she said she had a dream I ran into the street and a car killed me. I know that to some dreams don't mean much but does anyone have insight as to what death in a dream means?
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endorphin_junkie
Cathlete
I think dream interpretation is so interesting. I have a friend who loves this stuff and is very good at interpreting dreams but she's not available to ask. I searched it and found this. The fact that your sister is pregnant might put a whole different spin on it but this is a start 
http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/searchcsv.pl?search=death&method=exact&header=symbol
Take Care
Laurie
http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/searchcsv.pl?search=death&method=exact&header=symbol
Take Care
Laurie
RunninTeach
Cathlete
I find this stuff fascinating, too, and have a fairly big dream interpretation book, which suggests that many times when we dream about other people, we are seeing some aspect of ourselves in them. Maybe your sister sees a quality of herself that is going to get "overrun" when her baby arrives.
catwoman88
Cathlete
I remember hearing that death symbolizes rebirth in a dream, like you are starting a new page in your life, but I'm not sure if that means a rebirth for the person who dreamed about the death or for the person who was the object of the death. I think it's for the dreamer. And perhaps her "rebirth" will have something to do with you.
On a sidenote, I once I had a dream that was so real and vivid.....and I'm convinced it was a past life memory. I absolutely 100% believe in past lives and believe that we often have dreams about the memories. In my dream, I was a barbaric type of warrior. I may actually have been a gladiator. I was dressed the way you see gladiators and barbarians depicted in the movies. No armor, rustic, sandal-type footwear that laced up my powerful, muscular legs with leather lacees. I remember looking at my massive arms - very muscular - and the sword I held in my hand. I had those leather wrist braces on, and my arms were dirty, sweaty, and lightly covered in coarse, dark hair. It was a weird recognition in my mind, like I knew this was me, but that it wasn't me, anymore. Everything was set on this bright white backdrop. The ground was white. The sky was white. Everything was white except all the other warrior fighting around me. It was as if someone had taken movie film and erased everything but the actors. Some of the other warriors on horses, some on foot, but all dressed similarly to me (although some were more heavily armored). I looked up to see a warrior on a horse charging toward me, his own weapon raised. I knew I was going to die, but I refused to run. I fell into a defensive stance and faced the charging warrior, ready to swing my sword. I felt my adrenaline pump into full throttle and felt very real fear sweep over me. Just as the horsed warrior reached me and swung down his sword, bright white flashed, and I bolted awake in bed. It had felt so real, and I immediately KNEW that I'd just re-lived my death in that other life.
I've always said I have a warrior's spirit. I'm a real fighter, very feisty and not intimidated by anyone. I'd definitely rather stand and fight than turn and run in any situation. I can definitely see shades of my personality matching the stereotypical character of a barbaric-type warrior.
It was a cool experience, that's for sure. I've never had a dream affect me quite like that one did. It was...different...everything about it.
On a sidenote, I once I had a dream that was so real and vivid.....and I'm convinced it was a past life memory. I absolutely 100% believe in past lives and believe that we often have dreams about the memories. In my dream, I was a barbaric type of warrior. I may actually have been a gladiator. I was dressed the way you see gladiators and barbarians depicted in the movies. No armor, rustic, sandal-type footwear that laced up my powerful, muscular legs with leather lacees. I remember looking at my massive arms - very muscular - and the sword I held in my hand. I had those leather wrist braces on, and my arms were dirty, sweaty, and lightly covered in coarse, dark hair. It was a weird recognition in my mind, like I knew this was me, but that it wasn't me, anymore. Everything was set on this bright white backdrop. The ground was white. The sky was white. Everything was white except all the other warrior fighting around me. It was as if someone had taken movie film and erased everything but the actors. Some of the other warriors on horses, some on foot, but all dressed similarly to me (although some were more heavily armored). I looked up to see a warrior on a horse charging toward me, his own weapon raised. I knew I was going to die, but I refused to run. I fell into a defensive stance and faced the charging warrior, ready to swing my sword. I felt my adrenaline pump into full throttle and felt very real fear sweep over me. Just as the horsed warrior reached me and swung down his sword, bright white flashed, and I bolted awake in bed. It had felt so real, and I immediately KNEW that I'd just re-lived my death in that other life.
I've always said I have a warrior's spirit. I'm a real fighter, very feisty and not intimidated by anyone. I'd definitely rather stand and fight than turn and run in any situation. I can definitely see shades of my personality matching the stereotypical character of a barbaric-type warrior.
It was a cool experience, that's for sure. I've never had a dream affect me quite like that one did. It was...different...everything about it.
lainiefig
Cathlete
I don't know exactly, but I don't think dreaming of a death is necessarily a negative meaning (as others have said above). I have lots of vivid crazy dreams; I even blog about it (http://dreamerfig.blogspot.com) and I've had lots that involve death, even my own death. So I can also tell you that it's a myth that if you die in a dream you'll actually die.
I really like the other answers you got, and the interesting link Laurie posted. I hope you and your sister will see this as an interesting thing and not a scary one.
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I really like the other answers you got, and the interesting link Laurie posted. I hope you and your sister will see this as an interesting thing and not a scary one.
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August
Cathlete
I also find dreams fascinating!
Nobody can tell you (not even a professional) what your sister's dream "really" means...only your sister can. The dream can depend on so many things that nobody knows but she - how she is currently feeling, how she feels about you, how she feels about cars, what she was doing the day before the dream and if it concerned cars...
But I completely agree with everyone here in that death in dreams is not what you might necessarily think it means. It usually means that something has finished and something new can now move on. Something may have "run" its course.
If this is not her first baby, she might be thinking about siblings and how the other child might react...
If this is her first baby, perhaps she's thinking of her own childhood coming to an end, and her nostalgic memories with her sister....thus the suggestion to herself to give you a call.
Anyway, you might ask your sister next time what she felt (alarmed, scared, angry, happy, confused, relieved) after seeing that dream. She might be feeling anxious about her unborn baby and just wants to talk to her sister for some reassurance.
....if she had no feeling this or that way about the dream, she may have been watching something on TV the night before and it simply got mixed into her dream. LOL.
ETA : It just occurred to me that it was July 4th when your sister had this dream. She may have heard a firework go off in the middle of the night that sounded like a "crash"? Or perhaps she has a memory of something you two did on the 4th of July?
Sorry I can't stop, I love to talk about dreams!
Nobody can tell you (not even a professional) what your sister's dream "really" means...only your sister can. The dream can depend on so many things that nobody knows but she - how she is currently feeling, how she feels about you, how she feels about cars, what she was doing the day before the dream and if it concerned cars...
But I completely agree with everyone here in that death in dreams is not what you might necessarily think it means. It usually means that something has finished and something new can now move on. Something may have "run" its course.
If this is not her first baby, she might be thinking about siblings and how the other child might react...
If this is her first baby, perhaps she's thinking of her own childhood coming to an end, and her nostalgic memories with her sister....thus the suggestion to herself to give you a call.
Anyway, you might ask your sister next time what she felt (alarmed, scared, angry, happy, confused, relieved) after seeing that dream. She might be feeling anxious about her unborn baby and just wants to talk to her sister for some reassurance.
....if she had no feeling this or that way about the dream, she may have been watching something on TV the night before and it simply got mixed into her dream. LOL.
ETA : It just occurred to me that it was July 4th when your sister had this dream. She may have heard a firework go off in the middle of the night that sounded like a "crash"? Or perhaps she has a memory of something you two did on the 4th of July?
Sorry I can't stop, I love to talk about dreams!
LaughingWater
Cathlete
I've had dreams where I was someone else entirely. I've also had dreams where I've witnessed stuff with people I didn't know, like I was a ghost. It's very cool.
GreenEyedLefty
Cathlete
Dreams are almost never literal. Death usually symbolizes life change of some kind. Your rather grisly demise in her dream might symbolize the "death" of one phase of her life as she enters another.
GreenEyedLefty
Cathlete
Wow, that is amazing! There is such a thing as "past life regression" where you can explore who you were in past lives in order to understand who you are and what you do in this one. It's clearly not for everyone, but it's there if you ever wanted to do that.
A lot of caution about past life regression and repressed memories.
There a lot of quacks that will convince you that something is wrong with you. There have been family breakups of "repressed' memories coming back. Some of those memories may have been planted by the charlatan who was "treating" the person.
There a lot of quacks that will convince you that something is wrong with you. There have been family breakups of "repressed' memories coming back. Some of those memories may have been planted by the charlatan who was "treating" the person.
LaughingWater
Cathlete
Yeah, I've heard of past life regression, both the good and the bad. I think it's a need concept ~ it certainly would explain some things ~ but I don't get too far into it.
The women in my family get together every other year or so and go see a medium, just for fun. (I take that with a grain of salt too.) She mentioned past lives and how our experiences stay embedded in our subconscious mind, influencing our current lives. Though I've always found it funny that many who claim to remember their past lives usually pick a rather famous or important character. :+ Few are ever a Middle Age serf.
My "other people" dreams were cool in that they had absolutely nothing to do with my current life or anyone famous. In one, I dreamt I was a male Native American. It was very quick. We were on our bellies, peering over the edge of a high hill, watching American soldiers approach a valley. I'm not into Westerns or anything like that, so why that popped into my brain, I'll never know.
Equally weird was my dream where I observed an Asian father and his son, and I got the feeling the time was in the late 1800s. Again. Where the heck did that come from?
Later I'll have to tell you guys about the more current dream I had about a policeman. I woke up the next morning to find the very incident I dreamed on the news. That was freaky.
The women in my family get together every other year or so and go see a medium, just for fun. (I take that with a grain of salt too.) She mentioned past lives and how our experiences stay embedded in our subconscious mind, influencing our current lives. Though I've always found it funny that many who claim to remember their past lives usually pick a rather famous or important character. :+ Few are ever a Middle Age serf.
My "other people" dreams were cool in that they had absolutely nothing to do with my current life or anyone famous. In one, I dreamt I was a male Native American. It was very quick. We were on our bellies, peering over the edge of a high hill, watching American soldiers approach a valley. I'm not into Westerns or anything like that, so why that popped into my brain, I'll never know.
Equally weird was my dream where I observed an Asian father and his son, and I got the feeling the time was in the late 1800s. Again. Where the heck did that come from?
Later I'll have to tell you guys about the more current dream I had about a policeman. I woke up the next morning to find the very incident I dreamed on the news.
That was freaky.