Die
To dream that you die in your dream, symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or in your life.
Although such a dreams may bring about feelings of fear and anxiety, it is no cause for alarm and is often considered a positive symbol.
Dreams of experiencing your own death usually mean that big changes are ahead for you. You are moving on to new beginnings and leaving the past behind. These changes do not necessarily imply a negative turn of events.
Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways and habits. So, dying does not always mean a physical death, but an ending of something.
On a negative note, to dream that you die may represent involvement in deeply painful relationships or unhealthy, destructive behaviors. You may be feeling depressed or feel strangled by a situation or person in your waking life. Perhaps your mind is preoccupied with someone who is terminally ill or dying.
Alternatively, you may be trying to get out of some obligation, responsibility or other situation.
To see someone dying in your dream, signifies that your feelings for that person are dead or that a significant change/loss is occurring in your relationship with that person.
Alternatively, you may want to repress that aspect of yourself that is represented by the dying person.
See also: Death.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers [syn: die, dice]
- 2: a device used for shaping metal
- 3: a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- v. 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
- 2: suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
- 3: be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
- 4: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down]
- 5: feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
- 6: languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
- 7: cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts" [syn: die, die out]
- 8: to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- 9: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat]
- 10: disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
- 11: suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"