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Dreaming of death: meaning and interpretation

The end that opens another form

The closing of an identity. It is not a forecast about literal life.

Symbolic reading

To die in a dream, or to see someone die, speaks of a psychic cycle ending: a role, a loyalty, an idea of yourself. It does not predict a real death. The coffin is the case of what can no longer stay alive in the same form. After the dream-grief there is usually another room.

Jungian key

The death-rebirth archetype dismantles an identification so the Self is not imprisoned in it. Resisting the inner funeral lengthens the grief; attending it turns it into a rite.

Let that version end with dignity. What you are afterward does not need the same name.

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