

If you dream of someone you love dying in a similarly haphazard way, the same criteria apply.

If you die in this kind of dream, it's likely pure fear of change or loss. Its message is always personal and only clear after a lot of inner reflection. That's the one for the analyst's couch or the dream books. When timelines are mixed, people past and present are juxtaposed, and you can't put the dream in any logical order, that's your psyche processing your waking life. The next minute your ex from five years ago is there, and suddenly you see your dying fall.

One minute, it's the 1980s and you're wearing the pants you bought online last week. When we are processing many emotions at once-fear, sadness, loss, frustration, desire, longing, etc.-our dreams often become giant mashup scenarios. RELATED: Why Don't I Dream? What It Means I would look for more clues about what the message could be and how this dream could be signifying a different kind of "drowning" in my own life. What was the scenario that caused me to fall overboard? Was I pushed? Were large waves washing me away? In this case, I would try to remember some more details of the dream. If I had the same dream but I struggled for air, felt alone and in despair, this would obviously be a bad death. Let's say I had a dream that I died in the water, drowned when I fell into the sea. If I felt peace and calm in my dream and like my spirit was at rest, I might come to the conclusion that this dream was about a past life. But here is an example of how I would approach a dream like this: So it's complex, and ultimately the only person who can decode the meaning behind this dream is you. I've also heard from people who dream of painful deaths that occur under scary circumstances. I've heard of people who have dreamed that they've died and been met by spirits, angels, ancestors, or guides and experience peace. This can be a very scary dream or a very tranquil dream, depending on its quality.
