To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates sorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects.
The young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.
To see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles to the dreamer.
To see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend or some desperate business entanglement.
To see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general dissatisfaction between countries and political factions.
To see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation, both as to business and health.
To see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death to that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious rupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.
For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of a sacred nature.
To put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see unscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.
If you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after an almost hopeless struggle.
For a young woman this dream denotes distress and loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.
For a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in which she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him that his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below the standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.
If she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is warned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract from the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store, foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned. There are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing. There will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work.
[1]A dream of contrary in that it predicts a full and happy life if the corpse was that of a stranger.
If the dead person was known to you, it signifies an estrangement or unhappy love affair.
If your dream involved a number of corpses but without any particularly distressing aspect, it is a forecast of success where you least expect it.
If your dream featured a medical examination of a corpse, such as an autopsy, it portends an unusual new and interesting experience to come.
See Also: Casket, Funeral, Death, etc.
[2]Dreams of the corpse of someone you know represent the completion of a relationship you once had with them, and perhaps the end of a particular pattern of relating. Dreams of a corpse can also represent a loss of passion for being alive. You may be moving through a heartbreak that leaves you feeling dead inside, realizing that you can either give into depression or make a decision to live life more fully and courageously than ever before.
See Also: Death, Goddess Persephone.
[3]See Also: Murder, Death, Dying. Disconnected personality or emotions. Warning signal: You are carrying something foreign—something that is dead—around with you.
If these dreams appear frequently and are accompanied by fear, it would be a good idea to consult a therapist. This is a frequent dream among women when they are oppressed. On the other hand, the dream symbol may also suggest putting an end to something, letting go of it.
[4]The symbol of a corpse in a dream means death, finality, or termination of something very important to the dreamer.
To the businessman it threatens failure or involvements that can destroy his reputation.
To a young person, disappointment in love.
To dream of being the corpse, a desire for absolution from wrongdoing inflicted upon others; a desire to escape, even by death.
[5]If a body is found in your dreams, it means that a situation is corrupting; there is something that smells bad and threatens to destabilize you. The corpse symbolizes the corrupt, those bad thoughts, hatred, and resentment that should be buried. That is why the dreams in which you become a corpse symbolize the desire of being done with a situation that concerns you.
[6](See Also: Coffin), Unhappiness is foretold by a dream of seeing a dead person lying out in the open. Bad news may be expected.
The corpse of an animal betokens a small financial loss.
An ancient corpse, such as an Egyptian mummy, is an omen of the raking up of an old wrong.
[7]Another of those reverse symbols.
If you are the corpse, you will be assured of a long, happy, and healthy life.
If someone you don’t know is the corpse, you will have a long and interesting life (not necessarily happy nor healthy).
[8]In dreams, corpses are not usually symbols of death. Rather, a corpse is a part of us or a part of our life that has died, for good or for bad. Alternatively, it can sometimes represent the feeling that our life is dead.
[9]A part of the self that has died: feelings, attitudes, beliefs. May be positive or negative aspects. Usually suggests deadened feelings and responses; fear has closed you off from own aliveness.
See Also: Death.
[10]To see a corpse in your dream, represents an aspect of yourself that has died or is being repressed. Or it may mean that you are unexpressive - you have shut down your emotions.
[11]An omen of estrangement or separation from friends, through your own fault; an unhappy love affair.
[12]Vision of a corpse indicates a hasty and imprudent engagement in which you will be unhappy.
[13]To see a corpse in a dream is symbolic of spiritual death and judgment, Ps. 110:6
[14]See Also: dead body under body.
[15]lucky numbers: 06-12-27-30-36-41
animal, of an: need to face up to the fact that the current project is a dead end.
clothes on, with: old problems can be solved despite a disappointing friend.
cutting open a cadaver: leave old conventions buried.
dragging a suitcase with a: your conscience is getting heavier.
lowered into a grave, being: realization of mortality and lessening of bodily functions.
morgue, at a: death of a marriage that you do not want.
others, of: wish to rid that person and his bitterness from your life.
relative, of a: fear you are losing control of your love affair.
rigor mortis, in: fear has armored you against your own feelings.
rotting, a: others are disgusted with your disregard for your health.
seeing yourself as a: an apology from one who has deeply wronged you in the past.
several: feel peril of death from those you have harmed.
walking around: wil be required to perform a disagreeable duty and die prematurely.
water, in the: wish death to escape from an intolerable mental outlook.
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