Dreaming of dead loved ones can bring comfort to your life or it can fill you with sadness and aggravate the feeling of loss and grief that you are going through.
It is normal that when we lose a loved one, our subconscious mind manifests it through dreams. You may wish to consult a psychologist if the dreams are recurring and don’t help you grieve. If you already have a therapist, inform them of this information.
How does dreaming about deceased loved ones differ from dreams triggered by emotions? Is it true that dreams of dead relatives or loved ones can be a warning message for your walking life?
In this article, we will explain all the possibilities that such dreams can have. From visitation dreams, their different meanings, and even the projection of your wishes through lucid dreams.
What Does It Mean When You Dream About A Deceased Loved One?
1. You miss him/her
The rationalization of these dreams is important. Before interpreting it as a symbolic dream, we must be aware of our emotions and desires.
If we are still grieving the loss of a loved one or a dead friend, we likely dream of that person because we miss them very much and we want them to continue to be part of our days. They are called grief dreams and are completely normal.
Some people even have the ability to dream about them through lucid dreams. In these dreams, the person is aware that he is dreaming and can control his dreams at will. Many use this technique to remember pleasant moments with loved ones who are no longer with us and to serve as comfort in our waking life.
2. Warnings and comfort for your life
Some people consider these types of dreams as negative dreams. Your life or the life of someone in your family is about to be affected by something bad.
It may also be an important message that deceased people were unable to express in life and are believed to visit us after their deaths.
However, some interpret these experiences as positive dreams. If in your dreams you came to speak with the person, it is considered a visitation dream.
These kinds of dreams want to give you guidance, healing, encouragement, or insight into your life. It is also believed that when dreaming of dead family members, they become guardian angels for your life or your whole family.
3. Unfinished business
Sometimes we are not going through any kind of grief or we have not lost any family member recently, but a loved one appears in our dreams.
In psychology, there are researchers like Carl Jung, who related dreams to issues in your subconscious of which you are not aware in your life and manifest through dreams.
One of the most common interpretations when dreaming of deceased loved ones is that of pending issues in your life.
If you have been escaping from difficult situations or fears that you have not wanted to face in the past, these types of dreams come to remind you that you have left unresolved things in your life and that they haunt you to this day.
Problems are not solved by evading and postponing them, but quite the opposite. To get rid of complex problems once and for all, it is necessary to face them and solve them as soon as possible.
If you continue with that cowardly attitude, avoiding responsibilities and putting off important things, you will never be able to be at peace with yourself.
4. Looking for advice and guidance
You are in a difficult moment in your life that requires intelligent and mature decisions, but you feel that you do not have the correct answer to your problems.
In these cases, it is common to dream of a dead relative, even more so if that person was the one who gave us good advice and mature guidelines for our lives.
It is hard to know that you no longer have the support and guidance of that close family member, but you must learn to lean on the other people around you. Find another family member with whom you feel comfortable or perhaps a close friend who you know will listen to you without any prior judgment.
You should open your heart to them and tell them all your problems and ask them what they think about how to act. Even better if you can count on the advice of more than one person. That way you will have several perspectives on the same problem and they will give you more elements so that you can choose the best answer yourself.
5. Problems with a love breakup
Love breakups are also grieving processes that are not always easy to process. Although that person with whom you have ended a relationship has not died, the feeling is similar.
This is because you no longer see that person in your day to day, you no longer share moments and in practice, it is as if she had disappeared or died. That is why your dreams manifest that loss through dreams with loved ones who have passed away.
The important thing in this situation is to know that everything is part of a grieving process and that you need time to heal the pain that not having that person around causes you.
You should also be aware that even if you miss your ex, the relationship ended for some reason and that indicates that no matter how much love there is, that person was not the one for you.
So it is normal to go through this type of loss and have this case of dreams if you have just recently ended a loving relationship.
6. Good luck comes to you
Dreaming of a dead relative is considered in various cultures as a sign of a good omen and an auspicious future for the dreamer.
Contrary to what many may think, dreaming of dead relatives is not a message of death or hopelessness, quite the opposite.
Dreaming of relatives is a sign of good luck, a message from the universe that tells you that you have a prosperous future full of opportunities.
The dream usually comes to people who have been through difficult times and have grown through them.
It is the calm after the storm that tells you that now you will receive your reward for having kept fighting despite the difficulties you have had to experience.
Rejoice and prepare to enjoy moments full of joy and prosperity shortly.
7. Anxiety and fear
Dreaming of dead loved ones can represent your fear of death. These dreams become more intense if you have gone through the experience of losing someone close or dear to you.
Fear and anxiety want to take over you and do not let you sleep peacefully. Fear of death is natural, but if we let it take over us we will only generate negative thoughts and we will begin to imagine fictional scenarios full of pessimism and fear.
These emotions will not allow us to live a peaceful life and we will always be aware of the misfortunes that can happen to us and try to avoid dangerous situations for fear of dying.
This behavior is not healthy at all. We cannot live our lives constantly thinking that death is stalking us. Dying is part of life and we will all have to face that moment, but in the meantime, you must live with joy and fullness.
We cannot predict our death, nor can we avoid it, but what we can do is have days full of happiness, live to the fullest and get the most out of life.
8. You are choosing the wrong path
Dreams of dead loved ones can also be warning signs that we are making serious mistakes in our lives or choosing the wrong path.
Perhaps we are letting ourselves be carried away by influences outside of us or we simply have lost our way and connection with ourselves.
It is important to take time to reflect, to be honest with our emotions and fingers, and to ask ourselves if we are acting correctly or if we are doing what we want in our life.
Take this dream as a loving warning so that you can correct your behavior or your decisions in time and stop making mistakes.
Conclusion
Dreams with dead relatives can have various meanings. They are usually warning messages or timely advice for our lives.
But it can also be about your grief, which needs time and patience to be resolved.
And in some cases, it can be about supernatural experiences, dreams of visits, and messages from your relatives, who can act as guides and guardians from other levels of reality.
