What Does Dreaming Of Seeing Someone Die Mean?

Seeing a mother or father die is counted by the interpreters as devotion and the fear of losing them finding a voice; most sources read it as their long life. Ibn Sirin reads a death without wailing and without mourning toward good.

The mind rehearses in sleep what it fears most; this dream usually shows the size of the love, not a piece of news. It calls the dreamer to a phone call, not to worry.

Ibn Sirin reads seeing a living person die as, in most cases, that person's long life. Where there is no wailing and no mourning he counts it toward good and the renewal of bonds; the dead leaving a beautiful face behind points to the goodness of their state. Al-Nabulsi ties the dream to the relationship instead: the matter between you ends in its old form, and news from afar becomes word that will reach you.

Seeing the dead person come back to life points to a matter or a relationship thought finished coming alive again; the interpreters read it as a door opening from an unexpected side. Seeing the funeral carried out in order tells of an era closing properly. Watching without sorrow is counted a sign that the matter with that person was settled long ago, and the sources tie that to maturity rather than coldness.

In the Jungian approach death in a dream is an archetype of transformation: what dies is not the person but the old form of the relationship, and the dream comes when a bond is settling into a new balance. From the Freudian perspective it is repressed anxiety, sometimes unspoken anger, in disguise. Those living far from their close ones and those with someone ill see it often; the fear is the shadow of the attachment.