Dream Dictionary
A dictionary from the Spellbook — symbols A–Z, and themes from Alphabet through Wedding.
The symbol list and themes follow the Dream Moods A–Z dictionary and theme pages. The readings here are written for the Spellbook. A symbol is a reading, not a prediction.
Death in a dream is usually an ending, not a forecast. A habit, a role, or a season is closing. If you are grieving, the dream may simply be grief.
B
Bereavement
Grief in the dream is sadness you have not let out. If a real loss is underway, the image is part of coping.
Black
This color is the unknown, danger, mourning, or a lack of support, and it invites a deeper look at yourself. It can also be open potential; with white, it asks for a cooler decision, or names a low mood.
Burial
The ceremony of putting to rest means a bad habit or a negative situation has been released. Burying the living, or being buried while alive, is turmoil and a feeling of being stifled.
See also Funeral.
C
Casket
A casket holds fear of dying, and also a closed, womb-like space, or a habit that can at last be put away. Empty, it is a split that will not mend; a body inside is a low, confined stretch and a situation that should finish. White points to innocence already lost.
Coffin
A coffin is fear of death, and also the womb, or a habit ready to be buried. An empty one is a difference that will not heal; a body inside is a low period and a situation that needs to end.
D
Dead
Speaking with someone who has died can mean you are keeping their company in order to finish goodbye, or that a current tie resembles them and needs to end. It can also warn that the people around you are a poor influence.
See also Death.
Death
Your own death means an old way of living is ending so a new one can start. A loved one's death points to a quality they carry that is missing in you, or to a bond that has already changed.
E
F
G
Grave
Standing at a grave means an issue you thought was finished still needs a look, and you are the one who must face it. It can also be a chapter closing, or a pun on feeling grave.
Graveyard
A graveyard is the discarded parts of you, and fear of what you do not know. It can also be a loss and a period of mourning.
Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper is a rejected part of your character, or the end of a habit, situation, or relationship. A friend who becomes him means you no longer recognize who they are.
K
Killer
A killer means an important feeling has been cut off and your sense of self is thinning. It can also be the sharp end of a healing, when you finally stop something that has gone on too long.
Killing
Killing someone in a dream is temper about to slip, or the wish to end a trait in yourself that the other person stands for. Being killed is a habit or a feeling you are trying to finish, or the shock of being let down.
See also Murder.
M
Morgue
A morgue is dreadful news about to arrive. It can also mean you are ready to lay the past to rest.
Mortuary
A mortuary means growth is stalled because talent is unused. It can also be parts of yourself that should be discarded.
Mourning
Mourning is inability to release the past, or, in the opposite reading, proof that you can accept a loss. Mourning clothes on others are grief and a disturbance in your social circle.
Murder
Committing a murder, as a symbol, is the end of an old habit or an old way of thinking, or anger you have stored. Witnessing one is deep anger, often at a trait in yourself; being the victim is a bond cut off, or talent left unused.
See also Killing.
S
Sympathy
Sympathy here often means the reverse: you are short on it while awake, and emotionally distant.
T
Tears
Your own tears mark a season of mending, or plain pain. Someone else's tears ask you to notice how your actions land on them.
Tomb
Tombs are parts of you kept buried. Your own tomb is a venture into a side you thought was gone.
Tombstone
Your own stone marks a major change in some part of life.
U
W
Will
Writing a will is looking ahead into a new phase, or a decision that is final. It can pun on willingness, or on what you leave behind.