Dreaming of a Grave
grave · mostly negative, with one happy exception
A grave is mostly a dream of loss, illness and disappointment, but climbing out of one points to success.
What happens in the dream
- You dig a grave: unease about a project, but if you finish it you will overcome opposition
- You climb out of a grave: success, rising in the world and a quick marriage, the happy sign
- You walk on graves: an unhappy marriage or a serious misfortune
- Your own grave: enemies are trying to bring you down, so stay watchful; it was also said to promise children
- You pull someone out: you will save a person who becomes a close friend
- A freshly dug grave: you will suffer for others' wrongs, or lose money owed to you
- An empty grave: disappointment and the loss of friends
- You go down into a grave: loss of property and slander
How you felt
- Fear or grief: the dream often reflects a fear of losing someone or something
- A need to close a chapter: a stage of your life may be ending
Ask yourself
- What am I ready to leave behind?
- Which loss still frightens me?
See also Tomb · Cemetery · Churchyard · Burial · Coffin
Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862); A. H. Noe, The Witches' Dream Book (1885); Anonymous, The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles (1805)