Dreaming of a Shroud
shroud, burial cloth, winding sheet · mostly negative, with a reverse reading
A shroud warns of illness and scheming, though an old reading sees it, by contrast, as a wedding.
What happens in the dream
- In a reverse reading: a shroud means a wedding, one you'll attend or your own
- You see a shroud: illness, anxiety and the schemes of false friends, with business in decline
- Shrouded bodies: a host of misfortunes
- A shroud is lifted from a body: quarrels that end in estrangement
How you felt
- Dread: the dream often reflects fear around something ending
- Transformation: it may echo passing from one stage of life to another
Ask yourself
- What is ending, and what is beginning?
- What am I afraid of right now?
See also Corpse · Coffin · Funeral · Death · Wedding
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). Also searched as: burial cloth, winding sheet.