Description: You or a loved one is injured, ill or dying, usually accidentally.
Frequency: Moderately common and frequent, it sometimes occurs at the onset of a fever or illness.
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Usual meanings: You feel emotionally hurt, damaged or fear becoming so. You feel like you're coming apart. The dream may be warning you of an oncoming physical risk to yourself or a loved one. When another dies in a dream, it may mean that you feel that a part of yourself represented by that person feels as if it were dead. It may also express your wish that the person would go away or a fear of losing them.
Questions to ask yourself:
Who is the victim? If someone else, ask:
- Who is the person? A celebrity? Someone you know? A stranger?
- What is this person like? List some characteristics.
- How do you feel about this person? What attracts or repels you about them?
- Do you feel connected to some part of this person?
- Do you want to leave this part of you inactive? If not, what can you do to awaken it again?
If yourself, ask:
- Are you feeling numb or disengaged lately?
- Do you feel as though something in your life is "killing" you?
- Are you engaged in any self-destructive behavior?
- Is there a part of you that you need to let go?
- What can you do to revitalize your waking self?
- What can you change in your waking life to feel alive again?
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