What does it mean to dream about a cemetery? |

Dreaming of a cemetery can indicate a personal dimension in which certain things lose their purpose and life force. This happens because, symbolically, the cemetery is the place where everything that has an end goes – be it human life, animals or objects.

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Reflect on the context of dreaming about a cemetery

Is this cemetery known or unknown? Is it conventional, is it archaic, is it modern? How does the dreamer feel in this place: scared, scared, peaceful, serene, contemplative, horrified? What interactions take place there? Are there open, closed, simple, detailed graves, are there images, statues?

Reflect on what the unconscious may be signaling when dreaming of a cemetery

What part of me is without life, without tonus, without energy? What needs to die for another part to nourish itself and appear in my personality? Do I reverence or trivialize mourning processes in myself? Do I allow myself to get in touch with my failures, losses and limits? Do I fear death or contemplate it as part of life? Do I understand and validate my internal and natural cycles or do I exert strong control over everything? Do I recognize the final limit of my experiences when they end or do I keep carrying dead weights through life?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about a cemetery:

Dreaming of being in a cemetery

To dream that you are in a cemetery can indicate both a clear limit to the existence of certain aspects of the dreamer’s psyche and a place where one can calmly observe the transformation and cycles of life. The feelings generated by the dream can guide this understanding.

Dream about going to a cemetery

To dream that one is on the way to the cemetery can refer to situations that are coming to an end, for which the dreamer no longer has the energy and that will need to die and transform or will simply be ended, since the cemetery is a symbol of the final home from the perspective of life in the body.

Dreaming of Attending a Funeral

Attending a funeral in a cemetery, in a dream, can indicate that there is an internal process of mourning and reverence for an aspect that is no longer actively present in the personality.

Dreaming of open graves in a cemetery

In a dream where graves appear open in a cemetery, it would be interesting to think that the psyche may be waiting for a personality revision and change in which certain things need to go.

To dream that characters come out of the graves

Also with open land, if characters come out of the pitsin the dream, old and abandoned psychic aspects, such as habits, beliefs and ideas, may be returning to the psyche. If this is positive, only the dreamer can assess.

meanings of cemetery

The word “cemetery” is etymologically related to the expression “to lie down” and, in our culture, it is seen as the place where the matter of the body rests when the soul leaves it. In fact, cemeteries were created to house any kind of death. There are cemeteries of cars, garbage, nuclear material, people, animals. We call that little plate that we put on the table to throw away any food residues a cemetery, but what they all have in common is the fact that they shelter what lost its life, lost its active form, ceased to exist for its due earthly purposes – died . An old car that no longer runs, a seed that we spit on our plate, the garbage that decomposes in landfills and the body that dies are examples of how a cemetery can be related to various types of “waste”, what remains.

Within this perspective, dreams about a cemetery call our attention to some dimension of ours in which certain things have lost their purpose, lost meaning, lost vital force, lost psychic energy. And it is essential to observe the whole scene that takes place in that place, and not just the place itself.

Life vs death concepts

At the same time, the cemetery is a place of great life, as the whole process takes place underground. Though matter is lifeless, it nurtures the life around it. The cemetery is where this whole process takes place.

For many, the cemetery is a place of peace, serenity, silence. For others, it evokes fear, the unknown, contact with the world of the dead. The truth is that both visions are part of this symbolism. Cemeteries shelter death, life, art, family memory, history and culture of a people. It is quite different to dream of a cemetery as the abode of the dead and as a historical and artistic place, and these matters must be observed by the dreamer.