death dream
Dying in sleep
A death dream is a dream in which the dreamer dies, witnesses death, or encounters the dead.
Such dreams often feel vivid and disturbing, though dream interpreters typically read them as symbols of transformation rather than literal premonitions: I had a death dream about my father last night.
The term also describes a dying person's final visions or hallucinations.
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- cold sweatFear-triggered perspiration
- visionAbility to see
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
mortality · last breath · afterlife · other side · unconscious · omen · ghost · passage · darkness · spirit · crossing · veil · shadow · apparition · prophecy · threshold · liminal · haunting
- dreamsnightmare, daydream, nightmares, daydreams, REM sleep
- death omensbanshee, Grim Reaper, harbinger, corpse candle, deathwatch beetle
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition