Dreams show us what needs to be put to rest - Funeral dream exploration
In this episode, join dream buddy Shauna and I as we have a robust and interesting conversation about what funerals in the symbolic dream world could mean!
First, we spend a few minutes discussing the upcoming eclipse and ponder the impact to our dreams. In doing so, we find out we have a similar theme in the most recent dreams we have both had.
You get a glimpse into what it is like for us to share and work with each other's dream material in a curious and exploratory way. Noticing we both have insights about our own current lives and personal growth (in real time!).
Then we spend the rest of our time exploring this fascinating and detailed reoccurring dream about a series of funerals. Through this process we wonder about generational trauma, things that keep calling to us to let them be buried but we won’t; issues that keep asking us to work them out but “not like that again;” how traditional ideas of morality and values are suspended in the dream space; and how to find the help in a difficult series of images.
Dream Explored
This is a reoccurring dream. I was at my gran’s funeral and for some reason we exhumed my dad and had a joint funeral. I am sitting halfway down the church right near the side door where they are bringing the coffin in, instead of at the front of the church. Usually in the dream, at the beginning of the service as they are bringing in her coffin, the undertakers must drop the coffin just out of sight and her body falls out of the coffin. I don't see it. But I know it's happened. And the undertakers all clamber to collect her up and put her back into the coffin. I imagine all her different body parts going everywhere and they are scrambling to get it perfect again. The undertakers are mortified and embarrassed. But this time it was my dad's body that they dropped bringing it in. And this time I wasn't sitting in the church. I was running late, and I saw them trying to carry him with no coffin. In his suit. And he was perfectly preserved after all these years that he has been dead. I took a photo just as they were losing control of his body, and he was looking right back at me. During the service, gran was in her coffin. Dad wasn't. Dad was just lying on the gurney thing in full view. There was no real order to the service. Then halfway through, food was served, and it was steak. But the strange thing was, somehow, I just knew that the steak is part of the deceased person. However, they were both still lying there intact. And I knew it wasn't healthy to eat my steak. Not only was I not wanting to, but my dad had already been dead for 19 years and it just wouldn't be healthy. Like expired meat. During the meal, I got too upset, so mum and I left. Mae's birth Family tried to find me to comfort me, but I walked away before they could reach me. Then the rest of the congregation followed. Then I had a change of heart and came back. Mum, my brother, a politician, someone else, and I got up to the pulpit to speak. Before I spoke, the politician spoke about all the murders of elderly people and people thinking they would get less time for murdering someone in their 90s, but in fact, they would get longer because of the 91 years of a life they took etc. I spoke a bit about dad. My brother didn't want to say anything. I either mentioned or wanted to mention how dad was a stepfather to my siblings and how being a stepdad is a really special job etc. Then I felt bad later knowing that their dad was also at the funeral, and I hoped I didn't upset him. In another iteration of the dream where it is just gran’s funeral, I also dream that I hear of my cousin Nathan's funeral the very same day. He killed himself but only his mother attends his burial. It's kept very quiet or secret. Ashamed kind of thing.
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