Dreams about a coffin very disturbing, a metaphor for the depth of your passion. In the interpretation of dreams, a coffin is interpreted as a symbol of death and loss, a metaphor for joy, harmony and tranquility.
If in your dream you see a coffin being carried by people you don't know, it mean that you are feeling alienated from factors or people in your daily life, a clue for your spiritual or ancestral connection. It also indicate that you are afraid of making changes in your life or that you are afraid of losing something that is important to you, a message for something that is inferior in quality.
Lying in a coffin or looking at it in a dream an indication that you are in a difficult or uncomfortable situation from which you not see a way out, a message for your potential for success. It also indicate emotional blockages or depression, a portent for your desire to get off the beaten path.
Another possible dream state is that you are buying or ordering a coffin for someone else, a signal for a warning. This mean reflecting on the finitude of life and the impermanence of all things, or grieving a loss you have suffered, your childhood where the times were more carefree and simpler.
A dream about a coffin also be a powerful spiritual symbol, indicates trust. In some cultures and religions, a coffin is viewed as a portal to another world or an instrument for spiritual transformation, a warning signal for a loss of control in some aspect of your life.
It is important not to think of the dream as a prediction or prophecy, but as an indication of inner feelings and fears that need to be addressed, a clue for the darker, sinister side of your personality.
Dreams about a Coffin unsettling, especially if you are afraid of death, a portent for failure in honoring your obligation and commitments. However, they usually have nothing to do with death and are associated with symbolic meanings, an omen for the value you place on knowledge and education. Understanding what the coffin means in your dream help you come to terms with your subconscious thoughts and feelings about certain issues, signals your climb to the top of the social ladder.
Generally, dreaming of a coffin represents the end of something in your life, expresses the coming of bad news. This a relationship, job, or phase of life, memories that you are holding onto. It's also a symbol of transformation and rebirth, you need to be revitalized and reenergized. Seeing a coffin in your dream signify that it's time to let go of the past and move on to something new, signals prosperity and pleasure.
Empty Coffin: Seeing an empty coffin in your dream indicates that you need to reflect on your life's purpose and goals, points to your refusal to change. Closed Coffin: If the coffin is closed, it signifies an unfulfilled desire or wish, an omen for ease, while rough texture means a difficult situation. Open Coffin: If the coffin is open, it suggests that you need to confront your fears and face the truth, refers to a situation or a place which is new or unfamiliar to you. Burial Ceremony: Witnessing a burial ceremony in your dream signifies the end of an era in your life, such as the end of a career or a relationship, a signal for minor obstacles that you must overcome. Carrying a Coffin: If you are carrying the coffin in your dream, it suggests that you are taking responsibility for some past action, and you feel guilty or ashamed about it, bit is about a major annoyance or frustration in your life.
Across different cultures and religions, the coffin represents the end of one's physical life, unfortunately an admonition for your lack of tendency to mimic other’s ideas and beliefs. Though the interpretation vary, it associated with spirituality and beliefs, suggests the duality of human nature. In Christianity, the coffin or casket is a symbol of mourning, and the belief that death is the beginning of eternal life, indicates your creativity. In Hinduism, the coffin is a symbolic end of the past life and an invitation to embrace the new life, signals your concern about your current job security.
In many cultures, the coffin symbolizes death, grief, and loss, signals smoothness. However, in some cultures, it is a sign of celebration and rejoicing, representing the end of one's suffering or troubles, also this dream about the emotional difficulties that you experience in life.
Psychologically, dreaming of a coffin indicate that you are facing inner turmoil and fear of change, a message for the value of helping others in need. It also suggest that you are carrying burdens and anxieties that you need to let go of to move forward in life, points to forward movement and progress. Alternatively, the coffin in the dream signify a deep desire to explore the unknown, and you seeking answers to some of life's mysteries, signals your path toward achieving inner your spirituality.
If you dream of a coffin, don't panic, sadly an admonition for lack, jaded prospects for the future. The dream is usually a sign of unexpected change, transformation, or unresolved issues in your life, sadly an alert for luck. It also be a reminder to celebrate life and move on from past events, hints some aspect of your life is in discord. You use the dream as an opportunity to reflect on what's happening in your life, release emotions, and embrace new beginnings, a harbinger for to your nurturing side.
Dreaming of a coffin a sign of coming changes in your life, your maternal ties. It represent the end of something, such as a job, relationship, or lifestyle, food is an evidence for a personal or work-related problem. It also signify a new beginning, as the coffin symbolizes a transition from one stage of life to another, a sign for your need to get rid old ways of habits. The dream also be a sign that you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed and need to take some time for yourself to process your thoughts and feelings, points to female emotions, aggression and seduction. It also be an indication that you are feeling trapped or stuck in an area of your life and need to make changes in order to move forward, symbolises change.
For example, if the coffin is open, it represent hope and possibility for the future, a portent for willpower, self-need to control your them in check. If it is closed, it signify a sense of finality or closure, a symbol for your quickness in confronting some suppressed emotions. If you are inside the coffin, it mean that you are feeling powerless or helpless in a situation, a warning for anger that you are trying to repress. Alternatively, if someone else is inside the coffin, it signify that you are feeling disconnected from them, a harbinger for a sudden awareness.
It also be seen as an indication that you need to take care of yourself emotionally and give yourself permission to feel whatever emotions come up, represents your helplessness in a situation.
Dreaming Lens: What was your relation to the dead person? Was he/she known to you or a stranger? Did you experience grief? Were other feelings evoked by the knowledge of who was in the coffin? Was the coffin empty? Were you in the coffin? Was the coffin prepared for someone who was not yet dead?
Personal Focus: A coffin is made to hold a person after death. As a dream symbol, it should be interpreted by examining the individual inside the coffin as a Character Aspect of the dreamer. This applies whether you know who is inside the coffin or not. Any death is symbolic of change. When examined as a Character Aspect, the death represents sacrificing a portion of the personality that is no longer a useful part of the whole. An effective shift requires clearing out old ways of being in order to make way for new, more evolved functioning. Death is always followed by rebirth, but when a coffin is present, it signifies being at the beginning of the transformation process.
If you know the person in the coffin, consider their personality. It will tell you what traits of your own are dying away. For example, if the coffin contains a friend or relative who is demanding and overbearing, that quality may be dying in you, or you may need to let go of it as a way of being in the world. If you don’t know the inhabitant you may need to investigate what element of your life needs to change. If the coffin is empty and ready for use, you may not know what is getting ready to be sacrificed in you, but the dream may be a wake-up call to find out. Death in dreams means change of a powerful magnitude. If any of the trappings of death appear as symbols, such as funerals, urns, etc., you can be assured that big change is afoot.
To business men it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid.
To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.
To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected.
To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good.
To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy, To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely allied to you. Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.
The coffin could symbolize a lack of energy or vitality in the dreamer. It could represent the death of one stage of life and movement into another.
(Not necessarily physical death! In fact, some cultures believe that if you see a person dead and in a coffin, he will most likely live a long and healthy life!) When dreaming about coffins, we may be contemplating the nature of the death experience and may access the state of consciousness that is attuned to the spiritual world. Most simply, and most likely, the coffin in your dreams may represent feelings of confinement and lack of freedom.
See also: Burial, Death
The coffin could symbolize a lack of energy or vitality in the dreamer. It could represent the death of one stage of life and movement into another.
(Not necessarily physical death! In fact, some cultures believe that if you see a person dead and in a coffin, he will most likely live a long and healthy life!) When dreaming about coffins, we may be contemplating the nature of the death experience and may access the state of consciousness that is attuned to the spiritual world. Most simply, and most likely, the coffin in your dreams may represent feelings of confinement and lack of freedom.
See also: Burial, Death
A coffin is made to hold a person after death. As a dream symbol, it should be interpreted by examining the individual inside the coffin as a character aspect of the dreamer. This applies whether you know who is inside the coffin or not. Any death is symbolic of change. When examined as a character aspect, the death represents sacrificing a portion of the personality that is no longer a useful part of the whole. An effective shift requires clearing out old ways of being in order to make way for new, more evolved functioning. Death is always followed by rebirth, but when a coffin is present, it signifies being at the beginning of the transformation process.
If you know the person, this episode may be revealing your concern for their health.
The interpretation of this dream varies depending on the character that is occupying it. So, if it is your partner it predicts eternal fidelity; an infant announces pain without hope; your own mother, enemies willing to forgive offenses.
A dead person is in the coffin: financial losses or setbacks at the job are a possibility. You see yourself in a coffin: you will live a long, wonderful life in good health.
See Urn.
Depth Psychology: A coffin means that you need to say goodbye to something that has died. Something new is waiting for you, and you can only get it going if you have “buried” the past.
See Cemetery, Death, Grave.
A coffin in a dream may also predict a death in the family or in your circle of fnends and colleagues, but it suggests this very rarely. Death in a dream is usually symbolic rather than literal. Thus, a coffin may symbolize the end of a relationship or another important transition In life. It may also indicate that you have lost your enthusiasm for life.
2- We arc perhaps shutting our own feelings away and therefore causing a part of ourselves to die.
3- Redemption, resurrection and salvation arc all personified by the coffin.
As with the cocoon, a dream of being in a coffin may have a restorative meaning of rebirth. (See also Burial, Crypt, Dead / Death, Grave, Hearse).
The Gypsies say that to see someone lying in a coffin means that you will live to see your children grown and married.
To see yourself in a coffin means you will enjoy excellent health throughout your life. But, to see someone famous in a coffin means the possibility of war.
Death, dying, or the afterlife (or fear of such).
A scary or spooky feeling.
Feeling limited, trapped, or at a “dead end” somehow in your life.
See also: Death of You; Killed, Being; Dead Body; Dead Acquaintance; Hearse
It is a signification of bad debts.
If you are in the coffin, failure in business or loss of occupation may threaten you.
If the coffin is moved, sickness and death are the warning.
For the very young, death of a loved one.
• A corpse break out of its coffin: You can expect a sudden boost of money luck • A coffin is pulled to the surface: a great fortune is coming your way;
See funeral.
A coffin can symbolize someone coming out of spiritual death into life in Christ, Eph. 2:5
If the person in the coffin seems to be alive, it is a portent that you will be slandered.
2. Property purchase imminent.
3. Elaborate coffin indicates end of a partnership, either business or romantic.
4. Fear of death.
being in a: a deadened dul state lacking spirit.
friend: serious il ness of a dear friend that wil end an era for you.
lowered in a grave: restriction of expressing one’s self physical y.
dead person in a: financial drain from a decaying situation.
elaborate, an: death of one partner, birth of another.
empty: wil live to a ripe old age.
head of the family, of the: must contend with squabbles over the wil .
lowered, being: changes you are powerless to avoid, are almost upon you.
lying in a: breaking a bond wil bring a triumphant end to hopes.
friend: advancement in own position through mistakes of another.
relatives: a legacy is received through another’s sorrow.
many: wil incur large debts to failed lovers you have failed.
of a: wil soon marry and own your own house with water in the basement.
own: someone is attempting to cheat you.
someone else’s: inheritance may be unavoidably lost.
stealing a: are ashamed of receiving a fortune.
If one sees himself riding on top of a coffin in a dream, it means that either his name is mentioned in a will, or that he will face a dispute regarding an inheritance that will turn to his advantage.
If one is given a coffin in a dream, it means that he is given knowledge, peacefulness and dignity. Acoffin in a dream also represents stress and worries or a travelling vehicle.
A miller’s flour mixing container which traditionally used to look like a coffin in a dream represents ajust man or a man of knowledge and a true guide.
(Also see Sarcophagus)