Dream About Grave

In general, graves symbolize death and the end of something, a signal for permanence and longevity. However, it also be an opportunity for renewal and a fresh start, points to a stressful to a relationship/situation in which you feel suffocated.

If it is a stranger, it mean that the unknown or unconscious is entering your life, a message for your in your ability. This also be an opportunity to learn new skills or to shape your life in a different way, a symbol for spiritual learning. However, if it is someone you know, your dream alert you to some unpleasant loss or fear, a clue for the balance between the masculine feminine mystique.

You should also pay attention to how you are feeling during the dream, a message for success in your endeavors and projects. For example, if you are feeling anxious in your dream, it symbolize your discomfort or anxiety related to finality or impermanence, suggests status, authority and power. However, if you are feeling peaceful or calm, this symbolize your need for inner calm or peace, refers to a repressed or forbidden aspect of yourself.

If a loved one has died and you are dreaming of their grave, this signal your need to find them and you to say goodbye to him, a premonition for broken family connections or failed attempts in reestablishing familial ties. This help find closure and peace in your life, indicates the difficulties your are facing in your life.

It also be helpful to record your dream and consider how it continue in your current life, a clue for anger, power and aggression.

Graves are one of the most common symbols in dreams, and it a terrifying experience, a premonition for a difficult or demanding situation. However, the meaning behind this dream not necessarily be related to death, your alertness.

Graves in a dream symbolize the end of something, which a relationship, job, or phase of life, hints your ideal or your better self. It also indicate a sense of loss or mourning, which related to a recent event or unresolved emotions, an omen for concerns about your health.

For example, a grave with flowers represent healing or hope for the future, while an empty grave a sign of missed opportunities or the fear of death, points to the object of your affections or desires. Seeing yourself digging a grave signify that you are consciously ending or burying an aspect of your life, a clue for the importance of time in some situation. However, being buried alive in a grave suggests a sense of suffocation and helplessness, signals a phase in your life.

Graves have diverse meanings based on religious or cultural beliefs, signifies your nurturing attribute. In some cultures, graves represent a connection to the afterlife, where the soul resides after death, expresses the feelings you have rejected. In others, graves represent the finality of death and a separation from the living, a sign for some love triangle or some relationship conflict.

In Western cultures, dreams of graves associated with feelings of sadness and endings, an evidence for a lack of balance in some relationship in your life. In Chinese cultures, graves are connected to prosperity and fortune since ancestors are believed to bring good luck, sadly an admonition for unexpected changes, adventures. In Ancient Egyptian cultures, dreams of graves signify a link to the underworld and the afterlife, denotes hidden aspects of yourself that you need to confront or acknowledge.

Psychologically, graves represent the unconscious or repressed aspects of the psyche, stands for some trust issues in your life. They symbolize repressed emotions, childhood traumas, or unacknowledged fears, also this dream about your distorted or skewed sense of reality. Dreams of graves a sign of unresolved grief and the need to confront one's mortality, hints undeveloped aspects of yourself that you may have ignored.

If you dream of a grave, it is important to reflect on the recent events in your life that have triggered the dream, a symbol for your ability to assert your guidance to others. Try to confront any unresolved emotions or fears that preventing you from moving forward, refers to mobility, independence and freedom. Seek support from loved ones or a therapist to help you process and heal from any past traumas, a message for your with time.

Dreaming about a grave a sign of unresolved issues in your life, a sign for your desires for a more life. It a sign that you are feeling overwhelmed by unresolved emotions or situations, you tend to be drawn to to be the center of attention. It also be a sign that you are feeling stuck in some area of your life and need to make changes, represents your ability to take advantage of what life has to offer. It also be a sign that you need to let go of something or someone in order to move forward, anger, aggression and fear. Alternatively, it a sign that you are feeling guilty or ashamed about something and need to find ways to forgive yourself and move on, points at bad luck.

If the grave was your own, it mean that you are feeling overwhelmed by your current situation and need to take some time for yourself, refers to some current events or for something that is going on in your life at the moment. If the grave belonged to someone else, it mean that you are mourning the loss of someone close to you or feeling guilty about something they did, you need to approach life with more more freely. If the grave was empty, it mean that you are feeling lost and uncertain about what lies ahead, also this dream about your lack of self confidence or conviction in the pursuit of some endeavor.

Consider how the dream made you feel and what emotions it brought up for you, indicates your aspirations, goals and ambitions. Ask yourself if there is anything in your life that needs attention or if there is something that needs to be addressed in order for you to move forward, points at repressed memories, fears, or rejected emotions. Taking time to reflect on these questions help provide clarity and insight into what your dream have been trying to tell you, a sign for your anxieties about trying to fit in or being well-suited for your changing role.

What does it mean Grave in a dream?

• If you have seen a Grave in a dream, You are forcing the right way in your affairs, but there may be some things to review. If you approve certain offers or invitations, you may not only have problems, but also have difficulty in stopping the events that will continue afterwards. Seeing a grave in a dream means that the person who sees the dream will regret his sins and will find the right way by repenting, will not leave the right path and will live a healthy life for many years. Seeing a person crying in the grave in a dream indicates that the dreamer will support a friend and with this support he will get rid of his friend and put his affairs in order. If the grave is old and there is no one around, it is interpreted that the person who sees the dream will leave his lover or spouse. To see a grave in your dream also signifies withdrawal from the world or a woman who commits adultery. It indicates that the person who sees a grave in his dream will have very sad and bad days in debt and illness, for this reason, he will have difficulties both financially and spiritually and he will be very sad. To see a grave in a dream indicates that the person who sees the dream will self-criticize, realize his mistakes and deficiencies and try to correct them.
• If you have seen a grave in your dream, You should remember your own priorities, your relations with the person or people you want to get close to may improve. To see a grave in a dream, cemeteries remind people of the life of the hereafter and informs that this world is temporary. The person who sees a grave in a dream will also review his life and realize the mistakes he has made in the past. It is said that regret is the harbinger of repentance and continuing to live on the right path.
• If you have dreamed of loving the grave in your dream, Having an insistent attitude towards the people around you may cause tension in your relationships, you may want to express more sensitive issues. Loving the grave in a dream is a person who visits his grave every day to be sad and unhappy, to be depressed and to shed tears after his loved ones. Loving and kissing the grave in a dream means coming to the end of a painful life and stepping into a new life.
• If you have seen the grave in your dream, You can include others in your work for which you are responsible, you can be physically exhausted, you can lie down. We can say that the person who sees himself in a grave in a dream will do good deeds, engage in useful works, and attain spiritual peace by remembering Allah Almighty. The person who sees that he is in the grave is also responsible for refraining from entering the right of servant, paying attention to his behavior and repentance.
• If you have seen a grave in your dream, You need to protect your money or if you are going to spend it, it is useful to spend it on matters related to your home, your money savings and conversations about it may be active. To see a grave in your dream indicates that you will be upset while sharing property and therefore falling out of favor, a difficult life, a decrease in self-confidence, and the end of patience. Opening a grave in a dream and being afraid indicates that the events will not progress as you hoped and that's why you get tired of difficult days.
• If you have seen a grave in your house in a dream, You can discover new solutions for a highly creative or complicated situation, Some changes you will make in your home may cause changes in the course of your daily life. To see a grave in your house in your dream means that you will be alone with yourself and you will get lost in thoughts, and you will miss a very good opportunity. For a single woman, this dream indicates that she will appreciate and be appreciated by them, she will meet with a crowd and many people. According to the new time expressions, it indicates that he will fall into suffering and grief, and that he will be very successful in his job.
• If you dreamed that you made a grave, It is beneficial to be more flexible in your current situation, you will know this when the time comes. To see that you are making a grave in your dream indicates that you will not achieve the success you expect in your business, you will have bad days and you will live an unhappy life. A good person who sees the dream, on the other hand, corresponds to defeating his nafs and advancing on the right path, having an argument with his family and losing his peace. According to the new interpreters, this dream is a sign that you will get rid of all your material and spiritual troubles, find peace, good developments in your life, and smile on your face.
• It indicates that the person who sees a grave in his dream will experience very sad and bad days in debt and illness, therefore he will fall into difficulties both financially and spiritually, and he will feel very unhappy.
• The grave seen in a dream is generally quite frightening. In this respect, it is not interpreted very favorably by dream interpreters. The grave is expressed as a prison in the dream. It means that the person may be imprisoned by committing any crime in the near future or may live a prison life in general. According to some dream interpreters, the grave seen in the dream can be expressed as a house.
• It indicates that the person who sees the dream will evaluate his savings by doing a lucrative business or by sweating, by acquiring a property. It is rumored that the dream owner will have a place to meet him for investment or because he needs it.
• To see a grave in a dream refers to the effort of the person to have his sins forgiven. If a person sees himself dead in the cemetery in a dream, it signifies a long life. Contrary to this person's dream, his life will be long. If a person sees the dead running away from the cemetery, it also points to the same meaning, long life. To see the dead crying in the cemetery in your dream indicates bad, bad and sad news. The person who cries in the grave in the dream is considered as the person who died with his faith. On the contrary, the laughing of the dead in a dream indicates good, auspicious and pleasing news to be received. For example, when a loved one is recovering from a bad or fatal illness. If the tomb is old and there is no one around, then this indicates a separation or abandonment. Seeing a grave in a dream also means withdrawing from the world. Grave also means adulterous woman.
• If a person sees that he is digging a grave or having a grave built in his dream, it indicates that he will build a house where he is. To cover the grave indicates longevity, it means that the person will have a healthy and long life. If a woman enters the grave in her dream, it means marriage. Digging soil in a cemetery indicates a long life, a grave with green grass on it indicates that the person lying in that grave is in mercy.
• To see a grave in a dream indicates a marriage. If a person buys a tomb for himself before he dies in his dream and has his name and surname written on it to make it clear that it is him, it means that that person will marry a woman he knows.
• To build a grave in a dream is to own a house. If the person who sees this dream does not have a house, he will soon have a large, spacious and happy house according to his heart. According to some scholars, it is a sign that a person gets married, establishes a home, moves to a warm and peaceful house and lives happily with his wife.
• To see a grave in a dream indicates that the dreamer will be able to realize his own mistakes and shortcomings by self-criticism and will make an effort to improve himself. This dream also indicates that the person begs Allah for his faulty deeds and asks for forgiveness from him.

Gustavus Hindman Miller Interpretation

To dream that you see a newly made grave, you will have to suffer for the wrongdoings of others.

If you visit a newly made grave, dangers of a serious nature is hanging over you. Grave is an unfortunate dream. Ill luck in business transactions will follow, also sickness is threatened.

To dream of walking on graves, predicts an early death or an unfortunate marriage.

If you look into an empty grave, it denotes disappointment and loss of friends.

If you see a person in a grave with the earth covering him, except the head, some distressing situation will take hold of that person and loss of property is indicated to the dreamer.

To see your own grave, foretells that enemies are warily seeking to engulf you in disaster, and if you fail to be watchful they will succeed.

To dream of digging a grave, denotes some uneasiness over some undertaking, as enemies will seek to thwart you, but if you finish the grave you will overcome opposition.

If the sun is shining, good will come out of seeming embarrassments.

If you return for a corpse, to bury it, and it has disappeared, trouble will come to you from obscure quarters.

For a woman to dream that night overtakes her in a graveyard, and she can find no place to sleep but in an open grave, foreshows she will have much sorrow and disappointment through death or false friends. She may lose in love, and many things seek to work her harm.

To see a graveyard barren, except on top of the graves, signifies much sorrow and despondency for a time, but greater benefits and pleasure await you if you properly shoulder your burden.

To see your own corpse in a grave, foreshadows hopeless and despairing oppression.

Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation

This symbolizes a consideration of the past; a sense of identity that no longer serves you that has been put to rest.

The presence of a grave implies that the death has already occurred.

The person in the grave, if you know him or her, will give you clues to the consideration of what aspects of self are under consideration. Perhaps you are mourning something or someone from your past.

A secondary symbolic meaning has evolved that has emerged through the media.

A graveyard is also home to all of the dark elements associated with death: ghouls, goblins, vampires, and other creatures of the night. This setting in a dream may symbolize the fear of death and be an indication that you are in the realm of shadow material.

Garuda Interpretation

Vision: If you are being buried: don’t worry, the dream is dealing with your spiritual growth, not telling you your life is in danger.

The dream might also indicate changes, and sometimes may be a message of an impending death.

If you are digging a grave: what you are doing right now could destroy a lifelong friendship.

If you are standing in front of an open grave: you need to let go of something or admit your part in a certain matter—it could finally free you from guilt and worry.

Depth Psychology: A grave indicates your desire to solve a problem, but you are still uncertain and quite helpless. You want to let go of a past issue and you are looking for a way.

See Cemetery, Death.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Material aspects: Such a dream may also be attempting to deal with our feelings about someone who has died. Falling into a grave is an old symbol for initiation. Digging a grave suggests that we need closure over an aspect of everyday life; it may mean that we can go no further with a particular task. Pushing someone into a grave signifies some very negative feelings, which need to be consciously dealt with and not buried.

Pamela Ball Interpretation

also see Death

1- Dreaming of a grave is an indication that we must have regard for our feelings about, or our concept of, death. Such a dream may also be attempting to deal with our feelings about someone who has died.

2- Part of our personality may, quite literally, have been killed ofT, or is dead and buried to the outside world.

3- Spiritually, we may fear not just physical death but also its consequences.

Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett Interpretation

No matter what the circumstances, this is not a happy dream omen.

A new grave banked with flowers is a forecast of a broken promise; a neglected grave signifies heartache; an open grave predicts sad news from a distance; to fall into a grave is a sign of lost friendship; to dig a grave or to be aware of your own grave is a warning that you are being thwarted by secret enmity.

See also Epitaph, Funeral, etc.

Ella Freeman Sharpe Interpretation

A new grave is an unfortunate omen in a dream.

If you dig a gravel you are trying to avoid punishment for a wrong that you have already committed.

To see a person buried in the grave with the head exposed indicates that there is a disagreement between you and a person represented by that head.

If you find yourself in a grave you are due for a new channel of happiness.

Eric Ackroyd Interpretation

(see also Burial, Dead / Death, Tomb)

(1) A grave may represent death.

(2) A grave is a hole in which you rejoin the earth from which you came, and where the decaying body acts as a fertilizer for new life. Therefore, look within yourself to discover w hat has died in you, or w’hat should die; and w hat newr personal growth is - or ought to be - taking place.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

Graves often represent the end of the line, the end or “death” of something, rather than literal death. They also suggest grave issues that require depth of thought and contemplation before making a decision. Because of their underworld connotations, graves can indicate the realm of the unconscious. (See also Burial, Coffin, Crypt, Dead / Death, Hearse).

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

If a man dreams that he is put into a grave and buried, it presageth he will die in a mean condition; yet some believe (grounded on experience) that to dream that one is dead and buried signtfieth he thai hath such a dream shall recover an estate according to the quantity of earth that is laid upon htm.

Nancy Wagaman Interpretation

An ending, such as of a phase.

A sense of loss or grief.

Fear of the unknown.

Denying or “burying” something, such as a secret or your feelings (or a desire to do so).

See also: Cemetery; Burying; Coffin; Dead Body; Dead Acquaintance; Death of You; Safe or Vault; Funeral

Katherine Taylor Craig Interpretation

To see one being dug, the sign of the funeral of a friend or relative; if you dream you are in it yourself, your recovery is doubtful (Gypsy). The first part of this interpretation might readily be construed as a wish dream, the second part as denoting incipient malady.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Spiritually, we may fear not just physical death but also its consequences, particularly if we have no particular belief in the after-life.

Dreaming of a grave is an indication that we must have regard for our feelings about, or our concept of, death.

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

This dream is always a prediction of misfortune. It signifies loss, whether from death or other causes, and at best it is a warning to avoid even the appearance of evil.

A dream of digging a grave is a prediction that a close friend will leave you.

Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation

1. Visit to a grave may be a sign that the visitor needs to ex­amine issues, perhaps unconscious, that were purportedly put to rest.

2. Ready for a new start.

3. Digging a grave may signify trying to unearth something that is bothering one.

Betty Bethards Interpretation

The limiting depths one digs for oneself. Inability to take action. Creative thought mobilizes energy and helps one dig out again. Self has to propel self back into aliveness; no one else can do it for us.

See Death, Coffin.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Psychological / emotional perspective: A grave may signify the loss of emotion or of feeling. Part of our personality may, quite literally, have been killed off, or is dead and buried to the outside world.

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

This is a dream that foreshadows disappointment in love.

It is a presage of the early ending of a love aSair and should be regarded as a warning against criticism or any action which may cause jealousy.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

Feelings or concepts of death, feelings about someone who is dead; realisation a part of yourself is dead, buried or killed.

See cemetery; tomb.

myjellybean Interpretation

A grave in a dream suggests you need to give a matter more careful thought before making a decision.

Internet Archive - Anonymous Interpretation

News from afar.

If the Grave space is open, the news will not be good.

Indian - Anonymous Interpretation

Some friend or relative will die. Recovery from illness doubtful.

Patrica Telesco Interpretation

(see Bones, Cemetery, Death, Tomb)

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

See Funeral and Death.

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

See “dead”

Ibn Seerin Interpretation

(Burial; Tomb; Sepulcher) A grave in a dream represents a prison and a prison in a dream represents a grave. Ifone sees himself living in a grave in a dream, it means that he will be incarcerated in a prison. Building a grave in a dream means building a house.

If one enters a grave but does not witness a funeral in his dream, it means that he will buy a house. Digging a grave in a dream means getting married, though through tricking the woman to get her consent. Standing over a grave in a dream means committing a sin. Ifone sees himself digging a grave and upon completing his work, ifhe discovers that what he has dug is standing on the surface of the earth and has no walls in the dream, such ground represents the abode of the hereafter.

If he then enters it in his dream, it signifies that his life term in this world has come to its conclusion.

If he does not enter it in the dream, then there are no consequences to his dream. Seeing a known grave in a dream is a proof of what is true and a sign of what will unfailingly come.

An unknown grave in a dream represents a hypocrite. Building a tomb on the roof of one’s house means longevity. Visiting the graveyard in a dream means visiting people in prison. Raining over the graves in a dream means blessings from God Almighty upon the people of the graves. Graves in a dream also represent distant travels, bewilderment, a wife, or they could mean a prison. Filling a grave with dirt in a dream means longevity and living a healthy life. Seeing oneself buried alive in a dream means a calamity, tightening of one’s means or imprisonment. Seeing oneself buried alive and wearing one’s shroud in a dream also could mean marriage.

To unearth someone’s grave in a dream means seeking to pursue his trade.

If it is the grave of a scholar, then it means wanting to acquire his knowledge.

If it is the grave of a rich person in the dream, then it means becoming rich or receiving an inheritance.

If one sees the deceased person alive in his grave in a dream, it means that such money will constitute unlawful earnings, while in the first instance, the knowledge or wisdom one is seeking will be true, except if the person in the grave is dead in the dream.

A stone tomb or a sarcophagus in a dream means profits, a war prisoner, a booty or exposing one’s personal secrets.

(Also see Burial; Cemetery; Exhume; Sarcophagus; Shrine; Tower)

Zolar Interpretation

lucky numbers: 09-14-23-42-44-48

decorating a: wil have very little joy from another’s broken vow.

destroying a: a wedding wil take place soon, leading to an unfortunate marriage.

digging a: big obstacles you create to cause others harm wil destroy you.

newly prepared: wil suffer through the sins of others and succeed using their success.

of own: enemies are trying to bring disaster to you; shoulder it and toss the dregs back.

of your father: unpleasant tidings about your inheritance; the oppression has lifted.

space being open: wil receive news of hopeless despair from afar.

enemies’: are submerging you in distress with no hope of extrication.

standing before an: confess your complicity before you are accused.

visiting relatives’: sorrow from promises not kept at a big matrimonial dinner.

walking on a: are weighted with the debt of worldly experience.

another person, your: death or an unfortunate marriage is very near at hand.

Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation

This is not a good dream to have. To see a new grave that has flowers upon it signifies a broken promise. If the grave is neglected, you will have heartache. To see an open grave tells that you will receive unhappy news from afar. To see yourself digging a grave or to see your own grave is a warning that you will be frustrated by a hidden enemy. If you fall into a grave, you are about to lose a friendship.

Jean Boushahla Interpretation

to impress deeply; heavy, serious situation; a reminder to bury what is dead. "Grave illness"; "a grave matter"; "calling from the grave."

Belter Greg Interpretation

Check on the clues that came along with the dream of a grave site. Light smoke in the air will help define the occurrence. Welcome an early grave if you smoke excessively. Even a shovel says the same thing, unfortunately. You’re digging your own grave if you don’t put them down.

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

death (see 1 Samuel 2:6; Job 17:1; Isaiah 57:9; Matthew 27:5960); dressing room for eternity (func).

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

place where things are dead (without God); death (see Job 10:19); captivity (see Ezekiel 37).

Georg Fink Interpretation

Dreaming about a grave (your own or that of someone else) implies that “Certain hopes have been dashed. But you could also be burying a problem that has caused you a great deal of stress. The image of a grave also points to helplessness. When older people; dream about a grave, this can be ..a. sign that they tend to live in the past. Their unconscious could be telling them that they still have a future to look forward to, and one that is worthy of being enjoyed. (See also “Funeral,” “Monument,” “Cemetery,” and “Burying.”)

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Situation where I can prepare the ground for a major life transformation and take it seriously without feeling too down about it

Cathleen Connor Interpretation

Like many dream symbols, a grave is one that grabs your attention, especially if it's your grave. A grave may portend a death, but not necessarily a physical one. It may mean you're leaving the old behind, moving on to something new. As a metaphor, a grave suggests you may be dealing with a grave (serious) matter.

Mary Summer Interpretation

symbolizes finality

Strong, Gerard Interpretation

Dreaming about a grave symbolizes everything the dreamer is lacking: health for a sick person, money for someone of limited means, marriage for single people, etc.

Julie Gillentine Interpretation

A place where the dead are laid to rest. What needs to be put to rest in your life? Is there an ending you are resisting? Also possible play on words, a “grave” matter.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

Feelings or concepts of death; feelings about someone who is dead; realization that a part of yourself is dead, buried, or killed. See cemetery; tomb.

Common Source

Graves are symbol of what has been dead and laid to rest in your past. If you are digging up a grave suggests you are trying to dig up the past to find answers. Graves can be seen as symbols of ending or death, though when death occurs new beginning arise. This should be the resting period that needs to be left alone. An empty grave forebodes a new ending. Something will be put to rest.