Thoughts about death The dream about the death is not so terrible such as a corpse. The corpse is more than dead, it doesn’t have the life any more. Probably you have been thinking about your death and your mortality, that is why the corpse can appear in your dreams.

Unique abilities Although the dream about a corpse or dead body may mean that you have hidden and buried abilities and talents, which you are afraid to show, because you want to be accepted in the society.

Psychological Meanings:

Hazard symbol The dreams of funeral and death don’t have so terrible meanings, it is more like the symbols of changes or transformation, while the corpse is real danger and hazard symbol.

Hiding bad things Corpse can stand for mistake, blame and failure in the past which one tries to hide.

Desire for changes In the dream corpses frequently emerge for people who are dissatisfied with their occupation: you want to change something, but you do not succeed. In some dreams they are also a symbol for overcoming difficulties.

Show your talents This dream symbol embodies your hidden and abandoned talents. The waking life situation that you are now, tries to bring them to life. You have initially abandoned your creativity and unique talents, but now it is time surface them again.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Bad news if seeing a corpse, dead body or cadaver – This is a symbol of completed incidents, where personal issues are not clearly resolved. This is an indication of poor prospects of happiness. Also this promises you bad news from your business or occupation that you do;
• Lost joy of life if seeing (a young person) – This dream shows that the dreamer will lose the lust of life;
• No worries if seeing yourself as a corpse – In the dream you are a corpse, this shows that you will liberate from hard and difficult concerns, you will feel free from all the anxiety;
• Birth if seeing unknown – When in the dream you see an unknown corpse, this promises a birth in your family or closed friend’s circle. This will be mentioned with a huge celebration;
• Marriage if see a corpse, dead body in the house - This symbol signifies about approaching weddings in your surrounding;
• Worries if see a corpse in the coffin – This is a bad sign, which promises you concerns in your life;
• Death of a friend if a corpse is dressed in black – Very bad sign, which announces the violent death of a friend;
• Concerns if see dead bodies or corpses strewn battlefields – This is a forerunner of troubles and disputes between family members or employer;
• Illness worries if seeing a corpse of a family member – When you see a corpse of a family member, this announces a disease of this family member that you have seen in the dream. This comes to domestic discords, or it is possible that your business will slowdown;
• Eternal faithful if see a corpse of lover – This is a sign that you can’t keep the promises of eternal fidelity;
• More attention if hiding money under or on the eyes of the corpse – The unconscious denotes how unscrupulous your enemies rob you, you must be very attentive with your work or business;
• Recovered property if put money only on one eye – You will succeed and recover back your lost property and assets;
• Disagreeable news if embalm a corpse – The dream signifies that you have to be prepared for unpleasant surprises;
• Sorrow and worries if see and the corpse smells badly –  You will have a feeling of deep distress which is caused by loss, disappointment. This may signify about a misfortune caused by yourself or others;
• Richness through the spouse if bring down in the grave – In the dream you are bringing down a corpse or someone else is doing, this announces that you will have a rich and powerful wife (husband);
• Worries if see an animal corpse (carcass) – This symbol refers to problems. The worries may be your personal and business or the position that you take;
• Losses if see a corpse (dead body) in the shop, market – The dream indicates that all concerned persons are confronted with losses and unpleasant things. The prospect of a harmonious working atmosphere are extremely unfavorable;
• Grief if young women sees a corpse –  This dream prophesies grief and downfall, because you involve the devious person in your life;
• Bad lover If a young woman sees – If a young woman dreams the corpse of the owner of the shop (business) in which she works and realizes that its face is well shaved, then she will meet the lover who is not so justice with her and she will disappoint the feeling of love;
• Watch out of enemies if see a dropping head from the corpse – A woman sees the head dropping from a corpse, you must watch out for invisible enemies that will damage and harm not only you, but also to the interests of your employer.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Celebration if see at home – You are dreaming that you see a corpse in your house means that you will attend in the joyful and merry feast;
• With force you will not achieve anything if seeing a corpse – In the dream you see a corpse this will show you, that nothing can be done with force and you can’t rush anybody;
• The wish to be heard if seeing corpses or dead bodies – This dream signifies that you wish to be heard as an adviser, because you have lots of experience.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Positive life if seeing a corpse – In the dream you see a corpse, this announces that you will get a message or a chance which will make and affect your life more positively and better. Also will bring you good health;
• Warning about health if seeing embalmed corpse (a mummy) – In the dream appears an embalmed corpse, this warns you that you have not to trust your seemingly good health. You must have some rest, because the illness can strike suddenly;
• Divorces if putting and burying a corpse in the grave – This dream symbol announce you about separation with the loved person;
• Solved worries if seeing yourself as a corpse – When in the dream you are a corpse, signifies that you will be able to overcome all the concerns and oppositions.
• Long life if seeing a friend as a corpse – In the dream you see your friend and he/she is a corpse, this shows that he/she will have a long life and good health;
• News if being a corpse, moving and speaking – You are a corpse and you are moving somewhere and talking, this dream will bring you unexpected news which will make you glad and happy about your life.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Finding and Seeing a corpse, dead body, cadaver in the dream – The dream symbol shows that you have buried something inside you. This may be bad habits or painful feelings. You want to make changes in your life. From the other side the corpse in the dream, shows that you have talents and they were hidden deeply in you. Now it is time to show and to spread all the talents and this is an opportunity for you to prove yourself and the others that you are an unique person.

Seeing a rotten body (corpse) and smelling badly – In the dream the rotten corpse with bad smell, signifies that your inner world and feelings are rotting. Your unconscious warns you and asks you to get rid of everything what destroys you. These emotions and feelings do not let you to move forward.

Hiding and covering the corpse (dead body) in the dream – You are trying to hide a failure or shameful past. You are hiding from liability and trying to cover the unpleasant things about you, which may be brought to light. You are afraid that your reputation will be destroyed, but we all have to be responsible for our mistakes.

Burying or burning a corpse (dead body) – It doesn’t matter how you bury a corpse, the action shows that you are on the way to bury your past and to start new future. You are ready to move forward, because you have overcome the failures and worries, concerns. This is very positive dream, it may reflect the progress of moving away from bad habits, negative influences.

Dreaming your own corpse (dead body) – This symbol indicates that you were thinking about your own death. You have been thinking how it will be, but none of us can even imagine how we will die. So live happily and enjoy your life. Do not bother yourself with such thoughts.

* Please, see meaning of  coffin, grave, funeral, burial.

• Laying one’s head on a dog or relaxing with a dog or using the dog for a pillow in a dream, the dogthen represents a friend or a good companion…. (Dog)

• Dreaming of seeing a mad dog, denotes that enemies will make scurrilous attacks upon you and your friends, but if you succeed in killing the dog, you will overcome adverse opinions and prosper greatly in a financial way…. (Mad Dog)

• A dog in a dream also represents a police informer or a police dog…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also means suffering from extremely high fever and in relation to Dog star or the stars Procyon and Sirius of the constellations Canis Minor and Canis Major…. (Dog)

• If the dog is vicious and / or to dream that dog is growling, then it signifies some inner conflict within yourself…. (Dog)

• Also you must reconsider the conceptions associated with the word dog, such as loyalty (man’s best friend) and to be ”treated like a dog”…. (Dog)

• (Bitch | Canine | Desire | Greyhound | Japanese spaniel | Pekingese | Lust | Puppy | Shepherds’ dog | Tyke) In a dream, a dog represents an insolent man who dares to indulge in sinful actions…. (Dog)

• Some authors also think that the right hand corresponds to the rational and logical issues and the left hand to the unconscious and irrational issues…. (Hand)

• In dreams the left hand symbolizes your goodness and feminine qualities and the right hand symbolizes masculine attributes…. (Hand)

• Biting someone in a dream portends that our aggression will create numerous enemies, or reveals the desire to possess and dominate the person we bite…. (Bite)

• Feeling the bite, sadness…. (Bite)

• (Champing | Chomp | Love | Rancor) In a dream, a bite signifies perfidy, rancor or extreme love for the one who is bitten in a dream…. (Bite)

• For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children…. (Back-bite)

• A bite in a dream also signifies extreme anger…. (Bite)

• If one’s fingers bleed from such bite in a dream, it means tribulations caused by one’s own shortcomings…. (Bite)

• Taking a dog for a companion on a journey in a dream means disappearing…. (Dog)

• Adopting a dog as a pet in a dream means wavering, or paying financial damages, or it could mean unemployment…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also means disbelief, ingratitude or losing hope, belying, fear, imprisonment, or becoming a fugitive…. (Dog)

• A shepherd’s dog represents a good neighbor who cares more about his neighbors than about his own household…. (Dog)

• Drinking dog’s milk in a dream means a scare…. (Dog)

• Eating a dog’s meat in a dream means cracking down at one’s enemy…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also represents a guard or an innovator…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also represents a street boy, a beggar or an obsequious, lowly and a despicable person who maintains affection toward his master and jealously guards him, his children and property…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also means greed, love for the worldly pleasures, committing a dogfight to win them and failingto have any reserve or savings…. (Dog)

• A hunting dog in a dream represents honor and profits…. (Dog)

• Seeing an angry dog in a dream denotes that you will defeat your rivals…. (Dog)

• Dreaming of a dog and petting it indicates profits and lasting friends…. (Dog)

• If a dog barks at someone in a dream, it means that one will hear something he despises or hates to make public from someone who lacks any sense of honor or virtue…. (Dog)

• Dreaming that you kill an angry dog means that you will overcome the bad opinions and you will rise up to prosperity…. (Dog)

• See Dog)… (Hunting dog)

• Often, dreaming with a dog indicates a need to be loved and protected, to have on our side someone to give us love and companionship…. (Dog)

• If the dog is in danger it means that a relationship will be threatened…. (Dog)

• If the dog shows us affection and fidelity, then it indicates that we are being true to our own nature…. (Dog)

• If the dog looks at us and asking for something or puts his head over our lap, then he is imploring us to return to the right path…. (Dog)

• If the dog looks at us surly with eyes burning in hate, he is telling us that we deny the loyalty to others which we are requesting…. (Dog)

• See Dog…. (Mad Dog)

• Seeing a dog in a city in a dream also means renewal of one’s business contract…. (Dog)

• To dream that a dog bites your on the leg, suggests that you have lost your ability to balance aspects of your life…. (Dog)

• Play with a dog, damage…. (Dog)

• To see a happily barking dog in your dream, indicates pleasures, friendship and much social activity in your life…. (Dog)

• Dream of a strange dog indicates the possibility of suffering deceive, perjury or damages…. (Dog)

• A furious dog is a signal of anger, angriness and melancholy…. (Dog)

• If the dog is barking ferociously, then it represents your habit of making demands on people and controlling situations around you…. (Dog)

• To see a dog in your dream, symbolize a skill that you have not used, ignored or even forgotten…. (Dog)

• Dreaming of dog shows, that your own values and intentions will enable you to go forward in the world and succeed…. (Dog)

• Should it belong to a stranger, an unscrupulous and infamous enemy, See a dog tear clothing, scandal on the part of a mendacious villan, seeking to ruin him whose garments are torn…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also represents a weak enemy or a niggardly person…. (Dog)

• If the dog is dead or dying in dream, then it symbolizes a loss of a good friend…. (Dog)

• Should the dreamer imagine the dog to be his own, the services of a faithful, indefatigable and courageous friend, a trustworthy servant…. (Dog)

• See a dog in anger; well-founded fears…. (Dog)

• (See Dog)… (Shepherd’s dog)

• If you are bitten by a dog it is indication of gossiping-talking and dishonesty…. (Dog)

• To dream about dog on your property, means that certain person will need your help and advice…. (Dog)

• Bringing-up a dog for companion- ship in a dream means befriending a servant for whom one has great love and affection…. (Dog)

• A pet dog in a dream represents an astringent and a bitter enemy…. (Dog)

• A shepherd’s dog in a dream represents profits and benefits…. (Dog)

• Hunting with a dog in a dream means satisfying one’s lust or desire…. (Dog)

• To dream that you are buying a dog, indicates your inclination to bribe or buy your friends or buy compliments / favors…. (Dog)

• If one is transformed into a dog in a dream, it means that God Almighty has taught him great knowledge which he abused and discarded, then God Almighty stripped him from such a knowledge…. (Dog)

• Seeing a sick house dog in a dream means illness and financial losses or loss of appetite or losing the pleasure of living…. (Dog)

• A dog in a dream also could represent a vile and an insolent woman who belong to a group of evildoing people and who are persistent in their enmity…. (Dog)

• Killing a dog in a dream signifies vanquishing one’s enemy…. (Dog)

• Dreaming that you are dressing up your dog with clothes, signifies your attempts to cover up your own character imperfections, flaws and habits…. (Dog)

• If one does not hear the barking of the dog in the dream, it signifies that one’s enemy has left him inflected with a small loss…. (Dog)

• (See Dog)… (Police dog)

• Dreaming of a lap-dog, foretells you will be succored by friends in some approaching dilemma If it be thin and ill-looking, there will be distressing occurrences to detract from your prospects…. (Lap-dog)

• If a dog tears off one’s clothing in a dream, it means that a vile person is slandering and backbiting him…. (Dog)

• See Dog)… (Dog star)

• A hand bell in a dream also means a scandal…. (Hand bell)

• A hand bell in a dream represents a jobber, a broker, a wife and her children, or the muezzin of a mosque…. (Hand bell)

• Ringing a hand held bell in a dream means propagating falsehood…. (Hand bell)

• Holding a hand bell in a dream also means associating with a useless person, or it could represent a liar…. (Hand bell)

• To have a diminutive hand; deliverance, disembarrassment…. (Hand, Hands)

• Ringing a hand bell in a marketplace in a dream means making a false oath…. (Hand bell)

• The right hand corresponds to the rational, conscious, logical and virile side…. (Hand)

• (See Hand mill)… (Hand grinder)

• The hand symbolizes our means of action…. (Hand)

• The left hand means irrational, illogical, unconscious and passive part of character…. (Hand)

• Dream of having a hand cut off, burned, or withered ; loss of a most valuable servant…. (Hand, Hands)

• To have a hand hairy or shaggy, vexation and imprisonment…. (Hand, Hands)

• A hand mill in a dream also means comfort, relief, evil, fight, dispute, wife, servant, livelihood, travels, gourmandism, or a woman who gives herself priority in everything…. (Hand mill)

• On the other hand, it indicates you are removing some responsibility off your shoulders…. (Hand)

• Dream of taking someone’s hand represents your union with this person…. (Hand)

• If one buys a hand mill in a dream, it means that he will get married, or that he will marry off his daughter, or that he will travel on business…. (Hand mill)

• The dream about hands could show the necessity to give a hand to those around you…. (Hand)

• It is known that the right hand is the symbol of manhood and the right one is a symbol of feminine factors of the dreamer…. (Hand)

• To see a detached hand, indicates a solitary life, that is, people will fail to understand your views and feelings…. (Hand)

• If you have an injured hand, some person will succeed to what you are striving most to obtain…. (Hand)

• In a dream, to see your hand being dirty, denotes to the guilt and fault you are carrying with yourself…. (Hand)

• As far as the question of livelihood, the better looking and effective is the hand mill, the better are one’s earnings and vice-versa…. (Hand mill)

• If one sees himself operating a millstone by hand in a dream, it means that he earns his livelihood following the required religious conduct, and earns his money from his own sweat…. (Hand mill)

• If one sees a huge hand mill in the center of a town in a dream, it means war and destruction and especially if he sees it grinding rocks or emitting fire or sparks…. (Hand mill)

• If one sees a hand mill grinding stones in a dream, it means that he will be seized by terror…. (Hand mill)

• If someone sees a hand mill in a house that is not accustomed to grinding its own grain or spices in a dream, it means adversities, defeat, or arguments…. (Hand mill)

• Otherwise, it means a plague if the hand mill is grinding spoiled and moldy grains, mud, or spoiled meat…. (Hand mill)

• If the hand mill is turning with nothing to grind in the dream, it means toiling aimlessly…. (Hand mill)

• A pair of small hand grinders in a dream represent two loathsome partners that no one can correct or guide…. (Hand mill)

• If one sees the hand mill turning and not grinding in a dream, it means travels…. (Hand mill)

• If the hand mill turns using a wheel in the dream, it means prosperity…. (Hand mill)

• (Laboring | Livelihood | Millstone | Travel) A hand mill in a dream means overcoming distress, pain, or satisfying one’s needs…. (Hand mill)

• The dream, in which you were holding the hand of other person, indicates the strong bond, love and affection you have towards that particular person…. (Hand)

• If one is bitten by another person in a dream, it means that he will enjoy happiness and success at the beginning of his professional life, then he will suffer from an illness, eye inflammation, ophthalmia, or from heart problems…. (Bite)

• Biting one’s own fingers in a dream means regret or fury, rage and anger…. (Bite)

• Biting on an apple in a dream means satisfying one’s desires…. (Bite)

• (Also see Pinch | Tongue)… (Bite)

• Being bitten By a serpent or other venomous beast, jealousy…. (Bite)

• Dream of being bitten, fear of injury to the feet…. (Bite)

• If one bites himself then spits a piece of his own flesh on the ground in a dream, it means backbiting and belittling others…. (Bite)

• (See Pinch)… (Bite off)

• It can also reveal the fear of sexual assault…. (Bite)

• If we are bitten it means that we feel hurt by the aggression of the person who bites us, or the aggressiveness of others if we do not recognize the person…. (Bite)

• If we are bitten by an animal the dream reflects the fear of letting ourselves be dominated by our instincts and passions, which will be symbolized by the animal that bites us…. (Bite)

• It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing…. (Bite)

• You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy…. (Bite)

• Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting…. (Back-bite)

• (See Snake | Sting)… (Snake bite)

• This dream omens ill…. (Bite)

• dogs collecting from all parts, a popular assembly held in the interests of the government, a call for soldiers…. (Dog)

• It could also indicate unfriendly or dangerious companions…. (Dog)

• Seeing …. (Dog)

• Be worried by dogs, a proportionate victory over enemies…. (Dog)

• Dogs fighting presage enemies and disagreements with the loved person…. (Dog)

• Alternatively, it suggest a need for you to find friendship, companionship and new place in society…. (Dog)

• It also represents a blooming friendship or that your friendships will grow stronger…. (Dog)

• If he barks in the dream, it means that such a man is impudent and has a repulsive and an abominable character…. (Dog)

• (astr…. (Dog star)

• Dogs that bark announce indispositions and gossiping…. (Dog)

• Dogs baying, scandalous publications…. (Dog)

• You may be hesitant in approaching a new situation or have no desire to move forward with your goals…. (Dog)

• Alternatively, dogs may indicate intuition, loyalty, protection, generosity and fidelity…. (Dog)

• See white dogs, speedy happiness…. (Dog)

• This skill needs to be activated…. (Dog)

• In the dream, anything that happens to such a breed of dogs means suffering from distress, sorrow or loss of one’s pleasure of living…. (Dog)

• Black ones, treason at the hands of friends…. (Dog)

• Lying down, turpitude, dishonorable love intrigues…. (Dog)

• See dogs righting, ambuscades to be avoided…. (Dog)

• Alternatively, it represents a deterioration of your instincts…. (Dog)

• It may indicate betrayal and untrustworthiness…. (Dog)

• A puppy in a dream represents a loved child…. (Dog)

• Seeing a doggy in a dream symbolizes joy and carefree nature…. (Dog)

• A greyhound in a dream also represents the backbone of an army general or his best helper or it could represent a good strategist, though he lacks principals and moral integrity…. (Dog)

• A Japanese spaniel or a Pekingese in a dream signifies mixing with, or doing business with a foreign counterpart…. (Dog)

• Seeing an expedition of hounds leaving a town for a chase or a hunt in a dream means blessings and prosperity for everyone, or it could mean taking action…. (Dog)

• His bark warns us about the proximity of danger…. (Dog)

• Seeing a greyhound in a dream means gaining authority, control and wealth…. (Dog)

• A puppy in a dream also represents a child of adultery, a foundling who is left in the street, wrapped in a swaddle and who is brought home by an insolent person to rear him…. (Dog)

• It could also mean falling sick or suffering from great affliction or harm caused by a close companion or a servant…. (Dog)

• If it is a white puppy in the dream, it means that such a son will grow to be a believer…. (Dog)

• Dreaming that you’re looking after dogs, indicates that you’re a trustworthy and loyal friend, especially in difficult times…. (Dog)

• If it is a black puppy in the dream, it means that he will grow to govern the household and to presides over its people…. (Dog)

• If one sees such expedition entering a town in his dream, it also means a high rate of unemployment…. (Dog)

• Seeing the expedition of hounds returning from a hunt or a chase in a dream means dispelling people’s fears, or it could mean lack of work…. (Dog)

• A barking bitch in a dream signifies harm and deceit which is caused by abominable people…. (Dog)

• In a dream, all types of dogs also represent people…. (Dog)

• Symbolizes friendship and fidelity…. (Dog)

• To hear his howl portends imminent death…. (Dog)

• (Lust | Desire | Want…. (Hunting dog)

• Hearing dogs barking anticipates bad news or difficulties…. (Dog)

• In a dream, all breeds of dogs represent lowly, obsequious and despicable people…. (Dog)

• With many, avarice…. (Dog)

• Seeing dogs that are reared for bantering or dallying with in a dream signify fun and enjoying one’s life…. (Dog)

• See Fingers…. (Hand)

• In loosening them, you will force others to submit to your dictations…. (Hand)

• Dreaming that your hands are tied, denotes that you will be involved in difficulties…. (Hand)

• To shake hands with close relative, it’s a sign of happy family life…. (Shake hand)

• Small, weak and ugly hands indicate recklessness, insecurity, dissatisfaction and failure…. (Hand)

• If you have abnormally large hands, then such dream symbolizes the proficiency in your life…. (Hand)

• The dream could also indicate the actual fear of being no longer in connection with that person…. (Hand)

• If you hands were closed, then it might show you are hiding something or have made the acceptance about something…. (Hand)

• If your hands are hairy, rough, then such dream suggests you to be more intelligent and softer with people you are making deals…. (Hand)

• If your hands are bleeding or are wounded in any other way, then it shows you will lose the respects from other people, because of something you did or didn’t do…. (Hand)

• If you were washing your hands in a dream, then it means you got rid of some duties or finished the certain work, relationships or project…. (Hand)

• The hands are also the part of communication, mostly used to express the emotions…. (Hand)

• The hands in a dream represent your ability to connect with the outer world…. (Hand)

• Dream of having very large hands indicates that you will succeed and achieve your objectives…. (Hand)

• Hands are a form of communication between people…. (Hand)

• Dream of having your hands stained with blood means you feel guilty about something in real life…. (Hand)

• Dream of washing your hands means there is a matter that concerns you and you should face it…. (Hand)

• Who has the fan is who takes the initiative in the real world, but with lack of honesty, disloyalty and intrigue…. (Hand fan)

• For a woman to admire her own hands, is proof that she will win and hold the sincere regard of the man she prizes above all others…. (Hand)

• To wash your hands, you will participate in some joyous festivity…. (Hand)

• To admire the hands of others, she will be subjected to the whims of a jealous man…. (Hand)

• To have a man hold her hands, she will be enticed into illicit engagements…. (Hand)

• To handle fire without burning her hands, she will rise to high rank and commanding positions…. (Hand)

• If she lets others kiss her hands, she will have gossips busy with her reputation…. (Hand)

• To see your hands soiled, denotes that you will be envious and unjust to others…. (Hand)

• To see them smaller, the reverse is predicted…. (Hand)

• To see blood on them, denotes estrangement and unjust censure from members of your family…. (Hand)

• If you see beautiful hands in your dream, you will enjoy great distinction, and rise rapidly in your calling | but ugly and malformed hands point to disappointments and poverty…. (Hand)

• To burn your hands, you will overreach the bounds of reason in your struggles for wealth and fame, and lose thereby…. (Hand)

• To see your hands covered with hair, denotes that you will not become a solid and leading factor in your circle…. (Hand)

• To see your hands enlarged, denotes a quick advancement in your affairs…. (Hand)

• Dream of your hands represents your relationship with the people in your life and how you interacting with the world…. (Hand)

• If the hands appear dirty, calloused or scratched, it symbolizes that many sacrifices will have to be made, in order to achieve our objectives, and if success does come, it will be after putting in a lot of effort…. (Hand)

• To wash the hands; toil, inquietude…. (Hand, Hands)