Thinking, feeling, sensual and intuitive perception Each person keeps archetypes deeply in his subconscious. In some ways, they are “supernatural” plans. These plans may be accomplished in childhood experiences, socialization, and even through the experience of parenthood, also they can be distorted. C. G. Jung began to study the archetypes and divided their function in thinking, feeling, sensuous and intuitive perception. Each function has “positive” and “negative” characteristics, which can be described with adjectives “more” or “less”. Each of the male and female sides of the personality has these four functions. The perfect balance may be achieved if all sides of the personality can be expressed as:

• The loving father and loving mother are self-explanatory.
• The monster represents negative inserted male anger, and the mother can destructively and deliberately destroy or simply suffocate this.
• The bright young man and the Princess are more amiable, fun-loving personality.
• The hero is the part of independent, messianic personality.
• The Amazon stands for self-satisfied female – career woman.
• The villain is the masculine part of the self, the power to use others for own purposes.
• The athlete, the typical “women’s libber” who says she doesn’t need any men (like Amazon).
• The Priest or priestess are the intuitive powers that are available of the “big whole”.
• The magician/wizard uses his power cruelly and callously.
• The witch uses her power emotionally and possibly negatively.

Psychological Meanings:

• The loving mother: She reflects the traditional picture of the careful mother who forgives for violations, hurts which is always understanding. This side of the female still experiences high esteem and appreciation. But it can happen that you will develop this at the expense of other aspects of personality.
• The destructive mother: This archetype is either about a suffocating motherhood or the openly destructive forbidding wife. Often this is such a type of woman who deliberately prevents relations with the dreamer or willfully complicates this, because of others influence.
• The Princess: This archetype denotes the fun-loving, innocent and childish aspect of the female. The Princess is absolutely spontaneous and at the same time she has her own way to deal with other people.
• The Siren: This archetype stands for the temptress, the woman who knows and saves her sensuality and sexuality.In dreams, she often appears in historical, flowing clothes in order to emphasize her erotic aura.
• The Amazon: It’s the independent woman who does not need any man, but many career women has a huge past of Amazon. She enjoys and satisfies the research, aggressiveness, intellectual war of words.
• The Contestant: Behind this archetype hides the woman who competes with everybody – with both men and women – and she will show all her efforts to prove that she can take her life into her own hands.
• The Priestess: It is an extremely intuitive woman who has learned to control the flow of information and to use it for the public interest.
• The Witch: She is very intuitive person, but she uses her energy for her own purposes. She decides purely subjective and therefore lose her critical judgment.
• The loving father: this side of the male is the traditional image of facing your father, who has the ability to take care of the child and others and to provide his decision as fair and absolutely unshakable.
• The monster: It represents the angry, aggressive, scary side of the male.
• The bright young man: This stands for the fun-loving, curious side of the male which both are sensitive and creative.
• The Drifter: He represents the freedom-loving man, the eternal wanderer, the gypsy. He does not hold any loyalty, and drives him only the prospect of the next adventure.
• The Hero: it is about a man who has decided, to take on his own a journey of discovery. He can consider offers and surely decide the next step. In the dream, he often appears as a messianic figure. He saves something or someone, but only if this helps to promote his own growth.
• The villain: This archetype stands for completely selfish man who does not cares on whom he walks over. In the dream, he is often a threatening and menacing figure which recurs when the woman refuse to come to terms with her selfishness.
• The priests: The intuitive man who recognizes and understands the power of his intuition, and he uses this for the service of God and the community. In the dream he can appear as a shaman or pagan priests.
• The Magician/Wizard: This man uses his judgment completely dispassionate, for both good and bad, only because he enjoys the exercise of power. More negatively, he is the swindler or the master of unexpected changes.
• Urboros: The snake that bites its own tail, is a symbol of consciousness and need for development (the primordial chaos in people, the contradictions of good and evil, man and woman).
• Mandala: Circle and square are combined in this symbolic drawing. It is a sign of self-realization.

Spiritual Meanings:

If the dreamer access to all archetypes equally then he is ready to unite all into whole.

Includes the end

Question:

What am I ready to bury?

General Meanings:

The importance of death When the coffin appears in the dream, then the dreamer remembers his mortality. Such a dream symbol is used to recognize the importance of death and the rites related with this. Perhaps the dreamer successfully came up with “the death” of relationship, now he can pure or overcome a sense of loss.

Luck and Worries Coffin also urges to bury the past, so that you can make life more carefree. If you lie in the coffin, this announces you luck, but you can not rely to much. The empty coffin indicates unnecessary worry.

Psychological Meanings:

With the death the symbol of coffin does not have much to do. There are some common dreams that may appear in the dream:

•  If coffin is decorated richly, this can symbolize that a person has an important turning point in his life, he would like to make clear transition in any way.
• The coffin closes something in the dream, paraphrases to say goodbye “that is all with the past now “. This also may be that the dreamer closes his mind against negative feelings and kills a part of himself.
• If coffin is closed, the farewell of a person, or a professional position is approaching and this is imminent.
• If coffin swims like a boat on the water, something will be swept away that frightened us.
• If see a corpse in the coffin, perhaps wants to make separation with a friendship or even the loved one. This can also indicate a divorce.
• If lying in a coffin, should forget the past and build only the new future.

Spiritual Meanings:

At the spiritual level the coffin symbol in the dream symbolizes redemption, resurrection and unhurt, salvation.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Buried past if seeing – This dream shows that your inner world says goodbye to the past. The new intentions can be realized when the old are buried;
• Worries if a farmer is dreaming a coffin – This dream signifies that the harvest will be destroyed and cattle will get ill;
• Debts if dreaming a businessman – Then he/she will have a pile of debts;
• Hurt if dreaming young person – This is a bad omen, means that you will lose your loved one and announces bad relations which will damage your feelings very deeply;
• Overcoming problems if seeing empty – The coffin is empty in your dream, then this denotes that in near future you will have unnecessary worries, but you will overcome them. also this marks that you will have a long age;
• Unhappy family life and losses in business if seeing a body lying in the coffin – When the coffin is with a body in your dream, this indicates unhappy marriage and irrepressible offspring. Also announces a misfortune in the marriage or a partnership. From professional side  you will emerge setbacks or losses;
• Troubles if seeing your own coffin – This shows about approaching family concerns and defeats in business or at work;
• Happiness if seeing yourself lying in the coffin – Very good omen. This dream promises a happy event in marriage or partnership;
• Contempt if seeing yourself as a corpse – Your corpse is lying in the coffin, this shows that your brave behavior will end in insulting and disgrace;
• Examine your behavior if one sit on in a moving hearse - In the dream you are in the coffin and the hearse is moving,  it is a serious but not fatal disease on one or a closely related person, this may be connected with homosexual. You must reconsider your behavior with a friend or relative, because we have to love people such as they are;
• Happiness and sadness if coffin is moving by itself - This dream shows that illness and marriage are close together, joys and sorrows will exchange with each other.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Good sign if seeing – In the dream you are seeing a coffin, this marks that sick persons will have recovery, for healthy people – long life;
• Not firm luck if lying – In the dream you are lying in the coffin, indicates that you will have mutable and unstable luck.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Bad experience if seeing – In the dream you see a coffin, this announces you will experience bad destiny. This announces of great trouble or suffering;
  
• Long life if lying in coffin – You are dreaming that you are lying in the coffin, this signifies about long life;
• Hurt and worries if see somebody is lying in it – This dream symbol indicates , that the death will bring and prepare you pain and sorrow. Also you must reckon on difficulties in the business environment or your family affairs;
• Illness if seeing empty – The coffin is empty in your dream, this shows that you will get ill, but you will recover. If you want to avoid disease , now you have to rest a little bit.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Seeing coffin in your dream – In the dream this symbol can mean great wealth. The coffin might mean the death of some part of yourself – this might be a hope, feelings connected with a relationship, buried behavior or habits. Also this shows that you have buried your past and now you are ready to create new future.

Dreaming that you are in the coffin / Being in the coffin – This dream symbol appears when you are thinking about your mortality. Maybe you are thinking what have you done in your life, will you leave something after you. You can feel that you are trapped in worries  and troubles. You are stuck and can’t find the way out.

Dreaming of coffin with a person ( mother, father, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, partner, relative ) – In the dream a coffin with a person that you know, may mean that you have fear about this person’s health. Also this can show that you need more attention from the certain person which was in your dream. You are afraid to lose the connection or relation with him/her. But sometimes this may indicate the end of relation with that person, your conscious shows that it is time to separate, to bury the past.

You are hiding under or covering something in the coffin in your dream – These actions shows that you want to hide from your enemies or worries in your waking life. You try to cover yourself from unpleasant things. Also this may show that you want to hide your shame or bad behavior from the others, with such an action you try to bury this.

Seeing coffin of different colors ( white, black, brown, grey) – When white coffin appears in the dream, this symbol shows that you have already buried all the negative thoughts, habits and now you are pure to create new you with all the superior features. This will bring you prestige and prosperity. Black coffin – This dream refers that you want to hide some bad habits or even your unacceptable behavior. You want to bury your shame, to cover it that nobody will ever know this. Brown coffin –  Such color coffin announces illness or health problems. Your body and unconscious sends you a signal to take care of your health because you are near very serious disease. Grey coffin – This symbol appears when the dreamer step by step gets rid of painful feelings and thoughts. His mind is getting brighter.

Seeing empty coffin in the dream – To dream of an empty coffin presents a desire to change your thoughts or your life about something. Perhaps you have started to create new personality and get closer to yourself, your desires.

Dreaming the coffin with a child (kid, baby) – The coffin with a child appears when the dreamer has a desire to have children, but unable to conceive because of disease. And with this dream the dreamer buries the wish to become pregnant. Also it may be that the dreamer has a fear to lose the children or a child that he/she already has.

Dreaming of closed coffin – In the dream to see closed coffin, this may be interpreted as the end of something. This can be the loss ( not only by death) of friend, partner or professional position. This is a sign that there isn’t any possibilities to renew.

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

Return to Earth.

Question:

What am I ready to put aside?

General Meanings:

Burying unpleasant things To dream of your own funeral, this is an indication of fear to be overwhelmed under too much responsibility. This also can symbolize the end of an situation and action, which were not so pleasant for you. Your unconscious shows that you may want to bury your bad habits, feeling, desires which are painful for you. Funeral shows changes in your life, the relation between past and future. When something ends – starts something new.

Psychological Meanings:

Terminated connection Do not panic, your dream doesn’t mean the death! This may be the inner feeling that “someone died” – you do not want to have anything more with him / her, you want to break off completely any contacts.

Changes in your life Sometimes you have “mentally bury” the problems in order to start something new and free your minds. Who dreams of own burial, has concluded an essential phase of his life – perhaps the dream announces a divorce, a move, career changes, or abroad – but certainly not your death.

Spiritual Meanings:

Here the spiritual symbols of death, loss and pain are significant. You do not necessarily have a negative meaning. The dreamer should deal with the rebirth and the positive elements that can be included in this symbolism.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Happiness if a family member participates in funeral in the sunshine – This dream announces healthy relationships and happy marriage in the family.
• Illness and worries if funeral in rainy day - It is happening in the rainy day, then this symbol will bring you diseases and bad news from business;
• Bad news if funeral happens with sad and sorrowful faces – The dream signifies about arising disgusting circumstances.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Dreaming that you attend in your own funeral – Means that you are ending something, you free yourself from this. Your unconscious shows that you are trying to recognize and acknowledge painful feelings, wrong habits, bad experiences or confronting situation and this appears in the dream as a funeral. You try to bury them and this cause your new start or new phase of your life. Also this can be a warning that you are doing something wrong and your sixth sense warns you about that. You have to stop now.

Seeing funeral of someone else (stranger, unknown person or even well known) in your dream – This symbol signifies that you are trying to bury and old hurting relations, you want to shut “the past door”. This also mean that your inner world is in confusion, you may free and bury such feelings as anxiety, frustration, hostility deeply under the ground. These feelings can be addressed to a person that you know and have some kind of relation with him/her, if funeral is of a person you know. To attend in unknown funeral signifies, that in the future you may get something new, but firstly you have to get rid of the old one (for example: old relation, career, habits etc.)

Dreaming of funeral of still living persons (father, mother, sister, brother, well known person, relative, husband, wife etc.) – This dream is a sign that you have to separate or step aside from that person, from his pressure or influence. You have to start living independently and do not be afraid to express your opinion or thoughts. This symbol encourages you to make the first move to your independence, because unconscious shows that you are ready for this. For parents’ this dream shows that you have to release your children, they are grown enough to live their own life.

Dreaming of a funeral of already dead persons ( parents, grandparents etc.) – This dream displays that you still miss them, and you did not free them from your mind and thoughts. You missed their care, love and understanding and support.

* Please, see meaning of burial.