Corpse

To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates sorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects.

The young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.

To see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles to the dreamer.

To see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend or some desperate business entanglement.

To see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general dissatisfaction between countries and political factions.

To see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation, both as to business and health.

To see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death to that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious rupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.

For lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of a sacred nature.

To put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see unscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.

If you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after an almost hopeless struggle.

For a young woman this dream denotes distress and loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.

For a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in which she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him that his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below the standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.

If she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is warned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract from the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store, foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned. There are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing. There will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work.

A dream of contrary in that it predicts a full and happy life if the corpse was that of a stranger.

If the dead person was known to you, it signifies an estrangement or unhappy love affair.

If your dream involved a number of corpses but without any particularly distressing aspect, it is a forecast of success where you least expect it.

If your dream featured a medical examination of a corpse, such as an autopsy, it portends an unusual new and interesting experience to come.

See also Casket, Funeral, Death, etc.

Dreams of the corpse of someone you know represent the completion of a relationship you once had with them, and perhaps the end of a particular pattern of relating. Dreams of a corpse can also represent a loss of passion for being alive. You may be moving through a heartbreak that leaves you feeling dead inside, realizing that you can either give into depression or make a decision to live life more fully and courageously than ever before.

See Death and Goddess Persephone.