A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

by Tony Crisp
Used in many different ways, depending on context. Generally it represents a goal; point of change, release, death. Example: ‘I was due to be executed—what for I don’t know. I was not especially afraid of this, but my most vivid feelings were of great sadness at the people I was leaving behind, and for all the things I wanted to do in life, but would not now be able to. Then at the end I was watching myself being hanged’ (DK). Many people dream this ‘end of life’ theme. In virtually every one of these dreams there is a highlighting of ‘things to do’. Such dreams are a way of deciding what is of most value in the dreamer’s life.

End of path, road: the end of one’s life, the boundary of what one already knows or has done; end of a relationship (especially if walking with person). End of tunnel, cave, find­ing the way out of a difficult or depressed stage of life. End of table, queue: feeling left out, unconsidered, forgotten; putting oneself last. End of garden, room, road: can be used to show polarity or opposites, as in following. Example: ‘1 found my­self alone in the garden at the far end of the house near the stables’ (MM). Here the end’ relates to being alone, as op­posed to being in the house with people. Idioms: at an end, end of one’s tether, wits’ end; end of the day, be the end of; a sticky end; dead end, the deep end; end it all, end of the line; both ends meet; not the end of the world; loose ends; to no end; light at the end of the tunnel.

See cul de sac.

Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

by Pamela Ball
To dream of there being an end or an ending to something signifies the reaching of a goal, or a point at which things must inevitably change. We need to decide what we can leave behind, and what must be taken forward. We must decide what we value most.

A situation which may have given us problems is coming to a successful conclusion.

To be at the end can mean the subconscious and death.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
To dream of an ending represents completion, the culmination or achievement of a goal. You are realizing that there no such thing as an end, because in the life/death/life cycle of life, an end always precedes a beginning. You may be grieving the parting of ways between you and a loved one, but you can take heart in knowing that the love you share lives forever.

See Break-Up.