Cemetery Dream Interpretation: Insights from 31 Unique Sources

(Burial ground, Grave, Graveyard) Seeing a cemetery or a graveyard in a dream means appeasement and comfort for a terrified person, and dismay to a comfortable and a relaxed person.

A graveyard represents the elements of fear, hope and return to guidance after heedlessness.

A cemetery represents the hereafter, because it is its vehicle.

A cemetery in a dream also represents the prison of the body, but in a dream, it also means seclusion, devotion, abstinence, asceticism or admonition. Acemetery also can be interpreted as the dead looking drunkard in a bar, a man laying flat in a prostitution house, the home of a heedless person who often sleeps rather than pray or a hypocrite whose deeds are not subject to receiving a heavenly reward, etcetera.

If a sick person walks into a funeral procession in a dream, it means that his illness will culminate in his death.

If he is not sick and then during that procession he weeps or prays for the deceased person in the dream, it means that he will repent of his sins, join spiritual study circles and serves the people of knowledge. Such a person also may attain a blessed spiritual station and benefit from what he hears and sees.

If one sees himself walking in a funeral procession and neglecting respect and contemplation, and instead laughs and jokes, it means that he will befriend evildoers and accept their evil conduct as a standard norm of behavior.

If one sees himself visiting a graveyard for seclusion, self-awakening and self-restraint, then if he reflects about words of truth, wisdom and repentance in his dream, it means that he will be asked tojudge between two people, and that he will rule with justice.

If one does not contemplate thus in the dream, it means that he will forget about something important or dear to his heart. Ifone enters the graveyard calling to prayers in a dream, it means that he will admonish people, commands what is good and forbids what is evil.

If one sees himself entering a graveyard and walking over the scattered bones of the dead people in a dream, it means that he will die and be buried there.

A cemetery in a dream also represents admonition, reading the Qur’an, crying, reminiscence, piety, surrender to one’s destiny and discarding worldly gains.

A cemetery in a dream also may represent the scholars, ascetics, governors, leaders, camps or a brothel.

The graves of saints or shrines in a dream signify innovation, heedlessness, intoxication, adultery, corruption and fear.

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

(See Burial, Grave, Shrine)

To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have unexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead, and you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers.

To see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see all your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger’s care.

For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends, but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert. Brides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony, will be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys.

For a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect the continued good health of her family.

For a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside her weeds for robes of matrimony.

If she feels sad and depressed she will have new cares and regrets. Old people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys where they will find perfect rest.

To see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among the graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends to weep over. Good health will hold high carnival.

(See Burial, Death, Holy Ground, Tomb) Death, endings or conclusions, in literal or figurative terms.

If any of the headstones had writing, what did they say? Any messages here could prove quite helpful with your interpretation.

Being lost in, or terrified by: The fear of death, or the unknown.

Being buried in: Symbolic opportunity in disguise for resurrection and a new beginning. Burying in soil or mud was used in folk medicine as a sympathetic cure that fooled the spirits of sickness and death into believing they’d won.

Dreaming of a tomb represents a metaphorical opportunity for rebirth and a fresh start.

The word tomb actually means “tummy,” being the womb of the earth from which we are all born and return. Alternatively, a well-kept, elaborate tomb may reflect achievements and honors accumulated during your life.

Vision: Women who dream frequently about walking through a cemetery have nothing to be frightened about. It only means they need more peace and quiet—the job, children, and the house are taking their toll. Lingering about the cemetery: you are hanging on to the past. Walking into a cemetery: you are too preoccupied with past experiences. Do you want to bun- something so that you can start all over again? Bringing flowers to a cemetery: a death in the family.

Depth Psychology: The cemetery indicates anxiety caused by new or past problems, because you are forced to make a decision.

See Death, Grave.

A dream of contrary. Usually, this is NOT a negative symbol.

If the cemetery was dark and gloomy, and/or overgrown, there is much in the dreamer’s life that needs to be cleaned up before he or she can move ahead. But if it was a clear day, and the cemetery was neat and well kept, the dreamer is free to move ahead with whatever plans he or she has made.

If there is someone with a serious illness in the dreamer’s immediate circle, a dark and gloomy cemetery probably reflects the dreamer’s fear rather than what is actually coming.

A bright cemetery is reassuring; there will be no burials just yet.

1- The cemetery and its association with death can have a double meaning in dreams. It can represent the parts of ourselves that we have ‘killed off’ or stopped using. It can also depict our thoughts and feelings about death and the attitudes and traditions surrounding it.

2- In dreams we can often allow our fears to come to the surface in an acceptable way.

The cemetery can be a symbol of an appropriate way to handle these fears. In other words, we can legitimately allow ourselves to become frightened.

3- A cemetery is the place of the Dead but also of spiritual regeneration.

A cemetery is a collection of dead organic matter.

It is a sad and depressing place that doesn’t reflect any joy, and reflects even less hope. Dreaming about cemeteries may be a reflection of your mood or unresolved grief. It may literally represent sadness that comes from losing someone that you love, or it could represent your past and long-gone experiences.

See Grave/Graveyard 

If you dream of a well kept cemetery it is a sign of happiness to come but an unkempt one shows that you will meet with opposition and adversity. This is the kind of dream that must be correlated with the other symbols of the dream, such as: open graves, flowers, funeral services, etc., as all of these things would change the benign aspect of a stroll through a well kept cemetery.

Material aspects: The cemetery and its association with death can have a double meaning. It can represent the parts of ourselves that we have ‘killed off ’ or stopped using. It can also depict our thoughts and feelings about death and the attitudes and traditions surrounding it.

Depicts our thoughts and feelings regarding death; our family heritage of attitudes or traditions; contact with the dead; things in our life we have ‘buned’; being mel­ancholy about life or feeling different’ to other people; a rela­tionship which we think is dead and buried’.

Dreaming of a cemetery predicts news from some one long absent.

To a widow or widower, the cemetery dream means a chance for a new way of living; to some, another marriage.

If the dreamer is elderly, the same dream indicates pleasant journeys.

Dreams of a cemetery represent change or the ending of a relationship or business affair. You may be grieving and moving through the bittersweet sorrow of missing your connection to a loved one or releasing a deeply held attachment.

See Death.

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contrary.

If the cemetery was well kept, it signifies coming happiness and prosperity; however, if the general appearance of the place was dreary, you must expect a bit of trouble first.

See Funeral, Death, etc.

The universal acceptance of this as a dream of prosperity suggests either the spirit of contrariety found in certain dream interpretations, or symbolism derived from the morbidity of certain early Christian sects.

To dream that you are in a cemetery indicates that your life is filled with sorrow and anguish. There is an issue that is causing you great despair. This must be absolved or you could find yourself sinking into a deep depression.

Psychological / emotional perspective: In dreams we can often allow our fears to come to the surface in an acceptable way.

The cemetery in dreams is a place set apart, where we can confront our fears of death and dying.

A well-kept cemetery; with flowers on the graves, indicates that you will have many friends who will be faithful to you for many years.

An unkempt cemetery indicates loss of friends; acquaintances rather than close friends.

A cemetery is the place of the dead but also of spiritual regeneration. As a place where we put aside the physical but can allow ourselves to mourn, it becomes an area of transition to something better.

1. Death;

2. Without life (Spirit of God);

3. Superficiality;

4. No faith (open grave);

5. The end of something;

6. Putting something to rest or death. Ezek. 37:1-10;

To dream of a cemetery suggests we are coming to terms with the end of a project or situation. It can also be symbolic of a spiritual awakening or arising.

A strange experience in which machinery wili have an important part is predicted by dreaming of picking blackberries in an oid and deserted cemetery.

This type of dream invites us to reflect on a terminal condition.

If it is recurring, it could reveal unjustified fears. (See HANGED, CORPSE)

Finding oneself in a cemetery in a dream may indicate sadness or unresolved grief. Alternatively, it may simply represent one’s “dead” past.

1. If well kept, indicates happiness on the horizon.

2. If in poor condition, troubles ahead.

3. If placing flowers, indecisive.

A cemetery may symbolize death, so the dream will be expressing your feelings about death, or your feelings about some dead person.

If the cemetery of which you dream is well kept, it is a sign that you will overcome all the obstacles that confront you.

Funeral, Death. Longing for rest and relaxation in times of overwork and stress.

A classical place for ghosts.

A place of finality, i.E.

A business that has closed down

Symbolic of being spiritually dead, Matt. 8:28 NLT

You will conquer all things.

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accompanying a close friend to: wil hear from friend you have mourned as dead.

unknown person, an: money is needed to resolve one’s dead past.

being in a: attain your peace, prosperity wil fol ow.

bride passing a, on way to wedding: wil lose husband.

bringing flowers to a: release from anxiety over past problem.

cypress tree around border of a: protects the dead from evil.

flowers, children gathering in a: have sensitive, indecisive personality.

elderly people putting: wil have no grief if you resolve it.

lingering about a: hang onto unfulfil ed dreams, there is stil time.

of a: wil regain lost property occupied by usurpers.

walking into a: uproot the anguish you have buried.