How Dreams of Bereavement Reach Out to Us

In my last article about dreams of the dead, I gave short shrift to dreams of bereavement, which is a subset of dreams where we are visited by the deceased.  Often, all visitation dreams are interpreted to be grief dreams, despite the wide range of characteristics shown in these bizarre experiences.   So, now let’s take a look at dreams of the recently departed that do seem to be part of bereavement, offering up healing, closure and emotional release that aids the grief process.

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Dreams that Warn of Illness

This is the sixth post on ways to work with dreams, continuing the discussion about the role of the body in dream formation.  One of the most important reasons to invite dreams back into your life is their role in warning of illness and sickness.  The accounts of this phenomenon have been documented for thousands of years.  Aristotle wrote that the “beginnings of diseases and other distempers which are about to visit the body… must be more evident in the sleeping than the waking state.”

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