Dream interpretation: End of the world
Many people dream of the end of the world and get really scared, assuming they’ve previewed a coming reality, but, of course, dreams are symbolic. Here’s a short one posted to the one-day dream forum last month, followed by my interpretation.
“I’ve been having constant dreams about aliens arriving, and/or aliens influencing our lives. I see end of world, panic, spaceships. But when I wake up, it somehow gives me a sense of beginning.”
My interpretation
You are dreaming of the end of the world as you know it – some aspect of your own private world or being that is coming to an end. No wonder you wake up with a sense of a beginning. We can only grow and change in the world for the better by ending some things so new things can begin. End old attitudes, so new attitudes can begin. End old personal world perspectives so new ones can begin.
And those aliens? Easy – parts of your being that you have alienated are coming back on board. You mention panic, so your dream suggests that a panic situation in the past caused you to dissociate from certain feelings or emotions and send them into your personal outer space. Because things are changing in your world now, you’re confident enough to face the old sense of panic and integrate these feelings into your being as you step into the future a more confident, calm, (unpanicked) person. Congratulations!
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Everynight I dream of dying. Most of the time, its in a meteor shower, sometimes I am murdered by an individual, or a group of people, a car crash, falling from a building, killed in the prossess of an exorcisim being preformed on me, the grim reaper, its been like this my whole life. Ive never had a normal dream.
Hi Jenni,
Here’s an article to help shed more light for you: http://www.dream.net.au/library/death_dreams.cfm
Or you might like to visit my shop and buy my ebook ‘How to stop bad dreams and nightmares’, or consult me privately. You don’t need to suffer these dreams. We can turn endings into new and better beginnings.
Hey !
I saw a very horrifying dream yesterday about the end of the world. I saw myself in an unfamiliar surrounding with a stranger whom i think i called inside as i thought he is a doctor who could check the burning in my eyes but as soon as i looked the TV. There was a live reporting going in about end of worl and the world is on fire with various parts of the world melting away. I begin to see the fire balls around me but i used to save myself everytime then i saw the reporter saying that that the our part of the world is on fire soon it was also the last one and i saw the tv reporting stopped there was a black thing . And i reciting kalma ( muslim faith about GOd is one and Mohammad as the propehet of God ) and asking God that save me. I dont feel any pain buti knew that im dead . I feel that iam on top and have left my body like a soul.
Suddenly my dream ends and i wake up in the middle of night may be 3. Iam very scared what does that dream means to me.
IN my real life my father and grandma has recently passed away , few months back. And i have a breakup with my BF and iam stressed about my exams .
Please ill be glad if you would reply to me .Im scared a lot
Hi Aisha,
Dreams like that are so terrifying because, while you’re in the dream, you really think they’re happening, don’t you? Rest assured, that your dramatic dream is your mind’s way of processing all the endings in your life – the loss of your father and grandma through their passing, and the break up with your boyfriend.
See, ‘the end of the world’ dream reflects your own feelings about the end of your world as you have known it. Things are changing. There’s the prospect of your exam – how will your life change again if you pass or if you fail?
It’s natural for us to feel terrified when our familiar world seems to be coming to an end, but the exciting thing is that all sorts of wonderful new beginnings are ready to open up for you once you have grieved for your losses. There’s a lot more to your dream that we could look at in a consultation, but I hope this has helped reassure you.
You might like to get my kindle book ‘How to stop bad dreams and nightmares’ as it includes easy exercises you can apply to help at such times:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005N4UCBA
I have had reaccuring dreams about the end of the world! I see acid rain, title waves blk as night that reach to the sky, astrotoids and or balls of fire falling to the ground destroying anything in its path. Dropping people and they lay there screaming as If it were a movie every dream bigger and more scarier then before. You are telling me this means nothing when it happens all the time? I have these dreams regular and its not as though a dream I can feel the wind and the rain! Something Ive never done in any dream. Feel the pain the fear in everyone! Ive never heard of dreams like this until coming online. Its horrible and I always sleep through I dont wake up and I experince every peice of the moment! Horrible!!!
Hi Crystal,
Your dream is certainly vivid and it is definitely meaningful. But what it means is not the end of the world. Though we can sometimes preview events in our dreams, this is rare, (see my book ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ on this subject), and the interesting thing about recurring end-of-the-world dreams is that once they are interpreted the dreamers generally see the parallels between the dream and feelings and emotions in their waking lives around change or fear of change in their personal lives. That pain and fear you feel is your own fear and pain, held deep down. Your dream recall is fabulous, and the better we are at remembering our dreams the more we tend to dream in mutli-senses. Dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours, so each time you have this dream, review the previous two days.
hello! last night i had a very scary dream that woke me out of bed screaming , it was the end of the world there was a lot of confusion . the stars well falling from the sky , i saw my home town completely destroyed family members killing them selves , my grandfather committing suicide and saying to me ” he will not go this way ” mass graves of people on the side of the highway and the streets some piles of burning bodies and others with plain white crosses in fields of burning white candles there was a loud sound echoing across the sky a lot of screaming a lot of explosions and there i was standing in the middle of it all and everyone i knew was gone i had had a nightmare the previous night of looking down at my own body in a morgue with an autopsy incision on my chest which scared me as well but nothing like this last night i actually woke up and realized i had also wet my self i’m a 30 year old woman and haven’t done that since childhood this has really bothered me i can’t get the images out of my head please reply thank you
Hi Morganna,
I can imagine how scared you were waking up from that one! No wonder you wet the bed, given that dreams seem so real while you’re experiencing them.
The first thing to remember is that dreams are symbolic, so take a deep breath.
The second thing to remember is that dreams are the result of our minds processing our conscious and unconscious experiences of the last 1-2 days. One thing that you experienced during that time frame was your morgue dream, and you would have been processing your waking thoughts and feelings (freaking out?) about that too.
Where, in the 1-2 days before your dream, did you feel or fear that something in your world was coming to an end?
Everyone in a dream represents something about you, so all those family members and references to your home town point to beliefs/feelings about your upbringing and background, going back to your grandparents.
Change (death of the old ways) can be good. Are you curious about the new things life holds for you?
The dream of the incision on your chest suggests that an emotional injury to your heart.
These are just some things for you to contemplate. You might like to book in for a phone or skype session with me so we can really get into your dream.