Lately I've been having dreams about family members dying. I wake up super upset and crying. This has been happening for a couple weeks now. I dreamt of my brother dying and then of my dad. What does it mean to dream of close loved ones dying???

Hi Candi:

My mom and dad are getting older and I've dreamed of my father dying several times and also of my mom dying. I'm close to both of them, and that's a real fear I have, and how I'll deal with it. I did a little dream research for you. I can't interpret your dream, but here's what I've found:

DREAMING OF A LOVED ONE'S DEATH

1. When someone you love, has died in your dream, your dream may be guiding you to feel your fear of losing the love that you have with this person.
2. End of a cycle. Something is finally over. Death is an everyday part of life. So dreams often use it to illustrate leaving something behind, such as childhood or a relationship. Also parts of ones feelings sometimes die. Our love for someone might die for instance, and so our dream illustrates this with a death, perhaps of that person. Some teenagers dream of their parents dying as they start to become independent. This is a form of killing of dependent feelings about their parents as a means of growth. This happens in some relationships too, where we want to break with the person.
3. In our dream life, death usually holds in it the promise of change or regeneration-rebirth is some way. A death within a dream usually denotes imminent or current transformation, a new birth or a new beginning.
4. Something that needs to released or changed
5. Although the interpretation of death is rarely this literal, it may indicate an actual death of someone, or anxiety about the possibility thereof.

FATHER IN DREAM
Authority. Control. Guidance. Recognition. Happiness. Can represent God.
BROTHER IN DREAM
Expect quarrels. Masculine aspect of self. Happiness. Virtue.