FRIEND dreams of me (willingly) cremating alive?

[marc7654]

Hello,

I dont know the details but my friend had a dream of me letting myself being cremated alive. I had signed up for it willingly, and it looked scary according to him.

What does it mean? Any details? experiences maybe?

Thanks.

[theswearjar]

Unless you were aware of the dream as well i dnt think it should really have any relavence to you. It was just a product of his/her subconscious.  ,  thats just my perspective tho

[personalreality]

Yea, I've commented on this type of thing before. I really don't think you can analyze anyone's dreams but your own.

The images and scenarios you see are only symbolic in the framework of the dreamer's perception, their paradigm.

No two people have the same perception of anything. Even if we might agree on the meaning of something, in truth we have completely different emotional reactions built on years of experiences unique to ourselves. Like we can agree on what "red" is, but the color symbolizes something completely different in me than in you. Personally, I don't find red to be an aesthetically pleasing color, but for others, it's their favorite color. A lot of that has to do with experiences that shape how we perceive that color. The same applies to anything symbolic, especially in dreams. That's why dream interpretation is mostly nonsense. There are ideas of "archetypes" in our collective consciousness, but even that I would debate. Archetypes have come to mean things to us because we identify them, but there are other explanations for how two cultures separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years could have the same symbols meaning roughly the same thing (like a lost progenitor civilization whose last surviving members seeded cultures around the world? or whatever).

Point being, that dream only means something to your friend, and it only means something in the context of their symbolic perception. So, the impetus is on them to explain it, not you or us.

[fowlskins]

means she needs to go a little less heavy on the gorganzola before bed