I was in a hospital as a visitor or nurse of a man who was lying in bed. I took his hand and then the doctor told me that this man was suffering from an illness that cannot be cured and that he will have to die soon. Unfortunately if you touch the man you can get this illness too.
I said that I had touched him but not very much. The doctor got frightened and told me to go home and stay in quarantine because I might have this illness and would probably suffer and die from that.
Death in dreams is usually about letting old beliefs and ways of being end (die) so that new beliefs and new ways of being can begin (be born). Change is a necessary part of growth and to change we first need to let old beliefs die away.
On the other had there are times in our lives when we may end situations or let go of plans, skills and dreams prematurely. In this case, our dreams may use death as a symbol to reflect what we are putting an end to prematurely.
The man in your dream probably represents something about your outer world – your Yang, or your left brain.
Your dream focuses on touch. We get ‘in touch’ with our feelings, ‘in touch’ with what ails us (represented by illness in your dream) and ‘in touch’ with a situation or problem in order to understand it.
So touching the man in your dream is good! It symbolises getting in touch with what is dying off – particularly in touch with something that is ailing within you, and probably concerning your outer world – so that you can feel it, understand it and make decisions from there. Your dream seems to suggest a time for letting go, for feeling (touching) rather than isolating (quarantining) what you need to look at.
You will find it helpful to read ‘Death & Murder’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 283-8.
Consult me confidentially about your dream.
Visualisation:
Visualise touching the man in your dream and then feeling a healing golden light surrounding you both. Visualise the man transforming into a vibrant, beautiful, healthy person and visualise the same for yourself.
How often to do this:
Do this visualisation 20 times a day for a week, ten times a day for the second week and twice a day for the next month.
How does this work?
This practice will ensure that change occurs for you in the best possible way – a positive healing transformation. Your dream expressed your waking life situation using dream language – the language of your unconscious mind. By reliving the dream with changes, or by transforming one of the dream symbols (or by reliving and intensifying the dream in the case of a dream with a positive ending) you are using vision and feeling to reprogram your unconscious beliefs.
More details on Visualisation as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy” by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 329 – 330.
Jane Teresa Anderson
