How Dreams Can Anticipate Death and Point to the Afterlife

Death is one of the greatest mysteries of human existence, the inevitable fate that unites us all. Whenever man is confronted with something mysterious and unknown such as the origin of the world, death, the afterlife, etc., the unconscious produces symbolic representations.

In her groundbreaking book, On Dreams and Death, Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz writes about death dreams, that is, dreams of people who subsequently died. Therefore, they are of a precognitive nature, as they can anticipate the death of someone. In death dreams, the end of physical life is represented in a symbolic way, but almost always accompanied by manifestations that allude to the continuation of the person’s life.

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⌛ Timestamps

(0:00) Introduction
(2:24) Death Is Not The End
(4:50) Near-Death-Experiences (NDEs)
(8:10) NDEs: Ego and Self
(10:34) Death Dreams
(14:14) Death Dreams in Second Half of Life
(15:05) Death Dreams at a Young Age
(15:45) Dreams About Someone Else’s Death
(16:30) Birth is Death, Death is Birth
(18:25) Metapsychic Dreams
(22:10) Death Dreams: Vegetation
(28:32) Death Dreams: Fire and The Philosophers’ Stone
(33:56) Death Dreams: The Fruit
(38:52) Death Dreams: Death as a Cure
(40:15) Death Dreams: Dark Tunnel
(41:55) Death Dreams: Spirit of Discouragement
(44:00) Death Dreams: The Sinister Other
(46:48) Death Dreams: The Threshold
(48:25) Death Dreams: Light
(50:28) Beyond Space and Time
(51:45) The Final Decision
(52:36) Conclusion