Cemetery dream meaning is explained below using 32 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.
Interpretation 1 — Ibn Seerin
A graveyard represents the elements of fear, hope and return to guidance after heedlessness.
A cemetery represents the hereafter, because it is its vehicle.
A cemetery in a dream also represents the prison of the body, but in a dream, it also means seclusion, devotion, abstinence, asceticism or admonition. Acemetery also can be interpreted as the dead looking drunkard in a bar, a man laying flat in a prostitution house, the home of a heedless person who often sleeps rather than pray or a hypocrite whose deeds are not subject to receiving a heavenly reward, etcetera.
If a sick person walks into a funeral procession in a dream, it means that his illness will culminate in his death.
If he is not sick and then during that procession he weeps or prays for the deceased person in the dream, it means that he will repent of his sins, join spiritual study circles and serves the people of knowledge. Such a person also may attain a blessed spiritual station and benefit from what he hears and sees.
If one sees himself walking in a funeral procession and neglecting respect and contemplation, and instead laughs and jokes, it means that he will befriend evildoers and accept their evil conduct as a standard norm of behavior.
If one sees himself visiting a graveyard for seclusion, self-awakening and self-restraint, then if he reflects about words of truth, wisdom and repentance in his dream, it means that he will be asked tojudge between two people, and that he will rule with justice.
If one does not contemplate thus in the dream, it means that he will forget about something important or dear to his heart. Ifone enters the graveyard calling to prayers in a dream, it means that he will admonish people, commands what is good and forbids what is evil.
If one sees himself entering a graveyard and walking over the scattered bones of the dead people in a dream, it means that he will die and be buried there.
A cemetery in a dream also represents admonition, reading the Qur’an, crying, reminiscence, piety, surrender to one’s destiny and discarding worldly gains.
A cemetery in a dream also may represent the scholars, ascetics, governors, leaders, camps or a brothel.
The graves of saints or shrines in a dream signify innovation, heedlessness, intoxication, adultery, corruption and fear.
A stone tomb or a sarcophagus in a dream signifies profits, war prisoners, a booty or exposing one’s personal secrets.
(Also see Burial, Grave, Shrine)
Interpretation 2 — Gustavus Hindman Miller
To see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see all your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger’s care.
For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends, but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert. Brides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony, will be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys.
For a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect the continued good health of her family.
For a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside her weeds for robes of matrimony.
If she feels sad and depressed she will have new cares and regrets. Old people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys where they will find perfect rest.
To see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among the graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends to weep over. Good health will hold high carnival.
Interpretation 3 — Patrica Telesco
If any of the headstones had writing, what did they say? Any messages here could prove quite helpful with your interpretation.
Being lost in, or terrified by: The fear of death, or the unknown.
Being buried in: Symbolic opportunity in disguise for resurrection and a new beginning. Burying in soil or mud was used in folk medicine as a sympathetic cure that fooled the spirits of sickness and death into believing they’d won.
Dreaming of a tomb represents a metaphorical opportunity for rebirth and a fresh start.
The word tomb actually means “tummy,” being the womb of the earth from which we are all born and return. Alternatively, a well-kept, elaborate tomb may reflect achievements and honors accumulated during your life.
Interpretation 4 — Zolar
accompanying a close friend to: wil hear from friend you have mourned as dead.
unknown person, an: money is needed to resolve one’s dead past.
being in a: attain your peace, prosperity wil fol ow.
bride passing a, on way to wedding: wil lose husband.
bringing flowers to a: release from anxiety over past problem.
cypress tree around border of a: protects the dead from evil.
flowers, children gathering in a: have sensitive, indecisive personality.
elderly people putting: wil have no grief if you resolve it.
lingering about a: hang onto unfulfil ed dreams, there is stil time.
of a: wil regain lost property occupied by usurpers.
walking into a: uproot the anguish you have buried.
Interpretation 5 — Garuda
Depth Psychology: The cemetery indicates anxiety caused by new or past problems, because you are forced to make a decision.
See Death, Grave.
Interpretation 6 — Astro Center
If the cemetery was dark and gloomy, and/or overgrown, there is much in the dreamer’s life that needs to be cleaned up before he or she can move ahead. But if it was a clear day, and the cemetery was neat and well kept, the dreamer is free to move ahead with whatever plans he or she has made.
If there is someone with a serious illness in the dreamer’s immediate circle, a dark and gloomy cemetery probably reflects the dreamer’s fear rather than what is actually coming.
A bright cemetery is reassuring; there will be no burials just yet.
Interpretation 7 — Pamela Ball
2- In dreams we can often allow our fears to come to the surface in an acceptable way.
The cemetery can be a symbol of an appropriate way to handle these fears. In other words, we can legitimately allow ourselves to become frightened.
3- A cemetery is the place of the Dead but also of spiritual regeneration.
Interpretation 8 — Silvana Amar
It is a sad and depressing place that doesn’t reflect any joy, and reflects even less hope. Dreaming about cemeteries may be a reflection of your mood or unresolved grief. It may literally represent sadness that comes from losing someone that you love, or it could represent your past and long-gone experiences.
See Grave/Graveyard
Interpretation 9 — Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen
Interpretation 10 — Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 11 — Tony Crisp
Interpretation 12 — Nancy Wagaman
Sentimentality or focusing on the past.
A feeling or fear of a phase or activity coming to an end.
A feeling or fear of loss or change.
See Grave, Dead Body, Dead Acquaintance, Death of You, Safe or Vault, Funeral
Interpretation 13 — Ella Freeman Sharpe
To a widow or widower, the cemetery dream means a chance for a new way of living; to some, another marriage.
If the dreamer is elderly, the same dream indicates pleasant journeys.
Interpretation 14 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous
See Death.
Interpretation 15 — Versatile - Anonymous
The cemetery in dreams is a place set apart, where we can confront our fears of death and dying.
Interpretation 16 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
contrary.
If the cemetery was well kept, it signifies coming happiness and prosperity; however, if the general appearance of the place was dreary, you must expect a bit of trouble first.
See also Funeral, Death, etc.
Interpretation 17 — Katherine Taylor Craig
Interpretation 18 — DreamForth
Interpretation 19 — Raymond Buckland
An unkempt cemetery indicates loss of friends; acquaintances rather than close friends.
Interpretation 20 — Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 21 — Vincent Wienand
2. Without life (Spirit of God);
3. Superficiality;
4. No faith (open grave);
5. The end of something;
6. Putting something to rest or death. Ezek. 37:1-10;
Interpretation 22 — Dream Meanings Anonymous
Interpretation 23 — Gillian Holloway
Interpretation 24 — Martha Clarke
If it is recurring, it could reveal unjustified fears. (See HANGED and CORPSE)
Interpretation 25 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Interpretation 26 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
2. If in poor condition, troubles ahead.
3. If placing flowers, indecisive.
Interpretation 27 — Eric Ackroyd
Interpretation 28 — Gillian Holloway
Interpretation 29 — Klaus Vollmar
A classical place for ghosts.
Interpretation 30 — Margaret Hamilton
A business that has closed down