Death in a dream is almost never read literally, and a dream about dying is not a notice of anyone’s death. Tradition reads it as an ending that makes room — a habit, a role or a period of life coming to a close. Dreaming of your own death is one of the most common dreams of all and is taken as a big change in how you see yourself. The death of someone close is read as a shift in the relationship, or as fear of losing them, rather than as anything about their health. Dream books often add that what follows the death in the dream — calm, grief, a new scene — says the most.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.