Friend dying in plane crash

[eme11]

My ex (who is now a friend of mine) is in the Marines, and I keep dreaming about him dying in a plane crash. It is never the same dream, but the same scenario. He is flying over the ocean with his platoon and the plane crashes in the ocean. I wake up in a panic attack; heart pounding, crying, cant breathe). I read on another site that plane crashes interrupt a change in my life…I don’t understand how him dying in a plane crash signifies a change in my life?

Can anyone help me understand this dream? The one I had recently REALLY upset me and I would like to know what these dreams mean. Any help would be great!!!!

Erin

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I believe that the purpose of most dreams is to ‘awaken’ us to higher levels of consciousness.
As such it’s our unconscious that creates our dreams and communicates through symbol and metaphor. With this type of interpretation each character in a dream is a symbol created by the dreamer.

As a symbol then what does your ex represent to you? What are your feelings and thoughts about your ex?

Flying has many levels of significance, depending on the dream.
The ocean often represents the unconscious.
And death in a dream often signals the start of the “Life, death, life cycle”. As nature demonstrates before there is rebirth there must be death. Winter turns to spring, a man becomes husband, becomes an ex, and becomes a friend…

In the case of the dream your thoughts and feelings as related to your friend are crashing into the ocean and “dying” - where there is an opportunity for a more mature and healthy consciousness.

The man in your dream was your husband then your ex now your friend. That is a transformational process which the dream indicates you’re still in the process of making conscious, (coming to terms with perhaps). The old ways of thinking and feeling ‘die’ - replaced, we hope, by a greater awareness and more mature honest thoughts and feelings.

Some general thoughts on the meaning of Death, Ocean, flying in dreams:

Death can symbolize feelings, thoughts or fears about some aspect of death. Death may also dramatize some radical change in personal life or externally.

All physical manifestation, as well as parts of our psychological experience, go through cycles of change. The beginning of a new physical form, or personal experience, is really due to already existing materials being grouped in a new way. This we call birth. This new order of things then matures in the sense that it expresses the innate qualities and characteristics latent in this new order of being. Maturity lies in the flowering of this expression, and thus the realization of possibilities. But anything that depends upon the grouping of many materials, goes through change, and if these changes become vast, then the thing breaks up into new forms, or breaks down into basic components. This we call death. That is, the death of one mode of expression. But throughout nature, the death of one form only leads to the producing of materials ready for new forms. Or else a vital element of the old form, that synthesizes within it all the experiences of the old, breaks away as the old form goes through vital change, and builds up a new one, which is modified by the past experience. This we see in the seed, the sperm, social breakdown and social development, and in the spirit, carrying vital experience into new life. Thus, death has the outer aspect, the breakdown of the matured form, and the inner aspect, the vital seed carrying past experience into a new expression. So death in a dream can apply not only to our personality as a whole, but also to our beliefs, hopes, plans, relationships, past experience, business, creativeness, illness, family and love.

Ocean or sea - The surface is conscious life, on which the ship, or idea of self, floats, but is really supported and surrounded by uncharted depths. To dive into it is to dive into self, to look beneath the surface of consciousness, to look back to the source of one’s awareness, to enter the womb or soul, to reach limitless mind.

The sea holds either in its depths, or floating somewhere, vast treasures, all the things which men
have ever made or thought of or done. Thus the sea can wash them ashore and bring them to our notice, or unveil them to us.

Because the sea is Mother and the united consciousness of all beings, or the unconscious, it is associated with birth and death. To come up out of the sea is to be born, to become conscious. To cast oneself upon, or under the waters, is to die to conscious life, to leave the physical world and the sense of individuality, and return to one's origins.

The sea is also universal substance, the stuff that dreams or thoughts or emotions are made of. It is
moved by the moon or the wind, and shaped by the earth. Thus it symbolises an aspect of inner life, the
substance of consciousness, that takes form as thought, emotion, revelation, depending upon which circumstances are shaping it, or whether it is the spirit or Inner urges that move it.

To be all at sea, or lost. Whereas a river has a male significance, the sea is the mother into which the male enters. It is Mer or mother of consciousness. Life began in the sea, at the depths. Our blood is salt
like the sea, and thus we have an inner sea. It represents universal mind or being, the collective
unconscious, nature's memory where all experience is stored. The infinite cosmic mind.

Flying - his has many levels of significance, depending on the dream. It can mean we are flying or fleeing, from something we wish to avoid. This is usually something in our life we try to get away from by becoming over idealistic, religious, or living in the clouds of fantasy. In flight we do not have our feet on the ground and so must be careful not to fall. The climbing of a mountain in a dream provides the middle way between rising, yet keeping our feet on the ground. Flying suggests the desire to rise above things, to attain greater heights, to reach the realm of the spirit. Freud explained all flying dreams as expressive of sexual desires, intercourse, or life in the womb, which in some cases is true. But flying also represents ambition, abstract thought, and rising above our fears. Flying, in a plane, or without it, can also symbolize attempts to gain a view of what lies ahead of us in our development in life and spirit. From the air we can see ahead, and back. We quickly review where we are heading, and the possibilities of our earthly journey. Thus we may fly and see the mountain top to which we aspire. Then, knowing its view and wonder, we can ascend from the valley more certain that it can be attained.

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by eme11

My ex (who is now a friend of mine) is in the Marines, and I keep dreaming about him dying in a plane crash. It is never the same dream, but the same scenario. He is flying over the ocean with his platoon and the plane crashes in the ocean. I wake up in a panic attack; heart pounding, crying, cant breathe). I read on another site that plane crashes interrupt a change in my life…I don’t understand how him dying in a plane crash signifies a change in my life?

Can anyone help me understand this dream? The one I had recently REALLY upset me and I would like to know what these dreams mean. Any help would be great!!!!

Erin

Hi,
There is a simple reason for your reoccurring dream: I wake up in a panic attack; heart pounding, crying, cant breathe)
You probably have a touch of sleep apnea. It is a condition that causes you to stop breathing for a few second, gasp for breath and start breathing again. It probably happens when you lie on your back. The condition is worse if you are overweight.
Thea subconscious uses your fear of losing your friend to wake you up from this sleeping position!
Cheers Wolfjk