Omens of Physical Illness in Dreams

A woman was feeling extremely fatigued but continued to push herself to work. One night, she dreamt that she was desperately holding onto a window frame to prevent herself from falling off a building, but eventually, her strength gave out, and she fell. Two days later, she fainted at work. The doctor diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection due to prolonged standing.

Three days before her death, an 81-year-old woman had a dream. She saw all her illnesses gathering together on her body, but upon closer examination, she realized that these illnesses had transformed into roses. She knew someone would come to plant these flowers, and she also knew that the flowers would bloom again next year.

Prominent Western dream interpreters believe that there is a "premonition dream" before the onset of physical illnesses because in dreams, all subtle bodily sensations are amplified.

In the case of the aforementioned woman, her dream reminded her not to push herself too hard and also revealed a subconscious desire to stop and quit. Interpreting her dream as "you are getting sick" seems somewhat inappropriate because the dream's content does not have any connection to diseases like "urinary tract infection."

Similarly, a person with gallbladder inflammation may dream of a spring, and someone with lung disease may dream of suffocation, and so on. This perspective has persisted from ancient times to the emergence of scientific medicine, and even today, dream analysis experts have not raised objections.