{"id":36220,"date":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/growing-up\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Hi Jane\u2014 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"verdana,geneva\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">No wonder your boyfriend is starting to get scared. Dreaming of being trapped inside your own dead body is not the greatest thing to look forward to when you close your eyes at night! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"verdana,geneva\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Death is dreams is a consistent metaphor for change, growth, and separation. In your case, because you two have been fighting recently, your boyfriend may worry that he\u2019s in danger of losing you, and he may feel helpless to stop it. This is why he dreams he is dead (separated from you) and that he feels he can\u2019t speak or communicate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"verdana,geneva\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Another interpretation of your dream would be that your boyfriend\u2019s death really indicates change and growth in himself, that he is having a hard time communicating or expressing to you. When we dream that we die, it almost always is a metaphor for growth\u2014that we are \u201cmoving on\u201d in our lives\u2014and that an old part of ourselves, or a former self-understanding, is passing away. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"verdana,geneva\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">You and your boyfriend are lovers, but you also are best friends. Because you have been having a hard time communicating lately (fighting a lot), this dream is a sign that it\u2019s time for you both to make a renewed effort to listen better, and express your feelings honestly. In a world where change is constant, good friends need to give each other freedom to grow. The old saying really is true: The best way to hold on to a friendship\u2014and a lover\u2014is with open arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span color=\"#000000\" face=\"verdana,geneva\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: red;\">Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/growing-up-2\/\" id=\"1298\" option=\"com_content\">original dream<\/a> <br \/>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/teen-dream-library\/\" id=\"1381\" option=\"com_content\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">teen dream library<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3208,3207],"class_list":["post-36220","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-answers","category-teen-dreams"],"acf":{"article_id":"1220"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/36220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}