What Does It Mean to Dream About Illness?

To dream of having an illness represents preoccupation with problems or unpleasant changes. A loss in confidence in yourself. Despair, emotional breakdown, or difficulty coping. An uneasy feeling about a situation. Feeling that a current situation is not worth living or ruining your happiness.

To dream of a disease or terminal illness represents feelings of living on borrowed time or that decay in some area of your life is imminent. Hopelessness, grief, regret, guilt, or self-pity.

Example: A woman dreamed of having an illness. In waking life she was beginning to feel that her work life was taking away all her happiness and suffocate her relationships. Her job was something she felt she couldn't get away from while it drained other areas of her life.

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Dreams of illness, bad health or an incurable disease are common themes that represent unconscious internal suffering. The vivid nature of the dream encourages the dreamer to find what is causing this so called “sickness” within the body? A metaphor relating more to the mind or psyche of the dreamer relating to past or present emotional disturbances that is causing distress. To dream of recovering from the sickness is a positive symbol that implies a healthier movement or properly nourishing the mind, body and soul.