i had a really funky dream the other night. It was about a friend i dont see anymore (because of different schools), these women that wore dresses that were similar but in different colours (including my mum) and i kept thinking they were dead but back to life in a sorta angel-ghost like way, and also that me and a labrador were dying of thirst beside a broken fountain on the front lawn of my old house. and when i was beside the fountain i saw all the women (and my mum, although in real life she’s not dead) and there was a preacher beside them in a white robe. then i woke up crying. i was just wondering if the dream is telling me there’s something bothering me in life or something cause that’s the first time i’ve ever woken in tears.
you don’t mention your age … but I would think it’s due to you realising that everyone is mortal and that one day you will lose your mum 
have you got any feelings about this dream? since you are the best judge to say what it means.
I awoke crying once when my sister Tracey had a fight with my Mum about how overprotective my mum is…
I’ve woken up while crying a few times, but I never remember the dreams. I usually remember them for a bit just after I wake up, but I’m too occupied with crying and they just slip away.
Dont let your sorrow bother your DR.
I’ve woken up crying a couple of times. It’s a pretty good indicator that something is not right in my life. I have a terrible tendency of keeping my problems bottled up inside so that I forget about them… But then they come back to haunt me all at once. Not pleasant.
I agree. Not pleasant at all.
I have woken up in tears a few times. I was usually sad for the rest of the day. Sometimes the dream would be about me losing someone close in my life. Or getting in a serious argument with my parents.
Have I woken up crying? Not since I was two(or so) years old.
Death, for me, is a natural thing, I rarely am worried about anything associated with death. I have never really been in a situation that is deadly either, so maybe I just can’t see the value of life. I do wonder what happens after death, but I doubt it could be much worse than life.
I have never waken up with tears, but I have felt sorrow 
Now it was a long time ago since last, but I feel injustice from time to time
I can’t think of any time in recent memory that this has happened to me, but ever since I started my DJ a few years ago, I don’t think I’ve had very many dreams where the emotion’s been strong enough to enter into my waking life (nightmares/outrageous dreams included, though I’ve had a few strange dreams that have left me feeling sick with myself… 
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Still there have been a few exceptions… usually if I’ve had a REALLY sad dream, I end up with more of that numb/depressed feeling that comes up after crying.
It seems to be about mortality in general. All the women have similar dresses but in different colours. They were all dead. We all end up the same don’t we? Even if we are different. Even the people close to us will die, sooner or later. When faced with this reality in a kind of direct way, is it strange to cry?
I do find it strange. As you said, we ALL will die sooner or later. It is a fact. Something that apparently can not be changed. The only difference is how you die. You can die of old age or a bullet wound(to name one possibility). Old age is natural, bullet wound is not, if you shoot someone and he/she dies, you only speed up the dying process. So really, murder would be a major crime only if one could not die of old age, especially because life has no REAL meaning anyway(at least not one that I’m aware of).
What I’m trying to say is that it is useless to worry about something that will come one way or another. If, let’s say… you’re friend, would be immune to natural death(as well as everyone else would be) and someone comes and kills him/her, now that would be sad because if he/she hadn’t been killed he/she would live forever. What I’m NOT trying to say is that murder is alright, when you already exist and so does everyone else, you might as well get along, or at least give you’re best try.
That’s what I think 
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IYes, it is a fact we all die, but that does not stop people from grieving for their loss. Tears come with grief, and grief… although unbearably painful is also healthy and a natural process of dealing with loss.
Interesting dream BTW… I find the image of the labrador and you dying of thirst quite striking!
Grief is healthy 
? Well you never stop learning 
! Then maybe it’s not all that useless after all…
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I still think that this is true though! 
==> Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
I’ve gotten that before. Very awful to feel like that. I was like that for about a period of a week, and it was pretty bad. When I was getting that it was because I was majorly lonely a lot of the time.
Its just to ask yourself, why cry after a dream. It might work 
Think about it some more! If people lived forever, there would still be no meaning, so why should it be a major crime then? It is inevitable that we will die even if we cannot die of old age. Because sooner or later, someone will murder you, or you will have an accident, or the sun will consume the earth. Dying would not be unusual and it would happen sooner or later. Eternity will provide many chances, and will never stop providing chances. So it would still be to “speed up the dying process”. Death would still be inevitable.
If you think about it. If you have only 70 years to live for example. Each of those years is worth(subjectively) infinitely more than a year for an immortal being. When you cut short the life of an immortal, it does not matter how old this person is, the immortal loses an infinity of time alive. But if you kill the mortal at 30, he loses 40 years of life. 40 compared to eternity seems like it is worth less. But to the mortal, those 40 years are so much more precious because they are fewer.
If you live forever, it does not matter if you are 30, 300 or 30 000. The time lost is still eternity. The term inflation comes to mind. If you always have an infinite amount of time, every unit of time becomes worthless. Then 1 year is worth the same as 65 000 000 years.
Actually, thinking about this really messes with my head.
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I completely agree, with what you said about the meaning of time changing for an immortal and dieing one way or another. It makes sense. I just assume that these immortal people wouldn’t be homicidal maniacs… and if you can live for ever, see everything that happens to the point the universe collapses, but are killed by someone before “The End”, that seems quite depressing… so it’s more like a moral crime.
Oh and thinking of the meaning of time and what it is like for beings that live longer or shorter lives than us probably makes everyone scratch they’re heads a little .
thanks for all your inputs guys. it probably was just my realization of mortality. i was just reading back over it in my dream journal (i started this topic in the middle of the night, half asleep and didnt put all the details) and i picked up a few things. heres the rest of the dream i didnt include before.
when me and the labrador were dying of thirst near the fountain on the front lawn, the fountain water was stagnant. a business-woman drank the water and left, and a man was selling the house. i asked him for a phone but he told me about the house, did a dance and disappeared. i kept looking at the fountain because of thirst and then the women and priest appeared and my friend too. i said to the priest if i have a phone i can call someone for help. he told the women to do something and if they don’t then they’ll die. that was when i woke up.
i think that reading that end bit really connected things to the mortality realization thing. anyways, thanks for all your opinions and theories in this, it really helped. 
that was a cool dream and it’s even more interesting with the addition.
I’m still not sure what caused so much emotion? I get that you came to realization of mortality but was it fear or sadness you felt in the dream.
I enjoyed reading it.