After the death of my schoolmate (i barely know) I had been having awful dreams, what's the cause of this?

Answer 1

Anxiety, we know that death is the finality of everyone. When an old person dies, we think it is pretty normal but when it is someone your age or under, we understand better than we are not immortal but we sure don't want to die.

Answer 2

Imagine standing at a bus stop. You are standing there waiting with a bunch of people you don't know. Suddenly, one of the strangers decides to not wait for the bus and starts to cross the street. Because they aren't looking, a car from the opposite direction runs into them and kills them.

Whenever death happens to us within our proximity, it awakens our own thoughts about death (wow, it could happen just like that, even to me) and sometimes, especially if we don't have life figured out all that well, trying to figure out something as completely alien as death can be very scary. The awful dreams are the way your mind is trying to release itself from the tension of trying to deal with an idea its not prepared to deal with yet.

Death, or the prospect of death, can make us retreat, hoping to conserver some form of safety, or it can make us feel more alive, realizing how suddenly it can all be over and not wanting us to waste another possible moment. And the closer it happens to our vicinity, the stronger the impression it makes. Try to understand what it is about your classmate's death that is bugging you, and talk it over with someone you trust. Sometimes, just talking about the event will free up the worries you are feeling, and the dreams will most likely stop. But people process death differently, and it takes some people longer to work through the event than others. So, go at your own pace. Death is a big subject, so don't feel like you have to have all the answers within the next couple weeks or so. Good luck.

Answer 3

Well obviously it's because of this death. You don't have to know a person to have it have a profound affect on you. Perhaps your own security is threatened now. You no longer feel save. You realize that someone your age can actually die. It's shocking when someone you "know" dies. It suddenly makes it real and not just something that happens "elsewhere".

Imagine the horrors that children in war-torn countries must feel? Their nightmares likely haunt them forever.

You've lost a bit of your innocence in witnessing something like that, and if there's counsellors at your school you should talk to them...or at the very least your friends about your fears and dreams. They can help you. Talk to your parents if not them.

Answer 4

To dream about the death of a loved one, suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what do you like about him. It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances. Alternatively, it indicates that whatever that person represents has no part in your own life.

Answer 5

Its not that unusual to have these sorts of dreams. He/She is on the back of your mind. Your subconscious brings it up when you sleep.

I recently lost a student to a rare heart virus. I had a few dreams myself. One of which she was alive and standing there with her mother. It was a rather alarming dream.

Eventually the dreams will subside.

Answer 6

It is hardly matter of ur fear and just a scary creation of ur mind

Answer 7

It's in your subconcious mind....it will pass.