Burying

Burying in a dream is the dream's image of the physical act of putting an ending out of sight. The buried thing is not destroyed; it is placed where the ordinary surface life cannot see it. The dream brings burying when something in your life — a grief, a finished relationship, an old self, a hard secret — is being put into the ground as the honest end of its public phase. A burying done with the right ritual is the dream affirming the honest lay-to-rest. A burying done in haste and at night, with no marker placed, is the dream noting that the ending has been concealed rather than honoured, and the thing buried will be found again later by someone digging for an unrelated reason.