Dead Heartbeat in dreams

A heartbeat in a dream is the dream's image of the simplest proof of life, heard from inside. You usually do not notice your heartbeat; the dream brings it when you have started noticing — because of fear, because of love, because of illness, or because something else has fallen silent enough that the heart is suddenly the loudest thing in the room. A steady heartbeat is the dream telling you the basic life under the situation is intact. An irregular heartbeat, or one that is alarmingly loud, is the dream noting that the body has begun signalling at a level you can no longer ignore while you carry on with the surface activity.