What does it mean when you have multiple dreams about your friends dying?

Answer 1

Dreams are about the dreamer, and dreams communicate through symbols. Friends seen in dreams usually represent aspects of the dreamer's own personality. Dreams often use death and dying as metaphors for dramatic change or transformation. Dying can represent the end of one phase of life and the beginning of something new. For example, a young person leaving home to attend university or enter the military might feel as if childhood is slipping away, along with familiar places, one's old habits, ways of doing things, etc. Dreams depict friends dying to symbolize the loss of so many familiar things.

Maybe that you're worried about them?

Answer 2

In the vast majority of cases, such dreams are metaphors relating to some part of the dreamer's own life. The best friend generally is a symbol for the dreamer, and might relate to the area of the dreamer's life that is passing away. For example, the best friend might be the dreamer's roommate at school. As graduation approaches, "death" in the dream represents the end of student life. Similarly, if the best friend is a neighbor, selling one's home and moving away could be represented as the "death" of the relationship.

... Alternatively, the dreamer might have intuitively sensed some health problem that the friend has not yet confided. Even so, dreams typically exaggerate and over-dramatize any situation, so a mere illness becomes death in the dream.