Suicide
This is a heavy image, and such dreams most often touch overwhelm — the wish to escape a weight that has come to feel unbearable, far more than literal intent. The dream may ask where something has grown too heavy to carry alone, and whether part of you is asking, urgently, for relief and support, and the reminder that pressure can ease.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for suicide, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang heavily over you.
To see or hear others committing this deed, foretells that the failure of others will affect your interests.
For a young woman to dream that her lover commits suicide, her disappointment by the faithlessness of her lover is accentuated.