Peaceful walk through the cemetery

You are walking through a cemetery – but instead of a classic horror or shock, you feel as if you’re walking along the Avenue of Peace, surrounded by silence and lack of emotion. This is a dream about strolling where no one usually wants to stay too long, and you simply go on as if running errands at the post office or bakery.

Breaking down this dream into parts

The first symbol is the cemetery – a classic that’s not limited to horror movies. In Western psychology, it’s a place of confronting mortality and inevitability, something Jung might call the edge of the journey through life – a place where the ego must face finality. Meanwhile, in Eastern cultures – for example in Buddhism – it’s a reminder of the impermanence of everything you know. Funny how both worlds say: “Hey, everything passes, including your yesterday’s problem.”

The second character is your emotional indifference during this visit. Indifference in front of a cemetery? Maybe it’s not a lack of feelings, but rather a kind of distance, like saying: “I won’t get caught in the hook of fear or grief because it’s just a phase, a stage, a checkpoint in the game of life.” It looks like a poker game with your own demons – you play calmly, not showing your cards.

Possible scenarios

Walking through a cemetery without emotion might symbolize a conscious acceptance of aging or your fears. As if you closed your eyes to the drama to avoid getting stuck in turbulence, instead accepting that some things are irreversible and simply moving on. It’s a healthy strategy – facing what’s hard without excessive dramatization. Or it could also mean that yesterday, after 11 pm, you watched a “Zombie documentary” and your brain decided that the cemetery is just another parking lot with a soul.

Questions from the back of the room

What exactly will you do to bring this feeling of ‘peaceful passing through the cemetery of emotions’ into waking life? How many old habits, which have already ‘died,’ do you plan to drag like a zombie body? How long will you let fear of change keep you in place instead of leading you to a lively after party? If this silence is a signal that you can pass by without fear, then where will you take your first step tomorrow to figure out what has truly died and what’s still alive in you?

That’s all from me. Let me know if this reflection makes any sense to you.