For a parent to lose a child is extremely difficult. To dream of your dead child is a way for you to keep your child alive through your dreams. In trying to keep up with the pace of your daily waking life, your dreams may serve as your only outlet in coping and coming to terms with the loss of a loved one. To see your dead sibling, relative, or friend alive in your dream indicates that you miss them and are trying to relive your old experiences you had with them. You are using your dream as a last opportunity to say your final good-byes to them. To see and talk with your dead parents in your dreams represent your fears of losing them or your way of coping with the loss. If the dead is trying to get you to go somewhere with him or her, then it signifies that you are trying to understand their death. Dreams can also be a way for you to keep loved ones who have past away alive and still be in some aspect of your life. You are still trying to grasp the notion that he or she is really gone. If you dream of someone who has recently passed away, then it means that their death is still freshly in your mind. The dream may depict how you need to let this situation or relationship die and end it.
If you dream of a person who has died a long time ago, then it suggests that a current situation or relationship in your life resembles the quality of that deceased person. Alternatively, the dream symbolizes material loss. This dream may also be a way for you to resolve your feelings with those who have passed on. To see or talk to the dead in your dream forewarns that you are being influenced by negative people and are hanging around the wrong crowd.