Two weeks ago I had a dream like some I have had in the past, Iam in a car and on a very high mountain top on a winding road going way to fast and as you may have guessed the car goes off the road and Iam tumbling down. Usualy I never hit the ground in these dreams and I wake up before or dream something else.

This time when I went over the edge I was in the front seat and some other people who I dont know were in the car too, a station wagon for some reason. But when we were falling down I was in the back seat and looking down hoping it would be over fast and not hurt. I was not aware I was dreaming in this one. Anyway when we hit I was shocked, because It didnt feel like pain just a jolt and all black around me, no sounds or sights just black , then I started talking and it echoed through the black. I asked myself if I was dead, or what just happened, Iam still in the car? It seemed like the black part lasted about 4 minutes then boom, Iam sitting in a little waiting room of some sort in a row of chairs and a desk but no one there and on my right a few chairs over is my mom reading a magazine and not looking up. My mom died last year. Then my oldest child who is now 17 comes running up to me and he is just as he was when he was 4 years old and jumps in my lap.
Iam not worried or scared and cant understand why iam here and not in the car.

Then a young woman in a white uniform comes through a side door and over to me and asks if Iam ready because its time to go . go where?
Then I wake up. What bothered me most when I awoke was that my son was there and it felt like he was ther already for a awhile and came to greet me when I got there. I feel this is because he passes on before me. I have not told him this dream and want to just laugh at it and say, Its nothing, just a dream. Maybe Iam overly worried about him going to college next fall and being away from home and think something may happen to him. I dont know.
Another thing that really bothers me is that my mom was there. See I dont feel that my mom will be in the best or near best part of heaven for things she did here on earth so iam sort of worried about why I would be with her, maybe they let family members come to greeet you or something. But I would of hoped for my grandmother or my second daughter who passed in 94.
Well, If anyone has a clue or could help me to understand this or has died in a dream like this let me know thanks!!

When I die in my dreams I just see my lifeless body. No afterlife involved, except for that time I seen myself leave my body. I don't think it meant anything, just simply a dream.

dreaming of dying can mean that some part of your life has changed or become distant. it doesnt mean your goign to die. people dream of family members to for the same reason.....its all linked up together. you could be dreaming about your son dying or whatever because you feel that you are losing him in some way like you said hes going to college soon.
death in dreams are mostly linked with a change in life.........not a death. you dont have any reason to worry.
im sorry about your daughter and mom.

Thank you for the kind words about my family. You are so right. I do feel like Iam losing my son. For a few months he has been so darn independant, like he no longer needs a mother. You are correct that a big change is going on. How do you know all this? Very interesting indeed. Thanks for the positive thoughts.

I was about to post pretty much the same thing that InMyNature has already posted, but it has already been well said. I would like to add that you saw your son in your dream as a younger child because subconciously you feel he is growing up too fast. You wish you could turn back the clock a little. The whole car crash scenario may simply be a metaphor for the fact that you feel somewhat like your life is out of control....or at least out of your control right now.

Yes, it is true that I have been looking at alot of his younger pictures and wondering where my little boy went. I wish at times he was 4 again and all could be perfect and in control again. I feel much better now about the dream and can see clearly what is represents, thanks for clearing it all up for me, it seems simple but at the time I could not see it.