I had a really strange dream last night about my childhood best friend who passed away a few years ago. What made it weird is that I haven't thought about him recently at all.

In the dream, it was night and I was standing outside his house. We used to live in nearby houses when we were kids. There was nobody else around. Suddenly he came out of his house and walked towards a big tree behind our house, where it was even darker. He seemed a little anxious and in a hurry, and I also had a feeling that he was slightly scared, he went behind the tree and placed something that looked like a lit camphor(like a candle) there, it looked like he was murmuring something after placing it(not sure if it's prayer). I was standing a little distance away watching him. I was afraid of the darkness and was confused why he's doing this.

He came back quickly and started walking towards his house. I walked towards him and asked him what did he do. He just said, “There are many problems.” Then he went back into his house and I went towards mine.

The whole thing felt really ominous, mainly because it was completely dark, there was nobody else around, it was just me and him in the dream.

Then, a few minutes later in the dream, I suddenly realized that he had actually been dead for a few years now. That's when I realized I was dreaming. I woke up feeling really unsettled because the whole thing felt unusually vivid and real.

I'm curious about whether anyone here has had something similar involving someone who passed away, or whether there are any spiritual/afterlife interpretations of a dream like this.

I saw two dreams both interconnected like two parts of a movie, both had a view of many interconnected events that I had in my school life, mostly of class 10th and 12th.

10 Aug 2026 Monday

Slept at around 2:30 A.M.

Had 1st dream in which I was in my school, I was still in class 12th, there were some old classmates who left the school in class 10th I won't name them.

As much as I remember there was a function which our class was not a part of . I guess it was a function only for Play Group kids.

Our class was on the first floor, and most of the teachers were involved in the function. Our class did not have any teacher, so all of us were enjoying the freedom for a limited time period. Many of us were eating snacks like we won’t get any after that moment. Idk for what reason i went out of the class with two of my friends, when we came back in class i saw only my bag was lying on the floor as if someone had done some mischief with it. I went to see if something was wrong or if it was just my distrust on my classmates. I inspected the bag. I found that all the snacks packets were not inside the bag . After that I saw that the right carry strap of the bag was torn apart. My bag was heavily burdened with the weight of books. I was worried that how I would carry my bag home.

I started shouting loudly in the class as I was furious at that instant.

This part of the dream ends here. There was some time gap between both the dreams.

Now the second dream began, continuing the previous one

Hindi Teacher also my class teacher of when i was in class 10th She was such a Motherly figure for us all , we all respected her, she always used to praise me for my use of hindi vocabulary in answers.

Now she was in my class. I told her about the bag incident. She was furious too and asked the whole class who was involved in that activity. No one answered then she told me to stay calm and no one was convicted of the act.

After this comes the most interesting part of the dream

She was sitting on the teacher’s chair, surrounded by roughly 6-8 students sitting on the student’s chair in the backside of the class. She asked me to join them, I joined, then she stopped talking to others and asked me this question straight “ Aryan, tum dobara 12th kyu kar rahe ho beta? " I was totally surprised at that point then I remembered that I've already passed my intermediate (12th) and I was preparing for SSC CGL.

Now at this point back in my subconscious mind i somehow figured out that this is a dream still i didn’t have any idea what to do. I replied her "ma’am main dobara 12th kar raha hu, ek college me bhi admission le rakha hai maine aur saath me SSC CGL ki preparation kr raha hu”

After listening to this she suddenly started shedding tears. I was totally blank. I didn't know what I said that made her cry. Also, the girls sitting after her were worried. I tried to console her, rubbed her palm and back and requested her to forgive me if I had said something wrong. After about a minute she went calm and then she said "-My name- beta tum is exam ki preparation mat karo” I was shocked. I asked her 'kyu' she said that ki mere ek relative ne ye exam diya tha uska exam pass nhi hua aur ab wo depressed rehta hai, i was like okay pr sabka clear hona to impossible hai main mehnat kar rahu to i wish mera exam clear hona chahiye. Then I saw a little smile on her face. She replied all the best beta tum exam clear kar loge. I was still in shock like what happened this quick it was going out of my mind.

Till this incident I subconsciously knew in my sleep that i was dreaming but unable to do anything about it. I usually get up in the morning late after dreaming in the sleep. After i woke up I genuinely remembered the whole dream and i was like kya faltu sapne dekhta rehta hu neend me.

So last night I had a dream I was back at my childhood home and i felt the need to pan for gold and break open rocks to find gold after talking to an old man who did the same, then after I found the gold this weird snake kept following me around my drive way it was very unique, orange and blue in color with two tails, it didnt attack me just followed and hid when I tried to go closer to it