Context

It's probably no big deal, but I thought I'd provide a little context for that remark about dreaming about death.

When we were on the Daintree river cruise, the tour guide pointed out a green tree snake that was crawling on a limb. Later the same day, while we were walking on one of the boardwalks through the rain forest, I saw another one slithering away from the path up into the trees.

That night, April wakes up around 11:00pm, screaming that there were snakes in the room, leaping out of bed and bruising herself up pretty good.

So the context for the death dream wasn't that mine was impending or that I was somehow fixated on death. On the contrary, it was just an example of how we use dreams to process information we receive while we're awake. Nothing more.