If a phone is ringing, the dreamer might be signaling to herself that she needs to pay attention to something. If the telephone isn't working properly, the dreamer may feel emotionally disconnected from an important person in her life. She may feel she's having a hard time with giving someone a message.

Death in a dream depicts piercing emotional pain. By dreaming of death, a child could be expressing how she was deeply wounded by someone's actions, or she could be sorrowful over a missed opportunity that is now gone forever. And, of course, she could actually be grieving the actual loss of a loved one. Death can even depict a transition in the sense that the dreamer is expressing how one period of life is now over, or it can depict how the dreamer is seeing a valued part of her personality vanishing. Sometimes when a child or adolescent is frustrated with a person, parent, or situation, she may dream of death in the sense that she wants that frustration or obstacle to go away. She doesn't actually want harm to come to the person. On the flip side, she can dream that an important figure in her life has died because she's worried about losing them, or losing an aspect of herself that the deceased individual represents or shares.