... to dream that you are still able to walk and speak and think, but that you're heart is no longer in your chest (and know that you are dead), and when your chest is touched there is only a feeling of down and emptiness, like a little pocket or hole, that one feels?

Simply it reminds me of a Ghost and i interpret a Ghost as being something or someone that isn't connecting with anything but still has a lot of desire to do something. (restless, unwilling to give in)

Interesting interpretation. I certainly am a restless person. It's always good to hear another person's thoughts on this kind of thing. Initially I thought it was either something to do with health, or the lack of a female partner in life.

But does anyone know the (I hesitate to say this, but can't think of another word) 'moral' significance of a heart in dreams? Or the lack of it? That's what has me truly stumped.