For other dreams featuring dead people, the following rule often helped to point the way. If in the dream there is no reminder that the dead person is in fact dead, the dreamer is comparing himself to the dead person, dreaming of his own death, whereas a sudden occurrence in the dream of the surprised realization that ‘he’s been dead for some time, surely?’ is a protest against such commonality and a rejection, by the dreamer, of the significance of death.
