# Will you dead people get outta my dreams? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191 "2004-10-02T13:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/1 "2004-10-02T13:28:40Z")
That’s the second dream I’ve had where I’ve been talking to a person who is now dead and they’ve been telling me why they died and who did it. This is starting to worry me. Am I being used as a conduit for the spirits or just eating too much cheese? The first one didn’t even wait till they’d died. When they were missing I dreamt I found them and they explained where they were. The freaky bit was when I woke up, thought ‘That was a weird dream. Let’s get ready for work’ and found a text from them on my phone. Had to wake up a second time to prove I was genuinely awake… So now I know what exactly happened when they died, what is the correct course of action? And if I mention this to the authorities and am asked where I got the information from, would ‘the victim told me in a dream’ be considered a reasonable source? I’m used to having very bizarre dreams. The dead coming to visit me at night is a bit too much even for me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/2 "2004-10-02T13:45:57Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > The first one didn’t even wait till they’d died. When they were missing I dreamt I found them and they explained where they were. In retrospect, was the information in your dream correct? ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/3 "2004-10-02T13:54:27Z")
No since in my dream we got her safely home. In reality they found the body later ☹ Not good ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/4 "2004-10-03T01:58:18Z")
I see dead people! Sorry. I had to say it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/5 "2004-10-03T12:05:26Z")
Sounds like a plot for a movie. Wait…it’s been done already. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/6 "2004-10-03T12:07:35Z")
It is either cheese or too many late nights. I’m a night owl and oftwen wake up expecting the dream to be true. Dead people are the last of your worries. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/7 "2004-10-03T16:17:15Z")
Did the authorities find her where you dreamed they would? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/8 "2004-10-03T16:36:40Z")
Quick, call CourtTV! You could _so_ get your own show. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/9 "2004-10-04T09:09:02Z")
I could also find myself being questioned by HM Police Force curious on how I know so MUCH detail 😉 And the last dead person was in a chalet park… ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/10 "2004-10-04T10:28:29Z")
I’ve had distressing dreams about people I know in real life. There’s a very particular quality to these dreams that is somehow different to normal anxiety dreams. Thankfully nothing depicted in the dreams has ever come true, but there is always something up with the person in question - feeling ill, lost their job, split up with their partner, that sort of thing. Stray electrons. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/11 "2004-10-04T14:25:56Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > I could also find myself being questioned by HM Police Force curious on how I know so MUCH detail 😉 > And the last dead person was in a chalet park… Just so you know, I called the _Dream Police_ and they are on their way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-dead-people-get-outta-my-dreams/267191/12 "2004-10-04T15:09:37Z")
I’m worried. In my dreams I’ve been arrested at least 15 times… :eek: