Tony Crisp Interpretation:
Usually represents some area of your life that has “died.” This can refer to death of feelings, such as hopelessness in connection with relationship and the loss of feelings about someone; the depression that follows big changes in life, such as loss of a loved partner, job, children; a sense of one’s life in general being without the stimulus of motivation and satisfaction, as when one feels oneself in a “going nowhere” relationship or life situation; repressed anger killing positive expression. The dead person in the dream may link several of these feelings together, as symbols often represent huge areas of experience. So the dead person may be a part of yourself you want to leave behind, to die out.