Murderers, I understand, often re-enact their crimes in their sleep, and have not infrequently been caught owing to their inability to avoid visiting the scene of the tragedy, which has been depicted with such fascinating vividness in their dreams. One murderer, I was told, the day before he was hanged, dreamed he was married and that his bride was the person he had so barbarously murdered for a few shillings.Though murderers often do have very harrowing dreams the night before their execution, this is by no means invariably the case, as I have heard instances of murderers, on the eve of execution, having enjoyed a sleep in every respect as sound and tranquil as the sleep of the just.T. Charley, in his News from the Invisible World, quotes the following extraordinary instances of warnings of murder in dreams, taken from a work entitled Records of my Life, by John…

Dreaming of killing someone means that you will soon experience anxieties and concerns for various causes, but most of them are your fault. Dreaming about someone, that you know is killed or commits suicide, insinuates problems due to hesitations and doubts. Dreaming that someone commits a murder suggests that, as a result of your own behavior, people will be suspicions about you, and will have doubts concerning the affairs, business and social relationships that you’re managing or having. It also tends to announce the death of someone you know. Dreaming of murdering a victim implies that your opponents are trying to hurt you. Seeing murderers indicates that it’s quite possible to have a reunion with your most loved relatives soon.

Dreaming about murderers and murder is means that you will soon have to make a short trip. You’ll find yourself in fights and difficulties.

To dream you have a great head, or a head bigger than ordinary, and very highly raised, denotes dignity. If you dream of your head being cut off by robbers and murderers, that indicates loss of children, relations, estate, or wife; and to a wife so dreaming, the loss of her husband. See beheading.

…will have a handsome daughter. If the husband dream it, it implies that his wife will have a son. To dream you see the moon at full, is a good sign to handsome women, of their being beloved by those who view them; but it is bad for such as conceal themselves, as thieves and murderers, for they will certainly be discovered; but it signifies death to those that are sick, and to seafaring men. To dream the moon shines about your bed, implies grace, pardon, and deliverance by some woman. To dream you see the new moon, is a sign of expedition in business. Dreaming you see the moon decrease, betokens the death of some great person. To dream you see the moon pale is joy fullness. To dream you see the moon dyed with blood, indicates travel or pilgrimage. Dreaming you see the moon fall from the firmament,…