“If there is death in your dream, it could signal a kind of ending—of a relationship or aspect of yourself or your life that is represented by the person in your dream,” Ellis says. “It could also touch on larger themes around death, as dreams often touch on themes that are larger than the individual dreaming them. If it were my dream, I would also ask myself what is significant, for myself or the larger world, about the death of this person. And what is my dream asking me to do about it?”