Dead A lover in dreams
Romantic and erotic appetite — sometimes a person, sometimes a part of yourself.
How dead changes the reading
The base reading of A lover
A lover in a dream is the dictionary's image of romantic and erotic appetite. Sometimes the lover is a real person from your life; more often the dream is using the figure to point at a part of yourself you have been pursuing or refusing.
Where you often see it. A lover whose face you do not see. A lover from earlier in your life appearing without context. A scene of intimacy with someone you do not know. The dream uses the lover for romantic and erotic appetite — sometimes a person, more often a part of yourself.
What it is not. The lover is not a literal premonition. The reading is what part of you is asking to be met.
Related in the dictionary. Read lover with bedroom, kiss, ex (when the lover is from before), and stranger (when the lover is a not-yet-known you).