Dead Stranger in dreams
A part of you that you have not yet recognized as yours.
How dead changes the reading
The base reading of Stranger
A stranger in a dream is almost always an aspect of your own personality you have not yet integrated. The stranger's appearance, gender, and behavior are clues. A friendly stranger is usually a strength you have access to but underuse. A threatening stranger is often a shadow trait — something true about you that you have been refusing to look at.
If the stranger is offering you something, accept it in the dream and notice what it is on waking. That object is the clue to what part of yourself the dream is asking you to reclaim.
Where you often see it. A stranger meeting your eye at the edge of a crowd. A stranger entering your house without explanation. A stranger doing something you would not do. The dream uses the stranger for a part of you that you have not yet recognised as yours.
What it is not. The dream's stranger is rarely external threat. The reading is internal — which version of you has not been let in yet.
Related in the dictionary. Read stranger with crowd, mirror, and any scene where the disowned self is asking for room.