While the specific role of dreams has eluded researchers for years, it hasn’t stopped a diverse range of cultures from assigning meaning to them. Whether they reveal your innermost desires, predict the future, or are just a way for you to process the day’s events, dreams are an enigma.
Yet, some are convinced that they are more foreboding than folks let on. For one woman, she says her nighttime hallucinations are a foreshadowing of her demise.
In a TikTok, Fiona Magee (@fionacmagee) starts her viral video with, “I know the man who is going to kill me one day.” Her opening immediately drew in almost a million viewers who needed to hear the rest of her story. Magee then divulges how she has come across this information: through her dreams.
“I know it sounds crazy, but I am positive I know exactly who is going to [kill] me one day,” Magee continues. She explains how she’s been dreaming of this man since she was around 14 years old.
Dream 1
In her first-ever dream of the man, Magee says she was in a “white void,” with no one around but her. The dream goes like this: She turns around and sees a man standing behind her, staring at her. She describes him as someone in his early 60s, with a scruffy beard. He dons a white T-shirt with a coffee stain near the bottom and another stain near the collar.
All the man does in her dream is slowly smile and stare at her.
Dream 2
Magee shares her second dream of her alleged killer in a part-two TikTok. Her second dream is “the worst one,” she says, and probably the scariest.
In this one, she sits on her couch facing the TV, which is off. She sees her reflection in the TV, where the man stands behind her. He then puts his hand on her shoulder and leans her forward until her chest is pressed against her knees.
Then, the man takes out a knife, lifts up her shirt, and carves his initials into her back. He then lets her go, which is when Magee wakes up.
“You know what his initials were? RSL,” Magee reveals. “So now I know wherever this man is out there, his initials are RSL.”
Dream 3
In her third dream, Magee says she is standing at the top of the driveway of her old house. Across the driveway is the man, who is “standing and staring.”
“He’s so tall,” Magee says.
Then he starts running straight for her.
“So I run and go into my house,” she says. “[There’s a] glass door. And I turn around, and I’m about to slam the door shut, and the man sticks his hand through the door, and I slam the door onto his hand.”
The man bleeds but has zero reaction, Magee recounts. He then pushes the door open, which is when Magee wakes up.
“I’m convinced that one day this man is gonna find me,” Magee says. “And that he’s real.” She suddenly remembers there is a fourth dream, which she says “manifested” into real life the day after.
Dream 4
In a follow-up clip, she explains her fourth and final dream of this man. Magee dreams she is at the airport with her sister and dad when she suddenly has to go to the bathroom. While in one of the stalls, she gets “this awful feeling.”
“I’m positive that he’s in here,” she says. She then sees the man’s eye staring at her through the stall door. Her sister enters the bathroom looking for her, and Magee tells her to stay away. Then she wakes up.
Magee says the next day at school—when she was an eighth-grader—she was in the bathroom when they called a lockdown drill. She ran out and started asking to be let back into the classroom but was told to go back to the bathroom.
“Go back?” she recalls questioning. “I’ll die if I go back.”
She says it was just a drill, so nothing happened.
Viewers Have Several Theories
Magee’s terrifying storytelling didn’t stop viewers from leaving their theories in the comments section. Some of them were more popular than others.
Theory 1: A jinn is haunting Magee
“A jinn is obessed with u. Look it up,” one user wrote. Jinn are real and mentioned in most religions. Basically ghosts made with fire.”
Indeed, in the pre-Islamic Arabic religion, jinns are supernatural beings that have moral agency and take various forms.
Theory 2: Magee is witnessing a past life
Several thought that Magee’s subconscious was really recalling a past life of hers, and perhaps the way she died.
Theory 3: Man is astral projecting into Magee’s dreams
Astral projection refers to the out-of-body experience one’s spirit has while they are sleeping. Movies like “Insidious” popularized this concept, where one’s soul could travel through astral planes.
@fionacmagee I hear that people see a similar man a lot in their dreams fast forward for my description of him #fyp #storytime #horrortok #nightmare #ghost
Several others pointed out certain “rules” that dreams function by.
“The scariest part is you can’t dream about someone without having seen them in real life,” one said. But is that true? It’s a popular belief. But some folks maintain that, yes, the brain can create new people based on imagination.
Another dream “rule” one user thought Magee broke is that “The fact that you could READ HIS INITIALS, you aren’t supposed to be able to read in ur dreams.” This is also a common belief that researchers hold because the brain’s language center is less active while sleeping. However, some have reported that they have read in dreams before.
While dreams continue to be a puzzling piece of our subconscious state, it hasn’t stopped from influencing our lives–and our anxieties. Let’s hope Magee’s nightmares are a mere manifestation of an overactive imagination and not an eerie premonition of what she fears will pass.
Brobible reached out to Magee via TikTok direct message for comment.