How many dreams would you say you have each week? Do you remember them? Have you ever awakened from a dream and thought, “What was that all about?”

Discover Magazine interviewed a man named Chuck Lamb who found his life’s work in a very strange—even disturbing—dream. One night Lamb, a computer programmer for Nationwide Insurance, dreamed that he was lying on the floor dead, with a detective standing over his body. How would you feel if you had a dream like that? It sounds like a bad television show.

However, Chuck Lamb felt inspired! Maybe this was a new career path for him. So Lamb convinced his wife to take pictures of him in a variety of poses as a dead body. Then he set up a website DeadBodyGuy.com (which is now defunct, just in case you’re searching for it on your phone right now) t…