A longstanding enigma in the criticism of The Dream of the Rood concerns the identity of the dreamer who receives the vision of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Questions such as who he is and why he in particular has received this dream are not easily answered based on the few details provided in the extant poem. Here, Xu and Wei argue that the poem contains some clues to the identity of the dreamer that acquire greater significance when read in connection with the story of Caedmon and an episode from the Old English Daniel. By triangulating between Caedmon, Daniel, and The Dream of the Rood, they suggest how early medieval audiences might have understood the dreamer and associated him with a paradigmatic type of speaker in Old English poetry.