Like buddy who see’s the dead chick, or who ever elses dream is different. Are the visions only specific to them? Didn’t they all see the cicadas as a whole?
At this point all this shyt seems random af without cohesiveness. And they do not explain anything to piece it together.
There are two different things going on. Fears and dreams. The town/monsters are using your fears to kill other ppl in the town.
I think they are only specific to them if it's dream stuff(Im not counting Jade and Tabitha's visions in dream stuff)
Someone had a fear of dreams killing you/dying in your sleep. So from my pov only the person who dreams it, sees the monster or w/e. So only Elgin can see the water/dead chick.
Cicadas - isnt a dream thing, it's a fear thing and everyone sees them. Someone had a fear of there being maneating cicadas, so they were manifested. Boyd saw them on smiley's body(when they did the autopsy) and he wasnt dreaming. The thing with the cicadas is they can vanish. When Boyd went back to the body, they all were gone. When the monsters caught randall at the ambulance, didnt they use cicadas to stop him and then they vanished when the monsters surrounded randall?
So the rotting crop/bad soil stuff is probably a fear thing(and not a nightmare thing like I posted above), since everyone is affected by it and is messing with real world stuff.