The Targum preserves a grammatical peculiarity that the Sages loved. They dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man his own dream, and the interpretation of his companion's dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Mizraim who were confined in the prison (Genesis 40:5).
Read the line again. Each man dreamed his own dream — and the interpretation of his companion's dream. Pseudo-Jonathan, following the Hebrew, is saying something unusual: neither man only dreamt his own future. Each man also, somehow, dreamt the meaning of the other's dream. The two dreams were a single lesson told in two voices.
Bereshit Rabbah 88 hears this as evidence that the dreams were divinely sent. The Sages teach that ordinary dreams are the leftovers of the day's thoughts, but prophetic dreams come with their own interpretive thread already built in. When the chief butler dreams of the three branches and the pressed grapes, he is also, inwardly, being given the template for understanding the chief baker's three baskets and the birds pecking at them. Each man half-knows what is coming for his companion.
This is why, in the next verses, both men wake disturbed (Genesis 40:6-7). They know something is being said. They do not know what. They lack only the prophetic voice to pull the two dreams into speech — and Joseph, in the same prison on the same morning, is the voice that can.
The Targum, redacted in Eretz Yisrael in the early common era, is doing something quiet and beautiful. It is showing us that heaven arranges coincidences the way a poet arranges rhymes. Two senior officers of Pharaoh, locked in the same prison, dream on the same night two dreams that answer each other, while a Hebrew youth who reads dreams sleeps in the next chamber. None of this is random. The Sages call this hashgachah peratit, individual providence — the weaving of small circumstances into doors that only the righteous person can walk through.
The takeaway is practical. Pay attention to the night your dream sits next to someone else's. The pattern may not be about you alone. Heaven, the Targum is teaching, speaks in duets.