Erika is my daughter who passed away in January, 2022 from a brain disease. She was 45 years old when she died.

In the dream Erika and I along with some family members are at some kind of fair. There are lots of people around. Instead of being in the state she was in when she was ill, she was healthy and speaking normally, In the dream I said out loud to myself that it seems like maybe she is going to heal. Then I got on a bus, the destination to which I didn’t know. I think that she got on the bus with me. The bus was in a winding mountainous area. In the dream the bus driver took a turn too fast while going downhill. The bus flew off the road, into the air, and over a lake. As it was going over the lake, I started preparing myself for the crash and thinking about what I could do for others, ready for it to go in the lake, but instead of it going in the lake it flew past it and looked like it was going to crash into a cliff or mountainside. Then I knew that it would be much more serious, but instead of crashing, it somehow made it back onto the road, we got the destination with everyone safe. The bus driver was shaken.

With almost any dream there are multiple meanings and multiple ways of seeing things. I am going to mostly look at the dream as extremely positive. The two most positive elements for me were that Erika was healed and that I could remain calm and focused on helping others despite the imminent crash.

I am going to choose to think of Erika in the dream, not as herself, but as the part of me that is like her. There are many things that we shared, but the most significant one is our more intuitive abilities. Her being healed in the dream and me reflecting on it seems to indicate to me that the intuitive part of myself is healed, which went somewhat missing when she died due to grief.

What was positive about the bus ride was that despite the threat of the bus crashing, I was never overcome by fear. I managed to keep focused on helping others. It let me know that despite having a long history of reckless bus drivers, I haven’t lost my abilities. What is a reckless bus driver? A reckless bus driver is an authority figure who doesn’t have everyone’s interests in mind. They only have the goal of getting from point A to point B as fast as they can for their own benefit.

What does this dream tell me I can start doing? Since the intuitive part is healed and I am no longer in intense grief, I can start driving the bus. This means that I can drive my own projects that I couldn’t do when I was in the grief state. I know enough about grief to realize that it is never fully over, but this dream indicates that enough of it has healed to allow me to be in a more up state that is required for driving projects.

What can you take out of the dream that is meaningful for your own life? Since we are all connected in the great web of life, one person’s dream is everyone’s dream. Feel free to comment.