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1. I had a dream about my favorite dead uncle. But in my dream he was alive and he was the meanest man to me. He hated me and made my da hate me. I woke up crying. I was in a different country when he died so I never got to see him. Plus apparently today was his 2nd death anniversary and the last time I saw him we weren’t getting along. But his death did cause a huge impact in my life but I never showed it. What does my dream mean? What is my subconscious trying to tell me?

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2. Richard,
   My dream is long but I know has some meaning. It includes a friend of mine who I had a crush on in middle school 6 years ago, but now I find him a little annoying. My parent also don’t like him or his family now. We’ll call him Joe. It started in my parents house, but looked nothing like my parents house. Joe was spending the night with me at my parents house. We were just hanging out really. I went to the restroom to get ready for bed and then I was naked. I didn’t realize I was naked until Joe walked in and saw me. He didn’t seem to notice and he proceeded to pick up his unconscious naked brother (who I don’t like at all) who was near my feet. When I saw his brother was naked I was disgusted and I quickly looked away. I then fully clothed got into bed with Joe and we watched movies. It felt as though we wanted to do more than just watch movies. Immediately I then appeared in a large beautiful church. Mass was going on and my mother took me off to the side. She asked me where my dress was, and I kept asking what she was talking about. She told me I was marring Joe and I was devastated. We argued about it but she made me marry him anyway. I had no dress but I wore my favorite orange and white baseball shirt, jeans, and converse. She placed her old wedding head band dazzled with pearls She wore at her wedding on my head. It had a tiny veil in my dream the size of a napkin. Joe was waiting for me at the alter and the music started playing. I walked up to the front of the church but it seemed like such a long way. I walked by myself and I wanted to cry because I hated the whole idea. I got up to him and there was no ceremony but he put a ring on my finger. At first glance it was a thin silver band, but when I touched it it was a clear rubber band. I rolled it up and down my finger with my thumb. Afterwards we went to a racy part of town to an old bar my family owned when I was younger. Joe kept reaching for me and holding my arms, and I kept pushing him away and asking how we would live now that we were married. What we’d do? I asked if we’d live at his parents house or mine. I was so upset but he just seemed so in love with me even though it was an arranged marriage. I hated that the most. All of a sudden we were at an amusement park. The only ride I rode the entire time was a roller coaster. I rode it a few times and loved it. For some reason everyone was allowed underneath the roller coaster. I was walking underneath it alone. For some reason I was always alone, but my family was always nearby as well as Joe. But I wanted nothing to do with him. For a while I forgot I was married to him because I was alone and having fun. Swings appeared, connected to the underside of the roller coaster. As I swung I watched people around me. They swung normal, back and forth. I swung crooked and spun in different random directions. I got off the swing and a guy my age came up to me and asked if I wanted to ride the roller coaster with him. He asked me as if he were asking me to dance, and I said yes. I peered down at my rubber band and rolled it again. I looked at him but was not attracted to him at all. We got to the front of the line and waited for a car to ride. As one approached I saw it better. It was a single plastic red cart with black wheels. It was a tight squeeze and it was hard for the guy to get in with me and I said it was because my butt was too big. We finally fit and the ride started. I looked over and two more boys appeared next to the guy. As the ride began rising and falling I grabbed the hand of the guy. I intertwined our fingers and held his hand close to my chest near my heart. I was on his right and he was to my left. The ride was so much fun and I loved having him so close. I forgot about Joe completely and as soon as I realized how much I was enjoying myself I was on the ground again. My parents, friends, siblings, and Joe walked up to me. They told me they had rented an island in the park to celebrate our marriage and watch fireworks. My sister and a random girl I’d never met before were excited for the boat ride and asked me if I had a bathing suit. I began looking for my bathing suit and remembered I’d left it in my room at home. When I visualized my home it appeared normal now and I recognized it. I didn’t want to be near my family or Joe. I wanted to find that boy because the feeling of freedom he gave me was what I wanted the entire time. I felt trapped and like he was my escape. When I thought of looking for him my attention went straight to the rubber band and I rolled it up and down my finger again. And then I woke up… Thank you for the help!

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   • Haley,
     The problem in the dream is that you are angry for married to your parents wishes for you. This is probably because you are living your life somewhat unconscious of who you are. When you go into the bathroom you are naked, but do not know that you are naked. This is a symbol for living your life somewhat unaware. It is because of being in that state that you end up committed to things that your parents want for you, but you do not necessarily care for. This leads you to doing things at the amusement park that are inconsistent with what they want you to married to, Joe.

     The solution to the dream is for you to begin looking for your own passions in life, not necessarily what your parents want for you. You are the only one who will ever know who you are and what you can put your heart into.

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3. Richard,
   I had a dream that a guy friend spent the night at my home with my parents. We’ll call him Joe. We were just hanging out really and then all of a sudden I was in the restroom and I was naked. I didn’t realize I was naked until Joe walked in and then picked up his naked brother from the floor. (I really dislike his brother, and I had a crush on Joe when I was in middle school, years ago and now he kind of annoys me) Joe saw me naked and it didn’t bother me but when I saw his naked brother I was a little disgusted and looked away. Then Joe and I, fully clothed laid down in bed together and watched movies, yet it felt like we wanted to do more than watch movies. The next thing I know I am in a huge beautiful church full of people. The priest says something and my mother says go marry Joe now. I was so uncomfortable with the thought of marring him. I saw him with a tux on and I was looking for my wedding dress because it was apparently an arranged marriage I had no idea about. There was no dress so I wore and orange and white base ball shirt that I love, jeans, and orange converse. I wanted my mom to run to the wedding store and get a cheap dress but there was no time. She put an old wedding head band covered in pearls on my head that she wore at her wedding but it had a veil the size of a napkin. The music began to play and I walked alone a long distance to get to the front of the church with Joe. We don’t exchange vows or have a ceremony but he put a ring on my finger. When I looked down at the ring it was a clear rubber band. Next I was in a racy part of town at a bar my family used to own but I can’t remember what I was doing there but Joe kept holding my arm and being sort of cuddly so I’d just walk away and wonder how we were supposed to live now that we were married because we were both living with our parents and I hated the whole idea. I kept looking at my rubber band and rolling it up and down my finger with my thumb. All of a sudden we were at an amusement park underneath a roller coaster. I rode the roller coaster a few times and enjoyed it. Then swings appeared under neath the roller coaster and I was swinging on them wildly. There were a lot of people all around and I got off the swing. A guy my age asked if I would ride the coaster with him. He asked me as if he were asking me to dance, so I willingly said yes as I always do. But afterwards I looked at the rubber band and continuously rolled it on my finger again. We got into the tiny, red, plastic cart and at first it was a tiny squeeze for the two of us. As the ride started two other boys appeared with us in the car. I grabbed the hand of the guy who asked me to ride and held it tight with our fingers intertwined against my chest. The roller caster had changed dramatically from the first few times I rode it but I enjoyed it because I was holding that guys hand and the colors were beautiful. As soon as I realized I was enjoying it I was on the ground again rolling the rubber band. My parents came to me and told me they rented an island to watch fireworks at the park where we could celebrate our marriage and Joe came to me and looked so happy but I hated the idea. I wanted to find that other guy although I wasn’t attracted to him, but the feeling of freedom he gave me, comforted me I guess. My sister, a few friends, and a strange girl I’ve never met before were all excited for the boat ride to the island and were getting their swimsuits ready. I began to look for my swimsuit in the park and kept imagining it was on top of my dresser at home and under my bed. I just kept rolling the rubber band and then I woke up. I’m sorry its so long but I just have to know what this dream means. I still feel uncomfortable about it and I know it is just a dream but its driving me crazy. I just woke up from it too so that could also be why my feelings are so fresh.

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4. The first dream with the girl on the bus is very interesting. The dream says that you already have the capacity to connect to a lot of people and feel love for them. This is an amazing capacity which is really important in the world. However, the task at hand is to care for the little girl who is so weak. This means that you have like a metaphoric child inside that you is weak that needs attending to. When you spend a lot of time with yourself overcoming the weakness, then you will be able to use that new ability and the one that connects with others. Something inside of you was not allowed to develop when you were a child so it is still weak. You need it right now in your life and it is calling inside of you to be developed. I am not sure from the dream exactly what that is, but you probably know.

   The second dream is important to understand for your daughter’s spiritual health. The playground slide is the correct place for a child to be because they learn so much when learning is playful. Normally a fish is supposed to be in swimming in clean waters, but this fish is poisonous at the bottom of a playground slide. Fish are often in schools like children who rely on positive learning environments like clean water. A poisonous fish is an idea that is put into the child that makes her lose her playfulness. This usually happens to children around the age 0f 6-7 when they are told that they have be much more serious, to sit still all day, and work hard. What they need is a lot of learning that is structured, but also playful so that they don’t fall asleep to who they really are. Schools have a way of robbing children of themselves. Having a playful attitude is really important. It is something that one should never lose. I am 63 and still have it so I know it is possible to keep.

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5. My daughter told me a dream that she was playing at a water park and there was a fish at the bottom of the slide. It looked like it was nice but when people touched it they got poisoned. She wanted to go down the slide but didn’t want to get poisoned but she went down the slide anyway. when she got poisoned it put her to sleep. (She told me this dream a couple years ago and it bothers me until now. What could be the symbol of a fish that is poisoning her and how can I wake her back up and help her now that she’s been poisoned?)

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6. I dream I am riding on a bus with a little girl. She is weak like a sickness she can’t speak of but I understand and comfort her. When I look around I just feel love for everyone I see. Opportunities for connecting with people are there and I see them and want to go for them, have conversations, explore ideas, make plans but I am holding this dear child who really needs me so I don’t get up and go for the conversations with adults the way I used to. I just stay with her in my arms.

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7. Thanks a lot Richard… I don’t think i want a scavenger crow as a companion though , its a negative scavenger like persons yet such people do exist and cross our path.. it is a need to rid away such negatives..normally when we meet such people they have a lot of morally wrong people around them as they themselves are … so i guess you are right that one person was like a crow and difficult to shew away…and those are old dreams years ago ..the cat one was very recent… and i have been rather overly independent past years in how i want to accomplish my goals without a choice, as if i made a trusting mistake i would bare consequences on my own terribly…and life wasn’t easy being mostly separated from loved one so i reckon gave me funny dreams…I am not ready for a relationship as i have personal goals i want to still try and accomplish hence i hope my dreams are not suggesting me to have one..I guess having to be independent has toppled my stress as i always have new tasks which are as well new to me and require careful attention..I am rather different after the past years compared to who i was before after some life experience.. quite drastically actually! i analyse things without putting too much compassion into it and more a mindful person rather than my old self which was very giving and lenient..and i don’t put a need in having a loving relationship anymore and maybe i am so comfortable with myself i may not need one or perhaps its not time yet…relationships do not seem important to me as i care more about my loved ones and obligations..just want to get things done nowadays and as practically as i can as only that keeps things together and makes me feel full..family members which i have around me have opinions and take interest in my life affairs at present with they’re opinions of decisions as always, and it takes time to make big decisions for things that are new to you, and I’ve come to quite a closing on how to finalize one big decision this month.. this after a lot of sharing with friends and comparing inputs for clarity…I think what you speak of is the need to be grounded in decisions too,,,Are cats only symbols of independence? what other meanings could a cat have as i saw two cats and they were white too…why weren’t they black or green..etc…i never dream of cats. and it was interesting how they became two when one came out from behind the first one..

   Since your in Malaysia where i come from, wish you a Happy Chinese New Year 2014…Thanks for your time Richard…

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8. Jane,
   The idea behind dreamwork is mostly to take a negative symbol and transform it into its positive opposite and then work to develop that energy within you. A cat is a symbol of independence. When cats are negative symbols, they can be aloof especially not balanced with good relational skills. Two cats means you need a double amount of independence. This means being able to think for yourself and being really comfortable to act alone.
   The crows are scavengers which means that they take advantage of whatever is available to them and also fight off other birds for their space. In a negative way the ex-boyfriend is like a crow, and your inability to be a positive cat (independent) makes you vulnerable to their kind. The key is to develop of strong independent self and then you will be able to relate to others much better and be in a relationship with a lot of strength.

   Snake are symbols of transformation or change when they are positive. A small white venomous snake means that there is something small in the environment like small put downs that appear to be innocent (white) but really are deadly to nourishing your soul. The transformation from your snake dream is get really positive about yourself and hear only positives.

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9. Would like to know what you may feel about the meaning of the 2 white cats in the dream. They had mysterious and devious faces both like identical twins yet very good at seducing and getting all curious and fuzzy…

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10. Hi Richard,

    Thank you for the wonderful description. I suppose the mind really is a big ocean and dreams are not just an aimless bag of foolish nuances. I can roughly understand your respond metaphorically where i may be controlled in my environment and the vegetables may symbolize a certain control in my relationship with the family and the delicious meal which may pass of looking like a mighty ham burger from the heavens and so unattainable as i took its crumbs after the man ate it, but the lord shiva impersonation really looked like a weirdo as he was talking like a woman and touching my blouse at one part to look at my shirt. That was a very short part of the dream so it didn’t really matter but he was strange. Only thing i liked in the dream and craved for was his food. I did have another dream of cats 2 nights ago. i felt seduced by something behind me fooling around my ear with gentle tickles and thought it was a person and when i looked back a white cat came forward purring away and than another one from behind the first one. I’ve never dream’t of cats in my life. Don’t know what that means.

    I’ve had a dream of a big black crow once in my life flying above my head as i was in a lying down position in my dark bed room at night in the dream, just flying in circles with huge wings. When i awoke later that night in the same position i left my home to drive out to somewhere perhaps dinner and a bunch of crows were on the tree outside my house, maybe some on the roof cant remember, and they all swarm off once i closed my car door to go off. Weird! Suffered for about 2 years with a very strange person i newly met who was terribly bizarre and always looking for my presence. A year after that a friend told me that to dream of crows is said to be a message from hell. I can relate to that in a way today, and till today I’ve begin to take notice of certain dreams to make prudent decisions in life, it is just that i cannot decipher or fully understand them.

    My first snake dream was years ago where i saw a white cobra size of a worm in a bowl of soup noodles i almost devoured. It flipped its tail so before i could eat the noodles i placed the bowl down. It slowly shaped it self and standing still and strong though so small and was looking right at me like a beast with those piercing deadly eyes was a white cobra-even the slightest twitch of my head it moved along to with its eyes and its head movements faster than mine even by inches. That dream i woke up cold sweat around after noon hour. When i walked down i saw the same bowl in the same position on the table in the kitchen and when i looked into it thank god i saw quaker oats and not noodles. I tried to ask around on what a white cobra means. I suppose its a strong entity as it was so small yet so frightening and my dream was bright like day and yet i was so afraid i couldn’t move much of a muscle looking at the snake till i heard the sounds of a car where my brother and his companion arrived home in the dream and when i turned to look at them that sudden moment my dad who was seated in the hall in my dream got up when i told him ‘daddy theres a snake’snake’ and he said kill it than and i woke up.

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11. You probably have some kind of belief that says that you are responsible for your future husband’s happiness and then everyone in your family. The dream wants you to believe that when you are enthusiastic and up it is infectious, but you don’t have to take responsibility for other people’s state. The dream doesn’t have much to do with whether or not you should have a baby. That is up to you.

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12. Thanks for the reply. I still dont really understand what the dream means? Does it mean that I have actually taken on responsibility that belongs to someone else? Or is it that i generally try to take on others responsibilities? Is it meaning i am not responsible enough to have a baby yet? Im 28 years old and have always wanted a baby, these dreams seem to have started only since i got engaged.

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13. Amy,
    Heaviness comes in a dream when you take on responsibility that does not belong to you. So when you are trying to hold someone else’s baby it is taking on the responsibility for the growth of new parts of them. You probably learn taking on responsibility like this at a very young age.

    To become really light and still interact with everyone the role you can take on is that of being really encouraging of others. This means that you see positive in others both in potential and in actual form and acknowledge it even when it is just a very small amount (a baby amount) of positive.

    This is the most important skill a parent can develop and sorrowfully missing in the world. As soon as you can do this you will be ready to have your own baby. The shift internally for you is from heaviness to lightness, from taking other people’s work to being enthusiastic and encouraging all the time.

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14. Hi there,
    I keep having this recurring dream, involving other people’s babies. If i try to pick up someones baby it is realy heavy and i struggle to be able to hold it in my arms. If i see someone with a baby in the dream im scared to pick it up because i know i wont be able to lift it and dont want to drop it. I dont have any children of my own but i have just got engaged and am wanting to have a baby now. What could this dream mean? Does it mean im not ready for a baby?
    Any insight u have would be great
    Amy

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15. Dear Jane,
    Generally speaking whenever a snake appears in your dream, you should immediately think that you have an opportunity and need to make a transformation in your life. Snakes shed their skin which means that they are symbols for letting go of the past. They are also flexible in the way that the move so that they can go through almost any space, which metaphorically means having humility about where you need to go. They also open their jaws really wide to let in their prey which means that they are very open.

    In the first dream you are walking along with the snake as if it were a pet. This means that you are really comfortable with the idea of change and are friendly with it, but what you are facing is fearful and dark. You are probably imagining being attacked by it.

    In the second dream you are trying to nourish yourself at an Indian night stall. This means that you are trying to help the change process or like nourish the change process in a pseudo Hindu like way. It is not that you have to be Hindu, but that you may have a belief about the change process of having to be more “vegetarian-like”. You don’t seem to be that comfortable with it, but your mum does. Lord Shiva is traditionally the destroyer of egos as a diety, which is a good process and may be ok for others, but it is not suitable for you.

    What you can think about in the change process for yourself is what really works for you rather than thinking that it has to be new-age like. It seems like change comes easily to you and you can be really friendly with it, but when you get to the Hindu-like stuff, it doesn’t work and then you get fearful. So you can nourish yourself and go after change in the way that works for you.

    It would be helpful to know what you are fearful of becoming.

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16. I had dream’t a weird dream this afternoon, it bothers me as it shows snakes and this is not the first unusual snake dream. In my last dream the snake was walking with me like a pet though it was part wild animal on a cliff spiral downwards to a cave where i left it with other snakes. Before it took off it swayed to my toe and there was a glow from its mouth. It was not a bright surrounding in the dream and i had a fright towards the end of it so i am guessing it is a nightmare.

    The dream i had today also shows snakes but mostly it involved the Indian lord shiva. I am a non-hindu and know very basic of the gods in hinduism. In my dream my mum and sister were seated with me on a table at an Indian night stall. My mum than told me that the guest we had on the same table seated opposite me was a worshiper of the Lord Shiva where she had given me a longer version of the name. He spoke like a woman in his mannerisms and i couldn’t make up what he was. He also looked like a priest in white clothing and long hair-rest i cant recollect. He had a meal which looked like something i would like to eat on his table. When my food arrived it was served very dramatically by an indian woman who left plates after plates of vegetarian food. It was really bizarre to eventually see snakes at the end of the dream before receiving a lottery ticket which numbers matched after i scratched it. An indian man had attempted to pass me a bag which contained a moderate sized snake which i moved away from in fright and suddenly there was a python which fell of one of the seats at the shop to charge at me,and that made me fly a little to flee off. It was bizarre to see my mum composed and even stroking the big snake which head turned to look like a cat at some parts. I woke up in distress.

    After checking online, ive discovered that lord shiva is both woman and man and vegetarian as he is something sacred and who also controls snakes. I remember trying to reach for a bit of what was left on his side of the table, that looked more appetizing, where i only found crumbs and i did put those little crumbs into my mouth as i did not want to have vegetables. I assume he would have eaten the meal, but lord shiva doesn’t indulge in meat. So i am unclear of what this weird dream means when i am not a hindu and know nothing much bout this lord shiva till i went online today after my dream. The dream was also gloomy like my last dream of snakes but not as dark in its surrounding.

    Please help me. Thanks.

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17. I dream I am in some sort of commune. Everyone knows the rules but me and I am trying to guess them as I go because people don’t like to talk about them either. The pattern that emerges is that I get the idea of a certain thing that I am to do and I do it but then as I accommodate what is needed to accomplish this thing then I do things which others disapprove of. So as I am gathering up sticks for someone I leave a pair of socks on a counter and then someone goes to the counter and gets upset at me. I don’t want to blame the person who asked me to get sticks but also can’t blame myself because I didn’t do it on purpose and also didn’t know it was a rule not to put socks on the counter. The other thing that happens is that when I figure out what the rules are then overnight they seem to change on me so the next day I’m still doing the old rules but everyone is playing along with new rules which no one told me about so then I get sort of penalized (or drawn into conflict) for doing the old thing when everyone is doing the new thing. So then I just throw my hands up and as I walk to my room I announce “I’m going to my room and when the rules change and everyone knows and agrees on what they are come and get me and I’ll come out and play the new rules and have success.”

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18. Menley,
    Thank you for sending this really important dream. Since you don’t know the boy and cannot see his face, it is best to think of him as the cultural boy that exists in most men and hence, in you. That he is sleeping means that he (we) our asleep to our potential as human beings because we are busy warding off the monsters in the culture. Who are they? Well there are the authoritarian monsters like dictators and totalitarian fathers and CEOs. Then there are the patronizing ones who treat you as if you are a child and then there are the know-it-alls who put you down for your thoughts. There are so many of them that they wear us down until we are killed like you were killed in the dream. The sleeping boy who is fully of potential never gets to wake up and be the person he was meant to become.

    The nice thing about dream work is that you can die in the dream world and then have a second life because the dream world is a non-physical one. So the question you have to face is how you can revive yourself so that you can wake up the child and live fully in enthusiastic and positive energy.

    To revive yourself you have to figure out how to get deal with the monster. The key to dealing with a monster is to realize that it feeds off of conflict. When you try to fight a monster, it just finds a way to keep coming back because the fight is its food. With those of us who are interested in positive outcomes fighting is a drain, rather than a feeding like with the ego. So the key is to get out of conflict with the monster by using detachment. For instance, I used to have this difficulty with know-it-alls that when I would give a talk, they would be laying in wait in the audience ready to pounce on the first thing they questioned so that they could get the audience to attend to them. And if you question a person’s authority who has a lot of it, it it license for them to get rid of you. The key is to let the challenge go. Then the empowerment returns to you and leaves the monster because you are fed on positive acts. When the monster is not in a fight, they go hungry and starve.

    Sometimes the result of dealing with real world monsters is that you have to let go of goals that they have authority over. When you are able to just let it go, then the thing you are really supposed to do at the moment opens up.

    Once you figure out the cultural thing, you have to also deal with the way you get into conflict with yourself and then let that go mainly by focusing on the positive in you.

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19. Dear Mr. Richard,
    hello. I recently head an interesting dream that I remember very clearly and I wondered if you could help me interpret it. It starts with me standing beside a little sleeping boy. I feel a strong connection to him but I can’t see his face. Every now and then, a monster would appear and try to hurt him but I was able to chase it away. Later in the night when I started getting tired, the monster came after me! But by that time, I was too weak to fight it off, so it killed me.

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20. The purpose of your daughter’s dream is for her to remember the positive times she has had with you. Re-experiencing things in a dream especially with the floating feeling gives her a lightness about life which will assist her in whatever learning tasks she does. She can go through the new learning with attraction rather then any resistance.

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