A door, some keys, and a bus

✦ TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS

Three of you, one dream

Deborah’s extra room, Nadia’s keys, and the bus that would not stop for Marcus.

I HAD THIS ONE TOO

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TODAY’S SYMBOL

TUESDAY, 4 AUGUST

Dear friend,

I read the replies before I make coffee, which is a bad habit, because on the mornings there are none I take it personally.

Yesterday there were plenty, and three of them sat so close together that I am putting all three in front of you instead of picking one.

The three of them will never meet, and the dreams are not the same dream, though they rhyme.

I went back and read Deborah’s twice, with my hands still round the chipped blue mug my sister left here, before I saw why.

Deborah, Nadia and Marcus

Deborah opened a cupboard in her hall and found a whole room behind it, then woke before she went in. The dream is not really asking about the room, because it has already said the part that counts, that she knows the room is there.

Nadia knows where her keys are too, and loses them anyway, in the same handbag, every few nights (a handbag I am told has a pocket for keys), finding them and losing them again before she reaches the door. Nothing in it wants to hurt her, so the bad feeling has to come from somewhere else, and I think it comes from being kept busy right up to the moment of leaving.

Marcus does not get as far as leaving: he stands at a bus stop while buses go past with their lights on, and he never puts his hand out, because in the dream it is somehow not his stop yet.

Nobody chases him, nobody chases Deborah, and Nadia’s handbag is only a handbag, so not one of these is a frightening dream, and that took me a while to notice, because I keep expecting the hard dreams to be the loud ones.

“	I keep expecting the hard dreams to be the loud ones.

The thing all three do

In each one the dreamer is one small move from something and does not make it, though nothing in the dream is stopping them, and that is the odd part.

A dream built that way usually comes out of a decision you have half made and have not said out loud, or that is my best guess, so the sleeping part of you practises the last step again and again until you do.

It is not a telling off, and it is not a promise about the future either, because the dream has no idea what you should do; it only knows what you keep going round.

So the question I would put to the three of them, and to you if this is your dream too, is what you would have to admit if you went through the door.

✦ WRITE BACK

One of these three sits closer to your own nights than the other two, and I would like to know which, because that is how tomorrow gets written.

TELL ME WHICH ONE

If you sent one and it is not here, it has not been passed over, it is only that I read them in the order they come, and there are more coming than there used to be.

Sleep well,

Dream Signs

P.S. Nadia put one more line at the bottom of hers, that her mother always said a dream told before breakfast will not come true, so she has told nobody for years and is telling me instead. If somebody handed you a rule like that, I would like to hear who said it. Then she signed off and went back to her toast.

✦ TONIGHT’S PRACTICE

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The move you did not make

Write the dream down as usual, then add one line about the thing you nearly did in it and stopped, because that line is usually the useful one.

Tell me what you wrote

✦ MANIFESTATION TIP

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Say the half made one out loud

Pick the decision you have been going round and tell one person you have not told yet, not the whole of it, only the first line.

What came back

Did something happen after a dream this week? Tell me

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Dream it. Sign it. Live it.

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