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✦  TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS
What the Nakedness Is Asking For
Nobody in the dream noticed, which is the part that matters.
I HAD THIS ONE TOO
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TODAY’S SYMBOL
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THURSDAY, 8 OCTOBER
Dear friend,
I iron my shirts the night before. It is not the habit of somebody at ease with how they come across. So I do it again some mornings, just the collar, just to be sure. The wrinkles bother me. Nobody else on earth has ever said a word about them, so there is that. A whole ritual for nothing.
The dream does the same thing with fewer clothes. It puts you somewhere public, nothing on, and nobody around you seems to care (I am not sure what that says about the rest of us), and now it wants something from you while you are awake.
 
What It Strips Away
People have said for a long time that this is about being seen without what you use to present yourself, and what it strips depends on where you feel most covered: your poise, your prep, your role, or your control.
Your poise
Your prep
Your role
Your control
Tap the one that fits
Freud described three features of this dream more than a century ago, and the one worth keeping is that the people in it do not react. Whether the rest of what he wrote holds up is another question, but that detail tracks, because it matches what you felt: you were exposed, and nobody cared.
No one sees a problem, which means the whole performance is for you. The shame you felt was yours alone, cast onto a room full of people who were not even looking.
“ No one sees a problem, which means the whole performance is for you.
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What It Asks You to Set Down
So the whole act, the poise, the prep, the cover story, is invisible to everyone but you, and the cost of keeping it up belongs to you alone, which is why it asks you to put the whole thing down.
While the feeling is still there, before you get out of bed, ask yourself these.
✦  BEFORE YOU GET OUT OF BED
Tap one to answer it
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What am I afraid people will see?
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Where do I feel most like I am performing?
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What would I do if nobody were watching?
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Which version of myself am I holding up for other people?
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What have I been covering that nobody noticed?
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When did I last let somebody see me unprepared?
The one you flinched at is the one. You can stop holding the whole performance up, because the only person who ever required it was you.
✦  CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY
I do not have to earn the right to be seen.
The effort is mine to set down.
Nobody is watching that closely.
I am allowed to stop performing.
I am enough without the cover.
Tap the one you need
✦  WRITE BACK
Which of the six questions did you not want to answer?
TELL ME WHICH ONE
It pulls everything off, and the strange part is this: you were fine the whole time.
Sleep well,
Dream Signs
 
P.S. The woman who cuts my hair told me she had this dream the night before a wedding, and nobody in it looked at her once. If you had it, tell me who else was in the room. She went to the wedding anyway.
✦  TONIGHT’S PRACTICE
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The morning list
When you wake up, write down three things you did yesterday only because somebody might have been watching. Just the list, on paper.
TELL ME WHAT YOU WROTE
✦  MANIFESTATION TIP
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One sentence out loud
Pick one thing from that list and tell somebody today, in one sentence, that you are thinking of dropping it.
WHAT CAME BACK?
Something happen after a dream? Tell me what it was
 
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