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The One That Wakes You Up
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The stomach drops, the floor goes, and you wake before you hit the ground. Nearly as many people know this one: in the same survey, 74 percent reported it.
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The reading that has lasted is plain: the ground has shifted under something, a job, a standing, a grip on the way things were. The fall matters less than the moment just before it, when you notice there is nothing under your feet.
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It reads one way if you fell from a place you chose to climb and another if the ground gave way beneath you, because one is a risk that did not pay off and the other is something taken.
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The One You Want Back
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Flying is the one you want back. It is like nothing else, and you spend the next three nights trying to get there again. You are not the only one: between one in five and two in three people have had this dream, depending on the study.
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As long as people have been writing dreams down, this one has stood for freedom, or a weight gone, or the part of you that stopped asking permission. The question after is always the same: why can I not do it again.
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Write down what you were free of, in the dream, because the height fades but that answer tends to stay.
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✦ WRITE BACK
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If one of these three keeps coming back to you, I would like to hear which one it is.
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TELL ME YOURS
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Three old dreams, and not one of them is finished with you yet.
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P.S. The woman at the cafe on my corner told me she had the falling dream twice last week. If you had any of these three last night, tell me who else was in the room. She said she fell past a filing cabinet, which she thought was rude.
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