Priya swallowed it and kept smiling

✦ TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS

Priya, and the photographs

A tooth comes loose at her sister’s wedding, and she tells nobody until the album turns up.

I HAD THIS ONE TOO

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TODAY’S SYMBOL

TUESDAY, 11 AUGUST

Dear friend,

I nearly did not answer this one, because the first thing I felt reading it was recognition rather than curiosity, and that usually means I am about to write about myself instead of about the person who sent it.

So I left it a day, then read it again standing up with my coat still on, and it held.

Priya has said I can use her name, and she has said I can use all of it, including the part she nearly cut.

Here it is, close to how she wrote it.

What Priya sent

She is at her sister’s wedding, in the second row, and a tooth on the lower left comes loose while somebody is speaking, so she moves it with her tongue and it comes away, and she swallows it rather than open her mouth.

Nobody notices, the speaking carries on, and she stays for the photographs and smiles in all of them, with a gap she can feel and nobody can see.

Then the album turns up later in the dream, and she goes through it slowly, looking for the one where it shows.

She woke at that point, and the line she nearly cut was the last one. She was disappointed it did not show.

“	She was disappointed it did not show.

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What I think it is saying

A dream that wanted to talk about losing something would have stopped at the tooth, since that is the loss, and this one carries on and ends at a photograph.

So the subject is the swallowing rather than the tooth, because that is the only decision Priya makes in the whole thing, and she makes it instantly.

She settles, without a pause, that the wedding will not be interrupted by her, and then spends the rest of the dream half hoping somebody will find the evidence anyway.

That last part is what I would not want to say out loud either, which is probably why she nearly took it off the end.

✦ WRITE BACK

Two parts of this will find people today, the swallowing and the album, and I would like to know which of them is yours.

TELL ME WHICH ONE

If you have a version of this, the thing you got through without letting it show, you can send it as short as one line.

Sleep well,

Dream Signs

P.S. Priya sent one more line after the dream, to say her sister has still not been told about any of it, and is not going to be. If you have one you have never told the person it is about, tell me who they are. She did not seem troubled by it.

✦ TONIGHT’S PRACTICE

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The line you nearly cut

When you write tonight’s down, keep the sentence you would take out if somebody else were reading it, because that is usually the one doing the work.

Tell me what you wrote

✦ MANIFESTATION TIP

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Let one thing show today

Pick something small you have been getting through without mentioning, and mention it to one person, at the size it actually is.

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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