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✦  TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS
Something is behind you
You never turn round to look, and that turns out to be the part worth reading.
I HAD THIS ONE TOO
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TODAY’S SYMBOL
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MONDAY, 24 AUGUST
Dear friend,
I was running through a car park on Saturday night, in my sleep, and I never once turned round to see what was behind me.
Which is odd, because nothing in that car park had a face or a name, yet I woke with my heart going as though it did.
Being chased is one of the most common dreams there is, so if you have had it lately you are in a very large crowd, though the crowd is not much comfort while it is happening.
What I remember is the running itself, the feeling that stopping was not allowed, and that feeling is the part worth taking apart.
 
What is behind you
Your sleeping mind is bad at nouns and good at feelings. So when something has been following you about for weeks, it does not hand you a note explaining itself, it builds a corridor and puts you at one end of it.
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Something I never saw
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Someone I know
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An animal
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I woke before it caught me
Tap the one that fits
Fear in a dream points somewhere, so the question worth asking is what you have been staying ahead of all week.
For me it is a phone call to my sister that I keep meaning to make, since making it would take less time than avoiding it has already taken, which my sleeping mind has clearly noticed.
Whether the corridor means anything past that is your call, though people have been saying it does for a very long time, and I have never met anyone who woke from this one feeling nothing.
“ Your sleeping mind is bad at nouns and good at feelings.
 
What the running is for
There is a serious theory that the chase dream is a drill, your brain rehearsing an escape it expects to need one day, which would explain why the thing behind you so rarely has a face.
I am not sure I believe it, since my week holds very little worth fleeing, though when people have gone looking the results have come back mixed both ways.
What I trust more is the direction, because whatever was back there, I had already decided not to look at it, and I make that same decision awake.
✦  BEFORE YOU GET OUT OF BED
Tap one to answer it
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What have I been staying ahead of?
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When did I last stop and look?
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Who am I hoping catches up with me?
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What happens if it does?
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Where in my day do I speed up?
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What am I not saying out loud?
None of them needs a good answer this morning, since the point is only to notice which one you would rather skip.
 
Turning round
Turning round inside the dream is possible, though it takes practice, and the way in is to notice you are running while you are still asleep.
Most people manage it by accident first, waking half way and going back in with the feeling still on them, so tonight is as good a night as any to try.
If you do turn, you will probably find nothing there, which sounds like a letdown until it happens to you.
✦  CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY
I am allowed to slow down
I can turn round and look
I can make the call today
I do not have to run all day
I can say it out loud
Tap the one you need
✦  WRITE BACK
One of those questions will have been harder than the rest, and I would like to know which.
TELL ME WHICH ONE
I am making my call before lunch, mostly so that whatever is in the car park tonight has to find something else to be.
Sleep well,
Dream Signs
 
P.S. My sister rang me first, in the end, and said before I could speak that she had dreamt I was ignoring her, which I was. Tell me who else was in the room. Then she went back to her toast.
✦  TONIGHT’S PRACTICE
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Write the direction first
Faces go before you are properly awake, so put down which way you were going and what was at your back, then fill in the rest.
TELL ME WHAT YOU WROTE
✦  MANIFESTATION TIP
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Say it on the way to the kettle
Say the thing you want out loud, in plain words, with a name and a day in it, and see what comes back.
WHAT CAME BACK
Something happened after a dream? Tell me
 
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Dream it. Sign it. Live it.
 
 

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