I woke up from this dream quite upset, but upon reflection and after explaining it to my husband, I realized the meaning wasn’t nearly as bad as it seemed.

In the dream,  I bought a lotto ticket and went home.  It was time to find out if I had won.  I asked my husband to look up the numbers on his IPad.  He read the first to me and I saw I had it.  He then read the second and I saw I had that as well.  I was becoming excited now, hoping I had won something.  He then read the third number and I had that one!  I exclaimed happily, “I won!  I have three numbers!”  I knew that meant I had won at least $3.00, which is better than not winning anything at all.  I looked at the rest of the numbers, and I knew before he even said anything, that I had all of them.  Somehow, I had all 6 numbers and had won the $1,000,000.00 lottery prize.  I told him to tell me the last three numbers, but before he could, I said them instead.  He looked at me in astonishment because he knew it meant we had won one million dollars.  I yelled out, “I won! I won! I won the million dollars!”  The numbers had actually been a little hard to read, and I looked more closely at what I was holding.  Instead of a lotto ticket, it was a piece of cardboard with all of the lotto numbers from all of the lotto tickets I had ever bought written on it.  The clerk had given it to me instead of the actual lotto ticket.  I knew that meant I couldn’t claim the prize and wondered if I went to the store and explained what had happened, if they would give me my ticket then.  I really doubted it.  I stared hard at the card and knew that this was probably the only time I would ever win the big prize and couldn’t even claim it.  I woke up very upset.

This dream seems to be in response to a thought I have been having lately.  It indicates that I have tried many times to accomplish something that I would consider to be a big prize.  I finally do-as indicated by my having all 6 numbers of the lottery.   I know I have accomplished something amazing and so does my husband, but I have no way to prove it.  There seems to be no external evidence of the amazing thing I have achieved.  I hope that at some point this accomplishment will become evident in some way by changes in my life, but at this point see little hope of that happening.