In this dream, I am making the observation that something I wanted to do didn’t work out well, but something I was led to do worked out quite well.

In the dream, I was at work but not at my current job.  I did seem to be in my office, though.  I had a project that I really wanted to do and started it.  It appeared as a white sheet of paper and as I worked on it, I would write on the paper.  But I wasn’t getting very far with it.  Not really accomplishing much.  Then my boss came in (someone I don’t actually know in real life) and told me to start a project for work.  He told me what I needed to do.  It was very similar to what I was doing already, but it covered a different subject matter. Being that it was an assignment from my boss, I started it right away.  This project appeared as a yellow sheet of paper hanging next to the white sheet of paper.  As I worked, I wrote on the yellow paper just as I had the white. Very quickly, I made great progress on it.  It looked very good and it was obvious I had done well on it.  My boss came in to check my work and looked at both.  He told me, “You would not have picked the second project to work on if you had a choice, but look at how far you came with it and how well you did. Much better than the project you wanted to do.”

Significant symbols:

Work-one’s actual work, family, a project, etc.

paper-personal talent or need to communicate.  Self-expression and communication.

white-purity/holiness/spiritual

yellow-intelligence/wisdom/creativity

The white sheet of paper represents my dream goal of what I would like to do for work.  I make the effort but never get very far with it.  Every initiative starts off well but never builds into anything.  The yellow sheet of paper represents an endeavor I was led to start by outside forces.  It utilizes the same talents and abilities I use for the dream project but it has a different goal.  I would not have dreamed of doing the second project on my own.  It was not in my vision of what I wanted to achieve.  But I do really well at it and accomplish much.  It is pointed out to me by Spirit that I did much better at the project I was led to do than the project I wanted to do.

Sometimes God must lead us to what we really should be doing.  It may not match what we see for ourselves, but if you allow God to lead you where you need to be, then you will find a very fulfilling and rewarding life. This is not to say you shouldn’t plan and work for what you want.  God cannot lead you where you need to be if you are not even trying to utilize your talents and abilities. Make a plan of what it is you want to accomplish, and then start systematically working towards your goal.  If God needs to lead you into something else, it will happen somewhere in the process of you actively working towards what you want.  For example, you decided at an early age you wanted to teach.  You work towards that goal and earn a teaching degree.  But once in the classroom, you find that you do not enjoy the work. Perhaps the students are too challenging to your patience.  But the opportunity comes up to teach adults and you try it.  You find you love it, as the skills needed to teach adults are different from those needed to teach children.  Teaching adults just works better with your personality than teaching children.  This is a situation where you actively worked towards what you thought you wanted for yourself, and had to be led to a different version of that ideal once it was apparent your original ideal wasn’t working.

In this dream, I am shown I have gained an unexpected benefit that I wasn’t expecting.

I was with my husband at a gathering outside.  There was a small crowd milling about, partaking in whatever it was we were there for.  My husband handed me a package I received through the mail.  I wasn’t expecting anything and hadn’t ordered anything.  I think he told me,  “It’s the gun you ordered.”  When he said it, I knew that this was right.  I opened the package and there was a small, very modern-looking handgun.  It was black, metallic, and had a very narrow nose.  I wondered if it even worked with such a narrow nose.  But I had no intention of returning it or exchanging it. We left together to place it in our home for safekeeping.

Significant Symbols:

Crowd-work or family life

Outside-what one is cultivating currently with those around them

Mail-receiving a message/idea/insight

Gun-one’s need to defend oneself with words/actions, etc.

Black-the unknown or unconscious knowledge we have which is being brought to our awareness through experience.

Nose-being “on the nose”.  Being specific about the subject and not speaking of anything else.

Home-current situation or experience.

The crowd represents my work or family life, and being outside indicates what I am cultivating currently with these people.  My receiving something in the mail is representative of my receiving a message/idea/or insight.  The gun represents my need to “defend myself”.  The color black represents the unknown or unconscious knowledge we have which is usually brought to our awareness through experience. The nose in this case is representative of being “on the nose”.  My home represents my current situation or experience and how I am thinking.

The message in this dream is about my current work/family situation and what I have been working on within those areas.  I am able to use the knowledge I have gained (from experience) to defend my point of view/ideas/choices, etc. I am able to do this in a very narrow and pointed way, without going beyond the actual subject or situation itself.  In other words, my arguments will be “on the nose”, and will not escalate into arguments about other subjects. For example, a slight that might have occurred before and was never addressed. In the dream I wonder if this will be effective, and believe it will be.  I bring this ability into my current experiences and psyche in a practical and logical manner.

I sometimes have dreams where I receive information on other people.  I find these dreams useful in that I have a guideline to gauge how I should react when I am interacting with them.

I was speaking to a close friend.  It was a friendly conversation over nothing in particular.  I heard a voice speak and knew it was her ex-girlfriend’s.  The comment was about what we were speaking of.  The conversation continued and the ex-girlfriend came into view and stood with my friend.  The girlfriend made another comment about the subject we were on, a different one.  She smiled and looked like she was really enjoying herself.  My friend looked very happy as well. I thought to myself, “Oh, these two are back together.”  Maybe a good thing, maybe not.

In this dream, I am shown that my friend will either reunite with her former girlfriend now or in the near future -OR- the girlfriend she currently has is basically like her ex-girlfriend.  I believe the dream is referencing her current girlfriend and that the current girlfriend is similar to the old girlfriend.  I notice this when I hear certain comments she makes which reflect her beliefs and feelings.

It would make sense for my friend to be attracted to the same type of person, as it tends to be what all of us do.  For example, if you like someone who is masterful and takes control, then more than likely that is what you will be attracted to every time.  The next boyfriend/girlfriend might be a better or worse version of this.  Hopefully you will work on improving yourself and will attract a better version. If my sister-in-law matured herself, then she would most likely pick a more mature version of her ex-girlfriend to be with.  This could mean that there is a better possibility of the relationship working out.  But if she picked the same version of her ex again, then there will definitely be unhappiness ahead.

The gauge for me in this situation is to leave certain issues alone if the subject comes up.  With this particular personality type, I could cause problems by trying to continue a conversation that makes them uncomfortable.  They would feel as if I was judging them.  I don’t want to cause problems for my friend, as she is very happy, and so I will keep my mouth shut when I realize I have wandered into difficult territory.

This is a review dream.  It shows the situation that happened, as predicted by the Bobcat dream and the Tornado dream.  Then the aftermath.  It gives me the opportunity to review my actions and decisions so that in the future, I can make better choices in how I handle a questionable situation.

In the dream, I and my husband leave the house to attend a local fall festival for about an hour.  For some reason, we left the windows and doors open.  While we were gone, my husband’s brother, wife and kids arrived.  Finding the house open, they let themselves in and made themselves comfortable.  We came home and were surprised to find them still there but happy as we like visiting with them.  At some point in the evening, my husband and brother-in-law went out to the local bars and had a great time drinking.  They came home after the bars closed and happened to notice a pile of wood my neighbor had stacked in her yard.  Being stupid drunk, they decided to jump on the wood and then set it on fire.  I went outside just in time to see the end of this debacle.  They walked back in the house, laughing and talking about the stupid thing they had done. This infuriated me as I already have trouble with the woman.  This deliberate act of vandalism on their part was guaranteed to make matters worse. The next day we sat with my brother-in-law and his wife and began chatting.  At some point, my husband made a comment about the night before that made me very angry.  Before I knew it, I was chewing him out quite voraciously in front of our guests for his behavior the night before.  Everyone was very shocked by my behavior.  They’ve never heard me speak that way.  My husband said nothing and I walked out of the house to calm down.  I began doing something else and after a little bit my brother-in-law came out with his daughter.  He began chatting with me about nothing in particular.  But it helped to calm me down.  Then I chatted with his daughter about something that interested her and knew that I would be doing something with her later. 

The open windows and doors of the house indicate my being open to new opportunities or experiences and having the vision to recognize them as such.  My husband represents that aspect of myself that I believe to be like him.  This includes the good qualities and the bad qualities.  This part of myself is the responsible, capable, smart part of me.  But, unfortunately, it is also the loner, “I don’t care what you think”, side of me as well.  The fall festival indicates a time of my life where old ways are slipping away.  I celebrate this and try to enjoy what I am experiencing, as I grow into a more mature, more responsible individual.  As this process unfolds, my brother-in-law and his wife represent another side of myself-the more outgoing, social, career oriented side.  I am passing through a time where I am becoming more outgoing, social and career oriented, taking on more responsibility at work.  The neighbor represents my difficulty in controlling my reactions to others when I feel deliberately slighted.  The firewood represents the detritus I am getting rid of-behaviors and thoughts which ignite my reactions to others when I felt slighted.  As I become more outgoing, social and career oriented, I still have a problem with my “I don’t care what you think” attitude and make a problem worse by how I react when I feel slighted.  My yelling at my husband is my inner reaction to myself and how I feel-a great conflict over my natural reaction and my desire to be more mature and positive in any situation.  Finally, my going outside to the yard represents my walking away from what I consider the problem as I can do nothing else about it and trying to move onto something else.  Once I did this, I was able to view the situation in a more responsible and professional manner, as represented by my brother-in-law.  My niece represents a new endeavor which comes into my career as a result, but it doesn’t start immediately.

This dream and its symbology is complicated and actually a little difficult to translate.  When I deal with issues of my own ego, it can be difficult to admit that I have problem with anything.  The dream is telling me I am open to new experiences and endeavors at work, but still have a problem with my loner attitude and only wanting to do specifically what I am know I am supposed to do.  Even though in this work incident I wasn’t wrong in what I did, I didn’t handle the matter in the best way possible and only made matters worse by how I reacted.  Even so, the damage is probably minimal, and I will see a new aspect to my more responsible, professional side come out over time.

It is possible that this dream could also be prophetic about an incident that is yet to happen.  It is not a serious incident, but it could cause problems with the actual neighbor in the dream.  I hope not. I am trying to live by the philosophy to “cause no harm” if possible.