In this dream, I am shown my principles are exposed.

I was at work.  Two men in dark clothes were with me.  They seemed to be some of my bosses.  I happened to look down at my bare foot and noticed my big toenail was loose.  This exasperated me as I have been slowly growing it back over the past year.   I reached down and touched it.  It bent back almost to the root.  I saw that in spite of my best efforts, the root that held it down had died again.  I knew the two men observed what I was doing.

Significant symbols

Work-present occupation or how I feel about it

Two-division of the whole, or cooperation, union, and adaptability

Authority figures (bosses)-authority figures at work

Dark Clothing-the unknown made known, in outer personality, attitudes, and behaviors

Foot-personal stance or foundation

Toenail-protective layer one uses to help protect your personal stance or foundation

Two represents a division in opinion of how a certain situation should be handled. At my present occupation (work), events happen in which my personal stance/foundation (foot) is exposed (loose toenail).  Authority figures at my work observe my predicament and learn more about me because of this incident (dark clothing).

I had this dream a few days before this particular incident occurred.  The matter was already ongoing, but I felt compelled to try harder to make the situation correct. Initially, I was given direction to record a certain event in a certain way.  This is reported as an official record to state authorities. A few days after the dream, due to my not wanting to be involved in any type of issue where my actions would be questionable, I felt compelled to readdress the issue with the authority who had given me the orders.  Due to my actions, my orders were changed and the action in question is now being done correctly.  This wasn’t a fun situation for me with all of the trouble that has occurred at my work.  I felt exposed and alone as I stood my ground, as shown in the dream.

If you notice, the dream merely addressed my exposure and the notice of my bosses as to my stance. It doesn’t address if this will have negative or positive consequences in the future because that is not of importance.  What is important is that I stood up for what I believed to be right and I did it in a positive and humble manner.  Your Soul and God are not interested in whether you are rich or financially successful or pretty.  Your Soul and God are interested in whether you are being a moral and decent human being that “does unto others as they would have done unto them.”

Sometimes our dreams help clarify our wants and desires.

In the dream, I was with my husband and we were visiting friends.   I didn’t see the friends, but they had a batch of black Scottish terrier puppies around five or six weeks old.  At least five or six.  They were very cute.  Our friends handed the puppies to my husband to hold while we sat in our truck.  They wiggled and squirmed in his arms, as they were playful and young.  He looked like he didn’t quite know what to do with them and looked to me as if for advice or help.  I just smiled at the whole scene and thought it was quite cute.  I secretly hoped he would pick one to take home.

Significant Symbols:

Husband-represents actual spouse or what I think of him

Friends-friendly relationships with others

Black-unknown or unconscious knowledge

Puppies-loyalty/faithfulness/unconditional love/instincts

Type of Dog-a Scottish terrier has high energy and can be loving and fun

Truck-one’s self, one’s work, one’s current situation

This dream expresses my desire for my husband to instinctively show more unconditional love towards people he has friendly relationships with.  In a friendly relationship (friends), there is a natural instinct to connect and learn with each other (puppies).  I would like for him to embrace that natural instinct and nurture it (keeping a puppy).  This will help bring forth unconscious knowledge/understanding (black) about others and ourselves that we would benefit from and enjoy (type of dog). Our current life situation (truck) would benefit from him opening himself more with others he normally does not try to connect with (such as coworkers who are work friends).

We just had a conversation last night which highlighted this very issue.  I urged him to be more accepting and friendly towards his coworkers but he resists as they aren’t the type of people he would normally connect with.  He allows personality issues to irritate him instead of learning to appreciate them as they are.

In spite of my best intentions, I don’t always live up to the potential I have, as shown in this dream.

I was outside in my neighborhood. But the neighborhood was different from my actual one.  It was more suburban and established.  The streets were lined with stately trees and pretty, middle-class homes.  I had an errand to run and drove over in my truck to the next street to do it.  In the meantime, my husband and other family members stood in the road and waited for me.  We seemed to be having some get-together with them where we were working together, accomplishing a goal.  My husband called me and told me to buy a lottery ticket for all of us while doing my errand.  To do so, I needed to stop at the store.  But I was concentrating on what I needed to do and forgot.  I drove home and through the middle of the family as they stood and waited.  There was an envelope on the street that I was supposed to put the lottery ticket in as I drove over it.  It was indicated by a large white arrow drawn on the street.  As soon as I drove over the envelope I remembered I had forgotten to buy the ticket.  I told my husband and kept driving, back around the block to the store.  But I forgot again. I came back to the street I lived on and stopped over the envelope.  I told my husband, “I forgot again!”  He just looked at me and said, “Don’t worry about it.  You can just buy into the lottery pot my aunt is doing.”  This made me happy as it was something I wanted to do.

Significant symbols:

Truck-One’s self, one’s work, one’s current situation

Family-relationships with the people featured

Store-a place to pick up a new idea, possibility, fulfilling a need

Neighborhood-the overall atmosphere surrounding the issue

Lottery ticket-taking a risk to obtain something of value in a new experience

Envelope-the arrival of a new idea, an opportunity, a communication, or an insight

Aunt-for me, she is representative of someone who is very family oriented, very helpful towards others, but also very opinionated (as in, we should be doing this or we should be doing that as a family)

 
In this dream, my husband can represent himself.  The family could be his actual family or people that I would consider family because of how I feel about them or ideals/beliefs we have in common.  Part of the clue as to who the family represents is in how they appear.  Here, I am not seeing a familiar face, so I must conclude these are people I have something in common with and not actual family. I have something personal I am working on for myself as represented by my performing an errand that doesn’t involve the others.  In the process, my husband (who also represents logic for me) wants me to invest in a new opportunity which could bring something of value to the group that I have something in common with. But I am so intent on what I am trying to accomplish for myself, that I keep missing the opportunity logic says I should be taking.  Finally, “logic” tells me to invest in an alternative opportunity as represented by my husband’s aunt.  Instead of an opportunity I take on myself, I invest in an opportunity that someone else leads but which is very helpful to others.  This actually makes me happy, as I take less responsibility and it seems more fun.

At first, I was thinking this had to do with my husband’s family and an upcoming holiday.  But that didn’t make sense considering the circumstances and people.  Then I had a conversation with my husband last night which finally brought the dream into focus.  I told him about something that I like to work on that I hope is helpful to others,  but even if it wasn’t, I would still do it.  He wants me to make a business of it.  I already tried this once and had no luck.  Now he would like me to try again. Logically, it is a good idea.  But I’m not sure if I should be doing that particular thing right now, even though the imagery in the dream clearly indicates there are people who would benefit from me doing it.  Even if I don’t do exactly what he suggests, there is a second alternative that will accomplish the same mission, I just wouldn’t be in charge of it.  But it would still be helpful to others if it is successful.  And I would probably like it better.  I will have to think about it.

This is a warning of current events in my life and my attitude possibly stopping me from protecting myself.

I was at work in a factory. I had my baby with me.  I loved him dearly and cuddled him.  He was maybe a week old or so. I didn’t seem to be working at the moment, or I had paused in what I was doing. I saw a fire had broken out and I needed to get myself and my baby out before we were hurt. But first I gathered up his things and put them in the diaper bag.  Then I realized he needed to be changed as his diaper was wet.  I laid him on a piece of machinery and began changing his diaper.  The fire grew bigger and wilder. I thought to myself, “I should be getting us out of here!  I could have done this after we got out!”  I already had his diaper off and had to finish.  I just hoped I hadn’t waited too long for us to safely leave. 

Significant Symbols:

Factory-regularity/predictability/hard work

Fire-Consuming conditions in one’s experiences/behavior/thinking/etc.

Baby-creative endeavor or project

Diaper-something that needs to be changed

In this dream,  I am shown that I am regular and predictable and work hard.  But there are conditions currently happening in my life that are affecting my work habits and interfering in what I need to do.  The baby represents a creative endeavor I have managed to bring forth.  It is not very old yet but I am very attached to it and very careful with it.  It, too, benefits from my hard work and regularity.  But these consuming conditions affecting my work could hurt me and my creative effort in a negative way and I must protect myself and it.  But I am driven to keep everything in order and delay what I should do to protect myself.  My logical mind recognizes I am doing things that could wait until I am safe.  Hopefully, I haven’t wasted too much time and will be okay.

Part of the problem with “consuming conditions” in one’s life is that you could find the meaning can apply anywhere because “consuming conditions” tend to effect many things-not just one.  In my case, the consuming conditions have to do with my workplace and what is currently happening because of new management.  I need to protect myself and my “creative endeavor”.  In this case, this would be my work which I have come to realize I actually enjoy.  I need to do what I must to make sure my work is “safe” (complete, done), and not worry so much about it being “cleaned up”.  Once I am safe from the “consuming conditions”, I can “clean up” as much as I need to.

Anytime you interpret a dream, you must take your ego out of the equation and apply the dream to the most obvious situation.  The dream may not mean what you would like it to, but you will gain far more from a realistic assessment of the meaning.