'Dream Momma, I had a dream last week that I can't get out of my mind. I think about it all the time. I guess that means it means something but I don't have a clue. Here's the dream, I hope you can help me. I dreamt I was a little girl again playing with my childhood friend Traci. We were in the backyard when suddenly the boy next door who was older than we were showed up in the yard and had something in his hands. He said it was very important and I beleived him and got all excited and tried to see it but I couldn't no matter how hard I tried. In the dream I cried when he left still holding the thing in his hands and said something like, too late. I woke up really upset and feeling like I've been cheated somehow out of something important". (sic)
First, you had what is called a big dream. They are very powerful and loaded with symbolic meaning. Only you can interpret what the symbol means (the thing in his hands). Secondly, with the appearance of your childhood friend, Traci, it puts the time frame of the dream at that time of your life. However, something in the present triggered the dream, so there is a connection, however unconscious, between the past and the present.
Dream Momma says the only way to get to what the object means (because it is in your unconscious) is for you to
