“Dear Dream Momma, I’m from an old fashioned family that values boys not girls and my grandfather on my dad’s side is rich. I’m a girl. Last year I had a baby boy, the first in the family, while my sister had a girl. My mother, who is very beautiful, had only girls. I know things are different now but can’t figure out how. Last week I had a dream that I was walking with my little boy (although he is too young to really walk well in the dream he walked fine) and my mother and my sister. We were at some type of carnival. After I bent down to tie my little boy’s shoelaces I looked up to see my mother and sister way ahead of us getting on the merry-go-round. I ran to catch up and was really upset to see my mom riding the merry-go-round in a gorgeous silk suit and covered with diamonds. I was upset because she was a skeleton, laughing wildly. Then I woke up.” (sic)
I’d be upset too if my mom had sold her humanity out then abandoned me because I did something she couldn’t. That’s what this dream is about. When mothers have no flesh on their bones in a dream it means
This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2010.