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just admitted she is the boss of you and your sexuality. And you dreaming of being with someone the polar opposite of her means you'd like to try something new. Perhaps not a new person but maybe you're a bit bored in the bedroom. Your Id is telling you, you'd like to spice things up."

He looked as if I'd just hit him with a two by four. He pretended I hadn't just seen right through him, that he wasn't spooked and changed the subject quick.

I don't know how it happened but I have become a very good dream analyst. I know this because when people tell me their dreams and I tell them what it means they either get a blank deer-in-headlights expression or an embarrassed one, pretty much like my friend. Yes, I usually hit it right on the head and it rather frightens them. How can a dream, a silly often times weird and fractured dream mean so much? How can someone tell what your private desires are just by a dream? It's their most inner feelings that at times even they don't recognize until I show it to them.

Another time a friend told me about a dream she had about one of her favorite college professors. He had been very encouraging she told me but she couldn't remember what he'd said in the dream or why she would dream about him after so many years of not even thinking of him or that time in her life.

Now it helped that I knew she was struggling at the time. She was my autistic son's TSS. A TSS is a person who came to help him with various tasks for his independence. She mostly, due to our insistence that his being able to communicate was what would help him with his autism, helped with his speech. We knew her to be very good at this because Justin became much more apt to talk due to her diligent work. We loved her. I often called her a speech therapist without the credentials. Knowing this, the meaning of her dream was clear to me.

Her teacher came to her at a time in her life when she was wondering where she wanted to go, her uncertain years in college. This was another time in her life where she thought she needed that guidance again. Did she want to continue to be a TSS or did she dare go back to school and pursue speech therapy which she liked and knew she was good at?

"You say your professor was very encouraging so you think he would want you to proceed, to further your education and become more than even you think you can be. Your dream is telling you to get going. Mr. Professor isn't around to tell you what to do but your dream is doing it for him, for you. You better listen to it." I told her seriously.

She stared at me wide-eyed. "You think so?" she asked skeptically. I nodded. Within a few weeks she started classes and a year later she's working as a speech therapist at an elementary school. She's happy and she owes it all to following her teacher's encouragement from a dream.

I do believe in listening to dreams. Not necessarily to follow them, especially those telling you to kill your boss or anything that crazy. But we should try to decipher their meaning. What are they trying to tell you? What does it mean? What are they saying? Know this and you know yourself.

Funny how we don't see some aspects of ourselves until others point it out. I would think that you are the best judge of you that you should know yourself better than any other person. But this is often not the case. Pity. Life would be so much easier if we all knew ourselves.

So, what was your last dream and what was it telling you? The answer to that could open up the world to you. Listen to your dreams. It's like really, truly listening to your inner self. You owe that much to yourself, don't you think?

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