[This woman was having a difficult time accepting her mother's death. She was troubled with guilt, and was uncertain as to what had happened to her mother after death. Then she had the following dream. What is interesting about this dream is its use of "puns," the way it plays with words, the symbolic images that are used. This is typical of many dreams.]

I was walking in a desert with a lot of sand hills. A woman dressed like an Arab with a burka (I could not see her face) told me that she would accompany me and guard me. She had an iron tool, and she defended me from different people. We arrived at an intersection where she told me that she had to go to the left but that I must go to the right. Ahead of me lay a lovely road near a beautiful lake and mountains. Then she showed me her face, and I said: "You are my mother." She said, "Yes, but I must go." She went down the left road and I watched her disappear in the distance.

[John's response: This dream is so clear that I think you understand it perfectly. We both guessed, before she revealed herself, that it was your mother. She is in a burka because she is currently invisible to you, behind the "veil" of the spiritual world. This is a perfect symbol. Even so, she is with you and protecting you. In addition, she wants you to know that this hidden woman is your mother, so that you will not mourn her or feel guilt about her death. Right now, you have to walk diverging paths. She goes one way and you go the other, but one day the paths will come together again. You have to go on the "right" road, which is another symbol to tell you that you are doing the right thing to go on with your life. And she has "left" you for a little while. The way you are to go is beautiful, which means that your life will be positive and rewarding from this point on.]

Alina Dumitrescu
alinaligia@yahoo.com

Posted 2-10-2005