Do you take your dreams seriously or do you ignore them? There are dreams to ignore and dreams to heed.

My deceased father came to me and said. "Go and help your sister. She needs your help." My sister is a teacher and so I volunteered to be an aide in her class for the rest of that school year, five days a week most mornings. I had the time back then.

Anyway, after the school year ended, she thanked me and said that she nearly had a breakdown and didn't know how she would have made it to the end of that school year if I hadn't showed up to help. It wasn't the physical help she needed, but the emotional help. Just being there for her as an emotional support, to talk with her and be an extra hand in an unruly classroom, made a difference.

And then, there was a dream when I met President Obama in a dark hallway of a party, and we made out. LOL. I let that one go without giving it too much thought.

Can you share dreams that you ignored or took seriously?

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I have been having my usual dreams about school. I know that they are disturbing, since my teeth hurt and I am unsettled. However, it seems that I don't remember details. This happens every year before school starts. Do you think that a lot of teachers do this?

I love dreaming. But I have never paid attention to my dreams. I take it lightly.

I don't pay too much attention to my dreams, except the one time my deceased father visited me with a personal message, and then the dreams where my recently deceased boyfriend visits me. Other than that my dreams are just little stories to me that my mind makes up.

Wow, Debbie. I know that you experience dream "visitations" often, and that is wonderful. But while some other dreams can be mind dumps, if you analyze your dreams, you'll find that the symbolism is uncanny as to how your dream provides higher wisdom for your waking life.

A lot of dreams I don't remember, and lately I am not dreaming very much that I am aware of. The quality and duration of my sleep lately has not been great, so that deep sleep I need for dreaming is not nearly enough. Even my sweetheart can't visit me like this, if he is still around.

Oh, Debbie. I'm sorry that you're not sleeping well. That just sets you up for a slew of health issues.

The good news is that you probably *are* still dreaming in that your spirit/subconscious mind still has experiences. It's just that your conscious mind won't recall them.

Your sweetheart probably is visiting with you whether or not you remember upon awakening.

One of my friends dismissed the concept of dream interpretation as anything meaningful because, as he put it, "Dreams are just my brain's way of working out the things that happened during my waking life."

Exactly.

And that is why it is good to pay attention to your dreams.