:) Love the limerick, Cluin!

And for a more "everyday" example of the nature of dreams, here's one of my own experiences. A couple months ago I awoke from a particularly vivid dream about one of my beginning piano students. The little boy was standing in front of me looking very uncomfortable, head down and stammering something I couldn't make out. His mom was sitting behind him watching. As his discomfort grew, so did my sympathy and I was about to ask his Mom what was going on when I woke up.

A couple hours later the phone rang - and it was the mother in my dream. She told me that her son wanted to take a break from lessons for a while - he was having trouble finding the time to practice because he'd joined a hockey team. SHe said she had been trying to convince him to tell me himself but he was so shy she'd finally let him off the hook. That's exactly what I'd seen in my dream! - as if I'd somehow "known" and had prepared myself to deal with it.

I've been studying my dreams and training myself to remember them for so long now such experiences are no longer seem unusual. And though they are certainly not always so easily understood, I've learned not to write them off as "just dreams", though sometimes it takes months - even years - before they play themselves out.

And I don't think that I am an "unusual" or "gifted" dreamer - anyone can train themselves to remember and interpret their dreams if they are so inclined!

Dream on .... daylia