"I'm Published"

[AnubisValkyrie]

This is a dream I had over a month ago... I noted the importance of it and marked down the details after I had it, as it came at a rather coincidental time and I remembered it vividly. I wrote down all my own interpretations of it, but over a month later I'm still wondering, and would appreciate the opinion of another. As the dream began, I was laying in bed in my bedroom of the house I lived in previously, not my current home. As I was laying there, a friend walked in. At least he seemed like a friend. It was not someone I recognized from real life. He seemed to have something he was very excited about that he wanted to show me. He showed me, though what it was I don't really remember. After this, I say "I'm published", quite simply. The friend asks where I am published, and I say rather oddly that "it's something I posted online somewhere." I believe I briefly looked online to show it to him, but couldn't find it. Not to worry, I believed that I had a hard copy of my published work on hand. I reached under my bed and took out a rather large and thick book. My first impression was that I had written the entire book, though it seemed as though I was looking at it for the first time. The cover seemed to be a horrible mish-mash of colors and I couldn't really tell what it was. Looking back on it I think it was a red rose on a green hill, but take that lightly as this is an afterthought and not something I actually realized in the dream. Looking at the book, I thought it was a horror novel of some sort. At this point I seemed to be more unsure that I had in fact written this book. There was no title and no author on the cover. After paging through it a bit to see if there was anything I recognized (there wasn't) I turned my attention, for some reason, to the copyright page. I do not remember exactly what the copyright page said, but it gave me a strong feeling from the dates and locations listed that if I had indeed been published, this was the book I would have been published in. After reading that, I was actually rather confident that I was looking in the right place. Then I woke up. I never really found out if I had been published somewhere in the book or if I had written the entire book like I first thought. I didn't feel as though I was lying, however. I was on an honest search for what work I had gotten published, and was almost certain the book I was holding in my hands was it. The doubt only came out of the confusion that rose from not being able to find evidence of my writing or recognizing anything on or within it. All responses are greatly appreciated!

[AnubisValkyrie]

No one wants to take a shot at it, eh?

[unclesirbob]

well the dream depicts some situation where you feel that you are materful and expert. Yet when you check the facts then your knowledge is not so accepted and expertise perhaps questioned in some objective way,. If this were my dream i would feel it was triggered by some moment of insecurity the day before. Some moment when I realised that people did not really trust my opinion as much as I felt they did. ------------------------ Try to see dreams simply. The dream maybe very long but may follow a simple theme eg I had a problem that I was unable to solve resisted help. Try to reduce a dream to a simple theme like this. Many dreams follow such a pattern eg " I had a dreadful time and everything seemed to go wrong". Then see how these simple themes replicate in your own life. Think back especially to the day before the dream and see how its relevant. These pages are especially helpful in showing you how to interpret dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary