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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Dreams-Paperback-Judith-Millidge/dp/1856057704"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6121" title="51pL6xDRr2L._SS500_" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/51pL6xDRr2L._SS500_-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>Melody submitted a 365 idea to me.  It wasn't officially through the <strong><a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/submit-a-365-idea/" target="_blank">online form</a></strong><a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/submit-a-365-idea/" target="_blank"> </a>-- it was during a massage -- but I listen to readers' suggestions wherever and whenever.  :-D

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Melody recently found a dream interpretation book on sale.  She thought that I could analyze a dream here on the blog.

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I suffer from dream recall challenges, but I was so excited when I had one the other night, that I kept on reminding myself IN MY DREAM to remember it.  hahahahaha!!!  Yes, IN MY DREAM I kept making myself repeat the summary of events so that I wouldn't forget upon waking.  I was even telling myself to write it down first thing in the morning.

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When morning arrived, I ran to my old school Franklin Covey planner and...

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I could only remember a few bits and pieces.  :-(

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<em>I was in the kitchen of a very handsome man, and he was making me a Toasted Cheese Sandwich.  It was Top Chef Quick Fire Challenge quality:  gourmet sourdough bread, artisan cheese, etc.  In the dream I pondered the difference between "Toasted Cheese Sandwich" and "Grilled Cheese Sandwich".  Is "Toasted Cheese" open-faced?  I never received an answer. </em>

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<em>My feeling in this dream that this man liked spoiling me by cooking for me.  (This scores points for me in both my Dream World and my Real World.) </em>

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<em>However!  Before you get too excited...</em>

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<em>Suddenly 2 children were involved in this scenario, and I was asked to come back later. </em>

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<em>Hmph.</em>

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<em>Flexible lass that I am, I returned later but for whatever reason, found myself in the basement.  I was looking for something to take back to his dogs.  Megan (my work colleague in the Real World) accidentally trimmed one of their toenails too short and we needed that stuff that stops the bleeding. </em>

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<em>Oh.  And the basement was haunted.  There was a door with an ominous light radiating out from it.  In the dream, I was scared but couldn't scream for help.</em>

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #800080;"><strong>The Analysis from <em>The Handbook of Dreams</em> by Judith Millidge:</strong></span>

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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Cheese and sandwiches are not indexed, but "food" is.  Eating is linked to sex.  (According to Freud.)  It may also mean that I need affection or intellectual nourishment.  Well, DUH!  I'M SINGLE!!!</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Again, before we get too excited...</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Let's remember that this dude never fed me.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Hmph.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  "Basements" represent our memories -- ones that we want to remember, as well as ones we'd rather stow away.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Believe it or not, there is no entry for ghosts or paranormal stuff.  I am seemingly the only freak that dreams about this.  After a two second Google hunt, I determined that "haunting" has to do with more repressed feelings and memories.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Okaaayyyyy.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  "Dog toenails" -- not indexed in book or Google.  <strong> </strong></p>
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<span style="font-size: large; color: #339966;"><strong>Real Life Confession:  I think this dream analysis is a bunch of crock-a-doodle-doo.   I believe that dreams regurgitate what's going in your waking life.</strong></span>

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #800080;"><strong>Here's the Late Bloomer interpretation:</strong></span>

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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>1.  Dream book: </strong>I am an undersexed single woman starving for affection. <strong> Late Bloomer Analysis: </strong>I am a PMSing woman who ate a few bites of cheese before bed which I never do.  That night, I also read about a guy on eHarmony who loves to cook with his kids.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>2.  Dream book: </strong>I am repressed and store painful memories in the basement of my mind.  <strong>Late Bloomer Analysis: </strong>While reading my book, <em>Juliet</em>, before bed, I learned that one of Juliet's kin was possessed by Friar Lorenzo and hung out in the basement acting scary and Exorcist-like.  It was scary.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>3.  As for dog toenails, </strong>Little Miss B is a perfectly behaved creature, but ABHORS getting her toenails trimmed.  She doesn't try to nip, but she's such a wiggle worm that I live in fear of cutting too closely and making her bleed.  Megan (my work colleague) comes from a show dog family and is an expert in all things "dog", which includes toenail trimming, I presume.  Little Miss B's nails are in dire need of trimming at the moment.</p>
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<span style="color: #800080; font-size: large;"><strong>Now, I ask you:  Doesn't that all make perfect sense?!?!</strong></span>

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<span style="font-size: large; color: #339966;"><strong>During this process, I discovered that I am an Expert Dream Analyst. </strong></span>

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<strong>In celebration of my newfound talent, <span style="color: #ff0000;">I am opening up my services (free, of course) </span>from now until Wednesday, June 22nd.  List your dream in the comment section below, and my analysis will post on Friday, June 24th. </strong>

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Yours in Dreams,

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Madame Michelle aka Expert Dream Analyst