THE DREAM In my dream I was attending a college and as I was walking upstairs, I came across this sweet lady teacher who asked me to join the school's beauty pageant. I said no but she was very insistent. She talks to me in a very nurturing, loving and encouraging way but her face wasn't familiar to me. She said it's for a good cause. So I joined. she and I took pictures for invitations and flyers and posters and I was wearing a white dress then I found myself walking through into a room and then I recognized some faces that talks behind my back in real life and so I immediately closed the door but they came after me n tried to talk to me like we were friends but fortunately they didn't catch up...and then the dream jumped to the start of the Beauty pageant. I didn't see any other competitors, just me. I saw myself confidently doing the catwalk on the run way and then I saw the approval in the audience's faces. Then the dream jumped towards the end of the show and I won..My lady teacher told me it was right she chose me...that she's so proud of me and that she's always with, watching over me, invisibly...and then she just faded and were gone.

GUESSWORK The dreamer woke up was touched and smiled when she thought about the teacher. The dream reminded her that she should always believe in herself and to love herself. That she shouldn't be afraid to do things that she was not comfortable to do initially.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. TEACHER. Teacher dreams are often about ways in which we are learning about ourselves. Here the teacher represents her own self belief and is symbolic of how confidence and achievement go hand in hand.
2. PROUD. This is the main symbol of the dream. If a strong emotion appears in a dream then it's likely that it will mirror some real life emotion that has just been felt or some emotion that you have woken up with. If you wake up with a strong mood then its likely that the dream you have will feature that emotion. The proud feelings that were in the dream represent her own strong self belief in herself as she woke up. Her mind had probably been thinking over issues of self esteem and her mind sent her a dream that merely mirrored this new found self belief.
3. BEAUTY PAGEANT. This is a story that is totally unrelated to real life. Yet it represents something that the dreamer feels uncomfortable doing. Somehow the emotions she felt in the dream were relevant to her. It is amazing how the imagination presents us with a story that taps into our feelings right now. Its like we write ourselves a story that sums up our mindset right now. The dream represents the dreamers need to challenge herself. If we push ourself and believe in ourself then we can do things that make us feel uncomfortable initially.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers mood as she woke up. The dream deals with the following themes
- self confidence and belief
- taking on challenges and believing in yourself

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts -"I woke up with a new found confidence. I had a sense of how I could take on new challenges and how I should believe in myself."