THE DREAM I dreamed that I was outside of this big mansion cooking French toast on a griddle. Halfway through, ants started to crawl onto my unlocked pieces of French toast as I madly attempted to shake them off. While shaking I saw a man ride up on his bike and look hungrily at my French toast. He looked like a nice man so I invited him inside. As we walked in he started to act suspiciously so I followed him. He walked into my sister's room and reached under his shirt right at that moment I turn to see my brother and sister watching tv. I turn back around to watch the guy and he's cutting at walls and cabinets in my sister's playroom. I say "Hey stop! What the hell are you doing? She's only a kid?" I then run into the kitchen where my mom and dad are and yell, "Dad, come help me! This guy is crazy!" I watch momentarily as my dad attempts to look for a good knife to kill him with. I grab a butchers knife from its holding and race back to the room. The man is still destroying the room so I cut at his hand that's holding the knife, barely making a nic in his hand. He turns around slowly and I see he's holding two small knives. I slash at him again, cutting his arm this time causing him to drop both knives, but also causing me to drop mine. I dash for a knife and end up grabbing two. A small one and the butchers knife. As I rise up the man stabs me in the chest twice, my sternum to be exact. I remember thinking, it's good he hit my sternum. I rammed my butchers knife into his gut and the smaller knife into his neck, but not before he made a couple more slashes at my collar bone area.

GUESSWORK The dreamer spoke to her father about her brothers new girlfriend and how she does not like her. She was frustrated because he would not take her advice.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. The dreamer is trying to defend her little sister. In real life the dreamer was wanting to advise her brother about his girlfriend. The dream featured a similar theme. She was trying to protect her brother from his new girlfriend, who was a bad influence.
2. The dream features someone who you should not invite into your home. That person could represent anyone who you similarly do not like and would not want in your home. In real life the dreamer did not want her boyfriends new girlfriend in the house. She had been trying to convince her father the night before about how bad she thought he was.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the situation which happened the night before. The dream deals with the following themes
- Protecting a brother or sister
- People you do not want to know

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture this thought that the dreamer was thinking at the time-"I really wanted to help my brother by advising him about his new girlfriend. I have never met her but have not heard good reports about her."