THE DREAM I was with Rita. She was chatting with me. She was saying things like "I bet you have loads of girlfriends" and "You must be doing really well at college". She had a totally wrong impression of me as that's not what is happening in real life. I found it quite awkward and worried about telling her the truth.

THE REALITY The dreamer was due to meet the woman in the dream the next day and was not looking forward to it. He had recently been very ill and was not doing well generally in life. He was worrying how to tell her about all his illness and problems. He found it difficult to talk about such things.

Dreams concentrate on our overriding concerns. Sometimes we get involved with someone and find it difficult to tell the truth. This dreamer felt this type of feeling "I have known her for sometime yet she really does not know the truth. I have some deep secrets. I would find it difficult to tell her these. She has got a really false picture of me."

This dream was quite literal in that it featured the issue which triggered the dream and the person who the dream was about. The emotions that the dreamer felt whilst talking to the woman in the dream were exactly the same as in the dream. Do not look for any complicated and abstract meaning when you need not. Dreams can occasionally be highly straightforward.