THE DREAM I was crying in my dream and woke up and cried

GUESSWORK Quite often if you wake up with really strong emotions then your dream may reflect those feelings. The dreamer woke up with the same emotions as in real life.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. CRYING. The dream literally caught the same emotions that were forming in your mind during sleep and appeared in real life as the dreamer woke up.

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts -"I woke up with the same emotions."

This dream has probably got more to do with the nurses at the psychiatric hospital where the dreamer was staying. The dreamer was aware when they picked up on little improvements. He realised when the nurse asked him about his friend Chris that they were maybe making judgements about him improving. Maybe the nurse had made an assumption about him that he had always needed his friends help to go shopping for new clothes. Actually, he had never been that nervous of shopping but would virtually never go to a pub or bar.