THE DREAM I had a dream about snow and hardship and struggle. It seemed like the deepest winter. A girl seemed to touch the scene with her finger and instantly the winter blues disappeared.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The previous evening I had been watching a DVD about paratroopers in the second world war. The battle scene was in the depths of winter. In some ways I identified with the emotions of the soldiers. I felt their emptiness and hardship because my life is often so difficult. When I woke up in the night I was filled up with good feelings about a girl at school I am in love with. When I think of her all the hardship in my life goes away instantly.