THE DREAM I was walking down my childhood neighborhood street. On every mailbox there was a Christmas card posted. I saw my aunt (who also lived on our street) and she said "they are your grandma's old Christmas cards." a woman was pulling a card of her box and throwing it on the ground as if it were nothing. That upset me...The sky was partly sunny (more sun than clouds). Suddenly a dark funnel cloud started to form. I ran (pushing a shopping cart) to my childhood home. I ran inside to tell my family to wake up there's is a tornado coming. I ran from my father's room (my parents are divorced now and my mom was not in the dream) to my little brother's room, to my sister's room to my older brother's room shouting "wake up wake up, there's a tornado coming!!!!" No one would wake up.

GUESSWORK The dreamers Grandmother died two years previously. She used to make place mats from her old Christmas cards. Recently the dreamers family has been torn apart by divorce. She recently had dinner with her dad and little brother and was sad after about how their family had become so distant.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. MEANT NOTHING. The act is that family means everything to the dreamer. So when she says that it meant nothing to others its a way of showing how important her family is to her.
2. TORNADO. The tornado is probably a symbol for the major turmoil and upheaval associated with the dreamers parents divorce.
3. WAKE UP. If we are not awake then we are not aware. If this dream is about the dreamers worries that her family is becoming more distant then its about people not realising this and that they need to 'wake up' to this.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers emotions about her parents divorce. The dream deals with the following themes
- Noticing something important that others have not seen
- her belief in family

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts -"I am just starting to realise how distant our family is becoming after my parents divorce"