THE DREAM There was a boy from school who knew - called John Raper. He was involved in time travel in some way. He was trying to sell me or show me a picture. It was a transparent picture.

GUESSWORK The dreamer had been thinking about a woman the night before. He was wanting to talk to her and get back on good terms with her. He had treated her in a very callous and cold way just recently.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. John Raper is a real person who the dreamer had not seen for twenty years. It is a pun. It is clearly linked to the word 'rape'. Rape in dreams can be associated with all sorts of behavior. But rape can be linked to milder forms of behavior such as humiliating women or treating them utterly disrespectfully and callously. The dreamer accepted that he could have treated this woman very badly just two weeks before. He had said something which he felt might be passed on to the woman which would really upset her. It was meant to hurt. But the dreamer did not know if this had been passed on or not.
2. Time travel is obviously linked in the same way. The dreamer wished that he could travel back in time to see what had actually happened. It may have been that what the dreamer said was not passed on and therefore no problem existed.
3. Pictures in dreams can symbolise the imagination. It often links to us trying to imagine or recreate what has happened. In this case picturing represents the dreamers need to go back and see exactly what happened just two weeks before.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers new life. See how the dream deals with the following themes:
- Picturing the worst
- Behaving in a cruel and callous way to a woman.
- wanting to know what actually happened
If you weave together the different themes then you find that the dream could easily capture this following thought that the dreamer felt -"I want to get back on good terms with her. I know I treated her very callously and coldly. She may not easily forgive me for that."