THE DREAM I was with my friend James and we were at a pond. We were looking at sea shells in the water. It was like a fish tank - in that the water was getting dirty and the pond needed to be cleaned. My friend had noticed that the water was likely to be dirty.

GUESSWORK The previous day, the dreamer had seen his friend James. He tended to be quite annoying - the dreamer wanted to use his computer so he was trying to be nice to him. Sometimes this was extremely difficult.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. CLEANED:
2. POND:
3. AQUARIUM:

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers thoughts about his friend. It dealt with the following themes.
- A need to sort things out

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture this thought that the dreamer was thinking at the time-"My friend can tend to annoy me. I needed to use this computer yesterday so I was trying to be nice to him. I try to seem interested in what he is saying but he does go on about things that simply do not interest me"