THE DREAM I was inside a house that felt like home. I walked outside, looked up to my left and there was a huge black tornado trying to touch the ground, but it was only in the sky. The sky was completely clear and blue, and I didn't feel any of the wind. I did feel terrified, ran inside to grab my cat(in real life he is dead) and went upstairs to a room I thought would be safe. When I tried to put my cat on a couch in the (at first) comfortable looking room, I spotted a bunch of tiny spiders seem to explode from one spot on a pillow and scurry away in all directions. I grabbed my cat and backed away, noticing several larger spiders and other bugs start to take over the room, so I had to leave it.

GUESSWORK The dreamer was unemployed but was working creatively producing a dance show which she choreographed, costumed, and was the principle dancer. The day before the dream she met with the owner of the venue the show was to be staged in. She felt a good artist connection with him and felt it was all coming together.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. The tornado in this case could represent the huge work involved in a show coming together and all the stress and hassle involved with it.
2. The blue skies during the tornado represent how this is a dream during a relatively good period.
3. The cat is a very homely symbol and shows that she is looking for homely comforts and kind comments about her dance work. Yet the cat is dead in real life showing how in real life she is in a much more tougher world.
4. The bugs represent possible problems with her dance show. Things that bug her!

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to a situation the day before. The dream deals with the following themes
- a very stressful period
- homely comforts and kind comments

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts - "I know people get freaked when their hopes and dreams start coming true. I see problems ahead and its a much more ruthless world. Theatre is not easy to succeed in."