Dream Interpretation

Thursday morning, I called into a local radio program and was selected to talk to their special guest, a dream interpreter. My dream was this:

I was at a birthday event for my son. It seemed to be a family dinner at a restaurant. My parents, my aunt, and some of The Boy's father's family were there. The dream started with me getting angry with my father for upsetting my son on his birthday. I went to grab my wallet and cell phone so I could storm off. My found my things missing. I was sure where I had set them down, and now both were gone.

I searched all over. I went back over all the spots in the restaurant I had been looked outside, inside. Gone. Just then, a waiter walked over, holding up my purple, leather wallet. It was tattered, stretched, torn. Looked like it had been the rope in a tug-of-war. All of the cards and money were missing. Of course. Thoughts of all the problems and troubles this was going to cause were running through my mind when I spotted my cell phone just outside the back door of the restaurant. I rushed over. It was just my cellphone cover. My phone was gone. All my pictures, my text messages; my email accounts are accessible through my phone.

I woke up.

The dream expert interpreted it like this:

The cell phone is a symbol of communication. If it is missing, then the dream is trying to show a miscommunication that is going on in my life. This is true. Although, it probably holds true for most people. Currently, there are a couple of job situations that have communication issues at their core. Those things had been weighing on my mind when I went to bed that night.

Then she said, most people think a wallet symbolizes money and finances, but really it symbolizes identity. We keep our identification in our wallets and someone can steal our identity if they have our wallet. So in my dream, the miscommunication problems are attacking my identity. My reputation or character is being falsely identified. True in one of the cases at work.

Finally, the dream was set in a restaurant. A restaurant symbolizes hungry to be resolved. So, my dream is about my strong desire to resolve this issue at work in which I feel I am being misrepresented. Very true. Interestingly enough, the evening after the dream, there was a meeting specifically to resolve this situation at work.

Hmmmm.....