Hubris: The luckiest guy in the world gets really angry

I am with my family and we are entering a crowded movie theater. Is very popular and we're in a large crowd as we are working our way in the front doors of the theater. I look down and see a quarter on the ground, this happens to me often. As I've been down to pick up the quarter I realized it's part of several coins. Some bigger than quarters then bigger than silver dollar s then bigger than any coin I've ever seen. As I'm picking them up some one of my family I believe my nephew is standing next to me and is picking some up too but I'm grabbing most of them. I realize that they are layered and sheets of paper and there's some information on the paper. I imagine it's some sort of sales gimmick that somehow got dropped in this on the street. It's not just on the street it's like a little hole you actually have to lean over to get into it.

Gathering up all of these coins has taken some time and we are now late at getting into the movie. I'm following my nephew into the movie house but he is taking us around the side and we are coming in from the side and I realize that my wife has all the tickets and that everybody else is already gone ahead and we don't know where they are. In addition to that since we've come into the side if they're waiting for us in the front they're not going to see us. I'm distracted as I'm walking through the lobby by all of the offerings of soda and candy and I think about getting something. But I keep moving and ask where is the front door. I'm so agitated I almost shouted out in the crowd. I'm having difficulty finding the front door I'm confused about exactly where we are in the theater and I think get my phone see if they texted us. I tell Paul to do the same thing. I take my phone out of my pocket and it's like there's an old iPhone centered in the middle of my phone case it doesn't come close to fitting the case. I stare at it and I'm totally confused. I then realize someone has stolen my phone and replaced it with this joke. I've been realized the whole coin thing was not luck but a ruse and I was totally sucked into it. My emotions have gone from feeling really lucky to being stressed about finding my way to the seats to now being incredibly angry. 

I am back out in front of the theater. I am explaining to anyone who will listen what has happened and I am getting angrier and angrier. All of the coins have found their way into a pouch in my pocket and I pour them out and explain to people what happened. I shout why can't the police send a signal to the phone and blow those f****** up. After my explanation I'm picking up all the coins and putting them back in the pouch. I realize there's a second pouch next to mine that's also filled with coins and I wonder where that came from. I imagine that my nephew filled that one up at some point and so I just take it and pour it into mine. With all the coins in the pouch it barely fits I'm having difficulty pushing them into the pouch. There may also be a small metal object that is not even a coin that I've stuffed into the pouch as well.

As I'm standing there One of the people in the crowd ask Liam who is standing next to me, are you from here? Instead of answering he looks shy seems to be thinking about it somewhat confused and is mostly quiet. I butt in the conversation and say he's from here I've known him for 20 years. he might be slightly confused because he moved here from Wisconsin when he was young and still has family there.

I was so angry it woke me up. As I was half awake I was still angry about having my phone stolen and how expensive it was going to be to replace it. As I return to waking consciousness I realized it was a dream how foolish and what an ass had been in the dream. So my emotions went to embarrassment and shame.

Notes/Dream Sign: it is rare that a dream seems so real that it persists as I awake. That for ce was propelled by the intensity of the emotions. There were several distinct dream signs. The oversize coins, there were multiple stands in the movie theater for soda and what not. They were way oversized and they were way too many of them. The phone that have been replaced in my pocket was not realistic. It was like a miniature phone and totally exaggerated the difference between the size of the phone and the case. The scene jump from being essentially trapped in the theater not being able to find the front entrance to being outside again talking to strangers about my ordeal.

What does the dream want? With the subtlety of a hammer to the head the dream wants me to be less focused on money. This is very insightful in light of my new job. I've been very focused on the money because I've been under financial pressure. But the job is working with troubled young men and to say that the young men are more important than the money is beyond obvious.

Reality check: This is so like me I almost go back into a additional cycle of anger at myself for being such an ass. I even reflect on how I have been an ass and embarrass my wife on more than one occasion.

Bumper sticker: Chase the money miss your life.

Dreams to action: use the new job to get your finances to get my finances squared away and then get back to doing what's important in my life. Helping others.