Gun at the Convention

I am in a very large public space. There are lots of people milling around like some kind of convention. Very high ceiling with scatterings of. I go to one presentation and it's a large open bed. It's not a bad. It's just a large frame that a bed might fit into, but it's a couple of feet tall. Just an empty platform with a frame around it. At the end is a small overhang and there's a something that may be a blanket. It's only taking up a fraction of the room, but it's moving. I understand that there is a person a woman in there. All cuddled up. I imagine inserting myself inside the blanket presenting my penis somehow in a friendly way that she's going to recognize me for my penis when we're going to have sex. 

I'm now walking up to a table with a number of people there, including a group of young women that are standing next to that table. On the table is a handgun. It's an unusual automatic handgun. I examine it very carefully and comment on its uniqueness. The folks at the table tell me was left there by somebody they know and they're going to come back and get it. We discuss its value and the and the person who brought it told them that it was that you couldn't buy it. But I heard that I thought priceless. Possibly it's a prototype. As I am handling the gun, I'm waving it around a bit and I hit one of the young women in the nose with the tip of the gun. It barely touched her but it hurt enough to bring tears to her eyes. Primary concern is that I left it that it left a mark and I look at her nose very carefully and there's no mark. I notice she's very pretty and has a lot of freckles though. I'm now walking around the convention again and I see her and I walk up and make a point to apologize again. I am now back at the table and see that everyone has left and that the gun is propped up in a sort of sculpture in the center of the table. I assume it's so when the person comes he will see it. I'm concerned that someone will steal it and that it could possibly be dangerous.

I'm now suddenly outside but I'm a very young boy. 10 or 12 years old. I'm naked except for I have underwear on. I'm kind of sneaking around a neighborhood. I walk across somebody's lawn and go up a hill. It's very thick luscious grass. I decided to go back and I'm running by their house pretending everything is normal. Imagine that they will look at me and say oh, there's a person jogging with jogging shorts on. Immediately. I'm in a car with three other people in it. There's a dog that I'd seen by their house. A puppy that I am petting. There's also a cat in the car of the three people in the car. The drivers had a blankly staring at me. I have a blanket over my body. I imagine that they think I'm really weird and they're taking me somewhere. 

Fight in the Fast Food Restaurant

 I am in a fast food restaurant working on something. For some reason I have a credit card lying on a table within reach. An old man comes by and I see him pocket the credit card. He's all dressed in white. He's got long white hair, white beard, mustache and he's like in a tunic. I don't know this but it was. He would be likely that he's wearing sandals. I say dude give me back my credit card. He just looks at me with a deadpan expression. I don't know if I say something but the encounter escalates. Soon I have him pinned down in a booth yelling at him to give me my credit card. I reach into one of the pockets on the front of his tunic and pull something out the size of a credit card, but that's not it. There's a crowd forming and I tell them call the police call the police. I don't think anyone's calling the police. They're just entertained by the commotion. I then start hitting him in the face. For some reason it's not very hard. I'm not sure if I'm moderating my blows or that's all I'm able to do in this dream. The dream ends with me. Frustrated.

As I am reviewing the dream I get a flash image. It is a star map, bright constellations. The is a space in the middle that is obscured. Then I have another flash image of the corner of a TV screen with a reflection. I get the idea I can dream is perfect detail like a modern TV.

Here’s a layered interpretation of your dream:

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The Setting – Fast Food Restaurant

A fast food place often represents something temporary, hurried, or “low nourishment” in dreams—both physically and spiritually. It suggests you’re in a situation where things feel rushed, not deeply fulfilling, or transactional. You’re “working on something” there, which hints that you’re putting effort into a project or pursuit in a space that isn’t necessarily aligned with your deeper values.

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The Credit Card – Personal Power & Trust

A credit card symbolizes access to resources, value, and identity—basically your power to act in the world. Leaving it on the table shows a kind of vulnerability or exposure, like you’ve left an important piece of yourself unattended. This could reflect a sense of risk in your waking life: leaving your “power” or worth in a place where others could take advantage of it.

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The Old Man in White – Archetypal Figure

The man dressed in white, with long white hair, beard, tunic, and sandals, strongly resembles an archetypal “wise old man” figure—like a prophet, sage, or even a godlike image. Yet in this dream he’s stealing from you, not guiding you. That inversion is powerful: it suggests an inner conflict with authority, tradition, or spirituality. Part of you may feel like wisdom, religion, or a paternal figure has “taken” something essential from you—your freedom, power, or identity.

The deadpan expression reinforces the archetype: he’s unfazed, untouchable, ancient. You can’t sway him with emotion or reason.

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The Escalation – Power Struggle

Pinning him down and yelling represents a desperate attempt to reclaim what you believe is rightfully yours. But notice:

• When you reach into his pocket, you don’t find your card. This suggests you’re searching for validation, recognition, or power in the wrong place.
• The crowd forms but does nothing—mirroring how sometimes others watch your struggles but don’t step in to help. They’re spectators, not allies. This may reflect real-life feelings of being on display, judged, or unsupported in your conflicts.

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The Weak Blows – Frustrated Force

Hitting him, but not hard, speaks to two possibilities:

1. Self-restraint – Part of you doesn’t want to go “too far” against this authority figure.
2. Inner impotence – You may feel like you can’t truly fight or break free from the authority, tradition, or figure that seems to have taken something from you.

The frustration at the end captures this perfectly: no matter how hard you try, you can’t resolve the conflict. The struggle remains.

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Core Meaning

This dream points to a deep inner tension between your sense of personal agency (credit card = power & identity) and an older, external authority (the archetypal white-robed man). You may feel that traditional wisdom, societal expectations, or even a father/spiritual figure has taken something from you—and your attempts to reclaim it feel thwarted, weak, or unsupported.

It also reflects frustration with bystanders in your life: people who watch but don’t help, leaving you to fight alone.

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✨ Questions to reflect on:

• Do you feel like you’ve left part of your personal power or value exposed, where others can take advantage?
• Who in your life represents the “old man in white”—an authority or tradition you’re wrestling with?
• Are you holding back your full strength when confronting something that feels unjust?
• Where are you surrounded by “spectators” instead of supporters?

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Would you like me to give you a Jungian-style mythic reading of this too—seeing the old man not just as a thief, but as a shadow guide testing you? That might reveal another layer of meaning.

Early to Work

 It is very early in the morning still dark out. I'm on my way home and then to work very early in the morning. I enter a house actually a series of buildings where I work I'm very familiar with. I may be looking for something I don't know. I'm walking through a series of rooms they're almost like a series of buildings. I hear an odd noise and I think to myself yes they're essentially all one large building and I can hear this noise cuz they're all connected I don't know what it is and I'm not particularly concerned. Then I get to the end of the building and I realize I don't have the keys and it's all locked up tight and I'm not going to be able to even exit the building I'm going to have to go back to the beginning. I look at an exit door and luckily it is cracked open. I open the door and exit and see that I who may be the owner's wife is also just exiting. I say something about the open door and I'm getting ready to jump in my car and leave. I have a brief conversation with the owner's wife and she says that she was here earlier and she sure she locked up everything tightly. I make some comment about the morning and how it's going to plan out and I just make a very matter of fact statement I told someone I would be there I'm going to be there. I noticed a noise and it turns out to be a young woman not far off that's crying she's sitting down she's to shoveled. She's been moaning something about why me. The owner's wife makes it very slide remark about her. I am slightly reviewing the dream when the alarm goes off 20 seconds later. I wake please that at least I remembered the dream segment and that I timed my ability to review the dream so I would remember it literally 10 seconds before the alarm went off. As I'm thinking over the dream I connected the noise in the house the open door and the young woman crying outside and I'm thinking somehow they're all connected not sure how.

Your dream feels like it’s weaving together themes of familiarity, boundaries, hidden vulnerability, and your role as an observer/participant—with a hint of problem-solving and timing awareness. Let’s break it down in layers.

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1. The Setting & Early Morning Darkness

• Dark, early morning: A transitional time between unconscious and conscious states. It often symbolizes being in a threshold phase—not quite in one world or the other. It can point to beginnings, preparation, or the liminal space between old patterns and new responsibilities.

• Series of connected buildings: Suggests a network of related but distinct “areas” of your life (work roles, relationships, personal projects). That they are connected means events in one area spill over into the others.

• Looking for something (unsure what): Could represent searching for clarity, purpose, or an intangible goal you feel you “should” be able to locate.

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2. The Odd Noise & Locked Doors

• Hearing the noise but not being concerned shows a willingness to keep moving despite unknown elements—possibly indicating you’re currently tolerating uncertainty without panic.

• Locked doors: These often symbolize feeling temporarily blocked or unable to progress through the usual route. It could reflect real-life constraints (time, access, resources) or emotional boundaries.

• Exit door slightly open: A subtle but important symbol—an unexpected way out, a chance you didn’t plan for but recognize when you see it. Suggests flexibility and awareness are key tools for you right now.

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3. The Owner’s Wife & Conversation

• The owner’s wife could represent someone who has authority-by-association or who acts as a gatekeeper in some part of your life.

• Her remark that she locked up everything “tightly” might imply control or denial—something in your environment is being kept contained, maybe even repressed.

• Your matter-of-fact statement about keeping your word (“I told someone I would be there, I’m going to be there”) points to a self-identity built on reliability, even when circumstances are uncertain.

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4. The Young Woman Crying

• She is the emotional core of the dream. Disheveled, moaning “Why me?”—this is raw vulnerability, possibly representing:

  • A part of yourself that feels overlooked or unsupported.

  • Someone in your real life who is struggling while others dismiss them.

• The owner’s wife’s sly remark shows a contrast between empathy and detachment—how people respond differently to suffering.

• Your linking of the noise inside, the open door, and the crying woman after waking suggests your intuition sees them as parts of one emotional narrative:

  • The noise = the first hint of distress, subtle and distant.

  • The open door = the channel through which vulnerability becomes visible.

  • The crying woman = the revealed, unfiltered reality.

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5. The Meta-Moment

You woke just after reviewing the dream on purpose, showing high dream control and memory precision. This “dream about remembering a dream” quality can happen when your mind is training itself for lucid dreaming or deeper dream work—it’s almost like your subconscious was tagging the important points for you.

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6. Possible Core Meanings

Psychological lens:

• You are navigating connected aspects of life where you feel some access is restricted.

• You pride yourself on reliability and responsibility, even if others seem indifferent or guarded.

• There’s an awareness that behind closed systems, human vulnerability exists, and it might be ignored or dismissed by those in power.

Symbolic lens:

• The buildings = your structured, daily self.

• The noise = unconscious pain or suppressed truth.

• The open door = a crack in the defenses where truth leaks through.

• The crying woman = the unacknowledged wound (yours or another’s).

• The owner’s wife = societal or relational forces that downplay vulnerability.

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In essence:
Your dream may be telling you that beneath the surface of familiar routines, there’s emotional pain (either your own or someone else’s) that is usually locked away, but sometimes slips through small openings. You are positioned to notice it—and unlike others who brush it off—you instinctively connect the dots.

The School Bus Crashes

 I am sitting in my truck on a narrow road surrounded by water possibly a bridge. I see a school bus coming down hill and must make a sharp turn to get on to the narrow roadway. Is going too fast and almost tips over. The driver corrects the steering the school bus Returns on all four wheels but slips off the roadway into the water. I realize I must immediately help. I'm looking for my cell phone to call 911 But realize there are many other people there it's they will all call and I don't need to I just need to get to the bus. As I step outside my truck a gentleman comes up looks like he might be official. He's dressed in outdoor clothes. He starts pointing across the road to a steep hill and he suggests that I move my truck. I looked at where he's pointing the hill is very Steep and muddy. It makes no sense to move the truck to me it's well off the road and find where it is. He then tells me that if I take a tennis ball and put it underneath the cover to my truck bed and make some other modifications it will take better pictures. He shows me his truck and indeed there's all these taped colors on his truck cover. And then he walks away and I see from the back he's not rugged at all he's got a pair of short shorts on he's got a tight little ass possibly thongs showing from underneath his shorts. I make some comment about I guess his photos work well. And go to attend the bus crash. The dream was interrupted by one of the dogs barking to take a walk. When I wake up I'm in a really good mood think about all the things I'm going to get done today. 

Your dream reads like a blend of urgent rescue, odd detours, and playful absurdity — which often means there’s a mix of serious inner priorities and lighthearted distractions jostling for your attention. Let’s break it down:

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1. The Setting — Narrow Road, Water, Bridge

• Symbolically:
  Narrow roads over water often represent transitional, high-stakes situations — like you’re navigating between two phases of life where there’s little margin for error. The water below can be your emotional depth or subconscious mind, suggesting that any slip could plunge you into deeper emotional territory.

• Personal resonance:
  You’re “in your truck,” your own vehicle — meaning you’re in control of your own path — but the path is tight. This could reflect a current project or life stage where you feel there’s little room to maneuver.

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2. The Bus Crash

• A bus usually carries many people — representing a collective endeavor, a community, or responsibilities you’re not personally steering but still connected to.

• The bus going too fast and tipping over could be a situation in your world (or in someone else’s) that’s headed toward a crisis due to haste or poor handling.

• Your instinct is immediate: help, not call — meaning you value direct action over delegating responsibility. This aligns with your real-life “hands-on” nature.

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3. The “Official” Man

• Appears authoritative at first, but his instructions about moving your truck are irrelevant, even counterproductive. This can symbolize misleading authority figures or distractions disguised as important guidance.

• The strange “tennis ball under the truck cover” advice about taking better pictures could be your mind blending:

  • Creative problem-solving

  • Random tech tips or life hacks you’ve recently encountered

  • A reminder that sometimes people confidently offer advice that has nothing to do with your actual mission.

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4. His Reveal — Short Shorts & Playfulness

• This shift from “serious official” to “almost comical beach guy” with thong showing is a total subversion of expectations. It injects humor and lightness right into a tense rescue scene.

• Could represent the unmasking of seriousness — showing that some things (or people) you take seriously might actually be more about show than substance.

• Your quip about his photos “working well” shows you engaging with the absurdity rather than rejecting it.

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5. The Interrupted Rescue

• You never actually get to save the bus — the dream cuts off.

• This suggests that in waking life, you may have unfinished rescues — situations where you intend to help, but life interrupts or you’re pulled into side paths.

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6. The Waking Mood

• Waking in a great mood despite the chaos is important:
  It shows resilience, adaptability, and maybe that your subconscious trusts you to handle high-stakes situations without losing your center.

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Possible Themes

• Purpose vs. Distraction: The bus rescue is the core mission; the man’s advice is a playful derailment. Your real life may have a similar push-pull between urgent goals and quirky detours.

• Authority vs. Self-reliance: You recognize when advice doesn’t serve your goal and stick to your own assessment.

• Humor in Chaos: Even in high-pressure situations, you retain the ability to see the humor — which is a form of emotional intelligence.

• Unfinished business: Some rescues or projects in your life may be “paused” but still feel important.

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If This Were My Dream

I’d see it as my mind telling me:

“Stay focused on what really matters — you know when something is worth your time and when it’s a distraction dressed as importance. Keep your humor close; it keeps you buoyant.”

Non-Confrontational Authority

I am observing and interaction. There is no physical space for Effective reality. There seems to be a desire to control something. But that thing is is not clear well defined or possibly even physical. So one entity to control this thing and gives instructions. At the same time there is another controlling document. I imagine it as a document but again it may not be physical. It has some instructions for the thing that this other entity wants to control. These instructions are immutable. As I observe the controlling the Entity Desiring to change things gives a command which are temporarily implemented. Rather than being confrontational entity that I see represented as a document just has the thing that is being detested or control over the thing that's been contested. The confirmation of this thing turns to be confirmation that was established by the controlling document. It's not a confrontation it's an inevitability. Of having difficulties because none of these words were in the dream was only immediate sensation of what was going on. Because nobody dream thought that it's like the laws of nature and man trying to intervene. You can try to force his will on things but then inevitably the laws of nature and physics intervene and our ultimately in control.

The Fungi Attacks

I'm in a large organization some of which is scientific and some of which is open public space. There is a mold or fungus that is dangerous and is being studied. At one point I zoom in almost microscopically to see the details of the organism. The scientist is working on it is making sloppy mistakes and as a result spores are being spread around. The dream progresses from room to room or the passing of the fungus gets less and less scientific and yet continues to spread. There is another scene where my vision focuses on a tiny piece of this mold or fungus on the frame of the door. When I see how it is easily moved and transmitted as the public passes through the area.

The Eclectic Traveler

I am driving with a group of people. We are coming off a side street turning left onto a very busy street during rush hour. My glance into the traffic pattern we've just missed an ideal opportunity to just immediately turn left without any resistance. I turn anyway and the complex traffic patterns allow me to effortlessly join the flow. Very soon we are bogged down to the right and there's two lines of cars that are double parked diagonally to each other and we are driving between them. I think to myself well now this is going to Screech to a halt, but it does not. We are not moving fast but as we continue moving cars pull out and just allow us to keep going. Finally there is a block that just can't be passed it's a small Volkswagen instead of being in one of the two lines that are double parked it's right in the middle but as I get to it again something opens up and I'm back out onto the street moving. We're now pulling into a large parking area may be on the grass it's part of a large meeting or event. As I get out of the car I look up and see that there is a tremendous amount of things packed on the roof. Initially the vehicle was the size of a van but the more I look at it the bigger it gets. It looks like there's another smaller vehicle tied on top one on top of that and yet again something else. At one point I am with a group of people and I point back to our vehicle and I said it's the I pointed out because it's got four layers of things tied onto it. I'm sitting at a table predominantly with a bunch of old ladies. I'm having a conversation with the one or two right next to me even though there's another larger conversation going on that we're supposed to be paying attention to. Person's a left of me gives me a glare implying that we're that I am talking too loud. I'm having an extensive conversation about how we manage to tie all these things on to our vehicle. I'm now at the vehicle collecting up a variety of gadgets that are used to accomplish this extensive tying on of objects. I'm explaining to someone how they all work. That's not quite right I'm imagining I'm going to explain them and I got a pile of them in my arms I'm not sure if I'm actually talking to someone or not. They're very odd looking and not at all intuitively obvious how they work. Explain to them you have to go to specialty shops like a bicycle shop to get them not some place like Walmart where you just get cheap generic items. I am now upstairs in a meeting Hall on the same site. I am leaving but not walking down the stairs I'm climbing out a window and making my way down by holding on to pieces of the architecture. I'm holding on to something like an old swing and I realize I've kind of got myself stuck because it's too far to drop when one of the ends of the swing comes undone but it very slowly bends from the horizontal down to the vertical and essentially lifts me down like someone would lower me on a rope. As I'm going through this process I have two balls that I'm holding among all these other things and they drop to the ground and I look and one is Tiny smaller than a marble and the other is larger not as big as a tennis ball and they are rolling even though the ground is relatively flat but bumpy. And I see that the tiny ball and the larger ball are rolling exactly at the same time and I comment ah well there's a demonstration of the physics. I wake up without reviewing the dream and I'm afraid I'm an instantly going to forget it because I was so deep into the dream but I can remember many of the aspects of the dream and I'm happy. It's also obvious that much of the dream it's about overcoming obstacles in a positive way.

This dream has a very strong “navigating complexity” theme, but it’s not about brute-forcing your way through — it’s about fluidly adapting, trusting that space will open up even when it looks blocked. Let’s break it down in layers:

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1. Entering Busy Traffic

• Symbolism: Traffic is a classic metaphor for collective life — competing priorities, people moving in different directions, the pressure of timing.

• You miss the perfect opening but still merge effortlessly. This points to your ability to act decisively even when you feel you’ve missed your “ideal moment.”

• The fact that it works out smoothly hints at an underlying trust in your ability to adapt to complex, high-pressure environments.

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2. The Double-Parked Cars

• You expect a total blockage, but each time, space opens up.

• This is a vivid image of anticipating the worst but being pleasantly surprised — and suggests you’re currently in a stage where problems resolve without the resistance you fear.

• The Volkswagen blocking the middle but still moving aside is a “final boss” of the traffic sequence — proof that even entrenched obstacles can be moved through.

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3. The Vehicle with Four Layers of Cargo

• The vehicle grows larger the more you look at it — a symbol of realizing just how much you’re carrying or capable of carrying.

• Four layers suggests complexity, multiple responsibilities, or projects “stacked” on each other — yet the fact that it’s securely tied down shows mastery of organization and resourcefulness.

• This also feels like pride in an unusual, hard-earned skill — tying down the load in a way others wouldn’t know how to do.

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4. The Old Ladies at the Table

• Old women in dreams often represent wisdom, tradition, or a collective of experienced voices.

• You’re half-engaged in the “main conversation” but more drawn to your own discussion about how you secured everything.

• The glare from the person next to you could represent self-consciousness about breaking from group expectations or being “too loud” with your own way of doing things.

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5. Odd Gadgets from Specialty Shops

• These unusual fasteners are not from Walmart — they require special knowledge and specialized sources.

• This mirrors your real-life skillset: you don’t go for generic shortcuts; you look for the exact right tools, even if it means going out of your way.

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6. Leaving via the Window & Swing

• Instead of taking the stairs, you take an unconventional route. This reinforces a key theme: you don’t solve problems the standard way — you find your own creative, physical, sometimes precarious solutions.

• The swing lowering you gently instead of dropping you shows that even risky moves can resolve softly when approached with adaptability.

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7. The Two Rolling Balls

• Different sizes but rolling together across bumpy ground — and you recognize it as a “physics demonstration.”

• This could represent two aspects of yourself (or two projects/people) that, despite being different in capacity or form, are in sync in progress.

• Physics here feels like a nod to natural laws — suggesting you’re recognizing that certain outcomes are inevitable once the right forces are in motion.

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8. Overall Dream Tone

• Obstacle after obstacle opens up.

• Creative, unusual solutions appear naturally.

• You trust your ability to handle complexity.

• Even when you’re overloaded, you have the tools, know-how, and adaptability to keep moving forward.

• The mood on waking — happy, satisfied — shows your subconscious is affirming that you’re well-equipped to handle the “traffic” of your current life.

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If This Were My Dream

I’d take it as a reassurance:

“Your path is cluttered and unconventional, but you move through it not by forcing things, but by trusting openings to appear and by using skills others overlook. Even when the load is heavy and strange, you have the specialized knowledge to keep it secure and make it work.”