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Dreaming Lifetime Relationships

© Lauri Jean Crowe

In the year 2000, I intend to focus more on my interpersonal relationships. I want to strengthen the bonds of family and welcome new friends into my life. Although I have written extensively on dreams, rarely have I focused on how they can affect our lives with others. Instead, I have chosen to focus on how my dreams affect me, and the broader individual. In researching and studying the dream, however, we must not forget that our dreams can be shared and in so doing we enrich not only our lives but those of the people closest to us.

At first I think my husband found it kind of annoying that ever since I first met him I have been saying, "I had the strangest dream..." and then explaining the dream in detail to him. Now, he too shares his nightly sojourns. In fact, we try to make it a practice to wake up and tell each other a dream in the mornings. This practice in some small way guides our day and I encourage it in others.

Even if you don't keep a personal dream journal, telling your dream gives it a little more life. Sharing it with a spouse or sleepmate can help you ease fears if the dream was particularly frightening or add an amusing twist on the day if your dreaming was a bit more surreal.

When I was pregnant I would constantly have dreams that I was losing my baby. Some of these dreams would be vivid and bloody and all too realistic, such as the one where I miscarried after falling down the stairs (in my first pregnancy I was severely hypoglycemic and fell down the stairs twice after fainting). By sharing this dream with my husband I was able to put it out of the immediate emotion of fear I had awoken with and change it to recognizing an every day fear which could be dealt with while awake. Once I did this, I no longer had the dreams.

I also had dreams of my first son as he would be at birth. He looked quite similar to my night visions when he arrived, blonde-haired and blue-eyed and all grins. With my second son, I kept dreaming he'd have darker hair despite the blondness of the rest of my family. Alas, he was born with a dark head of fuzzy hair that had my husband saying, "how did you know?". I just did, and

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