The Fortune Telling Book of Dreams
A dream containing dogwood blossoms means
you are questioning your religion. A dream
in which you drive a Volkswagen Jetta
up a river, as though the river were a road,
indicates a general dissatisfaction with
your daily routines, but if it’s raining
and the drops don’t splash in the water,
you could simply desire a gift from your lover.
Dreaming of marigolds that grow backwards,
from blossom to seed, is a common dream
that mirrors an inner need for a lost
childhood pleasure such as eating banana
popsicles or reading in magnolia branches,
but dreaming of either of these is a warning
that a time of loneliness is approaching.
Trains in a dream mean someone is angry.
Ships or any voyage on the sea
suggest you will make a large purchase,
but if you dream specifically of the Pacific,
you are still mourning a loss you believed
you had gotten over. If you dream you are shelling
beans with your great-grandmother while
everyone else, including your mother, is skinning
a deer, you long to visit a place you never thought
you’d want to go. If, near the end of this dream,
just after you sit down to eat, your family leans
forward, toward you, as though they share
the same body, and draws in a breath as though
to speak, you should write down what
they say, because words spoken in a dream
mean you are trying to remember
something someone told you years ago.
(first published in Appalachian Journal)
