Dreaming

        ...I suddenly found myself sitting in a room with my closest friend of 15 years. She turned to me and told me she needed me to find her old toys. I then found myself running down a busy street in the direction of speeding cars. The cars were just barely missing me, but I managed to safely avoid being hit. I was running very frantically. Finally, I came to an old mansion hidden away by a large fence. The mansion and fence were heavily covered with moss and ivy. I found myself inside the mansion. I was standing at the end of a very long hallway with nothing but closed doors on both sides. Once again, I found myself panicking. I tried to find an unlocked door, but was unable to. At the end of the hallway, I came upon a staircase leading downstairs. I started down the stairs, which eventually led me to a very dark room. In the middle of this room was an old lady who sat in a rocking chair sewing. She looked up at me and said, " I know where you are supposed to go." She then points left to a hallway I hadn't before noticed. The old woman then said, "there will be a door." I continued down the hallway until I came upon the door. It lead me inside another dark room where I found a toy box I actually had as a little girl. Inside of it were very old, almost antique-like toys. There was one toy that stuck out the most: it was a broken porcelain doll. Her face was accented with a large, jagged crack. I suddenly woke up...

One individual's account of her dream

       Dreams have forever mystified human beings. Dreaming and imagining are something that everyone experiences and within both are found symbols that some claim reveal our deepest thoughts and emotions. Others, however, claim that they are nothing more than random, meaningless images activated by our bodies' physiological processes as we sleep.

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