THE DREAM I was trying to walk and climb up this hill. The grass was very slippery and I couldn't climb it. It was too difficult. I realised that I was not going to get up. There were young people playing at the top and it did not seem to bother them.

GUESSWORK The dreamer was becoming chronically ill. He was getting to the stage where he couldn't do anything without feeling pain.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. HILL: A hill which the dreamer found impossible to climb was a symbol of the dreamers deteriorating health - even easy tasks were difficult with his poor health. Hills are often symbols of something that is difficult - obviously its much easier to go on a flat surface than it is to walk uphill. A large hill can symbolise some task which is almost impossible. Just think of something that was very difficult from yesterday and you may have traced the meaning of the hill in your dream.
2. YOUNG PEOPLE: In the dream young people were doing things which the dreamer found impossible. Its easy to work in the theme of young people if its in connection with the hill. The hill was a symbol of bad health and feeling old. The young people were a symbol of the dreamer feeling old - and looking around at people who were young and enjoying themselves. It was a symbol of the things that the dreamer could not do - enjoy himself in the way that young people enjoy themselves.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers ill health. The dream deals with the following themes
- Finding things impossible
- Young people enjoying themselves

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts -"I seem to be getting pain constantly. I cannot do anything any more - I feel very old. I cannot enjoy myself any more"