THE DREAM - It's night time and I am with my husband. The bed is in the middle of the room, in front of the window, where as to in reality it is up against the wall, and the window near the bottom of the bed. He is laying there waiting for me to come to bed to go to sleep and I am sitting on the edge of the bed looking at him, feeling melancholy. It's cold, and he has a blanket over him. I lay down beside him but I don't put the blankets over me but lay there. He then tells me to put the blankets over me to get warm, and he puts the blankets over me and holds me. I remember feeling sad and I then start to cry.

GUESSWORK The dreamers husband had left her. She had been trying to find new ways to deal with how much she missed him. She feels empty not having him beside her any more. She even feels alone and helpless.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. Many dreams which feature strong emotions will simply reflect those same strong emotions in real life. The dreamer felt real sadness towards her break up.
2. The dreamer really missed sleeping next to her husband. The dream made her realize how traumatized she was by this loss.
3. The dreamer feels melancholic. Yet the dream shows her husband being deeply intimate. Its likely that this dream is about those feelings of melancholy.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers feelings of sadness caused by her husband leaving. Its easy to see how the dream deals with the following themes:
- Feelings towards her husband
- Feelings of sadness caused by her break up.

If you weave together the different themes then you find that the dream could easily capture this following feeling - "I realize how much I miss my husband. I feel empty without him. This has been very traumatic for me."