Dear Denise:
I dreamed just 1 hour ago that I was at the lake shore with these two older ladies, that I didn't know and we saw a boy about maybe 12 years of age floating in the water. I jumped in to get the boy, and didn't know how to give CPR, but I tried. The ambulance arrived and no one would give him CPR because they said he had been dead for a while. They said by looking at him he had been in the water for maybe a week. I helped them carry him to the ambulance, and I sat in the ambulance with him while they went and did something. I remember the back of it was full of sick people like a hospital, and then the boy started moving his mouth and arms. I tried CPR again but when the EMT got back I told her that the boy was alive and she said no there was nothing we could do for him. The boy was sitting up looking at me and I was helpless to save him. I started crying and waved goodbye to him, he was smiling and waved back. ---D.F.

Dear Deb:
I feel that usually, not always, most of the people in your dreams represent aspects of your Self. So ... the 12 year old boy probably represents a younger, adolescent aspect of your Self that is going away or transforming. In trying to identify this aspect, you will want to think about something in your life that has been around for 12 or so years. Maybe it's a relationship, maybe it's something you have done for about that time, and maybe even an unproductive behavior that needs (needed) to be healed. However, you are having difficulty letting it go, or allowing it to heal/transform. And that's why none of your life-saving attempts worked. This aspect cannot be saved; it must be transformed into something different. There is always grief attached to letting go of a part of your life, even when it NEEDS TO GO, or you have been forced to let it go. And while you continue to let go, and you experience the grief, realize that this aspect of Self is smiling with approval because all unproductive aspects Self want only one thing --- to be transformed. Sometimes it's hard to let go of parts of our life, change is difficult. Your dream is what I would call a confirmation Healing Dream. It's telling you that while it's painful, you are healing some aspects of yourself. The other sick people in the ambulance could even represent past aspects of your Self that your have let go of and healed/transformed already. So the 12-year old boy won't be alone, he's with other aspects of your Self that are no longer productive. GOOD JOB. ---Denise

Response from Dreamer

Dear Denise:
That makes so much sense. I believe all my dreams stem from the loss of my children. It has been a hard road to travel not having them anymore, and a battle every day to heal from it. My children are not dead they were taken from me. Thank you for the advice. --- D.F.