• A gold-handled wooden door in an apartment complex
• A bodyboarder keeps forgetting his equipment and can’t get into the ocean
• Coughing up nails and staples without being hurt
• Driving to the wrong hospital, in danger on a narrow exit ramp, and a high school friend who talks about the personalized gifts I give

Themes from this episode:

• The location of the dream is important, since neighborhoods or buildings often represent our psyche. Fences can symbolize barriers. Rooms or separate buildings can represent different parts of our conscious or unconscious mind.
• One powerful way to look at dreams is to see each character as a different part of yourself (rather than as real-world people or external events).
• Numbers have meaning in dreams. Three is often a number of transformation.
• Water often symbolizes the unconscious. The beach is at the border between land (conscious) and sea (unconscious).
• Dreams often speak in strong, exaggerated imagery to really capture our attention and make an impact.
• We can’t judge dreams by the logical rules of everyday life. Even if a dream image (like coughing up nails and staples) seems like it “should” be a terrible thing to our conscious mind, we have to pay attention to context and emotion. We may find the dream is positive after all.
• If you go to bed thinking about a question, your unconscious may send you a dream in answer.
• Cars or other vehicles in dreams often represent the conscious ego, the part of us that generally transports us and helps us move around and take action.
• One of the most important questions you can ask yourself about a dream is, “Where in my life is this (figuratively) happening right now?”

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