Symbols

You wake up having just walked down the aisle — maybe to a stranger, maybe to your ex, maybe to someone you’ve never met but loved completely in the dream. Or perhaps you watched someone else marry, or panicked because you were late to your own ceremony. And now you’re wondering: was that a sign?…

Of all the things to find in a dream, a Bible is one of the most striking. Maybe it was open in your hands, a particular verse glowing on the page. Maybe someone handed it to you. Maybe you simply saw it resting somewhere, and woke with a quiet, lingering sense that something meaningful had…

It’s an oddly specific thing to dream about, isn’t it? Not a monster, not falling, not your teeth crumbling — just a mattress. Maybe you were buying one. Maybe you were lying on a lumpy, sagging old thing that wouldn’t let you get comfortable. Maybe it was pristine and white and impossibly soft, or stained…

You wake up with your tongue pressed against your teeth, checking. Counting them. Because in the dream they were crumbling — falling into your cupped hands like loose pebbles, or sliding out one by one while you tried to hold a conversation, or simply gone, leaving smooth gaps where molars used to be. Your heart…

You wake up. Your heart is pounding, but you’re not quite afraid. There was a snake — but it wasn’t black, brown, or green like the snakes you fear in waking life. It was white. Pale, almost glowing, sometimes silver, sometimes the color of fresh milk. And now you can’t shake the feeling that the…