Our dreams offer up puns or plays on words that may point us to the solution to a problem.

Repetition in dreams may appear in the form of completely different images that when broken down are the same.

When we hold back feelings in our waking life, a drama-filled dream can be just the attention-getter needed.

My client, Sylvia, recounted to me a distressing dream in which she reacted with shock and extreme annoyance when a guest covered her walls in glue. Through our discussion of the dream, she realized that the gluer was communicating to her a solution to a problem she was having with one of her own clients, essentially demonstrating that she should have "stuck to" her own business principles in dealing with the client.

By bringing the odd substance of the dream into the light of day, Sylvia was able to consider what she should have said and to rethink a decision that troubled her.

Sylvia started by explaining her dream. “There was an event at our house, but not one that I had organized. A group of people had chosen my house to host a party for charity, so it felt very busy and chaotic with the comings and goings of the guests and the stuff they were bringing.

“After the party, everyone was busy cleaning and packing up. I went downstairs (this was a big old house with long corridors and stone walls), and as I arrived downstairs, I saw that one of the guests had applied glue to the walls. I was shocked and wondered how I was going to clean all that up. I kept saying: ‘Who does that? Who covers walls in glue?’ For some........

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