Have you ever had a dream that truly offered guidance at just the right time, one that contained an important piece of wisdom you needed to hear? Has a dream ever delivered a message that just felt right, as if it uncovered a truth you already knew on a deeper level—a message that seems to originate from a larger, more mysterious source of wisdom? When this happens, it feels like a gift. Some part of us immediately recognizes the message as true— regardless of whether we like it or not. When this happens, I am always awestruck by the mind’s capacity to weave together exactly the story that will deliver the wisdom we need.

Earlier this year, I was gifted with such a dream, which beautifully and cleverly offered exactly what I and so many of us need to hear. In the dream, I was presented with a logic game. My job and the object of the game was to figure out the right conditions that would allow each of the eight people seated at a dinner table to leave for another destination. The problem was that each of the eight people could move under very specific conditions: Alice, in the first seat, could shift every other Tuesday but only if a man was sitting next to her. Paul couldn’t leave until the guest to his left had gone, while Mark relied on the person directly across the table wearing red. It was a real brain teaser that required Olympic-level mental........

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