Dream It was night and I was sleeping in the bedroom just as if it were real life. Kate comes into the bedroom to check on Myka who was sleeping next to me in her bassinet. Concerned that she sleeps hours straight, she wanted to check her breathing. It was short, and shallow as if she was having a hard time catching her breath in her sleep. I asked Kate if that was cause for bringing her into the hospital and she said probably, and that she would. I asked her if I should call ahead to the hospital to let them know we were coming. She said, ‘we?’ And I persuaded her to go with me because she was the only other person up. She said ok, but she had to be home soon because she had work or something in the morning. So we head out and I specifically remember bringing a jigsaw puzzle with me for her and me to do while we waited at the hospital. For some reason, I could not get it all back into its original box… So I had the top and bottom of the box filled with big pieces. One of the pieces had Kate’s face on it, so I thought, or it felt as if it were a picture of the family or something. Kate thought I was grabbing a card game. We are at the hospital in a room. A doctor, wearing a white lab coat over blue scrubs, is checking out Myka. She’s awake. The man is in his late 50’s, early 60’s. He seems shocked about how much she sleeps, too; all night and her naps throughout the day. He says something about her wearing a seatbelt having something to do with it. Another person walks in, a male nurse practitioner… Or was it just a younger doctor? He walks in wearing black scrubs. The scrubs have a lighter color trim. He is treating someone else in the room and makes it blatantly obvious that he doesn’t care about them, as he says so while flirting with a girl with long curly blond hair in the same scrubs. During this time the older doctor had begun to cut Myka’s fingernails. Kate said she’d hold her while he did so to keep her still. I moved to the other side of him to watch him. When I looked away to see the two other health care ‘professionals’ that is when he trimmed her nail to close and got her finger tip. The blood was red, a Band-Aid was mentioned. The doctor goes to leave and I reiterate to him she sleeps 75% of the time. His eyes get wide as if he just realized what I’ve been trying to say. They keep her overnight for more testing. Kate and I leave. She lets me drive her vehicle. I’m under the impression it’s a PT cruiser. I never see the outside; the dream continues inside the vehicle. Starting to drive home, I come to the intersection of Rte. 222 and salt Rd. I look at the clock and see the time 4:36 am. I think to myself, I cannot believe how it’s almost 5:00 am. I turn left (in real life it would be towards Groton. The town I went to grade school in) in the dream, it was to return to Chris’s and my house. As we are driving, I go to hit the cruise control and do something so that the window is now showing a visual of the road being upsides down, and doubled. I try to keep calm and fix it, only making it worse. Kate and I are in a bus, and though I don’t say it… it is definitely a school bus or something of the sort. There is one other person on the bus with us, a college girl who was a ‘friend,’ but whom I was never really close to. She was one of my sorority sisters. We were all talking and I’m beginning to panic. Semi-trucks were closing in fast from behind and I was losing control up front. Kate asked me if something was wrong and I tried to explain what I did, but by that time it was too late, the bus was swerving back and forth on the road. I was losing control. I said ‘I need to pull off the road!’ I turned the wheel to the right and the bus stared to spin out of control. My sorority sister and Kate were hanging onto the seat screaming as we spun and I lifted the stealing wheel noticing the entire staff had come unscrewed from the floor! I sink down to the floor, also screaming and I say ‘hang on’. I could see at least three or four semi’s move to avoid us, all missing us. I notice that we are all hanging on to the provided seatbelts but none of us are using them. Finally, the bus comes to a halt and we are on the side of the road. I look outside and see a semi slowly moving around us. He is carrying tree trunks/logs on his bed. I wake up. This dream was so vivid, scary, with many repeating themes and symbols; near death accident, Myka even seemed ‘near death’, people that are not my closest or favorite being the people I am with, relying on them and hanging out with them. I felt Myka when I woke up just to feel her breathing properly. I know you really are the only one who can decipher your messages, but I’d love some insight. I’m desperate for these to go away… This one was too much. Interpretation What an awesome dream! I agree that there is a lot of symbolism and repeating themes to this dream. Fear of what is going to happen is also a major part of the dream. Also the not trusting men who are in authority. With both the older doctor and the younger Dr. /nurse, there was an air of superiority and being lazy in their work. This laziness and unconfident is reinforced by the way they trim your daughter’s fingernails. There are also issues in your relationship with Kate. The jigsaw puzzle shows that you are not seeing her clearly or understand her in the “Big Picture.”  Another way to look at it is she puzzles you. But she does give you some control because you are in the driver seats of both vehicles. The driving scene could mean a couple of things, there are unresolved issues from your childhood and the college girl time. Meditate to see what kind of connection she has to a past person or event in your life. And what childhood issue you need to look at. The other possible meaning is that you are a little lost in your direction, afraid of losing control, and getting hurt. The fact that you were not hurt in the dream is a sign that you are going to be OK. If you are baffled by a dream and need help interpreting it – email it to pamelabellesprit@gmail.com. Pamela Cummins aka “The Musical Psychic” is also a radio show host, author, and coach. To learn more please visit www.pamelacummins.com.]]>