IN THIS Department will be given interpretations of dreams and visions of those needing to know their inner meaning. We reserve for it only those of special interest and helpfulness.

I DREAMED I started out into the country and took with me a little girl six years old. Apparently we cut across an open field to catch a trolley car that comes round a bend. We got on and went to what must have been a garden, we seemed to go there for the day only. While there we got acquainted with a lot of birds of the air, doves or pigeons, or something like them, and this one day with them, without knowing it, they became tame.

In the evening it was time for us to get back to the trolley, so we tried to let the birds go; but to my surprise instead of flying away they all but one hopped about on the ground and followed us. We almost trod on them, as they got under our feet. One bird perched on my finger and as soon as its claws fastened tight I began to be afraid. Something said, “Nothing ever hurts in Spirit.” So the bird stayed there. We were so long getting to the trolley-car on account of the birds hopping along with us, we missed the car, which seemed to be the last one that day; so we went back to the garden. It was quite late so we did not disturb any one but found some kind of a closed veranda shelter. In the morning we saw a large vessel similar to a barrel or box; it was filled with shelled green peas. I should say there were thousands of them and they seemed to know me. They all seemed to be individual yet were together collectively, and I seemed to be responsible for everyone of them. It seemed a lovely, friendly atmosphere. Then someone called me in the natural and asked the time, so I woke up.

Your dream of taking the trip out into the country with the six year old child would symbolize your entering in a child-like way into another consciousness where you seemed to be surrounded by birds of the air. Such birds are like the thoughts that come from spirit and stay with us and hold us in the higher consciousness, so much so that we love to stay there and often thereby forget our duties and miss the trolleycar, so to speak, to get back to our regular work.

The barrel of shelled peas might symbolize the sweet green fruit, or the truths brought you by these birds or thoughts of the air. And the fact that they seemed to know you and be individual and yet were all together, shows that when built into your consciousness they become a part of your true knowing.

I HAVE a fair concept of where the soul is during sleeping periods, but what is it doing while we are about our daily tasks? And where, for instance, is my soul (I shall use the first person here in order to clarify it) IN THESE PERIODS OF SEEMING HEAVINESS? I used to bring through so much good from the lessons during times of restfulness, but in this peculiar apathy which has weighed me down since New Year I have been wondering where my soul was—whether it was learning lessons or just what could be taking place.

Answering your question about where the soul is during sleep, try to realize that you are a soul, and that the outer you, is merely an instrument you have created and are using here in the physical world to do what needs to be done there, and to accomplish the purpose you came here to do. When you withdraw your interest and attention from your brain-mind, which is but an outer extension of your consciousness, within to the soul world, you do the work and live the life of that world.

Oftentimes when your mind is busy at the work you have given it to do, you are free to do the work in the soul world but during periods of depression you necessarily have to remain close to your outer instrument to watch it and prevent it from doing things which selfishness, discouragement or other negative traits might influence it to do. Think on this and see how true it is.

Therefore, why allow your mind to indulge in such destructive things when you have taught it the truth through these Lessons and from much experience? They get you nowhere and only clog up the channel of your mind so that you cannot get through to the memory of these truths or inspire it to do the things that would free you and make your path easier once more.