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.

SEVERAL years ago I was not well and could not sleep, so my husband slept in one of the boys’ rooms to give me every chance. One night while awake I heard several people walking about and talking along the passageway outside my room. I thought the voices were those of my husband and eldest son. I called out several times. “What is the matter?” but got no reply. In the morning when I asked about it, they laughed and said I was dreaming, for they had never awakened.

The next night they were in the passageway again, and rather nearer to my room. I felt frightened, but knew it was no use calling out. However, after a while they went away. I cannot quite remember whether it was the next night or several nights later that they again got outside my room, and strangely an awful struggle started, nothing was said but they bumped about and struggled like very strong men in stocking feet. I was paralyzed with fear. I tried hard to remember a piece I had learned from LESSONS IN TRUTH. At last it came, I Am Spirit, and Spirit is God, and God cannot be afraid.

I am sure I said that at least a hundred times while they struggled, sometimes touching the handle of my door and banging against the wall. Finally it stopped, and straightway a small cloud came through the closed door (on which my eyes were glued), passed through my room, and out of the open French window, on to the veranda; where it turned around and a voice said, “It is done,” and the cloud was gone. From then on I felt so free and different, and knew a battle had been fought and won on my account.

During this time my husband and son looked each morning as though they had never been to bed all night, although they said they had slept well. While this was going on, our pet cat would not keep out of my room; he would jump on the bed and walk completely around me two or three times, then mount the wooden bed-rail and keep guard all night. As the small cloud passed through, the cat made a contented little sound as though of satisfaction.

You are evidently open to and conscious on the inner plane. That is why you could hear those noises and see that small cloud pass through the room and out of the window. It would seem that your husband and son had been having some trouble together, or at least some wrong thoughts about each other in some way regarding you, and in the inner realm at night their souls fought it out, as you witnessed or rather heard. This was all inspired by the force that you saw finally leave them in the cloudy