{"id":2718,"date":"2011-06-21T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2011-06-21T02:19:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T06:19:59","slug":"busting-the-bullying-ex-on-the-night-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/06\/busting-the-bullying-ex-on-the-night-shift.html","title":{"rendered":"Busting the bullying ex, on the night shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/files\/2011\/06\/No_Bully_Zone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2719\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/2011\/06\/No_Bully_Zone-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A woman in line at my booksigning at the Boulder Bookstore asked if she could tell me a dream. When the line had thinned a little, I could give her full attention.<\/p>\n<p>She told me a dream confirmed by a coincidence: &#8220;I dreamed I was on the beach with my ex, though we divorced 20 years ago. He was flicking sand and grit at me from a towel, like a bullying brat. After a while I stood up to him. I grabbed the towel away from him and told him I wouldn&#8217;t put up with this anymore. Everything was going to change. After that he morphed into Bill Cosby, looking sweet and a little sheepish. I woke up feeling really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued: &#8220;The following night I turned on the Larry King show on TV. The guest was Bill Cosby. He was talking about bullying and how to stop it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We agreed this felt like a wink from the universe.<\/p>\n<p>She felt that something had been resolved in the dream, that profound work of emotional clearing and healing was accomplished on the &#8220;night shift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It happens, and we can ask for it to happen, by setting an intention for our night dreams. Even 20 years after we have broken up with a partner, the cords of psychic and emotional attachment remain, and that can bring things into our space we don&#8217;t want. Until we turn around and deal with it, as this Boulder dreamer did on the night shift.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in line at my booksigning at the Boulder Bookstore asked if she could tell me a dream. When the line had thinned a little, I could give her full attention. 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