{"id":352,"date":"2009-04-23T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/what-have-you-dreamed-lately.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:35:25","slug":"what-have-you-dreamed-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/what-have-you-dreamed-lately.html","title":{"rendered":"What Have You Dreamed Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the change of season, but I&#8217;m having some amazing technicolor dreams these days.&nbsp; Last night, I dreamed I was in yoga class, and I was really struggling in bridge pose (something that I do struggle with in real life).&nbsp; I kept piling blankets under my hips to lift them higher and higher, until finally my teacher looked over and said, &#8220;Holly shouldn&#8217;t do this pose.&#8221;&nbsp; I collapsed in relief off of the blankets, and lay quietly.&nbsp; The room was drenched with light.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Next, suddenly a woman appeared at my feet and started massaging my right foot with lotion.&nbsp; In my dream-world, I understood that she felt bad I couldn&#8217;t get the benefits of bridge pose, so she was trying to offer me something instead.&nbsp; But then she walked away, and I thought, &#8220;you forgot the other foot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that I was no longer relaxing, I suddenly was seized with the need to get up and do some weeding.&nbsp; So out the door I went, into a stunningly sunny day, and started clearing weeds out of a planter that was on the sidewalk in front of a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts&#8230;.until my teacher, slightly annoyed, called me back in, saying it was time to rest.&nbsp; I lay down, my hands covered in dirt&#8230;&#8230;dream over.<\/p>\n<p><b>What could this mean?&nbsp; What strange dreams have you had lately?<br \/>&nbsp; <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the change of season, but I&#8217;m having some amazing technicolor dreams these days.&nbsp; Last night, I dreamed I was in yoga class, and I was really struggling in bridge pose (something that I do struggle with in real life).&nbsp; I kept piling blankets under my hips to lift them higher&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[440,303,13,288],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-holistic-living","tag-dream-interpretation","tag-dreams","tag-sleep","tag-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Have You Dreamed Lately? 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