As a child Samantha felt her dreams were deeply important and would tell her mother about them, sometimes overcome with emotion, only to hear 'it's just a dream, don't worry about it.' Years later a woman asked if she wrote down her dreams, since we spend half our lives asleep, and that started her four-year dream journal.
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- Dream journaling
Write down your dreams every morning and track recurring symbols (Samantha's included tsunamis, fire, tornadoes, broken glass, car crashes and particular people) as clues to what you truly…
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