 | | and I stay out of it so that she can decide on her own. That feels better . . . I go outside. I'm wearing a long dress, and get it dirty on the bottom. I ask Karen if she thinks the dress needs shortening. She says yes. I think that shortening it will cut off the dirty part anyway. I feel relieved.
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Shirley and Karen had had several enjoyable conversations since Karen's earlier visit, planning future trips and laughing together, rather than Shirley trying to "fix" things, as she begins to do in the dream. Instead of taking on Karen's baggage (suitcase) as her father (repairman) used to do, she lets her "decide on her own." In the dream, she is even able to get helpful advice from Karen that helps her "cut off'' the unneeded and messy (dirty) parts of their relationship. She feels ''relieved" in both her dreaming and waking lives.
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Even without a specific night dream to guide you, it is possible to create a visioning dream to improve your relationship with a brother or sister. That is what Larry and Grace did with Larry's brother, Tim, who lived in another state and rarely contacted them. When Larry and Grace started having children, they created a vision of Tim as a loving uncle whom they spoke to and saw frequently. They immediately planned a trip to visit him while Grace was pregnant with their first child. Everyone enjoyed being together, and by the time their second child was born, Uncle Tim had moved to the same state Grace and Larry lived in. They see each other frequently now, spending holidays and vacations together on a regular basis. "Our adult relationship is much better now," Larry says, "than anything we ever had growing up."
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Sometimes the distance between siblings becomes so great that they barely speak to each other. That is what happened with one woman named Dora and her older sister, Beth. Dora had spent six months taking care of Beth after she was in a
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