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Dreams give us clues that require sleuthing, but sometimes our best attempts to follow these leads don’t get far and we move on to other things, leaving a mounting pile of “cold case” files. I pick up a lot of unfamiliar names, foreign words, and curious phrases in dreams and — especially — in the twilight state of hypnagogia, and I have found it extraordinarily revealing to track these verbal clues. In the era of Googling, this is much easier than it was over most of the decades I’ve been keeping a journal, so I am now reopening dream files I had closed and making some exciting discoveries. One of those funny words, from a 1994 dream, led me to an archaeological site in Nigeria where the human remains date from 10,000 BCE. Another is guiding me, in the most practical way, on professional decisions I’ll be making over the next couple of months.

Be open to discovering that an event in an “old” dream is starting to manifest only now — months or years later — and be ready (beyond the “wow” response) to harvest guidance from the old report on the current situation. When you see a match-up between an “old” dream and a later event, forage around the individual report: look at other dreams from about the same time and see if there are further clues to the new situation.