Short story: A repeating dream meaning is finally revealed to Charley

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Charley Horsehead was a prolific dreamer, and he always recorded his nightly dreams every morning in his journal. He had one particular dream, a very simple one, at that, that bothered him a lot, over the years, as it had been repeating in its identical theme for him for well over fifty years. In this dream, Charley was dreaming that he went into a secondhand bookshop in his home town, near the Church, where his mother used to go, and yet the shop has never existed in reality. There is no bookshop anywhere near the Church In the dream, Charley would peruse the shop for books, enjoying the looking, but without ever buying anything there. A repeating dream theme such as this usually indicates that the dreamer has a deep underlying unresolved psychological issue. A bookshop is a depository of knowledge, and Charley knows that his answer lies in knowledge gaining, not in ignoring things, so he simply needs to remember the books that he looked at, as the name of the book will be the clue to his problem. Charley never does remember the names of the books he browses through, and so the dream keeps repeating, hoping that he will see past the tree content of the dream, to see the underlying wood type underneath. When we are entertained by stuff because of its way of occurrence, we often miss out on seeing the truth behind the curtain then too. Charley will continue to have this dream then, until, he finally accepts that the dream is not about the bookshop, but more about the message he is meant to receive from the book browsed itself. When Charley reached the ripe old age of 83, he had this dream, once more again. This time he saw the name of the book. It was the Christian Bible. He then realised that over all of these years, his spiritual side had been trying to rouse itself within him, and he had largely ignored it, preferring to stay attached to the worldly life alone, and dismissing all aspects of religious, and spiritual life. At 83, though, he thought that perhaps he should at least see what he had been missing, and so he started to study the Bible, reading it on most days. He became a Bible scholar, well versed in its words, and he was quite happy about this too, as it gave him a certain satisfaction of his connecting to something greater than himself, to God, and to truth, and so just a short time later, at 87, he died, and was able to make it into Heaven. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We will always feel rather empty without a developed spiritual side to ourselves.