A woman in line at my booksigning at the Boulder Bookstore asked if she could tell me a dream. When the line had thinned a little, I could give her full attention.

She told me a dream confirmed by a coincidence: “I dreamed I was on the beach with my ex, though we divorced 20 years ago. He was flicking sand and grit at me from a towel, like a bullying brat. After a while I stood up to him. I grabbed the towel away from him and told him I wouldn’t put up with this anymore. Everything was going to change. After that he morphed into Bill Cosby, looking sweet and a little sheepish. I woke up feeling really good.”

She continued: “The following night I turned on the Larry King show on TV. The guest was Bill Cosby. He was talking about bullying and how to stop it.”

We agreed this felt like a wink from the universe.

She felt that something had been resolved in the dream, that profound work of emotional clearing and healing was accomplished on the “night shift”.

It happens, and we can ask for it to happen, by setting an intention for our night dreams. Even 20 years after we have broken up with a partner, the cords of psychic and emotional attachment remain, and that can bring things into our space we don’t want. Until we turn around and deal with it, as this Boulder dreamer did on the night shift.