I dreamt of rearranging my bedroom, and no matter what I tried it wouldn’t work. The furniture wouldn’t fit without it being cramped. –Joye, 40

Lauri: Are you trying to rearrange your schedule or your priorities in waking life? I ask about the relationship because this dream takes place in your bedroom, the place of the marital bed or of intimate encounters. Your dream seems to be telling you that this area of your life has become crowded and you may need to let a few things go because the way it is right now clearly isn’t working.

Joye replies: I understand the dream now, but there is something I can’t let go. I have a long distance “relationship” with another man that I can’t, rather won’t let go of. My marriage is not the best, my husband is controlling, mentally abusive, and I have feared he might become physically abusive on several occasions, but it never has happened. I want to go to college. My husband has agreed and then made me withdraw after I had enrolled (just an example of what he does). I want to get out and grow as a person, but he makes me feel shrouded by his actions. I have thought of divorce, but without a job, no money set back and no education I cannot go through with that.