Dreaming about lusting after a colleague.

Dreams about love do not always have sexual meanings. They might reflect your longing for love, warmth, affection and understanding, or your wish to connect with some quality you’re your colleague represents, such as leadership, creativity or gentleness. If the dream involves an illicit or forbidden love, you may be hiding things—perhaps even from yourself. A dream of illicit love or sheer lust can also indicate a disappointment or failure due to your own greed.

Dreaming about being late or missing an important meeting.

To dream that you arrive late for something may mean that you are neglecting a responsibility, or you'd like to avoid the thing you're late for. Dreaming of feeling bad about being late can mean your are experiencing or fearing a loss of control or fear being controlled by outside circumstances in your life. Being late in a dream can also represent passive-aggression towards an authority figure.

Dreaming about arguing with or killing your boss.

To dream that you're attacking someone may represent your need to release some pent-up frustration and anger over a feeling that you have been wronged. To dream that you are being attacked by someone, on the other hand, signifies that questions have been raised about your character resulting in a need to defend yourself, and may also be faced with difficult changes in your waking life. A dream about your boss is usually not about your boss but about yourself - each one of us has a part of ourselves that is (either consciously or unconsciously) in control of the other parts, making decisions and accepting responsibility. Arguing with or killing this representation of yourself may indicate your unwillingness to change and adapt to a new situation.

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Ralph Waldo Trine: DREAM WORK

The mind acting intently along a particular line will continue so to act until some other object of thought carries it along another line. And since in sleep only the body is in quiet while the mind and soul are active, then the mind on being given a certain direction when one drops off to sleep, will take up the line along which it is directed, and can be made, in time, to bring over into consciousness the results of its activities. Some will be able very soon to get results of this kind; for some it will take longer. Quiet and continued effort will increase the faculty.

Then by virtue of the law of the drawing power of mind, since the mind is always active, we are drawing to us even while sleeping influences from the realms kindred to those in which we in our thoughts are living before we fall asleep. In this way we can put ourselves into relation with whatever kinds of influence we choose, and accordingly gain much during the process of sleep.

In many ways the interior faculties are more open and receptive while we are in sleep than while we are awake. Hence the necessity of exercising even greater care as to the nature of the thoughts that occupy the mind as we enter into sleep ...

And for the same reason - this greater degree of receptivity during this period - we are able by understanding and using the law to gain much of value more readily in this way than when the physical senses are fully open to the material world about us.

- Ralph Waldo Trine, Quotes from In Tune with the Infinite, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1960, pp. 110-112

Dreams in Kabbalah

In Kabbalah dreams are divided into three categories.

The first type of dream is concerned with immediate events. This means those involving the three triads centred upon the Yesodic-ego that often carry over into sleep the momentum of mundane activities, such as dreaming that one is still driving a car after a long journey.

The second order of dream is of a deeper nature and is focused upon Tiferet-Self. Here issues of the soul and the individual's integrity are brought out of the unconscious and projected into the screen of Yesod during sleep so that the ego's attention is awakened to the problem. These dreams are more complex to interpret.

The third order of dream, in Kabbalah, is called prophetic dream. The greater prophets were considered to be awake when they were given these visions. (Today also called “Luciod dreaming”). According to tradition, the soul, during sleep, is free to wander in the World of formation, although the physical connection is never broken. Many dreams have the quality of 'astral travel'.

Individuals of a greater development ascend to the upper face of Yezirah and the lower face of Beriah or the transpersonal realm of the Spirit. Here the most highly evolved individuals commune with the Divine during deep sleep and receive revelations 'face to face', as the Bible puts it. However, as in everything Kabbalah urges balance, for to become too preoccupied with dreams is to live in the wrong world ... and therefore only those dreams that are naturally remembered should be noted. This was the psyche's original intention. To examine every dream can become obsessional, like X-raying our alimentary canal every time we have a meal.