Meaning of …
Among some books being donated to the annual book sale are a few dream dictionaries. My wife explained, “I don’t need them. My dreams need to be interpreted from within. You can’t just go get the answer from a book.”
It reminded me of some friends who had a book entitled Animal Speak by Ted Andrews, which seems to be a dictionary of animal meanings. Like a dream dictionary, but with animals instead. These particular friends would sometimes say things like, “We saw way more deer than usual, so we looked them up in Animal Speak …” On the other hand, they seemed to enjoy Animal Speak and found the meanings in it to be helpful and accurate to their lives, which is the opposite of my wife’s experience in dreams.
Is Animal Speak a better book than dream dictionaries? Are animal meanings somehow more universal than dream symbols? Or is it possible that god could guess these particular friends would look up animal meanings in Animal Speak, and chose the matching creature based on the message he wanted to send?