Conclusions
For many of us in our senior years, our ideational train is full during the Holiday season. This train is often full at other times of the year. Many passengers from our extended past are on board when we are dreaming during our older years. The train picks up riders (such as my favorite broadcaster) who are not directly related to a specific event in our life but are somehow related in our dreams to special people and special events in our life. Like Ebeneezer Scrooge, we might find that our dreams during this time offer us rich insights regarding expectations and values in life. As Ebeneezer discovered, it is never too late to discover something new about ourselves, nor do we need to bypass the opportunity to become better human beings. Not only are we not too old to dream, we are not too old to learn and grow from our dreams (as well as our hypnagogic and hypnopompic states).
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