Carling Ella,
I appreciate your response. It provides insights to how patterns in dreams will expose themselves in common language as well as symbolic references.

Some dreams speak loud and clear and there can be a good chance of being able to analyze them beyond just the periphery. Yours was one of those. What gave me the impression it was to do about age was the several instances where the word 'pattern' was mentioned. Dreams are messengers of emotional patterns that align with the dreamer's personality and psyche. Being your birthday {and the fact it was on your mind when you posted the dream} gave me credible evidence age and getting older were the 'pattern' this dream was addressing. The butterfly image is a common symbol of transformation and my experience led me to sense your dream death pretty much identified itself {butterflies mean someone is going to die}. When you read the dream the only image that was not symbolic was your husband. That said to me there was likely a real discussion with him about this issue. The other images are pretty much common 'self' symbols of you {the apt building and the 'some girl'}. Anytime there is a unnamed/unknown person in a dream it represents some aspect of the dreamer. Houses, cars, buildings are common symbols for the dreamer also. And of course so is the butterflies. Start with a birthday, add the butterflies {a transformation}, with dying {death to an old aspect/transforming}, along with the tattoo {inherent imprinted behavioral tendencies}, to the conversation with your husband and you come up with an emotional conflict that has been discussed and remains unresolved within your mind {dreams are all about emotional conflicts and their intent is to inform the dreamer of these conflicts so there can be a resolution-nature's therapeutic mechanism just as with the immune system is for the body}.

The maturity part seemed logical because you were giving thought to this issue at 26. This for me implied wisdom even though its exact application was not possible to read {a year of marriage and the experience with the two children}. Because there is an unnamed person who was to going to die and we take that unnamed person to be you then it would represent some aspect about you will die {transformation from one stage of life to another-midlife}. Tattoos are imprinted into the 'skin' which pointed to an 'imprinted' aspect, which would point to inherent aspects and the archetypes {the stages of life are governed by inherent energies we are born with}. The pattern became clear with all that was in the dream and pointed to an issue of age and wisdom.

Jerry

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