Dream About the Watch November 6, 2002
When my adoptive sister, Terry, died I was told she had left me one of her rings. Although we had never been close, I felt this gesture of leaving me something was important. For as long as I could remember I believed Terry hated me, or at least resented my presence in the family, so this gift was completely unexpected.
I looked forward to receiving the ring because this meant an effort had been made towards reconciliation. Perhaps those last few hours we spent together inspired this offering.* However, the family (Ellen in particular, as she felt I did not deserve to be given a personal item) decided I should not receive the ring, and I never did. This dream reminded me of that incident, once again having something meant to be mine given to an unintended recipient. There is a sense of missing time or being one step out of sync when something like this happens: theft without recourse.
There was a family reunion I attended with reluctance. At the beginning of the dream Duncan and Helen came up to me and were making every effort to convince me my childhood had been normal. There had been no secrets, no agenda to conceal information or hide the truth from me. But I kept at them, not believing what they were saying to me. I said I found out I had missed almost a year of school due to various surgeries and wanted that explained.
Helen kept saying she didn’t know what I was talking about. No matter how hard I pushed they would not give in, telling me nothing. The only thing I could get out of them was an explanation that made no sense to me which had to do with a watch left to me by my grandfather. Of course I never received this watch and was now even more confused.
The dream ended with me not feeling any clarity, but left wondering about this watch. It was a connection I did not have before, and when I awoke I felt like I knew this watch was real and I should have received it.
Funny enough, only a few months ago (2017) I had a spiritual reading done. The woman who did this reading sketches an image of the message she receives while explaining what she is being told. In the image were a man and woman from the late 30s or early 40s. They were living in Canada at the time and were staying at a hotel somewhere on the prairies.
They were in some way connected to my father, though not blood relatives. What was interesting was the fact my surrogate grandfather’s most prized possession was a gold pocket watch (he was, I believe, the man in the sketch). I had forgotten about the dream but I do remember purchasing a gold pocket watch after having the dream because I understood the watch was significant in some way.
A connection was forged and I had another piece of the puzzle, although I still didn’t know at the time who this couple was.
*see Reconciliation, Chapter IV, page 130
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