Odilon Redon, The Dream (Le Rêve), c. 1904–1905 You are back in the same house. Or taking an exam you somehow forgot to prepare for. Perhaps you are trying to reach someone but can never quite get there. You are being pursued, but your legs won’t move. You need to speak, but no sound comes out. Then you wake up. And perhaps you have been waking from some version of this same dream for years. People often ask what a recurring dream “means.” But there may be a more useful quest