While at camp last summer, I had a recurrent dream that I would forget my mother's birthday, which would occur while I was away from home, and for which I would not be able to get home.  In one of these dreams I had forgotten to call or write greetings for her birthday, and when I returned home found she had died. My father, to console himself, was reading "The Bird's Xmas Carol." I took the book from him, to read it myself. In the manner of dreams, however, I read ahead of the print, and it was meaningless.  I had a feeling of great remorse at my mother's death, and felt a stronger love for her than I had ever known while she was alive.  The dream left a strong impression, and even now, when I think of it, experience a feeling of great tenderness toward my mother. Interpretation I do not know why I worried in my dream about forgetting my mother's birthday, for I had looked forward for several weeks to calling her and talking to her.  The "Bird's Xmas Carol" reminded me of a similar incident that happened when I was ten and in the 5th grade, our teacher, just before Christmas vacation, read the story to our class, and while she read it, I experienced the same feeling of love and tenderness toward my mother. I remember running home from school at lunch time to see if she were all right. Answers to questions 2. Sadness3. Participant4. Unpleasant5. Not the same dream precisely, but similar dreams with the same basic problem.