what's happening
Dreaming of laughing
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of Quiet laughter among family, at table, in daylight, was read kindly, ease returning to the house after a hard season.
Drawn down, it warns of But loud laughing in dreams Artemidorus read by the rule of opposites, mirth foretelling tears. To laugh in a public place was counted worst of all.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Laughter in a dream is tension discharging, the psyche loosening a knot the day pulled tight. The thing you can finally laugh about is a thing you have begun to own.
Drawn down, it warns of Laughter at the wrong moment, at a funeral, at someone's pain, is feeling inverted, grief or fear wearing the only mask that would get it into the room. Ask what in you needed the disguise.
Did you dream this?
Keep it before it fades
Write the dream down in your journal and the cards will name its symbols for you, or have the whole dream read in full.