Forgetting
Losing access to a piece of knowledge — what happens, with or without intent, when something stops being held.
Forgetting in a dream is the dream's image of what happens, with or without intent, when something stops being held. Forgetting is not always a failure; some forgettings are the necessary letting-go of material the mind has no further use for. The dream brings forgetting when something in your life — a grudge, a phone number, a piece of training, a deceased friend's voice — has begun to fade in a way that is part loss and part release. A forgetting accepted as honest release is the dream affirming the natural fading. A forgetting noticed too late, with the loss now uncorrectable, is the dream noting that the holding was skipped at moments when it could have been done, and what is gone is gone for the rest of the life.