Memory
A returned piece of the past — material that is no longer happening but is back in the room.
Memory in a dream is the dream's image of a piece of the past that is no longer happening but is back in the room. Memory is not playback; the piece is selected, and the selection is doing work. The dream brings the memory when something in your life — a smell, a phrase, a face — has reactivated a layer that the present needs in order to be read correctly. A memory welcomed and looked at is the dream affirming that the connection between then and now is honest. A memory ambushing you, with no permission asked, is the dream noting that the layer was not finished with, and the past has chosen its own moment to return.