The right to express one’s will belongs to the man who has the power to assert oneself as a living, feeling, and thinking man, endowed with a soul and a conscience, who believes in God, loves one’s family, and serves others faithfully and truthfully.

 

Everything internal is a reflection of the external, and only then does everything external become a reflection of the internal; and by interpreting each dream, we become aware of all the motivations, intentions, and actions of the external world – that is, the people surrounding the dreamer – directed toward him. Furthermore, being independent and mature, a man knows that no one has the right to judge others. Only God can judge people, and the dreamer bears responsibility for their own psychological reality, refusing to blame or criticize their own mother and father for all their difficulties, hardships, and psychological and physical pain up until the age of 17. And at the same time, by virtue of free will, every living man has the full right to know the truth about themselves and their psychological reality, as well as to analyze and understand the intentions, motivations, messages, and desires of others directed at them, refusing to distort or introduce falsehood into what is, even if this knowledge is painful.

 

Until adolescence, the responsibility for a child’s life and destiny lies with their parents, not the other way around. But once a man becomes an adult and an independent individual, all responsibility for everything that happened in childhood rests with the men themselves, and this is wonderful, because only then does the opportunity arise to discover new values. It is precisely at this point, where a man ceases to blame and simultaneously ceases to distort the truth, that the very purpose of dream interpretation emerges: the opportunity to extract value from the soul’s most difficult material.

 

With this document, we, Evgenii and Olga, the leaders of the indigenous Veps people of the Laksha clan, wish to show how people discover the most important spiritual values through a concrete example, when painful knowledge about childhood, parents, and one’s own inner decisions ceases to be a sentence and becomes the foundation for mature freedom, meaning, and a new foundation for life.

 

A dream that a woman had when she was 7 years old: "It’s evening, around 10 o’clock. I’m lying in my room, on my bed. To the right of my bed is the door to the hallway. The door is open, and the light is on in the hallway. Out of the corner of my eye, I see my mother mopping the floor in the hallway. I’m lying on my back. I’m covered with a blanket, looking at the ceiling. A shadow has formed on the ceiling from objects outside the window. This shadow looks like a small square grid, which disappears, and a gray-haired gnome with a white beard in a red cap appears at the window and says, "Cover yourself completely with the blanket, including your head, or your mother will kill you." I get very scared and pull the blanket over my head. Then I roll onto my right side, peeking cautiously out from under the blanket. And suddenly I see the same gnome standing on the floor to the right of the bed. He is short, staring intently at me and saying, "I told you to cover yourself completely with the blanket, including your head, or your mother will kill you at night!"

 

Interpretation: The mother chooses to mop the floors instead of putting her child to bed. Putting her child to bed is unimportant, unnecessary, not worthy of attention. There are more pressing matters. Mopping the floors – erasing traces, wiping out facts, hiding emotions, distorting the truth. Second layer of meaning: floors are washed after a man’s death, once the body has been carried out of the house. Following this logic, the mother washes the floor after her daughter’s death – the daughter must be hidden, covered up with housework, a mask of propriety: a good mother, a good housewife, order in the home. And beneath this mask lies cruelty. The girl lies in bed in her room. But to get there, she had to walk down the hallway. This means the mother is washing away the traces after the girl has already passed through, meaning the girl has already been buried.

 

The girl’s room becomes an image of a cemetery: a place where the body is carried. The bed symbolizes a coffin: one must lie in it properly, covered up to one’s head. The open door to the room confirms the feeling: the mother knew and witnessed what was happening. Next, a dwarf appears. The dwarf is not a fairy-tale character. He is a figure of authority who does not protect but rather seals the sentence. Within the woman, he is perceived as a father: one who could have stopped it but chooses the role of an observer. The one who knows but remains silent; present right next to the threat itself, yet at the same time pretending that everything is normal.

 

The mother and the dwarf are in cahoots: they both want the same thing – the girl’s consent to be dead. The dwarf is also the father. Here, the father is not a protector but an outside observer: he knows about the crime but does not stop it. The girl stares at the ceiling; the shadows on the ceiling symbolize emotional pain and an attempt to understand what is happening to her, a desire to see not just the ceiling, but the sky, the world, and God. But instead of God, the dwarf appears and says, " Cover yourself completely with the blanket, including your head, or your mother will kill you." This phrase is constructed as a trap. It sounds like a warning, but in essence it is an order to die. " Cover yourself completely, including your head" means disappear, don’t breathe, agree to be dead. And the most terrifying thing is that it requires the girl’s own consent to disappear, to fall silent, to give up her life for the sake of survival.

 

At the same time, the gnome father is lying. After all, if he sees a threat and remains near it, that means he is already part of the deceitful system. By allowing this interlude, he confirms: "this is right." His word becomes final, and it is precisely this that sustains the child’s faith: if the father said so, then that is how it must be. This is how the distortion takes shape: the child’s trust is used against the child herself. But something important happens in the dream: the girl seems to agree and hides under the blanket, yet then a second cycle begins. She peeks out again; a movement toward life reappears. She turns onto her right side, as if searching for another way out. The gnome is everywhere; he continues to insist: do as you’re told. But the dream ends at the point where the girl does not cover herself with the blanket. This is the moment of refusal to be dead. The living girl has a choice and has a will.

 

The woman’s dream symbolized psychological violence built on suggestion, the substitution of meanings, the distortion of reality, intimidation, and the induction of chronic anxiety and helplessness. When something like this happens to a child, a secret knowledge often arises within – it is what hides deep inside and becomes a thread back to life. The woman said immediately: she knows what this secret knowledge is. As a child, when things were especially hard, after yet another wave of pain, she invented a game. She would cover herself with a thick blanket, pulling it over her head, and hold her breath until there was no oxygen left at all. And when the urge to breathe became agonizing, she would suddenly pull the blanket off and inhale the fresh, cool air deeply. And it was precisely in that moment that she felt God helping her. And then we asked her to explain: what is the difference between the gnome-father and the God she felt at the moment of inhaling? And she, startled, exclaimed: "God wants people to breathe, to live, to want to live. God wants people to be happy, not to be afraid, to know their rights, and to remember that a man is born free and, by right of birth, endowed with the power to create, to love, and to do good on earth. But the gnome wanted the girl not to breathe. He frightened, coerced, broke, confused, and distorted. He did not speak of freedom and demanded she disappear. And when the woman was able to distinguish within herself what was salvation from what was destruction, she spoke aloud a phrase that contained liberation and the restoration of the right to life: "My father is not a gnome. My father is God. That is enough for happiness. I am alive."

 

Our esteemed dreamer asked us to publish her dream, our interpretation, and the subsequent revelations that occurred during our wonderful meeting. We are fulfilling the will of a living woman and thank God for all His gifts!

 

We wish all people in the world good health, joy, and true happiness. And we thank God for everything He gives us! We continue our research and, without delay, set out to meet the new challenges that open up to us through dreams; and, cherishing our loyalty to one another, we find within ourselves the strength and fortitude to remain faithful to a life path that, though not easy, is beloved and consciously chosen.