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There is an old nursery rhyme (pause), that you heard as a child. I cannot get it clearly, something like Tom Tucker with his thumb, and the next line had to do with a plum. (Pause.) This was part of the association leading to the dream. As mentioned, Ruburt’s interpretation was correct. The climbing up was also connected with fruit, as you might climb a tree to pluck it. (Pause.) There were no health connotations to the dream, it did not have that kind of meaning. You recognized your fear when you saw it in the dream as objectified on your thumb, and then you allowed it to disappear.

(Here is my dream of October 9, that I asked Seth interpret: “Color. I dreamed that I had a cancerous wart or nodule right at the tip of my right thumb, where it bothered me to hold a brush or pencil. Had been there a long time. I believe a doctor told me it was cancer—not very dangerous, could be removed in his office. I had to climb up a long ladder set against a building wall to get to the doctor and even as I talked to him I had to stand below him and look up. He was dominant, round-faced with thick glasses. Wore a white coat, I believe, and peered down at me like an owl.”

(“Then the thumb was clear. I examined it, and didn’t need an operation.”

[...] They were like thumbs in your estimation, subconsciously, to hold back the dam of feared eventuality. [...]

[...] She said she had some extra freedom of motion in her right thumb. [...]

[...] He began by telling us to watch Jane’s thumb. [...]

(The glow spread up the length of the thumb to the mound of flesh at its base, next to the palm. [...]

[...] Such differences or variations are very noticeable at a certain level, if you have more fingers than you are supposed to, or less, or two thumbs to a hand, or any other condition that is considered an abnormality.

[...] There are several V shapes on the print, and a prominent one between the thumb and forefinger. [...]

[...] We think this is a reference to part of the technique in reading a hand; as described in the book it is not only necessary to consider the lines, but the “mounts”, which are the high points of flesh at the base of the fingers, the thumb, the heel of the hand, etc. [...]

“He began by telling us to watch Jane’s thumb. [...]

“The glow spread up the length of the thumb to the mound of flesh at its base, next to the palm. [...]

[...] She said both her arms are working better, and that the web of skin between the thumb and the fingers, and between each finger, on her left hand, has softened considerably. [...]

(Just before the session, and after we’d sat for our own experiments at 9:00 PM, Jane reported several obvious improvements—one notably in the suddenly increased flexibility of her right thumb....)

[...] My thumbs then seemed to hold on to a pocket of “no space.”

You have it too much under your thumb, on the one hand, if you will excuse my pun. [...]

[...] They looked to be so, especially the thumbs and index fingers. [...]

[...] Jane and I were so sure Seth would turn thumbs down on the idea that we had not asked the question.)

[...] At one point here the definite feeling was that my thumbs especially were extending themselves through the tips, toward each other in an effort to meet across my body.

[...] Even the thumb and little finger were now involved. [...]

[...] My thumbs definitely felt as if they were grasping the edge of these holes of nothingness; the holes enlarged further, spreading out beneath. [...]

[...] So you are afraid to ‘come under a man’s thumb’ or domination. [...]

[...] You are afraid, so to speak, to come under a man’s thumb for this reason, to come under his domination. [...]