Speaking of dreams...

...I ran across an anecdote the other day I hadn't heard before. It seems a young woman of advancing, though not yet unduly advanced, age started up the following conversation with her long-term boyfriend one evening...

"Dear," she begins, "I had the strangest dream last night."

"Really?" her beau responds. "What happened that was so strange?"

"Well, for some reason, you gave me a present -- the most enormous diamond ring. It was just so lovely." She looks up at him demurely. "What do you think that meant?"

He smiles indulgently and answers, "Wait until tomorrow, and then you'll know."

The next day, she is somewhat bemused when he comes up to her with a carefully-wrapped present. "What's this?"

"Go ahead, open it."

So she opens it -- and it's a book, entitled The Meaning of Dreams...