Background- Some weeks ago we purchased a large chest of drawers at
a church rummage sale, and it sat there behind the sale tent with it's drawers stacked next to it. We brought it home and never assembled it, until
last Sunday(the day before this dream) when our daughter had asked for it. We brought it up to her room and assembled it and here we saw that one of the drawers was missing!
What rotten luck! What good was it?

The daughter who the chest had been delivered to was ill, and had a very severe sleeping disorder which seemed to keep her from functioning hardly at all. She had seen a doctor many times and still no good diagnosis. My wife especially had prayed much for an answer as to what she needed to regain her life.

The dream began with a view of the chest of drawers at the church. A voice said that the chest was a part of a mesage that was to be delivered to the person who received the chest. It was important to note that the message was coming from a church. Then there was a view of the chest there in the room with it's missing drawer and the voice said that the chest had a missing part and that was it's problem, and that our daughter had a missing
part also, perhaps a missing chemical or a mostly absent gland and that would be found upon closer examination. Correcting that missing item would cure her.

Then I woke up and I tried to repeat it to myself so I would not forget the dream, and the next day I told my wife, and she was very impressed because she had worried terrible over this problem, just that day, and she had prayed and asked for help.

We want to have her given a complete medical examination to see if this
missing item idea is true.

By all means do so. The dream may be correct or incorrect, but it certainly sets forth a legitimate avenue of investigation.

Yes, get a complete medical exam.

(I don't understand what the doctors she has already seen have done?)

The chest of drawers can be used in dreams to suggest a situation in which there is “something to get off one’s chest”, i.e. to express some grievances or anger. As a chest of drawers is a piece of furniture, it also represents a belief that has use in the house/mind. As this chest is seen in a church, we are looking at a belief that falls probably under the protection of Christian thinking.

The unseen voice is usually understood as representing the voice of higher consciousness/intelligence or as the voice of God. Here apparently, this chest or spiritually related belief, is part of a message or information that is meant for the one receiving the chest – in this case, seemingly your daughter. As the chest is to be “delivered” to the person, the belief it represents is meant as a ‘deliverance’, i.e. it is meant to be regarded as just what is needed; as a salvation. That it was important to note that this message was coming from a church, strongly emphasizes that the belief being referred to here is a spiritual belief – one associated with Christian thinking.

The chest with a missing drawer indicates that a belief is not being seen in its complete form. The missing drawer indicates that some conclusion or assumption has been drawn from it but in a way that the belief is no longer what it was meant to be. Because beliefs are self fulfilling, the belief now cannot serve its proper function – just as a chest with a missing drawer cannot serve its purpose fully. The problem is the missing aspect of a spiritual belief.

The dream wording: “perhaps a missing chemical or a mostly absent gland”, being suggested as being the daughter’s problem is again another assumption. The two possible causes indicate that a negative and wrong cause is being proposed by your higher intelligence – one that focuses entirely upon a physical cause. Such a cause might be found on closer examination – if the family “believes” this. But again – it is important to remember that the message comes of spiritual thinking. [This would seem to imply that if the missing aspect of your daughter’s spiritual belief were restored, she could be cured.

[Sleep in dreams would be interpreted as being able to rest with complete peace of mind. We often say that a person whose conscience is clear sleeps well. Could your daughter have something on her conscience that is disturbing her? In this regard, the one Christian belief I have seen giving many people a problem is the one concerning the forgiveness of God. They are unable to accept the idea that God can forgive them of whatever they feel is “unforgivable”. Perhaps your daughter might benefit from a private consultation with the minister of the church or an elder person who has a better understanding of this belief. Does your daughter have dreams that might be useful?]

I concur, so long as the medical examination is also pursued. A sleeping disorder - persistent trouble sleeping - can often arise from a guilty conscience or unacknowledged sin; and there's no reason a psycho-spiritual problem cannot somatize (result in a diagnosable physical condition.)

The chest was bought at a church, and it would have been quite possible to count the drawers; but this was not done. It appears in a dream at the same church, where it seems the initial oversight was necessary if the dream's message were to have any meaning. This is not the first dream to raise the question, "When is a coincidence no coincidence?"

Interesting dream. I do like the connection between the missing drawer and the missing piece of the puzzle, i.e., the puzzle involving the daughters sleep problem. It could be a missing chemical such as serotonin or melatonin.