Having a request fulfilled often depends on the circumstances. After she wakes up one morning, a woman tells her husband: "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's Day. What do you think it means?"

"You'll know tonight," the husband replies.

That evening, he comes home with a package and gives it to his wife. Delighted, she rips off the wrapping paper and opens the box. Inside she finds a book: "The Meaning of Dreams."