5254. 'And I have heard about you' means the ability of the celestial of the spiritual; and 'it is said that when you hear a dream you can interpret it' means to discern what it is that things foreseen hold within them. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing about you' as discerning and coming to now that its nature is such and therefore that it possessed that kind of ability; from the representation of 'Joseph', to whom these words are addressed, as the celestial of the spiritual, dealt with in 4286, 4592, 4594, 4963, 5086, 5087, 5106; from the meaning of 'hearing' as discerning, dealt with in 5017; from the meaning of 'a dream' as that which is foreseen, dealt with just above in 5252; and from the meaning of 'interpreting' as what it held within it, also dealt with above, in 5253. From all these meanings it is evident that 'I have heard about you - it is said that when you hear a dream you can interpret it' means the ability which the celestial of the spiritual possesses to discern what it is that things foreseen hold within them.