1. The need for rest before undertaking something big.2. About to go to a kind of war (“going to the mattresses”).

Troublesome work or difficulties. Also refers to bed and camp / cot (in the past consisting of fresh straw or mattresses stuffed with straw).

Example:41 dreamt my sister was attacking me with a pair of scissors. She backed me against a wall and stabbed me. During the day after the dream my sister phoned...