2021/12/25 Friday <MERRY CHRISTMAS!>

[Richard Silk]

I had 2 dreams that stuck with me through the morning but they evaporated by the time I got around to writing this, but I did want to say "Merry Christmas!" to everyone. One of the ideas that came through as I was waking up involved meditating on how Jesus is the Word (biblehub.com/john/1.htm) and the Word is the Seed (biblehub.com/matthew/13.htm) thus, Word Seed is like an "orgasmic pair" of words/thought :-)

[Richard Silk]

Man, I really do get the days mixed up at times. Yesterday (the 25th) was a SATURDAY, whereas I listed it as "Friday" in the subject line. OOF! At any rate....

Last night / this morning, I had something like a "story in progress" of an individual, the dreamer, exiting a vehicle that felt as if it belonged to somebody else, yet the dreamer somehow felt protective of it. The car's owner (a teen / possibly college student) had left the car unlocked, and the dreamer felt that this could lead to a break-in / possible theft / damage of anything in the interior, and was still about the area of the car when in fact some type of unwarranted activity came into the scene.
The dreamer was being defensive for the vehicle and its owner. Whatever scuffle may have been approaching the vehicle left the scene (possibly "fled") as the vehicle owner returned to the vehicle, and (IF I'm remembering this correctly!) tossed the keys to the dreamer. ("I" recall catching the keys.) It felt akin to "you defend it, you keep it."

This scene was followed by the dreamer continuing into campus (at a place similar to MTSU) for what felt like a semester final of some sort (possibly even that exam a graduate student takes *in order to qualify* for graduation.) The dreamer was approaching one building wherein a lady (perhaps in her 40s? 50s?) was on the outside of the door, locking up, as if "anyone not inside when the door is locked is late / excluded from taking the test" but the dreamer was able to pull the door open (as the key had not yet latched the door) and made it "in" to take the test.
The NEXT part was *finding* the testing location, only someone (20-ish) seated at a desk was confirming with the dreamer that from this point one was to keep completely silent and keep one's answers to oneself so as to avoid any hint of impropriety, such as cheating. The dreamer nodded agreement and continued on, only it was unclear as to exactly where the test location *was*, and in fact it the scene seemed to open up to the courtyard behind the (old) Student Union Building (between the LRC and the (old) Todd Library) rather than into a controlled testing environment. There was also some minor, hushed / quiet verbal interaction between the dreamer and someone else, but as to who or why is unclear, other than perhaps the dreamer may have been trying to find the exact location of where the test was being given. Clarity 9 due to the plot complexity but the lighting was more like a 9-, as if it had been an slightly overcast day rather than a bright and sunny day.

[Richard Silk]

021/12/29 Wednesday:

Had a string of dreams on Tuesday morning / fully intended to write them down / things got busy and they evaporated.
This morning, a BUNCH of dreams evaporated, but one set in particular seemed to "stick" (pun somewhat incidental):

There was a kind of "balloon" wrapper, not unlike an intestinal lining (very thin) with something inside. And although it was tubular and about 2"-3" in diameter at places (as if inflated) it was also around 12" long but *curled* up, practically as if in a ball. For whatever reason, the dreamer felt curious enough to tear open the lining to reveal what was inside of it, only to find (of all things!) a cactus plant! How this came to be was not really explained, although there was the *suggestion* that *maybe* this is how the baby cactus "grew" until it was ready to grow on its own. In real life, this is utter nonsense, as a cactus simply "buds" (sometimes LOTS of buds!) all around its body, and these buds either continue growing out of the body or, typically, get pulled or otherwise somehow "brushed" off, and they grow where they land, a bit like briar weeds.

In this dream, the SUPER unusual thing about this cactus (which was around 4"–6" tall, and around 4" in diameter, maybe 5" *including* ¾" spines, and LOTS of those!) was that it could actually be held with ungloved hands, and despite the slightly "prickly" nature of the spines, it was actually almost "cuddly" like a puppy! The dreamer felt a genuine feeling of affection for the plant!

In other news, this video link: tinyurl.com/2ndComingOfJesus — demonstrates the physics property of a superconductor, which (in my opinion) is a physics analogy to the Resurrection and the Life, aka The 2nd Coming of Christ.

[Richard Silk]

As it's the end of the year, I'll be "tagging" 12/30 and 12/31 onto the end of Christmas :-)

I had this largely symbolic yet VERY realistic dream toward the middle of the night, possibly closer toward dawn, wherein the dreamer felt to be "in his 30s" or possibly 20s, but "he" did feel *very much* like myself back in my teens and later pizza driving years (starting in my 20s.) There was a large, outdoor/indoor type location, similar to a farm compound, starting with an indoor area framed over a slab of concrete, not unlike those outdoor / indoor wings of Wal*Mart or Lowes' garden areas, although there were no stock shelves to speak of, just a large, slab concrete floor area.

There also appeared to be some type of cart, roughly 8' long x 3' wide, possibly slightly shorter & narrower, on wheels (castors) low to the ground with a *large* ∩- shaped handle (for pushing) that came up at least to chest height. On the cart (that had to've had sides of at least a few inches) were several green plants, perhaps 18" tall (maybe 2') but all uniform in height, as if they'd been grown in a greenhouse or other controlled environment, probably from seeds, and the objective was to get the cart of plants outside into a more open area, allegedly for transplanting.

The dreamer was almost independently intent on getting the cart out there simply for the challenge of the task. There did not appear to be any foreman giving orders, although it MAY have been a suggestion from the omniscient narrator-mind within the dream.

As the dreamer was getting the cart over the threshold of what could pass for a doorway in a wall, the scene changed to an outdoor venue that was like a cemetery, where a grave was being dug. Apparently the body was being buried mostly "as is," without any mortuary prep to speak of, and even the contents of the body's pockets had not been checked... that is, until the dreamer had a notion to go through the pockets.

There was at *least* a pen knife (perhaps 5" long, folded up) of a pale, yellowish color (most pen knives I've encountered in real life have had a dark, woody color) but I'm *pretty sure* the dreamer personally pocketed the knife, rather than returning it to the pocket of the deceased. Some thought of retaining value in the world flit through the mind.

There were then seen a sizable *pile* of small, round objects that where at first thought to be coins, but the dreamer thrust his hand into the pile and brought up button-like objects, ALL with faces upon them, ALL smaller than dimes. There is the possibility (although it wasn't fully explained clearly) that those faces MAY have all represented "past lives"— but whether they were past lives of the dreamer, or simply lives that had passed, was not made perfectly clear, or even if there was a difference at all.

At about this point, the dreamer took a GOOD look around the cemetery. Along the edges were LARGE statues, and for some reason, I recall thinking of them in terms of school busses. Like 5 or 6 school busses in length, and (as seen from their front) enough busses wide that the width was either the same as the length OR slightly less. The focus on the size of the bases was drawn by the nature of the statue itself (actually, there were more than one, but the first one got the most attention.) It looked a bit like a cross between a great horned owl and the Roman god of Mercury, with the winged helmet. It also had a kind of "Mars" (god of War) vibe to it as well. It seemed made of either concrete and/or marble, but also had some decorative areas that looked like polished brass and/or copper. (Not the corroded, green copper exposed to weathering, but bright, well-shined copper, like a new penny!)

The dreamer was wondering why there were these "pagan" statues in a cemetery, even as the "newer" one seemed a bit like a cross between Uncle Sam and a Bald Eagle. The dreamer didn't get much time on that statue, as the action came back to the field, and then into the structure (with the slab concrete floor) and a guy who appeared *possibly* "not-all there" as it were. He had reddish hair, not more than shoulder length, but pulled OUT to each side, as if he'd shaped his hair like a lumberjack might shape his handlebar mustache.

He had a peculiar way of talking (as if he believed in false idols / false gods, perhaps?) and (along with his odd hair style) the dreamer figured he was simply emulating one of the deity-statues out in the cemetery.

The dream ended with the thought that the cart had been left outside, but there wasn't much (if anything) said about the plants being left on the cart. Although this was all VERY much in the clarity 9 zone, I suspect there was a TON of symbolism from the 7 zone, and there was a LOT of room for question / answer, but apparently that's about to get handled here "in post":

I have a HUNCH that the statues represented *cultural* "idols of the past" that have gone into making the world what it is today, namely, into making my LIFE what it is today. I have a HUNCH that ALL those buttons with faces on them (and there was a PILE of them! Hundreds, easily!) *may* have represented my own, personal past-lives. Keep in mind that every properly married couple (male AND female) could have been represented by one OR two buttons, but that thought was never detected *during* the dream itself. The trees / saplings might possibly represent the lives I have effected (or even spawned!) as a result of having sired 4 children of my own, not to mention any number of lives that could have been "seeded" as a *result* of interactions in my life.

So much for "The Cemetery."

Another (awkward) dream involved my (late) father (in his younger years.) Apparently, he'd collected my (small) garbage bucket / trash basket from my bedroom. Not totally unusual, but not entirely in character, either, as he'd be more of the one insisting *I* take care of the trash. So as I (the dreamer) was looking for where the waste basket had gone, I found a rather LARGE oven in the kitchen, similar to the types used for baking pizzas in places like Domino's and Pizza Hut (at least, like the kind they *used* to operate. I have no idea what they're like these days.) Only this wasn't as wide as a pizza oven, but almost. It also had a slightly curved top (rather than flat) that may have been chromed or in some manner showing a polished, stainless steel front "arch" as it were. (This was a "gentle" curve, nothing major, maybe 4" tall at the center.)

Now for the "really awkward" part: The upper shelf inside the oven had been "filled" in front with bottles of soap-type cleaners. This was disturbing but the bottles had not yet reached any high temperature, although the dreamer was making his concerns heard with respect to the future likelihood that the plastic would melt and there'd be a mess of monumental proportions. But as to WHY Dad had put those bottles there, such was not made clear. Perhaps it's symbolic of "cleansing one's past"? (Clarity 8+.)

There was *yet another* "cemetery" type dream, only this one was "closer to home" as it were: The dreamer was (possibly driving in a car) traveling around the bend of Whitehall Road, from the east (toward the T-intersection with Scottland Drive) as it bends northward. Along the inside of that bend are at least two houses (in real life) but in the dream the focus was on *one* house, larger than the two IRL, but basically the same land area. Only in the dream, a fence seemed to be in place such that getting around the FRONT of the house would require getting through the fence / a gate somehow, or possibly going through the house itself. Inside that fenced area was known to be a sizable amount of graves (IN THE DREAM, NOT IRL!) The dreamer kept on going (as if driving) and the dream ended. Clarity 8+ / 9-.

As a personal note, my elderly mother has been reporting to me that she's been having dreams of choirs in her head when she wakes up. That could *well* be a sign....