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2022/12/01 Thursday: "The Batman" / costume designer? | The Resurrection

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Richard Silk

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Dec 1, 2022, 10:11:05 AM12/1/22
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As it is a 3 hour movie, I watched "The Batman" (with Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz) over a few nights as kind of a "before bed" viewing, when you're "just nearly tired enough" to turn in but interested in a bit of "what's on the DVR?" so last night, I was far enough along in the plot to watch it the rest of the way to the end (which was nearly 2 hours (±) even at *that* point!

The very last image in the movie was a display of the website, www.rataalada.com, which turns out is now just a single page or two showing a "SEIZED BY GCPD" artwork with a bit of legal disclaimer links at the bottom. Turns out the site *prior* to release of the movie was full of "Easter eggs" and clues (which you can find on YouTube at youtu.be/k9aFo-plUxg *IF* the site / link is still valid.)

The point of all this "prelude" is that last night / this morning, there were basically only two dreams of any lasting power (beyond the evaporation point of waking up) and the first one of note was in regards to [The Batman's] costume material, of all things!

The first view was of a pair of shoes, much like tennis shoes / sneakers, lace up the center, but using a box-grid pattern:
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rather than a traditional, X-up cross-over pattern:
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and there was either a hand or stylus of some sort prodding the material (the "camera perspective" was as a view of "looking down" at a pair of shoes, heel-away from the camera, toe-towards the camera, and if straight above the toe were 12 o'clock noon, and an hypotenuse / diagonal line were drawn to straight back up over the heel, the hypotenuse would be around 10 o'clock to 11:00, whereas the camera perspective was closer to around 1 or 2 (closer toward camera perspective) looking down at the toe.

The discussion was in regards to what type of material was the shoe made of, either canvas or leather, then the view *switched* to a totally different type of shoe, more like an American Indian-type moccasin, with colorful bead-work upon leather threads / "shoe laces" (or maybe the threads were just the stitching around the top of the moccasin? The clarity on either piece of footwear was only around 8±, although the camera orientation / dreamer's perspective was rather clear, like 9+.

For whatever reason, I have the impression that the Batman sneakers segment was somehow in reference to what I (the person dreaming) was up to last night before bed (watching a movie that apparently spawned a dream) while I suspect the moccasin segment *may* be in reference to another contributor to / participant within this space, who for some reason I keep associating with the south-central mid-west (like Arizona / New Mexico.)

The other dream involved something akin to "things related to a car battery," such as a short section of cable that normally goes from the battery to the chassis, or possibly from the + terminal to the first junction box (which then leads to the starter as well as the fuse panel, but those are longer lengths of cable) along with perhaps a rather *single* shot (image-blip) of a typical 12v automotive battery, along with possibly some vise grips (most notably the gripper teeth, like those used on jumper cables) and a block of lead (similar to what may be found atop some battery posts.)

I *suspect* the dream may have *something* to do with religious discussion, along the lines of those who align with God tend to align on the + side of the battery, while those who align with "Satan" tend to align with the - side of the battery.

In Matthew 5:39, Jesus teaches "Resist NOT evil" which drops *all* resistance (to EVERYTHING, "good" OR "evil") to 0, thus creating the "superconductive" effect which "draws energy from BOTH sides" of any power source ( https://photos.app.goo.gl/4UnTyvH3qDfvxd2A8 .)

At any rate, the dream segment with the battery (and bits and pieces) was like a working process of attempting to create a "hook up" configuration that would allow whomever was using the grips / clamps to simply access the battery / start the car / complete the circuit with minimal fuss, not unlike trying to re-invent the jumper cables or a portable car battery starter (some of which may easily be found online.) Clarity somewhere between 7 and 9+.

For what it's worth, if you can "view" that image at the photos.app.goo link (above) you'll see that the R0 superconductive function (from Matthew 5:39) is what powers the Love of God (aka "Love thine enemies" aka [1❤️0], see the picture in the link) which we see as "the Universe" / existence, etc.

Meanwhile, there's also this brief, children's level short story— "The City of Understanding"— which you can read at tinyurl.com/ITTA-TCoU or at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zx031xVjw1opUumR0bwWMRdVsTcPnzhiUCy_aC_nH4k/edit?usp=sharing
(I know, that's a MUCH longer link, but it's the "share" link from Google Docs.)

At any rate, hope everyone is well. Christ is coming!

Richard Silk

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Dec 3, 2022, 1:06:59 PM12/3/22
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Gonna start by backing up to yesterday morning's set of dreams from 12/02 Friday:

Had a dream with a familiar theme, wherein the dreamer somehow "gets into" a flow of water. *Normally,* it's involving a flow of water somewhere along the geographical waterways of Murfreesboro but which are basically creeks or streams (possibly even only intermittent) in real life, wherein a significantly strong current of water as wide as a (relatively narrow) river transports the dreamer *typically* in a left-to-right orientation to some rewarding (or adventurous) destination.

In this particular dream from Thursday night / Friday morning, the dreamer was apparently walking across some terrain that may have offered some daunting challenge which by itself was not immediately apparent (there were no tall or rugged mountains, cliffs, or anything else, only that the waterway seemed a "quicker" means of getting to some destination.)

The dream involved something like a sluice such as the kind used for logging operations, for flowing logs down a narrow, open aqueduct so as to reach a mill or something. Also, this particular sluice / aqueduct (waterway) seemed to be flowing from a vaguely SE direction to a vaguely WNW direction (like around from 3:30– 4 o'clock on a traditional 12-hour clock face, toward around 9:30– 10 o'clock.)

The dreamer intentionally (and easily) got *into* the waterway (feet forward, sitting position) so as to flow down it a bit (lasted for maybe a second, if that much, in dream time.) Then the dreamer just as intentionally got OUT of the waterway in order to stand on "solid ground" so as to survey the area / assess direction, conditions, etc.

Very near the waterway exit point (over only a matter of a few yards, 1 yard being 3') was what appeared to be a cliff. A careful view over the edge of the cliff gave a view *akin to* an aerial drone *out over* the edge, looking down at a nearly 270° angle (perhaps more like 260°?) revealing a rather rugged, rocky cliff face, of perhaps at least 100' in drop (the bottom was never actually "viewed" from the dreamer's perspective. Just knowing the drop off was there was enough to lean away from that edge.) The angle could just as easily be analogous to the view one has when leaning out over a cliff and looking down at the cliff face.

As this dream was from yesterday, any remaining details (which were fuzzy even then) regarding what awaited the dreamer on the land have since evaporated, although there was perhaps a thought of getting back into the waterway to determine where it may have ended, although such did NOT occur within the dream itself. Apparently, standing upon the solid ground was sufficient for the moment. Clarity 8+/9-.

As to last night's / this morning's dreams, the one that still remains dealt with the dreamer either standing on a porch or looking out of a front door (likely standing in the yard in front of the door) and there being a *number* of animals in the area, as if gathering for food. The animals were basically peaceful in that they were not preying upon each other nor scattering, while "in real life" / in nature, certainly some of them would have been after the others, which would have been scattering / running for their lives.
One of the "animals" appeared peculiar, as if two men were wearing a horse (or zebra?) suit. That particular "critter" gave me the impression of a "FALSE" critter. In psychological terms, a double / multiple personality. In religious terms, a demon / wolf in sheep's clothing. In logical terms, simply "FALSE". In political terms, "FAKE" / phony / leftist (it was viewed on the left side of the group, facing center, toward the dreamer's standing position) / hypocrite.

At any rate, it had a clarity of around 8+/9- as well.

Richard Silk

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Dec 4, 2022, 9:24:45 AM12/4/22
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There were two dreams of significant "staying power" from last night/this morning that remained through the "evaporation point" of waking up this morning:

One that came before them had to deal with something regarding an outdoor location. It seemed unfamiliar, like a cross between a thinly populated pine forest (where one could easily walk and see through the trees) and some other area that may have been more open, like a field, although I keep getting this hint that it may have been related to the University (MTSU) (or maybe *any* University?) although the entirety of the dream was around clarity 4 or 5, and I can barely even remember having experienced any of it, thus the scarcity of detail.

Then came one regarding some of my past work environments, namely, that of delivering pizzas, along with that of a job at a hotel as the night clerk. In the dream, it was like one of those situations where the individual (the dreamer) knows (he) has to go to work at possibly both jobs that evening, yet lacks any idea of what hours are to be worked where. (Akin to "I need to call and get my schedules.") In real life, every employee is expected to have one's schedule down for the following week already available and know so as to prevent having to call in to bother the work flow / manager in order to get one's schedule. But hey, it happens.

There also happens to be a number of people in a house, and there's a process going on akin to preparing to leave the house for a period for the evening. In this process, lights are being turned off as the house darkens from one end (right/east) towards the master bedroom (center, south side of hallway) although the more public/living area (left/west) seems to have already been mostly darkened already, leading the activity to focus into the master bedroom.

There's a guy, possibly also a gal, presumably the "lead tenants" in the household, although there wasn't exactly a "father/mother" type vibe. More like a "who's in charge" type of feel. There's also a sense of concern over the turning out of the lights (???) and it's a shade unclear as to whether the guy is actually going to be "leaving" for the evening or staying {in bed.}

The dreamer knows there is a need to get to the pizza delivery job, and yet it's as if the vehicle is *at* the *work location* (the vehicle in mind is the brown & tan Datsun 280-ZX Turbo w/T-Tops from my youth) *rather* than at the house, so the dreamer is going to need a ride to "get to work," and besides that, there's an element akin to needing to bring along two bricks as well (*almost* with a "testicular" function to them!) where one of the females at the house (with sort of a communal-sister sense) offers to provide a ride to work, giving a sense of relief.

Then there's the sense of really needing to call both jobs in order to get the work hours necessary, although it seems logical to simply go to the delivery job and work the hours scheduled (if necessary) then the night desk job can be called to get those hours, if scheduled.

It was at about this time a verse from biblehub.com/nkjv/matthew/6-24.htm just sorta "came to mind" regarding [No man can serve two masters:] [you'll either love the one and hate the other, or serve the one and despise the other.] [Ye cannot serve God and mammon.] — which has an interesting corollary in physics: you can't be in two different places at the same time. Although, with Zoom-type functionality, you can be physically present in one location while being mentally present in a cyber/virtual sub-domain, so to speak. And yet having God (Love (Jesus)) as one's personal Sovereign means that ALL the physical world is within the "domain" of the Sovereign. The physical world is the "virtual domain" of the Kingdom of Heaven.

"GINA SILK!"
The second dream of interest involves the dreamer as if at the lobby of a hotel, as if in the process of checking out, only at a distance from the desk, as if sitting casually, observing the lobby / activity, perhaps awaiting a ride or a departure time.

There is an activity going on around the desk, involving a woman (possibly in her late 50s, but with an energy force more like her 30s or 40s) having some discussion with the desk clerk, as if over the bill or possibly an unsecured reservation, etc., possibly even a case of "mistaken identity" (?)

It seems as if the discussion has to deal with one particular individual, Gina Silk, who appears to be "fictitious" / "fictional" at the moment, whereas the woman customer at the desk appears to be arguing there is no such person. (Just a "hunch," the woman *may* be "Gina Pascoal" IRL, but that's just a hunch as this is, after all, "just a dream." It makes a bit more sense to think of the woman in the dream by using her maiden name, "Gina White.")

The clerk at the desk simply calls aloud, "GINA SILK!" and yes, that name *did* mean something to the dreamer's perspective, although the dreamer sat there watching, then as the lady customer at the counter began to leave, the dreamer began getting up to go see her / talk to her, when the dream ended.

Clarity 9+, as the scenario made *a certain amount* of sense to the dreamer, and even more sense in my perspective as I type this up.

Richard Silk

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Dec 7, 2022, 12:41:42 PM12/7/22
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The dreamer came into a room where a female, very much like Gina in many respects, was on the floor, beneath a bed, in a corner created by the room, and the head of the bed against the wall, sort of like this:
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So while the bed was aimed lengthwise this way: —
she was lying upon the floor, feet towards the dreamer's perspective, this way: ↑
and against the wall on the right.

The dreamer was rather concerned regarding her well-being, as if feeling genuine compassion for a distressed female.

Shocking revelation(!?): this was / is something of a "new emotion" for myself. Once upon a time, in real life, like back when I was around 14 years old, maybe 16? I did manage to help a super-sexy female who was having a "charlie horse" attack out of a swimming pool where the water was over her head (she was maybe 5' if that tall) and gave her leg a *general* massage to work out the cramped muscle, but that was more of a male ego boost than it was in any way "sympathy" or "compassion" for the sexy thing, perhaps because I was "ruled by the little head" back then rather than my heart. So feeling compassion / concern for the Gina-character's condition was certainly an "extremely rare" emotion to be "felt," even during a dream, but to continue:

The dreamer got right up behind her, from her backside / left (it was as if her face were turned either to the floor or possibly toward the wall on the right) and put an arm (right arm) around her and said some consoling words, likely of concern or encouragement, although I honestly have no waking recollection over what was said, or what it was she said in response.

There was, however, some kind of concern over her car. Why? I'm not sure / very little of the verbal details were even remotely understood during the dream, although the next thing that happened was, rather than help her out from under the bed, the dreamer went off immediately in order to *do something* regarding her car, which had the feel of a two-or-four-door type, brownish car of an older model (maybe '70s?) with a rather primitive type of radio.

This was the one thing that was curiously clear: the dreamer was curious as to know what type of music she (the dream-character-like-Gina) listened to, and there appeared to be 3 push-button presets for FM stations in the center, and *maybe* two AM buttons, one to either side of the 3 FM stations.

The dreamer pushed one of the FM buttons (likely the one in the center) and sure enough, it was country music, a bit on the twangy side, a male voice, somewhere in that tenor range of a "country-western" genre.
The dreamer had one of those groaner thoughts, something akin to, "Oh Lord, *country* music!" and, although, in real life there exist *some* (if not *many*) examples of country music that I really enjoy (I *very much like* bluegrass!) the sense of potentially / possibly being in a relationship with a woman who has country music preset as her main station in her car radio was absorbed as "just one of those things I'll have to endure" (if I, the dreamer, sincerely wanted to be in a relationship with her.)

Curiously, I always thought orchestral music was more her flavor, but I never really got around to asking her IRL.

But that's not the end of the dream, oh no...! The dreamer was then on foot for some (unexplained) reason, and heading off in a northern direction (*every* compass direction straight ahead of the camera's perspective is often "north," but that was just the sense of direction within the dream) while the stride-by-stride gait of the dreamer (feeling about 6'+ and at a youthful age, say, around in his 20s) seemed to be going forward, yet over a rather lengthy terrain, as viewed straight ahead— (nothing rugged, but there was a long, straight road, although not paved smooth, with some amount of bumps along the way.) After only 3 or 4 strides (maybe 5 or 6?) the dreamer was thinking that it would be easier to simply "fly" across the land, and sure enough, the dreamer began flying along the path, not more than 6' to 12' (probably right around 6') above the land, and continuing forward in the direction of travel in which he'd already been going.

There came to be a bit of confusion regarding destination, however. The dreamer had in mind getting back to the Gina character, supposedly with the news of the recovery of her vehicle, although that aspect of the dream was never defined, per se. The point is that while the dreamer was in flight, there was introduced into the thought / mind a sense of worry/concern, as in "how do I find her (again)?" at which point the dream ended.

I seem to recall there was some other dream after that one, however, the day's activity has already allowed it to "evaporate" from my conscious recall at this time. Sometimes, however, the activity of the day can "spark" a recollection of an evaporated dream, and if that occurs, I'll *try* to get back to posting it as a follow-up.

Richard Silk

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Dec 8, 2022, 10:03:05 AM12/8/22
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Last night's / this morning's dreams involved a peculiar scene wherein a group of guys were outside a rural home and the dreamer saw one (questionable) character being rounded up by two other guys who were using something like a cable or a chain to bind the guy's hands up under a low-hanging tree branch.
I have the impression that the dreamer may have aided the guys by handing them the chain that had been lying upon the ground, but that was a shade unclear. What was going through the mind of the dreamer was that, perhaps given enough time and determination, the (questionable) guy *could* possibly work his way loose off of that limb by working the chain back & forth until it *wore through* the limb, or even slide his way backwards (he was facing the trunk) until his bonds worked back over any branches until the person was free of the tree (but would still have to explain to anyone else why their hands were bound in chains, although one could always work independently to remove the chains over a period of time.) The dreamer also had in mind the idea of possibly calling a law enforcement agency of some kind to let them know of a criminal who had been apprehended.
Regardless, the dream ended (around clarity 8 to 8+) with things simply left there, although upon waking, I've had the curious suspicion that it may be related to the binding of demons, religiously speaking. The guy having his hands tied could have been analogous to a muted or blocked troll from an online discussion space, such as DiscussingJesus.quora.com — but that's just a guess.

In another dream, *possibly* the same one, the dreamer was looking for a rest room, possibly within the house possibly located in the yard where the tree had been growing in the previous dream. There was the sense that the dreamer was in someone else's house, and the homeowner was a bit anxious for people to leave but there was like another (3rd person's) voice telling the homeowner that the people in the house were simply looking for a bathroom, and would be out shortly. Clarity 8.
In what could have been either the same or a different dream, the dreamer is in one of those smaller, public construction-type bathrooms with dividing walls between two toilet stalls and a wall urinal. It seemed as if there were more than one person needing a bathroom break at that time, and the dream ended with the dreamer still standing by waiting for an opening / opportunity. Clarity 8+.

There was a dream involving dogs, or at least one dog in particular, that was of a medium-shaggy, deep chestnut color coat, and for whatever reason, the dog ended up lying down upon the ground in a somewhat dark setting. It was like the night was just black, but the area around the dog was visible.
The dog seemed practically dehydrated, and the dreamer had a wet towel and wrung it so as to squeeze some water onto the dog's snout ("muzzle") so that water could trickle into the dog's mouth, which obtained a slight drinking response. Clarity 8- but *DARK*. The dog and the towel and the water were perhaps 8+.

Yet another dream involving animals involved the dreamer entering a structure similar in feel to a horse barn. The dreamer was located as if at the northeast corner of the barn, entering an opening facing east. This could well explain why there were a number of black horses exiting the opening, with what appeared to be some speed / urgency, as if thankful to leave the building, or perhaps just excited to be doing something. And while the dream pretty much ended there at about an 8+ clarity, it *may* have been that the tune "Sleigh Ride" *may* have been playing on the radio (stupid flip phone app) on the window ledge beside my bed. *Or* the tune may have simply been playing as the background to the dream action— either way, I have a slight sense that the tune was somehow involved with the dream.

In still yet another *short* dream clip, the dreamer (in this case, seemingly "me") was observing / commenting in passing to the mother (in this case, my mother) that she can't be doing my (math) homework for me, as I wouldn't *learn* anything if she kept doing so. Oddly enough, I have a fairly good hunch what this was about, although I haven't used math (outside of balancing a bank account) in years (although some meditation on π has been going on recently: the circumference *includes* the diameter; the diameter is *not* the circumference. The diameter *is a part of* the circumference; the circumference *is not a part of* the diameter. (Hence, the infinite decimal value of π.)
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