Monday, October 30, 2006

Bad Dog, Mad Bull, and the Broken Fence

This dream was quite short, but it was very vivid, detailed, and bursting at the mystical seams with symbolism... put your seatbelt on.
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Dream:
I find myself on a modest bicycle riding along a rural road. I am very familiar with this stretch of road, two miles down is the house I grew up in: my home. The sky is overcast, but not dark. As I began to approach the intersection toward the end of the first mile, I saw a bull and a black dog up ahead in a field. Both of them seemed more than agitated. Something told me that I was in danger. Suddenly at the corner of the intersection closest to me, there was a brown horse kicking at the corner post of the fence, trying to break it down with his front hooves. It seemed as if he was trying to push through in order to get out and help me somehow.

I stop at the intersection and look ahead, the road seems to get as narrow as a sidewalk up ahead, with fences on each edge. [Might I be the one fenced in or the animals?] There isn't any other human traffic in sight, so I resume pedaling the bike, which I forgot to take out of high gear. It was a wobbly start through the intersection, yet for some reason I still did not shift into first gear. The dog came through the fence and was snarling at me as he ran back and forth, mostly taunting and intimidating me. Up ahead the bull smashed through the fence and was on the narrowing road. That was the moment that I decided to turn around, which meant that I would have to pick up the bike to get it to face the way I came from.

The dog jumped onto the fence with his front paws had a green and blue ball in his mouth, and was threatening to play with me. I was wondering how it was possible for a dog to have such a twisted personality like that. I grabbed the soggy ball he was offering me but he would not let go of it, so I smacked him on the snout and was about to pedal away when the bull charged the fence again, and the entire row leaned into the road all the way back to the intersection. The wooden fence had a line of barbedwire at the top, so I grabbed it to pull myself faster since I still hadn't downshifted the bicycle. The bull was running along the inside of the fence again, parallel to me and the dog had run diagonally away from where I was. I rode through the intersection, mostly coasting from pulling myself along the tipping fence. The horse is gone, but fortunately, I am not pursued by the dog or the bull.
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I was wondering if the animals in the dream represented parts of myself. If the horse, bull, and dog represented different aspects of agression or something. The fence could either represent something that is an obstacle, if so, an obstacle for my agression... or it could represent a protection of outside influences, one that fails in this dream, except for the horse trying to break through. This dream took place only a quarter of a mile from the location of my dream about the car on autopilot and where I saw the friendly fox.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Timewarp, Car on Autopilot, and New Friends

Finally, I am able to recall more than one dream, or at least make sense of some others!
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Dream 1:
I find myself back at my old elementary school with a class of kids who look like they are eight years old. Everyone appears to be getting ready for a field trip somewhere, and I glance at the release form I have in my hands and it says we'll be going to Spain. [If only I'd really have been so lucky!] Looking around I begin to recognize a few faces. I've been sent to the past! I still look and feel to be 22 years old, but nobody else around seems to notice that. I see one of my friends that I would someday graduate with, it was a very humbling moment. He was looking at some of his artwork, and I saw that it was something that would someday make the cover of the yearbooks!
"It's not very good," he said as he looked up at me. I then realized how many things I could change with the knowledge I possessed, but all I said to him was,
"You better save that for a while," and then we all went out the door.
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That one just makes me feel nostalgic, and also makes me want to track down that friend of mine, as I haven't seen him in about four years.
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Dream 2:
I was in the back seat of my mom's car, which [only in the dream] has a LCD TV in the dashboard. I was watching the news, and the car was on autopilot, because there was nobody else in the car. The news anchor was making his last statements, and when it was over, the TV turned itself off and also deactivated the autopilot. You see, the car was driven by the news itself. [That's the logic of dreams for you!] Cruise control was still set, and the car was driving down a road that wasn't straight. Luckily we had just driven out of the woods, and towards a field. I unbuclkled my seatbelt to climb over the seats to stop the car right as we blasted into the cornfield! At first I thought the corn would help the car slow down, but then I realized that it would only happen after I de-activate the cruise control! I reached over and turned off the car itself since the keys were easier to reach. We began to slow down while plowing down cornstalks, but I could see that there was a house up ahead so I tried to put on the brakes. As hard as it is to use the brakes on a car that isn't running, I was slowing down at a hopeful rate. Unfortunately, it was not enough. We busted through the wooden fence that separates the yard from the field and got wedged between two of the fenceposts. The car was stopped. Immediately, the owner of the house came storming out firing their shotgun into the sky so I ditched the car and ran off. I wasn't far from home [Note: Like in all my dreams, "home" is always the house I grew up in, not the one I live in now], so I figured I could walk the rest of the way. I was almost to the main road when I saw a fox in the ditch. I stood still as it noticed me and I thought to myself I wish I had my camera right now but then I realized that I DID have it with me! As my camera powered on the fox bolted and almost ran away but then it ran in a semi-circle around me and paused, and I tried to take a picture, but he ran out of the shot too fast. Then he was prancing around like, well, like a fox, and he began to spiral closer to me, until he came right up to me and wanted to be cuddled. He let me take a few pictures of him then.
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I'm not sure what the fox means on that one, but the car on cruise control through the cornfield reminds me of a Simpsons episode!
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Dream 3:
I was at one of my college apartments [which seems to cross into my home] and someone came by asking for a place to stay for a while. He had travelled all the way from Tennessee, or some other equally undesireable place in the south and seemed to be close to my age. So, honoring my code of hospitality I told him he could stay. It was late already so after getting to know him a little, I went to bed. Part way into the night I woke up and saw that he was asleep lengthwise at the foot of the bed (not where I had put him). Since I was not bothered by this I went back to sleep. In the morning I woke up (at home) and he was already gone, but had left a few of his things strewn about. [I can't remember what his name was and he does not seem to represent anyone from the waking world] I asked my mother if she knew where he went, but all she told me is that if he is going to keep doing this, it would have been a bad move for me to have let him stay.

After what seems like hours I go outside and start asking my peers if they have seen him, and only one of them thought they might have. I invite them inside and when the four of us are in the apartment, the door opened up again and he was back. For some reason I felt relieved that he was all right. He was just out visiting his grandmother at a hospital which is probably what his journey was about. I still didn't catch his name. [I awaken]
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I don't know what the deal is with this last one!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

A Wedding & Kim Jong Il

I have no idea what this one means. I'll just tell it like it happened.
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Dream:
There was a wedding about to take place, between a cousin of mine who we will call Samantha, and a long long ago church friend who we will call Carl. Although my cousin's father is a Methodist pastor, I was the one to perform the wedding procession.

That was actually a very short moment and after they were wed, I was going to sing them a song, with accompaniment by my grandmother. Right after we started singing, somebody suggested that Carl join in to sing to his new wife.

I held the microphone up to him as he started to "sing," he was so nervous you could hardly hear him whispering into the mic! That and he kept backing away... I kind of wish he would have just taken it out of my hand. Then I was supposed to give some sort of speech, but people were already leaving to go get the free food.

That is when somebody told me about some sort of bug infestation in the church. I almost accidentally mentioned it in my speech, but I casually looked in the direction the lady gestured and sure enough up along the back wall, were colonies and clusters of some sort of small strange insects the size of small pine cones. [Fortunately my dream had the grace to end at this moment]
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I also had a dream a few days ago that I was personally captured by Kim Jong Il in an office building that looked like it was fresh out of the 1970s. I don't remember much other than his decent but broken English, but I DO remember that his glasses were 10 times more obnoxious in person!