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Dream Interpretation
Jeff Wrangler:
Boyoboyoboy, did I ever have the dream last night! It was the longest, sustained dream I've had in a very long time! I can remember a lot of it, too, though perhaps in disjointed pieces.
I was visiting the college where I earned my B.A, and where I haven't been back in, oh, 30 years. I was supposed to visit with some administrator about something--I don't know or don't remember what--but I was dressed very casually in a t-shirt and shorts. He was very busy, and so people whose business was more important than mine kept getting sent into his office ahead of me. While I was waiting, I had a short conversation with a young woman whom I recognized from my days in the SCA medieval reenactment organization; our talk concerned me participating in some sort of demonstration that was to take place on campus.
Finally I got into the administrator's office, and we chatted a bit about how much construction had taken place on the campus in the three decades since I graduated, so that I hardly recognized the place. Meanwhile, the weather was turning bad very quickly, and in the distance I could see a tornado forming, one of those horrible, mile-wide ones that you occasionally see news film of that are so destructive. You're not supposed to try to outrun one of those things, yet that's exactly what we tried to do. The administrator and I, and a number of other people, squeezed into a very small automobile and drove away from campus. The administrator was driving; somehow his clothing had changed from a dark gray suit to a polo shirt and Dockers.
We did outrun the storm, and finally we stopped. Other tornadoes were still forming in the distance. Looking to the east--I don't know why I know it was the east, it just was--I saw one pass behind an old farmhouse, and the house somehow immediately burst into flames! At about that time, I also used my cell phone to call my mother (who has been dead since 1995) to tell her that I was all right; the connection was bad but I did speak to her. Then we all got back into the car to drive back to campus. On the way, the driver missed a sharp curve in the road and drove through a fence and into the farmyard of an Amish farm. Some Amish chidren came and spoke to us; I rolled down the car window and spoke to a little boy, and I remember thinking that someone in the family must have "married out" of the Amish faith, because this little boy looked Hispanic in features and skin tone. The children told us that we would be in trouble for damaging the fence, but then a young woman came out of the farmhouse and told us that everything would be all right.
I remember that we then continued our drive back to campus. When we arrived, I could still see storms in the distance, but that's all I can now remember.
What a night!
CellarDweller:
Wow! Crazy dream there! Nice detail-remembering. Sometimes I can remember mine, other times, not so much.
Front-Ranger:
What an interesting dream...thank you for sharing it with us! I have had dreams that were a bit similar that marked turning points for me. Let us know if you want us to take a hack at transcribing the dream for you.
Front-Ranger:
One general thing I would like to say is that when we enter the third chapter of our lives (chapter one being childhood and young adulthood, chapter two being adulthood, and chapter three being later adulthood) it is entirely good to revisit the dreams and goals of our youth and see what is still valid, what should be tossed away, and what should be revisited.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 05, 2014, 09:20:13 pm ---What an interesting dream...thank you for sharing it with us! I have had dreams that were a bit similar that marked turning points for me. Let us know if you want us to take a hack at transcribing the dream for you.
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Actually, I can speculate myself as to the origin of some of the elements of the dream.
First of all, since childhood whenever I have been partcularly stressed or anxious, I have dreamed of tornadoes (I was frightened by the "twister" scenes in The Wizrd of Oz, and by news of some of the severe tornado outbreaks that occurred when I was a child). Right now I am very stressed out by all the things that are happening or are supposed to happen in my life this year.
I can't be so sure about the visit to my alma mater; however, one of my colleagues here at work has a daughter graduating from high school this weekend, so perhaps that has something to do with provoking that part of the dream.
I think I know exactly where the Amish came from. That evening I was channel surfing and came across a TV show about people who had left the Amish faith and then returned to their communities. As a matter of fact, one young fellow in the program said he had grown up Amish in Holmes County, Ohio, where our friend OCD used to live!
The SCA connection probably arises from that wedding I've been pissing and moaning about on my blog, since that's how I know both grooms--though why that particular young lady, whom I recognized but really am not acquainted with, should show up in the dream, I have no idea. :-\
I'm similarly clueless about cell phoning my late mother. The idea that the connection was bad and I could barely hear her is interesting. :-\
The notion of "storms in the distance" intrigues me, too. Any thoughts about that?
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