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Today is my oldest son's 32rU+b|e birthday. "Happy Birthday, Son!" Efi# EfAe EfA|
There was, however, a *rather interesting* dream / experience this morning right around 4 AM (possibly 4:30) wherein the dreamer was in an amicable discussion with Gina, as if in her bedroom or such.
The dreamer was a *bit* surprised at being *in* this situation: she wasn't arguing, fighting, calling for backup, nothing, just listening / conversing with the dreamer.
There was some very distinct dialogue going on here as well, and while I *could've* recited it "verbatim" upon waking, what follows is "as close as I can get it" this late in the morning (it's around 9:30 AM.)
The dreamer was mentioning to her how sorry he was for not having explained that night in her dorm room that he believed in "Marriage before sex" which is why there'd been no intercourse that evening (Thursday, October 15th, 1981) and that it was not meant to be any kind of slur or insult on her beauty, but rather a respect *of* her as a person.
She gave a very curt reply, something *along* the lines of [no matter]rCo more like: [That's not an issue.]
In fact, the very next moment, the dreamer was feeling *as if* she was luring him into her arms for completing that very objective.
The dreamer was *thinking* along the lines of, "No, no, we need to be married *first*" when there appeared to be some type of ointment about her "lower lips" (to put it politely.) (*Note: If you've ever witnessed the "white grease" of an umbilical cord during a live birth, then you know the color / texture of the ointment being referenced.)
The next thing the dreamer knew, he had his mouth (and tongue) directly upon that region, and the *next* thing that happened was a *brief* moment of darkness, along with what felt like two opposable thumbs pressed upon his eyeballs, creating an image / sensation of absolute darkness where the thumbs were lightly pressing, followed by (and no, this is not imaginaryrCo it's just what *seemed* to be happening!) the dreamer emerged *as an infant being delivered vaginally* rCo followed by a sentence / gentle command (that sounded like Gina's voice) saying "Open your eyes."
The dreamer's eyes opened (the thumbs had either come away or were pushed away by the dreamer's arms / hands in some manner) and the view was as that of an infant looking at a new life but with *somewhat* blurry vision, a bit like if you (as a reading adult) had awoken with a "sleep dirt" film across your corneas.
The *moment* this view was observed, the dream ended, and I awakened, a bit mystified by the event, clarity 9+ to 7 (during the seduction scene) to 0 (the thumbs on the eye lids) to 10 (the birth) to 10- (the blurred vision.)
Now it just so happens that I did manage to get "back to sleep" (somewhat) following that experience, and had *something* of a waking vision type scene around 6:30 AM (before my elderly mother rang her bell for me to help her get up)rCo it was one of those *not* black & white but [black and eyelid peach] contrast visions, what you sometimes see *just behind your eyes* when you're *just about to awaken.* (Right, I know, not everybody may have had such a vision experience, but I consider them as something like a cross between a full-sleep dream and an out-of-body experience, as they *typically* occur just as I'm *about* to wake up but choose to rest a few more moments in bed.)
The view *began* with a swirl of light *as if* clouds were coalescing into a sun. In fact, they did just that, only instead of the *brightly focused* sun from "real life," it was more like a fuzzy yet brighter-than-the-peach-contrast ball, clearly meant to serve as a "sun," about the size of what is typically observed as the sun is setting (or rising) over a body of water (like as may be seen from an ocean coastline.)
The *perspective* was like that of a drone camera shot of a shoreline, taken from a *few hundred* yards from the shoreline, facing the shore. In fact, the view came to resemble that of an island, *similar* to that famous shot in "Gilligan's Island" but a bit longer, and the phrase "Garden of Eden" went through my mind as I observed it, although again, it *was* an ocean view of land, looking very much like an island.
There was a single, dark figure (like all the background was a contrast of light, peach, and black, but the figure was like an action figure that represented a void in contrast with the landscape) that seemed to travel directly out across the water and "up to" the land, looking *very much* like an ascending figure from the sea. But as the perspective was from such a ways out on the water, the figure seemed small indeed.
There was something of a mental effort to revisit the sun scene in the clouds again, but at that point, the vision ended (clarity: vision) and my dog ("Ginger") had her nose over the edge of my mattress, and would not leave me alone, as is her typical "Get up, human! Let me out! Then Feed Me!" attitude. :-)
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