From Newsgroup: alt.dreams

Dreams have been around clarity 6 to 8 (likely excluding 7, symbolic) lately, without clearly defined plots, causes, or consequences. For example, I had a dream regarding Gina earlier this week and it was so unclear as to the point that there was no immediate motivation to blog (journal) it here online. Even now, all I can remember is that she and I were discussing things which, I suppose, in itself is a *good* thing.

This morning (I moved from the couch to the bed some time after midnight) there
was a dream that seemed to have a thread of continuity to it:

The dreamer was driving a vehicle along a road, and there was a vehicle ahead that seemed to be either lost, in trouble, or merely blocking the road just before an intersection. There was some discussion where advice was given, and the dreamer continued by driving around the stalled vehicle in some manner. Coulda gone right along another path, coulda simply circled around and continued
forwards. This may or may not be related to what follows, but to continue....

The dreamer was in a small area, *similar* in general development to a place like "Bartertown" in "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" (what some folk might call "a
wide spot in the road.")

Perhaps a hundred yards (#) away from "town center" (if you could call it that)
there was a type of (small) circular body of water, like an old-fashioned rock quarry filled with water, and the small community was somehow oriented around that water hole. (Perhaps it functioned as a natural cistern?)

The dreamer was with someone else (similar to a mayor of the town, or a town leader of some sort) and there was the sense of several other people as well, anywhere from a few to a few dozen.

As the narrative of the dream focused in on the water hole, the water level began to drop rapidly, as in a matter of two or more building stories (20'? 40'?) revealing a round, submarine-like hatch with a wheel in the center.

What was inside that hatch remains unknown, as that dream segment ended about then.

Picking up at a building very similar to the Church I grew up in, Grace Lutheran
in Murfreesboro, the building / people had a community-type feel, as if everybody knew everybody in some way.

There was an element where the dreamer left a pair of medium-brown leather, cowboy-style (narrow square-toe Texas Boot brand) boots in an area similar to a
small, outdoor patio entrance to the building. At some point, the dreamer remembers the need to go back to retrieve the boots.

At some point, the dreamer has the notion (just for fun?) to get into the top area of a tall silo, similar to a grain silo, but this feels more like a milk silo at a dairy plant. Fortunately, the silo is empty, but the walls (being metal, likely stainless steel) seem unsuited for climbing down, yet the dreamer
somehow manages to cling in some manner to the inner (single, circular) wall, and upon reaching ground level, exits the silo.

Even though exiting the silo is something that seems to occur "off camera" (as it were) this particular exit is recalled in a (final) dream segment where the dreamer is having a discussion with someone regarding getting down from a high place, and the dreamer basically has the attitude of [it's no big deal] as the feat of getting down from inside a silo (just recently, in the overall dream narrative) was tougher in comparison.

All I can think of to help "interpret" these dreams / this dream narrative is that they all have elements *similar to* elements within my life, such as a water hole, similar to an old rock quarry (there's one within a mile (#) of my home, the hole being about 50 yards (#) from the geographic center of the State
of Tennessee.)

The submarine-like hatch with a round wheel (for opening/closing) is similar to
an element from the NCIS season finale I watched (on DVR) last night. It also reminds me that I've *often* wondered what lies beneath the water of that abandoned quarry (other than filled-in mud- what's beneath the mud?)

The Church and the boots are also elements from my youth.

The milk silo reminds me of my 2nd ex-wife, as she worked at Heritage Farms Dairy (that processes milk products for Kroger and possibly surrounding outlets)
although I worked there myself (as a temp, "dumping milk") years before she ever
showed up there (facebook.com/pages/Heritage%20Farms%20Dairy/139346086113702)

I can only suspect that somehow, the idea of scaling down the outside of a building (at the end) is somehow related to having "left the building," in the sense that those relationships are likely (probably) over.


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