From Newsgroup: alt.dreams

So there were a number of dreams last night, mainly with low clarity / some evaporation that renders the majority of the content as "evaporated" rather than
"remembered."

One of which involved a building, as like a barn, in which there was some attempt to clean out the floor, by raking soil / material / detritus from one end of a stall towards another, although whatever else was in that dream has evaporated. Clarity 6-ish, possibly 8- originally.

But near waking (around 7-ish AM) there was an unusual "event" that was simply memorable as can be:

The dreamer (in this case, myself) saw a scene of all white, all bright, with the image of my late mother's smiling face as something of a discernible image in contrast with all the bright white light. It's as if the areas and contours
of her face were *barely* less bright than the surrounding frame (as if the mind
could only perceive in a flat, two dimensional plane, much like as one views an
upright TV screen.) Clarity 11+!

This was followed by a general time of reflection, wherein the dreamer (that is,
I, myself) fell back asleep wondering about what had just occurred, and what it
possibly meant. Then, coming back to the waking state, there was a much fainter
re-visit of the same scene, as if someone had turned down a 100 watt bulb to a 5
watt bulb, which I could only process as perhaps the brighter image being something coming *to* me, whereas the fainter image was of my *leaving* that particular moment.

How might this relate to "real life"?

IRL, I've been processing some "thank you" cards for those folk who mailed sympathy cards after Mom's passing. I've finished 6, and there are 8 left to go. In some of them, I took the opportunity to insert a hand-written letter, written on the paper-pad / notebook that Mom had requested about a half a year or so before she passed.

Also, as the return address (on the back of the envelopes) I *mostly* used Mom's
return address labels, as they may as well be put to good use rather than thrown
away.

It *could* be that this interaction with others (who bothered to send sympathy cards) is the general cause of the white image / dream / astral encounter. It *could* be that Mom simply wanted to smile at me for "doing the right thing" by
sending out the thank you notes.

Either way, I thought I'd journal this one up, because it's rather unlikely that
I'll be forgetting it anytime soon, and it was/is certainly different from most
every other dream I've ever had (although it *is similar* to one in particular,
only *that* one was animated (contained "live action") and involved Gina talking
*to* Mom, who was seated on the couch, listening to her.)

Meanwhile, after breakfast, I took a small "after meal nap" on the couch, and that's when I had some rather action-drama-packed scenes unfold as dreams:

In one, the dreamer seemed to be evading a particular female who seemed familiar, yet also like someone from the screen, such as TV or movies. She was
perhaps in her mid-20s to mid-30s, Caucasian (possibly European lineage, seemed
American) and was sort of a "cross between" some of these characters: 1) The "T-X" character, played by Kristanna Loken (imdb.com/title/tt0181852/characters/nm0518085) in the Terminator-3 film, "Rise
of the Machines"
and 2) the Bionic Woman, "Jaime Sommers," played by Lindsay Wagner (imdb.com/title/tt0073965/characters/nm0905993) and 3) a young Elizabeth Montgomery, as "Samantha Stephens" (imdb.com/title/tt0057733/characters/nm0000548).

At any rate, the woman seemed imposing, unstoppable, and out to "end" or in some
way destroy the dreamer.

That is, until the dreamer simply stood firm, and attempted to enter into a discussion / dialogue with the female character in the dream. There was something of a mindset of: [I know you have your directive, but I'd like to at
least understand....] and to be honest, I have no clear recollection of how that
scene ended. (Clarity 9+)

There *was,* however, a follow-up scene, in which a female (similar to the one just described) was being in some way "dismembered," although rather than being
a biological female of flesh and blood, it was more like taking apart the right
leg of an android (as seen from a distance of about 10'.)

What or who was taking apart her leg was unclear (possibly *unseen!*) although there were clearly some elements of machinery around what would be a "knee joint."

There was also a feeling of empathy from the dreamer, as if there was a desire to help the android somehow reassemble the bottom half of her leg (below the knee) to the top half. Clarity 8+.

There was also one *very short* clip, a segment wherein the (male) dreamer was "taking a leak," only instead of the older male with an enlarged prostate issue
(a slow stream) this was of a *strong* stream, much like a young teenager would
have.

This may be a coincidence, but I just found a 4000 mg bottle of pygeum (Prunus Africanus / Gorilla Cherry) online, and I'm suspecting it may actually have a tremendously beneficial effect. Time will tell!


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