From Newsgroup: alt.dreams

Part of my morning "wake up routine" (IRL) involves letting the dog out around the crack of dawn. However, *often* I still feel the need to nap for another half hour (or more) especially if I was up late the previous evening. So when the dog comes back in, I may take a "couch nap" on this wonderful couch that's long enough to "fit" me on it, and it has softer, cushion/fabric-covered arms, in contrast to the shorter couch that's a shade smaller, and had hard, wooden arms.

Well, somewhere between 9 AM and 9:20 AM (presumably) is when the following dream occurred on the "nap couch":

The dreamer had a "sense" of having *previously* having held a squirrel, just as
one would hold a cat or a smaller dog, cradled in the dreamer's arms. However,
the dream picks up at about the point shortly after having let the squirrel loose, so the squirrel is skittering off, as if having been set free and thus wanting nothing to do with the (human) dreamer.

The scene, however, being set outdoors, shows a telephone / utility pole with at
least two or more wires strung along it, the pole being perhaps 20-30 yards in the distance, at times closer, because there is at least one human (I think there were likely two of them in discussion) trying to figure out how to access
a higher wire strung across the pole. (There may have been up to 4 wires, all strung horizontally, from lower to higher, with none of them appearing as being
strung vertically, like the lanes of a highway. At least, such an image is less
than "fixed" in the memory of the dream itself.)

Somehow, one person (looking a bit like a darker-haired person, similar to an Eskimo or Native American (Indian) in appearance, yet possibly of any Mediterranean ethnicity- perhaps 5' or so, certainly under 200 lbs, perhaps around 150, dark, short hair, with a practically bowl-shaped-cut appearance, wearing clothes suitable for late summer / autumn in the temperate zone of the United States (pants, short sleeves)) has managed to slip a fabric loop of *about* 13" length, looped to around 6" vertically, around the lower wire of the
set, located basically halfway between the pole directly ahead, and another pole
off to the right (nearly "out of frame.")

There's a "test pull" somehow being made (it's unclear as to how that loop was actually placed there, or as to how someone could actually *reach* that high to
pull down on it) that begins to draw the bottom cable (which is thicker than the
cables above it) closer to the ground, *but* words of caution and warning are given that it looks like an unwise idea, that pulling that wire down too far *and* adding weight (such as that of a human) trying to somehow access the higher cables would likely cause the cable to snap loose and fall to the ground-
that perhaps something like a cherry-picker bucket truck would be much better suited for accessing the higher cables.

Now a type of conversation begins with someone seeming *like* a female, although
who was *unseen* as a visual participant, regarding the location of the wires, only at this point, the wires are on a *tree* rather than on a pole, and the discussion (argument/premise, from the dreamer) is with regards to the wire needing to be *above* the lowest branch on the tree.

The other (female?) perspective is asking as to [Why? / For what reason?] and the dreamer is explaining that, in the event that a dog should chase a cat up the tree, the cat would likely perch on the lowest branch (which was several feet above human reach) so the wire needed to be higher than that lowest branch,
so as to make it *less likely* that a cat would try to walk out on the cable.

Now comes the squirrel back into the scene:

There's an "animal tiff" brewing, having something to do with how animals normally fight each other for food, such as a cat catching a bird to eat it, only in this case, it was along the lines of a cat wanting to capture/eat/kill a
squirrel.

The cat and the squirrel are "locked in a death match" as it were, and the (human?) dreamer is wanting to save the squirrel from the cat. Yet any human who's ever tried to break up a cat fight knows better than to try to man-handle
an angry cat.

The dreamer, for some reason somehow memory-linked, thinks the squirrel *might*
come towards the dreamer as the dreamer starts calling (a bit slower than the way I did it in my youth) "Heeere kit-ty kit-ty kit-ty..." thinking the squirrel
might understand that such is how the human calls the cat in order to feed it, so the squirrel may come towards the dreamer and thus seek refuge away from the
cat.

Well, such a ridiculous idea fails, and the dreamer resolves to somehow try to break up the squabble directly, although the fight between the cat and the squirrel has morphed into a soft-cartoon-like drawing of two humans punching it
out, fists to faces, fists to torsos, and the dreamer has a rather quick perception that such is simply how the mind of the dreamer is perceiving the fight.

Regardless, the dreamer reaches out and scoops the squirrel up into the dreamer's arms, and there's a brief moment when the squirrel realizes that the dreamer has saved the squirrel's life.

The dreamer releases the squirrel near the tree, and the squirrel scampers on up
and out along the highest wire, and off to the right to the pole in the distance. (Somehow the tree has morphed back into a pole as well.)

The dreamer is satisfied that at least the squirrel has been given a "fighting chance" against the cat, and at least has been given a "head start" so as to be
able to get away from the cat.

Well, what happened next could only happen in dreamworld: The cat races up the
tree (again) then *zooms* across the topmost wire to the other pole, covering the distance in perhaps a second.

There was likely a snowfall at some point recently, because as the cat zoomed across the wire, powdered snow is seen "poofting" off the cable. (I realize that may be an olde-fashioned, derogatory word in England, but it's about the only word that seems to "fit" in this scenario.)

Not only does the cat *zip* over to the other pole, but also *down* the pole to
the ground, and it *pounces directly* onto something, *presumably* the squirrel,
and that's the end of that dream, clarity somewhere between 7 (symbolic) and 8+/9-.

Now for a dream that happened *before* the morning wake-up call to let out the dog:

Some (well, *most*) of the surrounding dream that prefaced this has evaporated,
but:

The action picks up where the dreamer has somehow tackled or in some way brought
down to the ground a hominid (human shape, wearing clothing) only when the individual looks up at the dreamer, the dreamer sees that the hominid has a snake-like face, *similar to but more lifelike* than the special effects makeup
that was used on Louis Gossett Jr. for the character "Drac" in the 1985 movie, "Enemy Mine" (imdb.com/title/tt0089092/characters/nm0001283). The snake-man in
the dream had far more "human" looking eyes and other features, but was nearly hideous at first encounter.

The dreamer was reacting much like a frightened cop trying to keep a suspect on
the ground in an attempt to make an arrest, rather than firing a gun shot, even
though (as far as I know) the dreamer had no weapon to speak of, merely that the
dreamer was commanding the snake-man to lie down, face to the ground (the thought that the snake man didn't understand English, let alone "human," never occurred to the dreamer.)

Then, for some reason, there was a tug at the dreamer's left arm/wrist/hand, and
the dreamer turned to see a *young* snake-boy (apparently the son of the father
snake-man) with a look on his face of that of a pleading sincerity, akin to "*Please don't kill my father!*"

The dreamer looked back at the snake-man, looking for any potential resemblance
(as people do when introduced to a father/son pair) and "softened his (the dreamer's) countenance" towards the snake-man, and the dream ended. Clarity 10-
during this sequence, as it was all outdoors, well sunlit, and the only thing that was *not* clear was what led up to the scene itself.



Upon writing this up, I have this *hunch* that the dreamer's perspective was representative of the *lifetime spent between* the time of the snake-son and that of the snake-father.


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