From Newsgroup: alt.dreams

How NOT to talk to a starlet:
There was a dream involving a situation wherein the dreamer was having a conversation with an incredibly attractive female of movie-star quality, perhaps
around her mid-twenties? and was practically empathizing with her in regards to
(nearly verbatim) "I suppose you must get tired of people telling you how incredibly beautiful you are-" with which she was in agreement, then the dreamer
made some kind of joke along the lines of (NOT verbatim) "It would probably be unusual for someone to refer to you as a hideous cow." (Again, that is NOT verbatim. It was *much* funnier in the dream. Sadly, the exact lines, as well
as her image, have evaporated.)

Although she may have had an instant of humorous reflection, she became literally distant, retreating to perhaps 6' away, and the dreamer felt apologetic and sorry to have "distanced" her like that, but there was no more communication between them, and the dream ended, clarity 9-ish, though apologies
for the evaporation of the quote lines.

What's for dinner? (Bleeding hemorrhoid?)
For some reason (related to blood smear observed) the dreamer notes there's (relatively fresh) blood present, from the area of the glutes (gluteus maximus,
mainly the back right side) and since the location seemed to be somewhere "out in the open" (rather than on a toilet) the dreamer grabbed a pair of khaki "Ben
Hogan" golfing shorts (97% polyester, 3% elastane, identical to a rather nice pair I wear IRL in the Spring/Summer/Fall) and started wiping the blood off the
dreamer's gluteus area.

The dreamer walked along a bit, and checked by stretching to look behind at (his) rear to see just how bloody the shorts were (apparently, (he) was wearing
them!) and noted that they simply looked a bit "dirty" rather than "bloody." (Clarity, like symbolic, seeing as there was blood involved, although... who knows?)

What's for dinner?
This dream somehow blended into the next scene, wherein the dreamer is approaching a large, outdoor banquet table (like a covered picnic bench, but larger / longer) that's loaded with various dishes, including this one type of open serving pan / dish (like a bucket pan for spaghetti) that's filled with rather unappetizing material. It's *nearly* as if people are dumping waste water of some type ("gray water") into the pot as a communal dish.

Instead of getting a scoop from that particular pan, the dreamer picks two items
from the table that are actually "plated" (like how you get stuff in a restaurant, visually suitable for eating) and walks away, feeling *as if* (he) was only supposed to take one dish rather than two.

The dreamer sits down and sees a person *looking very much like* my late father,
in around his mid 30s-40s (to possibly mid-50s) approaching from the dreamer's left, and he begins lecturing the dream over something, *possibly* akin to a failure of some personal responsibility in some area. The lecturing was less than clear even in the dream, so the description given is about as accurate as I
can get, writing about it.

The dreamer listens, however, I suspect the response was along the lines of "What am I supposed to do about it?" (like, water over the dam isn't something that can be undone.) The dream ended there, overall clarity 8-ish.

"GET AWAY FROM THE BUILDING!":
This dream begins with an interior view of a school-like building, with a sense
of education of the younger set all around (similar to elementary, but also with
a feel of middle school and high school, *non-collegiate level.*)

There is a "core area" of the building, nearly square-like with respect to floor
space, perhaps 8'x8' wide (maybe 10'x10' max) which is *akin to* a principal's office, yet possibly a central meeting room for administrative planning. The walls are like thickly shuttered windows, almost like the decorative, non-functional shutters you see on the sides of some homes, only these were as wide as the wall being viewed.

Mind you, normally when you think of a "wall" inside a building, you think of yourself as being "within the room" looking *at* the *interior* wall of the room. This "room" (floor space) is "walled off" in such a manner that someone inside the building could circle the 8'x8' "core" of the building, thus, seeing
the "shuttered walls" from the perspective of *outside* the core, viewing "exterior" walls (even though they're "inside" the larger, "educational" building structure.)

There's a "back story" to this setting, as though someone or some *thing* (an alien race of humanoids?) had previously buried something many feet below the surface, which just happens to be centered directly beneath this 8-by-8 area of
floor space. The exact nature of the "buried treasure element" is undefined, although there's the hint of it being a cache of advanced weapons, *or* a power
source, similar to something equivalent to the central-most 8'x8'x8' core of the
sun.

And although the *outside* of this 8-by-8 area seems "dark" (as in a room with a
*very* low level of lighting, just enough to walk around without bumping into things) the *interior* of the room appears "lit" as if there's a fluorescent or
neon light of some type inside. (Remember, the walls are *thickly shuttered* although not 100% black-out quality. The illumination is visible along the bottoms of the slats.)

There's a small "crew" of people involved in reaching the buried treasure (whatever it may be) and in the dream they are sensed as akin to mine workers, having one guy who is the outside foreman linked to the inside workers.

There's some discussion overheard involving a {change of plans} wherein rather than excavating to the core, another plan is going to be pursued, akin to "blowing up" the shaft to get to the core. The *idea* is that it's going to be
a rather massive explosion, and the dreamer is concerned with getting the children out of the building; while concerned over how to do that, a fire alarm
goes off, and kids inside the building begin exiting in the manner of a rehearsed fire drill.

Yet *outside* the building is where things got a bit- odd:

The dreamer was viewing the exterior of the building from a distance (of perhaps
40 yards?) and viewing a set of bleachers (risers/steps) of about 6' to 7' in height and about 7' to 8' in depth, and perhaps 100' in width (enough to hold a
large majority of a student body population of a small to moderate-sized school)
and the bleachers were FULL of students calmly sitting there, as if awaiting the
"return to the building / all clear" signal from the teachers.

The dreamer began approaching the stands, yelling "GET AWAY FROM THE BUILDING! GET AWAY FROM THE BUILDING!!" and although there may have been a *handful* or so
of students leaving the bleachers, the vast majority of them simply sat there.

At this point, the dreamer began to close in towards the bleachers, wondering how to get them all safely away from the building, when I began to return to waking consciousness. I was debating in my mind how the fastest way to get them
clear might be, and the idea of dreaming of Superman swooping in and simply *lifting* the entire structure and flying it away nearly led me back to visualizing this in the dream, only I was already too far this side of waking, so the dream simply ended with them sitting there. Clarity 8+ (inside, due to the dark atmosphere) to 9+ outside (as it was *well* daylit.)

I *THINK* I *may* know what this is about, and it really has little to do directly with students in a school, but more to do with the "buried core" of the
General Electric Company (such as it is. It keeps diversifying into different elements, such as insurance (of various types) and stocks (of various types.)


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