From Newsgroup: alt.dreams

Been having a few interesting dreams lately, but have been lax in posting about
them.
This one is from the evening/morning of 10/29, Tuesday:
Had a dream I was in a room with a female looking very much like my elder sister, Sherry (looking much younger however, like around 30-ish) near the farther right corner, then my (late) mother, looking quite well, very much alive, in the farther left corner, looking about in her 40s or 50s.

Whatever may have been communicated between Sherry was irrelevant, as the dreamer was very happy to see "Mom," and was a bit perplexed for a moment, as the knowledge that she'd passed (this past March) started to enter the dreamer's
thought processes, and trying to rationalize Mom alive and looking well with the
knowledge that she'd passed brought the dream to an end. Clarity started at around 8-, went to 9+/10-, then ended at 8-ish.

Well, later (yesterday evening) I was messaged by a female on the internet with
blonde hair and a strong European (possibly Germanic) look (she sent me her picture online) and I found myself having to weigh the possibility of a future with her (she seemed *very* keen on establishing a relationship, open to marriage, was only 30-ish years old, unphased by my being in my early 60s) with
the path that I'm on in regards to marrying Gina. In my mind, there's no question, my future is with Gina, but being placed in a situation that put *that* future in question was *likely* what prompted the dream regarding the female who looked a bit like Sherry followed by an encounter with my (late, yet
living) mother. (Clarity 9++!)

The reason for mentioning this dream from Monday night / Tuesday morning is because *last* night / this morning, I had a few dreams that were likely a result of the conversation(s) I've had with (more than a few) online women, all
who seem interested in either 1) starting a relationship or 2) just phishing money.

So *last night's / this morning's* dream involved the dreamer spending some time
in the main ("big") bathroom of my home, where the dreamer was supposedly there
for the purpose of cleaning it (like the tub/shower walls, even though it's fairly spotless in real life.)

After what seemed like a minute or so (in dream time, which is typically representative of a longer time IRL) someone out in the hallway wanted to come in and see what was going on.

Turns out, it was my (late) dad, looking as he did perhaps in his 40s, and there
was some kind of "difference of opinion" going on between Dad and the dreamer. It was like both sides were talking at the same time, and the father figure seemed perturbed, whereas the dreamer seemed defensive, yet the dreamer avoided
escalating it, being more in favor of the two understanding whatever was perturbing the father figure.

What I recall (somewhat) was the father having some kind of question regarding text-based communication in relation to oral communication. The dreamer said (approximately) "You understand how tape recorders record sound, right?"

The Father figure agreed.

The Son (the dreamer) continued: "Texting is just like that: it records what is
typed, then plays it back to a reader rather than a listener." (That is a *clarification* of whatever was said in the dream, which is slightly evaporated
past the point of a verbatim recollection.)

The Father figure appeared to take that information then continued working (like
paperwork, or charting ideas on paper) on something on the counter/shelf of the
basin in front of the main bathroom mirror, and the dreamer let him continue his
work and left the room, thus leaving the dream. Clarity 9++.

The combination of the mother dream followed by the father dream gives me the impression that I may have caused the both of them to "turn in their graves" so
to speak, or at least caused a ripple in my own timeline that they may be having
to adjust for in some manner in the "quantum universe" or the "Universal Mind of
Heaven," as it were.

Then there was this other, *odd* dream, involving an antique Waltham pocket watch and a handful of people, reminiscent of those I went to high school with,
and this dream gets *curious* as it goes along:

First, the dreamer is as if in preparation for a procedure, a bit like being in
a pre-op setting in a hospital. The dreamer is (comfortably) lying upon a cot-like table, awaiting something, when there's a bit of commotion in the room,
and the pocket watch is viewed as smashed upon the floor (although at a level above the floor, as if it had been on a shelf at or near knee-to-waist-level, but there was no distinction between the floor and the level at which the pocket
watch was resting.

The dreamer apparently "broke protocol" by getting up from the resting surface and going to examine the watch. Someone was saying "It's just a watch" but the
dreamer was countering with, "I *just bought it*" (as a present to someone or such) "and it wasn't cheap" (like around $400) then noticed and said, "It's still ticking!" (and the tick-tick-tick of the mainspring was indeed audible.)

The dreamer went back to lay down on the table/cot, where the procedure began again. There was some procedural step whereby a nurse-like attendant was applying a layer of skin cream to the surface of the dreamer, specifically about
the legs, although there was the sense that it was to be a total covering, and the dreamer was to lie still until the procedure was finished.

Well, during this "still-time," the dreamer was wanting to view the others undergoing the same process, half-expecting to see them naked (wanting to view some of the girls from his past in high school) but noting he himself was in robin-egg blue boxers, and the front fly was "less than shut" (to put it politely) yet *something else* caused a disturbance, and the dreamer *again* was
prompted to get up off the cot in order to assist with someone or something somewhere in the room.

I'm of the *impression* (yet it remains unclear) that the dreamer *may* have returned to the cot (now for the 3rd time) to restart the procedure, although whether that actually occurred before the end of the dream (or not) is unclear.
Clarity likely 7 (symbolic) though 8+ for the most part.


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