Date of dream: Sunday, January 28, 2007
Level of Lucidity: N/A
Level of Cohesiveness: 
Lucid Intent? No
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I'll treat this all as one dream though I'm honestly not sure. Not even of the order.
There was one kind of disconnected part in which I looked out the front porch window and saw--ALL SORTS of animals gathered there. At first I saw only a few--like a couple of different kinds of birds, and maybe a squirrel and/or chipmunk, and a skunk or something, and they were all out there just eating/gathering food at once, and I thought, "OH, how cute!! They're all just feeding and getting along!" I thought it was so delightful! But the more I looked the more animals there were, and they now seemed to be focusing on me. As I best recall it, there were at least two adult skunks, around three to five baby skunks (these seemed to be gathering in the standing/upright feeder we have out on the porch), a chickadee with some bright blue feathers, at least two monkeys (!), and I can't quite remember what else, but all of them except for the monkeys were animals one would normally see in this area (well, the chickadee shouldn't have had blue on it, but still it was a native bird). Maybe there was a badger, chipmunk(s), squirrel(s), etc. Maybe an owl. But now they were all gathering and looking in the window at me, very intently. In particular I looked from one monkey to another. It was kind of like all the animals were now sort of gathering atop each other as if to reach higher, sort of like a live totem pole. I got the feeling, when I met each monkey's eyes, that it was about to leap forward at me, and I accordingly flinched back, but then I got the feeling that none of the animals out here were going to hurt me and in fact they were trying to tell me something important, impart some crucial information. I got the feeling that all of these animals were wise, and maybe they were grateful for being fed (in real life I toss out lots of bird food for the birds and rodents--random other animals like opossums, skunks, and raccoons, as well as stray cats hunting the rodents, show up sometimes too), so they were sharing something with me in return, I guess.
I recall wondering why there were no rabbits there with them. :(
Anyway...dream switch. I was in the utility room with the cat, Cosmas, and suddenly one of the red squirrels which have been plaguing us showed up. In real life there are numerous red squirrels inhabiting our house now--they started in the attic, which IMO was fine, but have since moved into the upstairs, which is NOT fine as that's where our stuff (including some of my old papers) is stored, and they go into the basement and knock things over, and most recently, one has been scrambling around in the utility room on the ground floor! >_< The cat kind of hunts after it, but I think it scares him somewhat. Anyway, in my dream we were both out there when the squirrel appeared, and Cosmas went after it. I stood by and watched him catch it near where Ma's clothes are or were supposed to be, and I cheered him on the entire time. I think he dropped it, but he was still pawing around at it and chasing it back and forth...and that was when I got my first good look at it.
It wasn't a red squirrel after all. It was more like some sort of striped/spotted ground squirrel, like a thirteen-lined one or whatever they're called--it had a tawny-colored head, and a tawny-colored tail with the little white markings, but its body was white. I stared at this very strange squirrel in great surprise, then hastened forward to pick up Coz and keep him away from it. That was no normal squirrel! It was still scampering around but otherwise not acting terribly wild or afraid. And I was so intrigued by its appearance that I wanted to capture it myself, make sure it was alive and okay, and show it to Ma and Dad. So I got some kind of largish cylindrical container (don't know what I did with Coz), and brought it down over the squirrel as carefully as I could. Still, the squirrel was struggling, and it's like it had increased in size at least for the moment for I had to kind of squirm the container down over it and keep nudging it around so I wouldn't squish its feet or tail or anything. But at last I got the squirrel captured.
I guess I took it to my room, because my next memory is of being in there and I guess I let the squirrel loose. My room seemed cleaner as there weren't as many places for it to hide. It wasn't trying to run away, really, anyway. Mostly it scampered around my room, exploring in a curious manner. At some point, its white body had changed to tawny so it was a regular-looking ground squirrel again. :/ But I thought that its tameness was so adorable. I tried picking it up a few times, and while it kept jumping out of my hands and such, it didn't try to bite and I sensed it wasn't really afraid. I laughed, I liked it so much. But then I thought, I really should get it in a container, just in case. Several times I placed it in these cylindrical boxlike things, but they weren't tall enough to contain it as it would easily leap out. I recall putting one smaller container with the squirrel in it in a bigger one, but it just jumped out of both. Tricky thing. ^_^; Perhaps I finally did get it contained in something though. And I think again its body turned white though I'm not sure.
There was an additional part meaning the above was a dream within a dream, as I was trying to tell Dad about the part with the animals on the porch, but he kept interrupting me to ask questions or add comments or something (I think when I mentioned the monkeys he laughed), so I wasn't really getting anywhere. Also I was trying to tell about the squirrel being found, and telling him that it wasn't a red squirrel but a strange ground squirrel with a white body, but in that part I think I was telling him that like it was a memory so perhaps that part took place just after I had the squirrel in my room and was part of the dream within the dream. *shrug*
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Date of dream: Friday, January 12, 2007
Level of Lucidity: N/A
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Lucid Intent? No
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This was detailed and very realistic while I was having it, but I took no notes so I'll just describe in general what I recall.
It was evening, I believe (the season probably summer or autumn), and I decided to go for a walk. This was reminiscent of the bike rides I used to take down the road when I was younger, on nice evenings. I stopped doing that years ago, and while I occasionally walk, it's never down G. Road, the road I used to bicycle. Well, I think I told Dad of my intent and then left, feeling rather cheery and complacent as I went on my way. The scenery was completely unfamiliar in real life but I knew it in my dream so that was fine. It was similar to walking north down G. Road, but there were more buildings here and there--it was more like suburbs or just outside city limits than the country, which it really is. The light was dimming because the sun was setting. There was tall grass along the roads. I was content.
The landscape, I believe, started becoming more citylike and now it was like it was supposed to be Petoskey (where I was born and went to college), and I think I was then in the company of some others, who included my mother and possibly my maternal grandmother; but that might have happened later and I might have still been on my own. Well, either I was alone or I became separated on purpose because I wanted to walk around a bit. I came to this crossroads area or some such and started walking onto the road I wished to take, for I knew exactly where I was going, but just then a big car or truck/SUV came along and cut me off so that I had to hurriedly step out of the way and even scramble out into one of the other roads just so it could get by without hitting me. "That was rude," I murmured in irritation as I tried to regain my balance. I then looked around myself. "Uh-oh." For now I couldn't be sure which road, exactly, I'd been taking; they were all old paved roads, but they looked the same, and I think there were even two or three parallel ones and I had been turned around so much by the vehicle's interruption that I didn't know exactly which way to go.
I gnawed on my lip a bit and finally took a few tentative steps down one road, then hesitated. I did this a few times before finally choosing one and trudging along miserably. I just knew I was going to get lost, now. And Petoskey is a big city for me, and I don't know all its streets very well, much less how I was supposed to get back to where I'd come from. For now I knew I had been at a particular building along with Ma and some others, and all I recalled of this building was that it was large and had a section high up with sectional square windows of green curved glass. I didn't know what the building was called, I didn't know where it was located, and I didn't know how far away I was from it. I was totally lost.
I decided to just start walking until things started to look familiar, or perhaps I could find somebody to ask. *sigh* I felt very discouraged as I wandered along unfamiliar streets past unfamiliar buildings. Nothing even resembled the place I needed to find. And the idea to just keep walking discouraged me as well, because what if I just got even further lost? -_-
I at last came to this church...I don't recall this part well, why it was that I stopped here. It was the big old typical church with the steeple and all, but there were a lot of people out front of it, doing what appeared to be Tai Chi--they were just standing there, slowly shifting their arms and changing positions. It was almost like a cult. :/ I do know that I was at first trying to get through or past them but there were so many, and they were in the way, that I got caught up between them and had to keep squeezing my way through and I think that's how I ended up in the church doorway. I don't recall what happened here, but for some reason I went inside. Maybe I was seeking shelter.
Within I think there were more people and now for some odd reason I was curious about the place, but I was accosted by an authoritative woman who took my arm and began leading me back to the entryway. She wasn't threatening, and she didn't hurt my feelings, but she was quite strict and spoke to me in a hushed voice about why I shouldn't be here and didn't belong here, and I had to leave. I somehow found out that this was a Catholic church--perhaps I saw some priests--and maybe that's why I was curious, because these Catholics outside had been doing Tai Chi like it was part of church ritual! And I was also curious about this woman who was leading me out--she was perhaps in her forties or fifties, hair maybe tied back--but the strangest thing is that she struck me as being a priest here. I did not ever consider her being a nun. I knew she was a clergy member of authority, at least equal to the priests, and while I don't think this struck me as much in the dream as it does now, yes, I was very curious about this very strange Catholic church.
But the woman priest, if that's in fact what she was, was very intent on getting me out of there. She wasn't being rude or anything about it--I never got a feeling that she was judging me as a bad person or anything. It was just that I didn't belong there and I really had to leave, right now. It was more a feeling of trespassing or being in REALLY the wrong place, like the other churchgoers might take offense somehow, and she was insistent on getting me out right then. I was too perplexed to fight much as she led me back to the door and ushered me outside...at least, I think that's what happened.
Well, I ended up wandering around again, still lost and confused. I was disappointed that I couldn't stay to learn more about the church, too. :/ Okay, I just remembered this part; at some point it seemed nighttime as it was dark and I was walking along the sidewalk, in a more rundown section of town, when this weird glowing crow-thing showed up...it was like a sketchy cartoon version of a crow, with a slight nimbus around it, just a glowing outline. When it showed up and talked to me I yelled and jumped in surprise but it turned out it was just a sort of sidekick sent to help me, more comedic than anything, so I brought him along. That was on the left side of the road. Then at another point it was daytime again and I was back in the city proper (it looked nothing like Petoskey, BTW), and I came to a street corner and now for some reason Gil Grissom (William Petersen) from CSI was with me, and perhaps I was asking him for directions to the building. I had some help now, for on my right, I spotted a similar-looking building that had the green square glass windows like those in the building I was seeking--so I pointed up at the building and said, "It had windows just like that." And I believe Grissom knew where it was that I wanted to go.
In any case, I ended up, again, in some kind of building--it was like the hallway in an office building, warm lighting, cream-colored walls and maybe carpeting, doors along both sides--being escorted along by some people. There was lots of talking going on, which I wasn't taking part in. I felt sad and lonely because even though I had apparently found the building I was seeking, I still hadn't found Ma and the others. As we walked, turning a left corner, I heard somebody speak and it sounded just like my maternal grandmother! Surprised, I glanced up, expecting to see her--but it was Ma instead! She gave this beaming smile and my mouth fell open, then I ran for her and threw my arms around her, so happy to be with her again! And so everything ended up happily after all.
Real-life associations: Lately I'm trying to work on developing my self-esteem because my new psychologist is rather strict, and says that if I present her with a defeatist "I'm-nothing" attitude, she won't continue seeing me. Oddly, ever since that first meeting with her I've actually felt a bit better about myself than I usually do. I have yet to see if this works out though, she seemed kind of forbidding to me. Hm. Perhaps the woman priest had something to do with her? Didn't think of that until now. In any case I'm also reading a book on Jungian psychology and browsing similar stuff on the Web, "wandering around." I also have random thoughts of exercise but haven't done any so far.
In real life I would not be interested in learning more about the Catholic church, the faith I was baptized in, because I feel they rejected me (I have my reasons) and I strongly disagree with many Christian teachings. So my reaction to the odd church in my dream was rather out of character for me--usually I wouldn't go near a church! Churches make me anxious.
The glowing crow-thing just randomly makes me think of the art I browse online. Nothing in particular, that's just what he looked like, a two-dimensional piece of art.
My reaction to the woman priest's (?) insistence that I leave the church was very out of character, too. If that happened in real life, no matter how polite she would be about it, I would have gotten tearful and felt terribly embarrassed and guilty.
Ma's reaction to us being reunited was also somewhat out of character. She's not a very effusive, joyful type and would have been likely to be more annoyed than anything that I had wandered off.
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