From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2019/08/18 Sunday:   
      
   stage (drama) dream w/balloon & hair thread / cleaning ceiling pipes in   
   basement / game-night decision(s) / car battery issue / chase into water (&   
   oil!)   
      
   These are only some of what I remember:  it was a busy night!   
      
   One dream seemed related to the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz (his full name was   
   on a Jeopardy rerun yesterday) in which something like a western stage coach   
   was in transit, stopping at a location where I was located along with at least   
   one other person,    
   possibly more; people are coming into the room where I'm at, looking for a   
   balloon (possibly of the hot air / transportation type) and I / we are aware   
   of their search, whilst trying to hide or at least obfuscate the fact that I   
   have one (albeit in    
   deflated condition) of my own.  Meanwhile, as this originally made sense   
   within the dream but the continuity is evaporated at the moment, I was also   
   dealing with a type of thin rope, no more than ¼" to ½" in diameter, closer   
   to perhaps a third.  It was    
   more like a coax / cord, having multiple layers of sheathing.  It was skinned   
   bare except for ONE hair-like thread, and I do mean "hair-like"!  In the   
   dream, I regarded it AS a single, very long hair, with a helium (lighter than   
   air) balloon attached at    
   one end, rising upward.  The problem was in trying to hold / maintain a grip   
   of sorts on the hair.  I wrapped it around one finger a few times to try to   
   get it to hold, but it kept trying to go upward.  I recall the dream ended   
   before the balloon / hair    
   actually got "loose."   
      
   In this slightly more modern dream, there was a considerable amount of   
   backstory involving some politician who was locally known more for his   
   salesmanship / gift of gab.  Part of this backstory involves his telling how a   
   particular store's / shop's    
   former life involved the people in it rolling up paperwork and sticking them   
   inside pipes.  It later came into focus that the present day owners of the   
   store were in a (possibly basement) room, seeking to root out clogs in the   
   pipes.  These pipes ran    
   along the ceiling, possibly carrying natural gas (as they were finger-thin)   
   rather than sewage (which are usually well over 2"-3" OR MORE in diameter.)    
   This one guy was applying a flexible (rubber?) rod (or snake cable?) to one   
   end of a long pipe, and    
   booklets / paperwork of some kind was coming out another, several feet (or   
   yards) away.  It kinda felt like opening a time capsule.   
      
   This other dream was centered around a type of "game night" activity.  When I   
   was a teen, a couple of us guys would sometimes gather around a board in order   
   to explore a particular type of game, such as "Magic the Gathering" or "Rise   
   and Decline of the    
   Third Reich" or other multiplayer games of a complexity far surpassing that of   
   Monopoly or The Game of Life.  In this dream, however, a former associate   
   (IRL) who was last known to be in jail in another state for viewing porn (IRL)   
   or other sexual issues    
   involving a minor who was ALSO big into these types of massive board games,   
   was a character in the dream, which seemed a discussion regarding what to play   
   next and where?   
      
   The car battery issue was really complicated, involving at least 2, more like   
   3 cars, whereby one vehicle had a dead battery, one car was on loan, and one   
   car was rather nice / upscale.  The plot involved having to borrow batteries   
   in order to get the    
   cars where they needed to be, although in the back of my dream-mind, the   
   simple solution of going to buy a new car battery seemed the obvious solution,   
   but it wasn't being implemented.   
      
   The chase dream involved someone (a female?) running as if in a game of chase,   
   although this seemed more life-situation oriented than it did a game.  The   
   omniscient, 3rd party view of the scene involved her running into a lake-like   
   body of water (far    
   bigger than a pond!!) by jumping off a series of docks / piers into what   
   seemed like a dark mass on top of the water.  The next scene was a closeup of   
   her swimming in what seemed like oil, only of a consistency closer to   
   vegetable oil, and her skin was    
   thus becoming VERY oily, so that if anyone tried to grab her, she could slip   
   out of their grasp and keep running with practically zero difficulty.  My   
   first impression of this maneuver was "Brilliant!" but then the thought of   
   what it would be like trying    
   to wrestle with her nude (or in removing her clothing) became of far greater   
   interest at another level, and the dream ended.   
      
   There's one floating in my mind regarding the dream before waking, but I can't   
   access it out of the fog / evaporation.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)