From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2019/12/26 Thursday (the day *after*)   
      
   Last night (evening— It's DARK at 6:30 PM this time of year, ya know!) I   
   attended a Church of Christ "sing along" sort of gathering.  I was rather   
   amazed that there was no other Christmas service (of which I was aware) and   
   that the singalong style was *   
   totally* unstructured.  No liturgy, no service, nothin', just people praying   
   if they felt moved, or reciting a bit of Scripture, but nothing on the   
   Christmas story typically recounted from Luke.  It's a very "free-range," open   
   architecture style of    
   religion, and yet it's over 2000 members and growing!  I suspect it started   
   with wealth and continued to attract the wealthy, along with the poor.   
      
   Not sure why I brought that up, but thought I'd mention it.   
      
   As to last night's *dreams,* there was this one interesting one that started   
   out as a typical "need to pee" kind of dream, but set in a large mall-style   
   building with lots of diverse departments, as if one were going through a   
   Sears store *inside* a mall    
   (those days are quickly falling behind us with all the online shopping these   
   days, but such as they are....)  At any rate, I was looking for a mens room,   
   without much luck.  It just occurred to me, that the NEXT time I find myself   
   in one of those dreams,    
   I wonder what would happen if I sought out the bathroom mirror?  Mirror   
   reflection dreams can often be quite interesting.  Although the trek through   
   the mall took a good deal of time, I can't remember anything *interesting*   
   about it, except that in *   
   another* dream segment, I find myself outside among some trees, AGAIN looking   
   for a place to pee, only THIS time it's not a person outside so much as it is   
   a LION!  A male lion, best I could tell, with full mane, pretty much like the   
   MGM critter of fame.    
    This critter was at a distance of some 30 plus yards away (around 100') and   
   at least 2 or 3 trees were close enough aligned between us so as to obstruct   
   his view of me, and I wasn't too intent on meeting him, but didn't feel like   
   running away, either.     
   I recollect asking some nearby guy, "Did you *see* that lion?!?"  It's unclear   
   if he did or not.  There did not seem to be any excessive panic or alarm-type   
   reaction.   
      
   Finally, and this was likely an earlier / first dream rather than a later /   
   last one, I found myself outside what appeared to be the wall of a stone-block   
   castle, not so finely chiseled, certainly not the cement style as found nearby   
   (in Triune, TN    
   tnhomeandfarm.com/tn-living/castle-gwynn) but rough-hewn from rocks.  Don't   
   remember much else, other than the feeling one may have as a young child,   
   pondering the physical structure of one's own home.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)