From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2020/05/15 Friday:   
      
   Got up this morning, scribbled / sketched some tiny (and BRIEF) notes on the   
   core of a spent roll of TP, and have been relatively busy all day long, so   
   here are some *very* evaporated notes from last night's / this morning's   
   dreams:   
      
   Item to 2nd hand (thrift) store / unable to find (something):   
      
   What little I recall of this involved turning something (like a child's item,   
   perhaps a toy-like object, perhaps clothing) into a kids' thrift store.  This   
   was followed with an attempt to *retrieve* said object, but encountering a   
   sense of frustration at    
   being unable to locate it.  Clarity 7 at the time, less than 6 in recall.   
      
   Questioning guy about baby-care products:   
      
   The dreamer seemed FULL of questions that *I* (Richard) am well aware of both   
   through education (child development and child psychology) as well as personal   
   experience (having fathered at least 2 children, at least 4 allegedly.)  So   
   while the dreamer    
   continued to come out with question after question (at LEAST 3!) that seemed   
   so *elementary*, "I" (Richard) *felt* =curious= as to *why* these questions   
   were being asked to begin with!  Note that the "guy" being ASKED such   
   questions seemed *very* similar    
   to a mental image of myself, although a bit younger with darker hair (my brown   
   hair long ago turned salt&pepper gray.)  ACCORDING TO THE NOTE I wrote this   
   morning, The dreamer went to buy diapers (for newborns!) before dismissing the   
   individual.  Clarity    
   6-ish, maybe 7.  I found the Q & A session the *most* interesting part of   
   this, almost as if I had been having some kind of meeting / discussion with a   
   more ignorant, younger form of myself, while yet ignoring the learning /   
   experience I'd already    
   acquired in *this* life.   
      
   Guy with dog going around somewhere:   
      
   So there was a guy *with* a dog, medium/large, smaller than a German Shepherd,   
   roughly (pun accidental) the size of a Retriever, but appearing more mutt-like   
   than purebred.  There are TWO separate notes, as I do (barely) recall there   
   being two separate    
   dreams:  the first note refers to simply a guy w/dog in a field, while the 2nd   
   note refers to them "going away somewhere."  Both of these are at most a   
   clarity 5, and basically only here because I had the good sense to take notes   
   this morning.  There was    
   a *sense* that the two dogs (mine AND the guy's dog in the dream) felt a *bit*   
   of longing over the separation of the two, as if two friends were parting, not   
   knowing if they'd ever meet again.   
      
   Larry giving directions to "480":   
      
   There was a brief clip of a college-buddy of mine, Larry Duke, issuing   
   directions (to whom???) on how to get to Hwy "480" *as if* from Haywood Lane,   
   west of I-24, or a similar street, west of I-24, *as if* one needed to travel   
   east to a major route (such    
   as I-24) then head north (as if into Nashville).  The interesting thing about   
   this, is that IN THE DREAM, the dreamer noted the transposition of "480" and   
   "840," because there IS an interstate loop, I-840, however, IN REAL LIFE (IRL)   
   it is *south* of the    
   location where the dream action seemed to occur.  Also, while I'm consciously   
   unaware of any Hwy 480, the *feeling* in the dream was that he was directing   
   someone up north, to Lebanon / Mt. Juliet / La Guardo.  NOTE: it reminded the   
   dreamer of Hwy 109 (   
   sung about in a song by the Dixie Chicks) however, "109" was NOT recalled   
   during the dream.  In fact, I just had to look it up! in order to place where   
   I was trying to recall.  The DISCUSSION of directions was around clarity 8+,   
   however, the overall *   
   meaning* of the dream is *really* obscure, like around clarity 4 to 6, at best.   
      
   Neighbor's gravel driveway w/stuff in it:   
      
   In this last dream, there was a neighbor's driveway, only it was GRAVEL (IRL,   
   the neighbor's driveway has always been paved for as long as I can consciously   
   remember, although it MAY have started out as gravel.)  IN THE GRAVEL itself,   
   there were objects *   
   resembling* plastic-type kids' toys, although the nature of whatever they were   
   was never clear.  The gravel seemed roughly 2" to 3" deep as well, which   
   again, is very unlikely, so I'm *guessing* this was all a very symbolic dream   
   about something else.     
   But I won't even begin to assume I can interpret EVERY dream or know what's   
   going on.  I'm basically posting these as a dream-journal as I go along in   
   life.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)