From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 9:29:49 AM UTC-5, sandydo...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Become aware finding myself sitting on one of several padded benches. It's a   
   big room that has used turquoise padded panels along with padded benches to   
   create smaller rooms within the larger room.  There are a couple of other   
   people with me but I can'   
   t see them clearly so I think of them as fake props in the dream scene.   
      
   I've come to an understanding that "rooms" in dreams often indicate a   
   particular gathering of a *set* of people (in my life, typically online   
   meeting places with different nuances.)  Turquoise in my mind strikes me of   
   Arizona, New Mexico, and areas of    
   the central-southwest.  Unless someone imports it or buys it at a jewelry   
   shop, it's basically unseen in other areas of the country (unless someone from   
   the southwest is wearing it as a form of jewelry.)  The pads bring to mind a   
   gymnasium-type    
   environment, or someplace that's oriented toward creating a "padded"   
   atmosphere.  I would note a word of caution against leftist ideology here.  I   
   don't know how it plays in your area of the country, but around here, the Left   
   is basically a force    
   designed to destroy.  Period.  This is often accomplished through the use of   
   "padded" ideology that is designed to "hide" the bare-wall ideology behind it.   
      
   $D:> To the left of me is [an older lady, 5'2" or 3"] tall slipping into some   
   type of cloth shoes that have been sewn together in the centers so when she   
   walks it [makes a shuffle-like movement.]   
      
   This reminds me of the ancient cultural tradition in China, of binding the   
   feet of women.  Not that this applies (or doesn't) here, but it certainly   
   reminds me of it.  To say the least, her feet appear to be bound in such a way   
   that her mobility is    
   clearly limited.  The later reference in this dream to an eagle really starts   
   to bring the US/China relationship into focus, more along ideological lines   
   (freedom & liberty vs. communism/deep state) than anything else.   
      
   $D:> Lady has long bushy hair that looks like it has had too much back combing.   
      
   Not entirely sure what that means (I'm not that into styling) but it does   
   reemphasize the mental image I have of a Chinese lady.   
      
   $D:> She is wearing a beautiful blouse with a maroon background with real gold   
   threads in a filigree pattern. She sits on a padded bench close to me and I   
   look closer only to realize she has long fake eyelashes, guessing 1 1/2 inches   
   long.   
      
   The fake "reality" of communism / socialism is more obvious with closer   
   scrutiny.  The "richness" of the garments are, in fact, a disguise.  True   
   beauty comes from within, rather than from without.   
      
   $D:> She's taking tweezers and mirror and starts pulling small hairs out of   
   her eyelashes.   
      
   Literally?  or did you mean she was plucking her eyebrows?  I can't get   
   anything from the image of removing hairs from eyelashes, unless the length of   
   the fake lashes are causing a slight impediment from her loss of hair, likely   
   caused from having to    
   maintain a fake facade in a communist culture.  (Sorry, that's just the "tone"   
   I'm getting from this.  Still, a *very* interesting dream!)   
      
   $D:> I look up and see an [eagle-type] bird sitting on top of one of these   
   panels looking at me, then it [flies] down landing in my lap.   
      
   As an emblem of the American Dream, realities such as "freedom", "liberty",   
   "justice," and "capitalism" are literally found "in your lap", so *be VERY   
   WARY* of any foreign male trying to marry you for a green-card.  Of course,   
   that's YOUR business, I'm    
   just pointing out....   
      
   $D:> I then notice the bird is made of a loose weave brown cloth with black   
   eyes, with orange feet and legs.   
      
   Very likely the result of our President trying to re-weave the fabric of our   
   nation back together again....   
      
   $D:> I turn the bird around to look at the back side dropping my hands and the   
   bird takes off and [flies] back up on top of a turquoise panel where it came   
   from.  I try to wrap my mind around how a fake bird can fly when I wake up   
   just then.   
      
   The American Dream is ONLY as "real" as the effort put forth to maintain and   
   preserve it.   
      
   $D:> Note: The turquoise panels tells me this dream is spiritual in nature so   
   the dream must be interpreted from that standpoint.       
      
   This may come as a kind of hard-knock, but *everything* that lives is   
   "spiritual," because (tracing the root meaning of the word back to its origin)   
   "spirit" comes from the meaning for "wind".  The Holy Spirit is literally the   
   first breath one receives    
   following the immersion of Baptism, but in other contexts, is the "living   
   breath" of one who has and promotes Life.  So taking *that* into account, I   
   find it much easier to acknowledge that the turquoise imagery has something to   
   do in your life    
   perspective with something that will actually occur or is occurring in "real   
   life."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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