From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   12:53 CDT:  Two dreams of interest, one of a trial, and another of a father &   
   toddler son.   
      
   The trial involved the dreamer as an attorney for what I suspect was the   
   litigant (I'm not a lawyer, so I'll try to write this as best I can from a   
   layman's perspective.)  The dreamer-perspective had the feeling of being an   
   attorney representing a client    
   was suing a defendant, possibly a business / corporation (someone with deep   
   pockets) and ALSO had the feeling *as if* the attorney/dreamer was   
   *personally* suing the defendant, although there seemed to be clients involved   
   on the dreamer's side.   
      
   Not much is cognizant of the defense, as it seemed nearly shrouded in   
   darkness.  There was the feeling that this was an easy, slam-dunk case in   
   which the defense had ZERO chance of winning.   
      
   There was a sprinkling of cash about on the floor, somewhat behind the   
   dreamer, including at least one "roll" of cash (like you see in TV or movie   
   clips, where a roll / wad of cash is wrapped up in a rubber band) and the   
   attorney scooped it up and made    
   the defense an offer, one might say was "ludicrous," but was made   
   nonetheless:  "If you want to settle this claim right now for the money I'm   
   holding, [we'll all just walk away right now, case closed.]"    
      
   The defense clearly did not understand the offer, as they had possibly NOT   
   been the source of the cash scooped up off the floor, or for whatever reason,   
   thought they could WIN their side of the case.  So there were three scenes   
   going on at the same time:    
    1) the dreamer making the offer, holding a handful of cash, 2) the darkened   
   defense refusing the offer, and 3) what appeared to be either clients of the   
   dreamer OR some random gallery of silent monks, all waving their hands out in   
   front of them as if to    
   mime, "NO!  NO!"  [Don't even CONSIDER making such an offer!]  Please note,   
   that until this moment, this gallery of "silent monks" had made ZERO   
   appearance in the dream.  Were they the filers of the claim?  Maybe.  Could   
   this have been a class-action    
   suit against the Holy Roman Catholic Church for imposing celibacy upon its   
   priests in the early half of the 12th century? (around 1120-something and in   
   1130-something.)  Possible, but not immediately obvious / cognizant within the   
   dream.  The only thing    
   for sure is, the silent monks (a group of at least a half-dozen to maybe   
   untold numbers of men having taking a vow of silence) did NOT want this matter   
   to be "settled."   
      
   Still, the defense rejected the offer, and the dreamer simply put the cash   
   into his pockets, saying, "OK, then there is no settlement."  (The rest is as   
   accurately as I can recall, but:)  ["I just wanted to present the point that   
   either one serves God or    
   mammon, and wanted to get the mammon aspect out of the way."]   
      
   Someone observed, "[—But you put the cash in your pockets / kept the   
   cash—]" as if to ask, "Why then did you keep the money?"   
      
   The dreamer / attorney clearly replied, "Waste not want not" as the dream   
   ended.  In other words, [They left it / they didn't want it / didn't claim   
   it.]  (A form of "finders keepers.")  The money that had been found just   
   laying around on the floor had    
   no one claiming possession of it.  It was literally "free for the taking" with   
   zero strings attached, which is what made the offer for a settlement so   
   perfect:  The money was a free token to get out of the lawsuit, but the   
   defendants *rejected* the offer.   
     In a waking consciousness analogy, the Papacy "rejects" the FREE teaching of   
   Jesus (and requires fealty to a Pope, rather than to JESUS.)  This dream   
   seemed to have an overall clarity of 8+ / 9-, although the defense was clearly   
   a dark mass of    
   nothingness.   
      
   The second dream, much shorter, involved the dreamer as a father (and "I" felt   
   very much like I did in my younger years) and his coming into the presence of   
   his son, who was only around 2' tall at the time, maybe around 3 to 4 years of   
   age, and a slight    
   bit heavy (plump, well-fed.)  The feeling was that of freedom, happiness, joy,   
   the brightness that occurs when a father "regains" his son, as if the mother's   
   legal custody (which had been keeping them apart) had been removed.   
      
   I've mentioned in the past on several occasions here in this forum, that it is   
   often difficult to tell "Charles" (my first-born son from Helen) apart from   
   "Logan" (my first-born son from Joyce) both in physical photos (although I CAN   
   usually tell the    
   difference with a bit of study) as well as in dreams (where the difference is   
   *practically* non-existent.)  In this dream, the young boy was never   
   identified, and may not have been either Charles OR Logan, although he did not   
   seem like "Landon", who is    
   younger brother to Logan (in real life.)   
      
   The father picked up the son (from the son's front, the two "facing" each   
   other) under the arms and hoisted him up to give him a hug.  The WEIGHT of the   
   child was *fully* experienced within the dream.  Not that the child was   
   overtly heavy, but rather    
   that, in dreams, weight is rarely "felt" as a lifted mass.  However, I seem to   
   recall the father making some kind of fatherly remark along the lines of, "My,   
   you've gotten heavy!" as in "You're getting to be a big boy!" which was   
   followed by a wondering    
   of "What shall we do today?" although that did not appear to be spoken aloud.    
   Instead, one of the parenting standard questions came to mind, and the   
   dreamer-father asked the son, "Do you need to go potty?" at which there was a   
   moment of pondering /    
   contemplation, as the son did a kind of self-reflection to see how he would   
   answer that question.  In computer lingo, it would be a "self-diagnostics   
   check."  The dream ENDED before he made a verbal reply, or even an indication   
   of the answer!  The "   
   heaviness" felt while lifting / hugging the child gave this a very high   
   clarity rating (9+) although the overall clarity was more around a darkened   
   8.  (It was NOT a "bright, sunny day" in the dream.)   
      
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