From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   The night/day before last night, I had an unusual dream that I was viewing   
   myself, except that the “self” that “I” (the dreamer) was viewing was   
   a younger, perhaps somewhere in his teens to early 30s and had short, blondish   
   hair, but for a moment    
   or two, I thought it was “me.”  The view wasn’t well lit, which seemed   
   to be causing a bit of difficulty in viewing the person, but after I awoke it   
   occurred to me I may have been looking at a future descendant who simply had   
   my head / facial    
   features (the area of the eyes and sockets / brows / supraorbital foramen were   
   remarkably similar.)  Then again, what if it were some image of a “childhood   
   demon” that had tried to “take over” my thought processes / “soul”?    
   Either way, he’   
   s been “identified” now, as “Blondie” (I’d use “Sandy,” but that   
   name’s already in use here)  :-)  Clarity 9- / 8+ due to dim lighting.   
   Speaking of “prior” dreams, I did post that one a few days ago about a   
   spinning darkness, similar in mind to a tornado, which was followed a day or   
   so later by the record-whopping 240-mile long tornado that went through 5   
   states, including Tennessee.    
    So my concern / question is:  was it A) coincidental, B) predictive, or C)   
   premeditative?  That last one concerns me the most.  I’ve made a “mental   
   note” to “avoid” tornado-type, swirling thoughts, if/when possible.   
   LAST night, there were some unusual dreams, at least one, involving   
   non-standard dream images.  The one with a dark (dirt/earth-colored) shape was   
   similar to a termite mound, however not quite as wide, and more the size of a   
   longer-sized dildo upright    
   from the ground, around 9 or so inches.  The earthen column seemed to be the   
   source of some small, rather dark, spider-like creatures.  I (the dreamer)   
   tried to follow one of them visually, but it appeared to have made it “out   
   the window” of whatever    
   dream scene this may have been, and was no longer of any concern.  The   
   “other” spiders were simply ignored as the scene changed.   
   Another non-standard dream involved what began as a type of fox hunt, with the   
   dreamer following a critter nearly dog-shaped / sized, along a kind of hallway   
   into a kind of small, cubicle-shaped room, maybe 4’x4’x4’ or so.  The   
   critter no longer    
   had forelegs of note, and seemed a bit like a robot-shaped version of a   
   cartoon Snoopy, but more robotic than Snoopy.  The dreamer was looking into   
   this critter’s eyes, trying to determine what it might be, and there   
   appeared to be words on display    
   across the eyes, which the dreamer interpreted as being some form of   
   communication portal.  The dreamer said and spelled the word “uncle”   
   (U-N-C-L-E) as the word may have formed in text across the pup-bot’s right   
   (camera’s left side) eye.   
   Also, on a personal note, today I helped my elderly mother to bake what she   
   claimed to be “her last” time at making nut bread for the holidays.  She   
   did require some of my “horsepower” at a few tasks.     
   Mom's "ancient" recipe (Makes THREE loaves!):   
      
   Cream together 3 eggs,   
   9 TBLSpns shortening (similar to Crisco)   
   3 generous cups of sugar,   
   3 tsp salt.   
   ADD 3 cups milk   
   (the idea is to mix all these "easier" things together BEFORE adding the   
   flour, which starts to thicken things up considerably!)   
   STIR IN 9 CUPS sifted flour (NOT self-rising, YES all-purpose)   
   AND 9 tsps baking powder.   
   (Personally, I'd put in the baking powder with the earlier mix, BEFORE the   
   flour, but "recipes have their process.")   
   "When batter is 'right' (might need to add more milk) add 2 generous cups   
   pecans (and optional raisins.)  Mix all together."   
   HALF-fill greased loaf pans.  (LIGHT, NON-dark!)   
   BAKE @ 375°F (approximately 1 hour) until knife comes out clean.   
      
   YIELD: 3 large loafs & 1 small loaf (sometimes.)   
   (NOTE:  I had no problem doing any of this, and only needed 3 pans.  An   
   elderly person perhaps shy of "overfilling" a breadpan?  maybe that 4th one   
   would be necessary, but not this time.)   
   NOTE:  a "darker" loaf pan will likely require around 10 minutes *less* time   
   OR a slightly lower temperature, as a full hour *may* result in singed-burned   
   bottom edges/corners.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)