From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2022/01/20 Thursday:  Happy 13th Birthday, Alyssa Faith Silk!   
      
   So 13 years ago today, my only (known) daughter (so far to date, sans DNA   
   test) was born around a month prematurely, possibly by as much as 6 weeks.  I   
   certainly suspect that if her mother and I had both NOT been smoking around a   
   pack of cigarettes per    
   day (around ½ pack each) she may well have developed a bit more prior to the   
   C-section, but there's little-to-no-use second guessing anything at this   
   point.  The hospital (Baptist Women's Pavilion, which is no longer standing,   
   presently an empty, green    
   field) had her in an incubator at the NICU until we were allowed to bring her   
   home safely, but even then, the mother covertly attacked the family in a legal   
   sense which kept her away from around her 2nd birthday until her 3rd, along   
   with both her older    
   brothers, but we won that battle (ironically, the mother and I were both in it   
   together) and got them all back, only to have the mother attack the family   
   AGAIN (by attacking the mother's paternal grandmother / adoptive mother) which   
   ultimately resulted    
   in the children being adopted by a *much* better suited set of parents (they   
   both had professional careers and appeared to be a part of the Christian   
   society, per my request back when the State was seeking out a foster family   
   ✝ ✟ ✞.)  If you (the    
   reader) happen to have a smoking habit, *and ESPECIALLY* if you have children,   
   PLEASE STOP for THEIR sakes!  Cigarette smoking / chemical addiction acts as a   
   "gateway" to MUCH worse demons in one's life.  The key to breaking free of   
   addictions of any    
   kind is through the teaching of Jesus Christ as recorded in Matthew 5:44,   
   namely, to "love thine enemies" (starting *first* with one's *greatest* of   
   enemies: ***Oneself!*** so that one my freely love God {oneself AND others}   
   *without* hypocrisy!)   
      
   So much for this morning's mini-sermon, as it were.  One of the dreams from   
   this morning (between 4:30 AM and 11 AM, closer to 5-ish) began with the   
   dreamer observing a group of boys (from around 8 to 11?) and a beagle-like dog   
   scaling the corner of a    
   building, apparently following someone who appeared to be either a much   
   younger version of myself, or quite possibly my father around his early 30s.    
   While seeing 3 or 4 boys "following the leader" up the corner of house (the   
   surface was white stucco)    
   didn't seem *too* peculiar, seeing the hound dog following them WAS   
   attention-catching, to say the least :-)   
      
   There was *some* conversation between the dreamer and the group, but it wasn't   
   clearly "perceived" to the point where I could repeat it here verbatim,   
   however, it did have something to do with the unusual nature of what they were   
   doing (apparently to "   
   get away from" something?) and *possibly* some comment about the dog, such as   
   "How in the world...?" but the evidence was in the doing:  the dog simply   
   climbed the corner of the building after them (about a 1-story house) and they   
   all walked out along    
   the edge of the roof line, that area that rises at a slope just above the roof   
   gutter-line.   
      
   The "curious" point to all this, *aside* from the hound climbing a vertical   
   surface, even a white, stucco house-corner, was that all the humans were   
   wearing white cotton underwear & t-shirts.  In today's world, the two major   
   types of underwear (for men)    
   are "briefs" and "tighty-whities."  They wore possibly both styles, but the   
   overall theme was tighty-whities and regular t-shirts.  Also, t-shirts come in   
   3 major varieties IRL: "wife beaters" (the ugly kind with simple straps over   
   the shoulders, which    
   are *absent* from the shirt) the V-neck ("crew?") with full shoulders, which   
   works best under a casual shirt that unbuttons in the front, and a regular   
   type that has full shoulders and a full front below the neck, used beneath   
   formal shirts that button    
   up for wearing a tie.)   
      
   The appearance of these guys (and dog) along a roof line wearing white, cotton   
   underwear was so amusing that the dreamer stated, "I've GOT to get a picture   
   of this!" and pulled out a simple-feature flip phone and started to get 2 or 3   
   pictures, only I *   
   personally* have to always check (IRL) between photos to make sure that the   
   camera has gone from "preview" to "capture" mode, whereas the dreamer was   
   taking a series of 3 or 4 photos, while there was this nagging thought to   
   check the images, but that    
   suggestion went unheeded.   
      
   The next thing that occurred was a female (perhaps in her 30s as well?) showed   
   up to the dreamer's right, a step ahead, looking at the scene and addressing   
   the dreamer, along the lines of a mild chastisement in the form of question,   
   similar to:  "How    
   could you let them do this?" as if the dreamer was responsible for the safety   
   and well-being of those who had climbed up, as if the dreamer could simply   
   have instructed them to "get down" if [he] had been so inclined.   
      
   Dream ended, clarity 8+ except for the somewhat muted dialogue.   
      
   Another dream has the dreamer and someone else (possibly a female?) working on   
   a "direct shortcut" THROUGH a building, by means of entering through a door   
   that is usually "closed" to the outside, and certainly closed to the public,   
   yet someone was coming    
   out, so as the door was open, the dreamer and friend went IN, only to find   
   that it was mostly one compartmented area leading into another, without any   
   clear sense of a doorway leading to a corridor.  In other words, it would've   
   been much easier to go    
   around the building.  Whether the dreamer and friend made it OUT of the   
   building to the opposite side is unclear.  The dream MAY have ended there.    
   The following dream partially explains why the uncertainty:   
      
   The dreamer (and female friend?) are on the NORTH side of a building, which is   
   similar in feel (geographically) to the LRC on the MTSU campus, which *IF*   
   this was a continuation from the previous segment, means they entered on the   
   *south* side of the    
   building (which aligns west to east) and are now in the east-west roadway /   
   street that runs along the south side of the LRC.  At this point, the dream   
   seems to take another curtain call, if you will, which MAY be an end of dream,   
   EXCEPT for the    
   following scene, which may be a continuation OR another dream....   
      
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)