From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Tue Feb 8 10:49 AM   
   Been having a LOT of dreams of late, so much so that journaling all of them   
   would take up most of my day.  Thus, I'm trying to limit my time writing them   
   to "the unusual" or "important" type dreams.  One of those occurred this   
   morning, near dawn I    
   imagine, although I didn't put down a "time stamp."  It was *likely* after   
   [having let the dog out around 5:40 AM and returning to bed *after* she came   
   back in.]   
      
   I've often pondered the problem of F^2 regarding generational population:  if   
   person 1 (F2^0) has 2 unique parents (F2^1) and 4 (presumably) unique   
   grandparents (F2^2) and 8 great-grandparents (F2^3) then going back 100   
   generations (to roughly the time    
   of Christ) would yield 1.26765060023e+30 theoretically "unique" individuals.    
   That's 1 nonillion, 267 octillion, 650 septillion, 600 sextillion,   
   230-something quintillion, quadrillion, trillion, billion, million, hundred   
   thousand (etc.) "unique"    
   ancestors.   
      
   I'd realized this some years (decades?) back and thought I'd try to get around   
   to seeing how the numbers could CONVERGE rather than DIVERGE, so I started out   
   with 8 great-grandparents, consisting of (theoretically) 4 men and 4 women.    
   Of that set, they    
   could theoretically be *from* 2 brothers (men) and 2 sisters (women) thus   
   coming from 1 man and 1 woman.  (Who actually had what at this point is   
   basically a hodgepodge, as we're only counting bodies, not relations.)  So now   
   the relationship of the 1 man    
   and 1 woman IS of some importance, as the woman in Abraham's case (Sarah) is a   
   source of some interest, as her parentage is apparently NOT stated in the   
   Bible (at least not that I was able to find, looking through Genesis Chapters   
   12–13.)  But rather    
   than get "hung up" at a specific generation, let's go back to the Genesis   
   telling of Adam and Eve and use them as "models", wherein the parents of the 2   
   men and 2 women in the model are at LEAST one man and one woman.  In thinking   
   of THEIR parents, at    
   LEAST one man came to mind, whereas the woman could be either a sister or   
   half-sister or cousin, but the premise was that these were the first two model   
   humans, so *WHERE DID* the woman come from?   
      
   "God" was the only answer that came to me, and at that moment, I had a   
   SNAPSHOT vision of a valley, and rather than throw a bunch of adjectives at it   
   to describe how beautiful, peaceful, or serene it was (is) I'll instead try to   
   record in writing what I    
   saw in the vision:   
      
   The "valley" was shaped by the "void" formed between two mountains, one on the   
   left, and one on the right.  Although the sun itself was not seen, the setting   
   was daytime, and "perfectly lit" as in not too bright, not too dim, and the   
   air seemed *barely*    
   misty, as if possibly right after sunrise, which would explain why the   
   mountain to the left (west) was better illuminated (provided the vision's   
   perspective was South looking North) as I can barely recall the mountain to   
   the east as being other than in "   
   shadow."  In fact, the view of this valley "popped" me awake, at which point   
   the thought occurred to me that I had "emerged from" the "shadow of the valley   
   of death" and did, in fact, feel thankful to have seen it and "come through   
   it" as it were.   
      
   Could that have been the scene viewed when exiting the Garden of Eden?    
   Regardless, I felt THIS dream was *considerably* worth journaling this morning!   
      
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