From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   There have been *numerous* dreams of less-than-earth-shaking or mind-opening   
   measure over the past few days.  But more recently (over the past 2 or 3   
   nights) I’ve been “turning in early” (like before 9 PM) due to a chronic   
   malady of sorts:   
      
   It began with a dream / vision (which I MAY have posted) of a long, thin, dark   
   tube, with a slight lean from bottom left toward upper right, *maybe* 3” or   
   4” long, and I had the impression upon waking that it was representative of   
   my right Eustachian    
   tube.   
      
   Well, sure enough, in waking life, my right ear (feels like the right   
   Eustachian tube) has been [hardening] as if a drop of water may have gotten   
   past the eardrum or somehow crept in from the throat.   
      
   The slowly increasing pain was beginning to cause a feverish tone to my entire   
   body, so the last two nights I’ve been taking some mild antibiotics AND   
   using ear drops in my right ear.   
      
   That’s not as easy as it sounds, but I do generally tend to move very little   
   at night, and when I find myself unable to fall asleep, I simply use that time   
   to pray and plan my next day.  Plans may fall apart, but the praying and   
   planning prevent    
   panicking. ☺   
   So last night the dreams were *DIFFERENT* than ever before!  A different   
   degree of “sentient.” As if they were “real time” yet I (the dreamer)   
   was *unaware* of the dreams *being* dreams.  In a sci-fi universe, it could   
   easily be thought of as “   
   alternate” or “quantum” universes.   
      
   For now, it’s early in the afternoon, but I’ve already had a *relatively*   
   “busy” day (a morning routine plus cleaning up for an appointment to have   
   my hearing checked.)  I wanted to know IF she could “see” my eardrum, and   
   she says it’s    
   perfectly fine.  The tympanometer (hey, whaddya know? I spelled it right!) ☺   
   (air pressure tester) says both ears appear to be perfect, indicating no   
   obstruction of the Eustachian tubes, but I have a sneaking hunch something   
   simply isn’t quite right    
   there, anyways.   
      
   The *good* news is, she says I’ve got the hearing of a 16-year-old! ☺   
      
   Anyways, I stay busy mostly these days at DiscussingJesus.Quora.Com but have   
   been “off” the past two days due to the need for near-total bed-rest.    
   Today, I told the gals at the hearing clinic, that I felt better when I was   
   ready to leave than when I    
   had walked in.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)