From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   A few nights ago, I had two dreams that were somehow "mother-related," likely   
   because of the approach of today's "Mother's Day 2022"—   
      
   In one dream, there was a large creature, somewhat "sci-fi" in nature, like   
   having the body mass of a bear and the thickened skin of a lizard of the gila   
   monster type, and I *think* it had a hooked beak not unlike some type of   
   raptor.   
      
   It is unclear as to whether the creature was creating a threat of any kind,   
   but something *similar* to the dreamer made an offensive test, as if to chop   
   one of its front "feet" (paws? / claws?) with something like a short axe.    
   (CHONK!)   
      
   The creature had a face similar to an African Harrier Hawk and an Osprey   
   (possibly a Harpy Eagle or an African Crowned Eagle.)  I can see the bird-like   
   face clear as a bell, but have not a name from which to do much of an online   
   search.   
      
   The point is, the bird/creature gave a look as if to say, "You know what's   
   gonna happen to you next, right?" only there was some type of interruption, as   
   if either the dreamer OR the creature had something that needed immediate   
   attention elsewhere, and    
   the dream ended.  Clarity either 7 or 9.   
      
   The other dream involved two individual mother entities:  one near, one far.    
   There seemed to be children (of each mother) somehow in play, as if the   
   distant mother had the kids of the close mother entrapped (or captured)   
   somehow.   
      
   There was a view of a knife, held aloft, either in preparation for a down   
   stroke OR as a display, as some knife-aficionados are proud of their   
   hardware.  At any rate, this particular knife looked to have a body of about   
   5"–6", sort of a mahogany-wood-   
   type handle, and a steel blade that had the words "real silver" engraved along   
   the blade, as if the blade were real silver, rather than steel.  (WHY would   
   someone have a knife blade made of silver???  Who knows?)   
      
   There was some kind of hiccup, as if the dreamer were holding the knife for a   
   moment, accompanied by a type of knife-flip maneuver of the right hand, only   
   the knife seemed to disappear, and the dreamer suddenly had the near-mother   
   kneeling upon the    
   ground, as if pinning the head at the neck, and some type of implied threat to   
   the distant-mother that the near-mother would be killed if all her children   
   were not released to her immediately.   
      
   I realize, this condition does NOT make cognitive sense in the conscious   
   world, but in the dream world it was something like [ALL life is valuable, so   
   free those kids or a life gets taken.]   
      
   And of course, all the children of the near-mother were released and came   
   running to her side.  Dream ended, clarity "Awkward."   
      
   The *only* thing even *close* to any of this (IRL) was the release the next   
   day of all the women & children from the Mariupol steel factory in Ukraine.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)