From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   While I should have posted this one on the "silvered hair" on Thursday, I kept   
   avoiding it until it got put off until today. Sorry, I realize that makes time   
   reckoning a tad awkward, but:   
      
   The night & morning *before* last night and this morning, the dreamer was   
   looking *very much as if* in a mirror, noting the full head of dark hair   
   (closer to black than my real life, years-ago brown) and the silvery streaks   
   of gray along the right side (   
   also right in the mirrored image, but if it had been a real person rather than   
   a mirror, it would've been the image's left) along with a very p   
   culiar-looking batch of white hair up in front, with a type of afro-texture to   
   it (in contrast with the    
   otherwise straight-style, Caucasian hair texture.)   
      
   I personally puzzled over this dream and what it may have meant most of the   
   day, wondering when something even *remotely* similar might occur IRL, which   
   is WHY I *should* have posted this yesterday morning, because now detractors   
   might say, "Oh, he wrote    
   all this in hindsight" which, although is technically true, ignores the   
   chronological sequence in which it flowed out: Dream, pondering, and then:   
   late yesterday (Thursday) evening, a news clip (possibly on FOX News) came up   
   which told how former officer    
   Thomas Lane of the Minneapolis Police Department had been sentenced for 2½   
   years for having denied George Floyd (a counterfeiting, drug-using criminal)   
   his (George's) "civil rights."   
      
   The news article showed Lane face-on (frontal mug shot?) but the silvery hair   
   on the sides is evident.  I can only imagine the white-gray fro in the dream   
   was relevant to the verdict of the law.  Clarity 9+ / 10- with a touch of 7.   
      
   Friday morning:   
      
   Most of the dream activity involved arriving (as if on a vacation, by car,   
   possibly with a small family) at a type of roadside or local attraction, not   
   *too* different from Rock City, but more "homely" in nature, similar to a bed   
   & breakfast of an older,    
   very large home wherein the elderly residents had to go something like a   
   museum in order to keep the doors open / pay the taxes.   
      
   There is a sense as if having visited this same location multiple times within   
   the dream, such as on at least one previous visit, possibly two other previous   
   visits, but they're practically "phantom memories" within the dream, so let's   
   play this out in "   
   segments":   
      
   In one segment, the dreamer is examining the building (mostly done already in   
   the text above) noting a type of darkness to the overall tone of the woodwork   
   (or whatever the walls were made of.  A scene from an old, OLD black & white   
   movie of "Great    
   Expectations" comes to mind.)   
      
   Inside, in something like a large, rather open ballroom area, there appear to   
   be a NUMBER of characters in various *imaginative* costumes.  Not just of   
   people-types, but also of animal and other fantastical (as in "fantasy") type   
   creatures.  Rather than    
   be misled by all the pageantry, the dreamer instead came into a segment   
   involving the owner(s) of the location, and although there may have been only   
   one person (an elderly lady) it *may* have been they were an elderly couple   
   (like in their 70s or 80s,    
   slightly hunched over a bit due to osteoporosis, shrinkage of cartilage,   
   etc.)  There was *some* discussion with at least one of the persons, but   
   again, whether it was the old woman (more likely) or an old man is unclear   
   (due in part to SOME evaporation    
   already, as most of this dream was secondary to another segment.)   
      
   In another segment, as if in the parking lot of the aforementioned location,   
   the dreamer observed several *very* unusual characters perambulating (at a   
   walking pace) across the lot (possibly a yard) allegedly toward the building   
   (this is all being "   
   knitted together" in order to make some sort of cohesive sense.)   
      
   One of the characters that "pulled focus" (got the main attention of the   
   dreamer) was rather green in appearance, and looked and walked like an   
   elephant-type creature.  There was someone else with a man-looking appearance   
   but with a *dark* brown    
   appearance, similar to a guy in a gorilla suit, but possibly as a big-foot or   
   some other critter.  The dreamer asked aloud (as close to verbatim as   
   possible): "What is that called?" (referring to the green elephant-type   
   creature— and note that it WAS    
   walking on 4 legs like a pachyderm.  And BIGGER than a buffalo, possibly   
   bigger than a camel, but smaller than a full-sized, adult elephant.)   
      
   "A 'Human-Creature'," came the reply.   
      
   The dreamer (for whatever reason) was somewhat unsure if the words had been   
   heard clearly and asked again, "A *what*?"   
      
   "A 'Human-Creature'," came the same reply, both answers having a type of focus   
   on the syllable "man," as if the green elephant were a male IRL— but that's   
   more of an assumption than in evidence in any way.   
      
   I suppose what the dreamer *should* have asked was: "Can you explain that,   
   please?" but I *suspect* (as I write this up) that the meaning aligned with   
   the concept that sometimes what we regard of as "people" in the "real world"   
   may be (symbolically)    
   depicted in other forms within dreams.   
      
   Now to another segment that has as much or more focus pull than the critters   
   in the parking lot:   
      
   The dreamer seemed to have a *pet deer* out in a grassy meadow-like area (very   
   open, with LOTS of room in which to run around.)  The deer seemed like a young   
   male, with very fine antlers (meaning "fine" like fine wires.  There was   
   nothing "thick" about    
   them whatsoever.)  There was a sense that the deer (young buck) was not about   
   to "run away" or "flee" yet there was also the sense that it was "free" to do   
   as he pleased as well.  (As I type this, I am very much inclined to believe   
   that this critter is    
   symbolic of my youngest son, Landon, who has reached out to me from his   
   adoptive home, elsewhere in Tennessee, who is approaching 14½ years old (next   
   month) IRL.)   
      
      
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