From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Dream before waking:  dreamer is in what appears to be a large room full of   
   water with a glass wall on at least one side, not unlike a water critter   
   inside an aquarium.  There is a type of "split perspective" for only the   
   briefest of moments (even in "   
   dream time"!) wherein it was as if the dreamer were approaching the   
   room/area/tank from the outside, yet the next moment was *inside* the tank,   
   looking out through the glass wall.   
      
   A (relatively) *very* large index finger began tapping downward (from above)   
   upon the glass, as if the dreamer's perspective was that of something very   
   small, looking at something that was simply human-sized but looked large   
   (gigantic) by comparison (   
   there used to be IRL a TV series back in 1968–70 called "Land of the   
   Giants"— imdb.com/title/tt0062578 .)  Clarity 9+, curious though it was :-)   
      
   This was immediately followed by the dreamer (that would be "the physical me"   
   in this case) waking up, and the first thing I did (as this was after sunrise)   
   was to get up to let the dog out on my way to the "restroom" to relieve my   
   bladder.   
      
   So while this was apparently a "biologically induced" type of dream, it does   
   add credence to the concept that any dreamer (in the dream world) is simply   
   "the mind" traveling "free of the body" until such time as it returns *to* the   
   body at waking.   
      
   A few other dreams, not in any particular order, but I *think* this may have   
   been how they were sequenced:   
      
   The location:  The dreamer is seeking a place to shower, yet is located within   
   a kitchen-like area of what appears to be a "small" apartment (of the size   
   typically rented to single college students.)  There are several seconds   
   within the kitchen area,    
   wherein the dreamer is actually trying to visualize / work out *how* to take a   
   shower in that room.  There was also a female standing along a counter, who   
   puts me in mind of *possibly* being Sandy$, someone with whom there is some   
   back & forth discussion    
   within the small area of cyberspace referred to as "alt.dreams"—  All I can   
   say about the female in the dream is that she appeared "middle aged" (being   
   anywhere from 25 to 40?) with blondish-brownish hair of maybe shoulder   
   length.  (She was not obese    
   by any stretch of the imagination! Not even "chubby.")  That clip ended   
   without any type of successful resolution, clarity 9.   
      
   The travel:  The dreamer is driving a vehicle (such as a car) in what feels   
   like a highway, similar in feel to somewhere in Middle Tennessee, yet other   
   than "nearby" where I live, as if traveling to a somewhat distant city or town   
   (what would take a full    
   day or more in the days of the horse & buggy.)  The dreamer feels as if there   
   is an actual destination, but the route is vague, rather than *specifically   
   known* / understood, and because of this, the dreamer is actually seeking a   
   GPS type method in order    
   to get a route "laid in" by which one might follow easily in order to get to   
   the destination.  However, the dream ends while the dreamer is sifting through   
   the idea of a GPS device.  Clarity 9.   
      
   The journey:  The dreamer sees a kind of line / cable, as if lowered from   
   above, not unlike that which might be used in a rescue helicopter, except that   
   there is no viewable object above in the skies.  In fact, the total atmosphere   
   of the dream is simply    
   soft blue in nature, neither dark nor bright, neither deep (like a royal blue)   
   nor shallow (like a robin's egg) but simply "blue".  (Could possibly be   
   analogous to "the mental plane.")   
      
   The cable (which was more like a rod, actually, as in that of an inflexible,   
   unbreakable dark/black-type substance) has on it what looks like barbs, with a   
   whitish appearance around their edges (I'm thinking this is a matter of   
   contrast rather than any    
   intensely focused, specific meaning, although the "barbs," of which there may   
   have been 3 of them, were arranged like this:  ====»»» except pointing   
   downward, ⇓.)   
      
   There is a brief moment of concern, that this rod seems to be sent to "snag"   
   the dreamer, much like one might gaff a fish, and there is also the concern   
   that such a gaff would likely be "painful," yet there is no pain whatsoever.    
   In fact, there's really    
   no "feeling" to speak of, either.  Merely the consequence that the dreamer is   
   then being "transported" (as if through the mental plane) toward a left (or   
   west) direction (assuming that up or forward would be akin to "north.")  There   
   was neither any    
   feeling of "flying" *nor* of being carried, although it certainly *seemed* as   
   if the dreamer were being "transported" / carried / moved in some way.  It was   
   a "weight-neutral" situation.   
      
   The dreamer was (perhaps understandably) curious as to where this form of   
   transport may have been leading, but after a few moments, the dream / event   
   simply ended, clarity 9- (as there was virtually no other detail other than   
   the dark rod/cable from    
   above) although I have an impression that it was, in some way, a means of   
   "getting me to where I wanted, needed or asked to be," although nothing was   
   memorably communicated along those lines.  (There may have been *something*   
   said to the dreamer which is    
   why the dreamer "allowed" attachment with the gaff in the first place, but   
   nothing is actively recalled as of this writing.)   
      
   I'm fairly certain the fishbowl dream before waking followed next (see first   
   dream journaled in this post.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)