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   Subject: Re: Man in Black, Robot Turtle, White Capri Pants and Old Man Clips   
   From: Richard Silk    
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   From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 9:15:52 AM UTC-6, sandy$ wrote:   
      
   > The left side was desert looking and all I saw was dry tan soil and no sand.   
      
   That really does give the impression of traveling along the "barren wasteland"   
   as if there is very little rain, no growth, no "God" to help things live.    
   That the dreamer has the godless to the left, and context to the right,   
   indicates the dreamer is    
   walking along the border between the god-fearing (to the right) and the   
   secular on the left.   
   So how are things politically in your area?  Keeping homelessness in check?    
   or starting to appease them with that leftist "set up where you want"   
   mentality that leads to chaos?   
      
   > The rope wrapped around the live turtle was around his shell. Capri pants   
   are the type that come to med calf. I live in Idaho and been here since 2004   
   but did move here from Medford, Oregon.   
      
   OK, so I know the shape of Idaho is a bit like a looking at the back of one's   
   right hand (or the palm-side of one's left) with the index finger pointing up,   
   so other than that, I've got no clue, other than possibly the north is quite a   
   bit colder than    
   that south (?)   
      
   Somewhere, I've got it in my head that part of Idaho is good for farming, some   
   for ranching, and some for -- what, a national state park of desolation?  -- I   
   really have very little clue.   
      
   If you don't mind my asking, where were you *prior* to leaving Medford in   
   '04?  And this just popped into my head, but do you prefer saltwater ocean or   
   freshwater lake?   
      
   > It was so strange to have all those clips because usually it is just one   
   dream clip as I am waking up.    
      
   While this is *not meant* as a "recipe for everyone," I've noticed that a   
   *number* of times a dream can be a *series* of scenes that have a "common   
   thread" (that being one's own life) yet while they may seem "disconnected" in   
   the recall shortly after    
   waking, they may begin to "form a narrative" over a span of time, even   
   *years!*  I once had a dream that spanned decades, and the scenes were   
   connected as the dreamer was "moving forward" through total darkness.  Later,   
   I found those periods of darkness    
   to simply be "other time" spent "along the way" whereas the events that were   
   "lit" (so to speak) were *definitely* events that occurred *along that chain   
   of events.*   
      
   Meanwhile, a series of cut-ins / cut outs (scene, end of dream, scene end of   
   dream, etc.) can indicate a series of (seemingly unrelated) things over the   
   course of a day or two.   
      
   The turtle clip still has me a bit puzzled, like it's *almost* body (robot) |   
   spirit (real turtle) / related.  That the rope comes *from* the mouth of the   
   robot *integrates* the physical rope with the physical body / robot, whereas   
   the rope is tied *   
   around* the body of the *real* turtle is like how the spirit is (or was / can   
   be) "free" of the robot at any time.   
      
   I realize you and I have not discussed religion much.  If we had far enough   
   back in the past (prior to August 2013) I'd likely have remembered it   
   (slightly better).  Nowadays, it's "discussed today, forgotten tomorrow."   
      
   It's just that the robot/rope/turtle dream reminds me an *awful* lot of some   
   spiritually-oriented type dreams wherein a savior (typically a Jesus-type   
   figure) "frees" the bound (typically chained) individual.   
      
   So *if you don't mind my asking*-- where do you see yourself on the "religion   
   scale," as it were?   
      
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