On Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 7:24:50 AM UTC-7, Richard Silk wrote:   
   > On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 9:24:04 AM UTC-6, sandy$ wrote:    
   > > Dream scene opens when I become aware of a man standing in front of me. He   
   is wearing a medium brown leather mask covering his whole head with cut outs   
   where the eyes, nose and mouth are. I can tell his eyes are blue, with full   
   lips. His long sleeved    
   shirt is rolled up to his elbows. He grabs me and kisses me twice, then steps   
   back. Just then a rattlesnake lands on his left arm sinking it's fangs in. The   
   guy knocks it off and it lands on the ground. I notice some blood around the   
   snake bite. I tell    
   the guy he needs to get to a hospital right away. He tells me that he has been   
   bitten several times in the past with no ill effects. I think to myself, but   
   you are important to me but do not say the words.   
   > That much above tells me the dreamer (apparently you, in this case) cares   
   for the guy who's *clearly* hiding his "true identity" as he's "behind a mask"   
   (literally, wearing one.)    
   >    
   > What interests me is, does the dreamer care for the coward despite his   
   cowardice? Or was she possibly manipulated by a false persona? Or do   
   appearances matter at all?    
   >    
   > The snake bite reminds me of someone who's fallen victim to a "snake" (an   
   entity with no actual moral values?) although the "bite" was [negligible] in   
   that he'd had others before with no ill effects. (This actually appears to be   
   a *nearly* fine quality,   
    yet it would be finer even still if he had no attraction for snakes to begin   
   with.)    
   >    
   > That it landed on his left arm reminds me of some possible "brief brush"   
   with an entity that was only after his money, so to speak, such as a gold   
   digger.   
   > > I start crying , then really sobbing. Another guy offers to take him to   
   the hospital and they leave in a light brown jeep type vehicle.   
   > Suggests that the guy in the mask and the guy with the light brown jeep   
   might be slightly more acquainted than just "buddies," but that's largely just   
   assumption. That he ended up taking your (the dreamer's) advice to go to a   
   hospital shows that 1) he    
   was listening in some manner / to some extent, and 2) he is interested in   
   seeing to his personal health and well-being, which is a good thing, one   
   should imagine.   
   > > Just then a calico cat that has a mostly white head starts pawing at the   
   snake. I say somebody get that cat away from that snake. I see just two   
   arms/hands reach down and pick the cat up.   
   > Reality conforms to thought. Good thinking 👠  
       
   >    
   > > Someone else [says] that the snake has been killed. I am still sobbing   
   when I wake up just then only to find there are no tears running down my   
   cheeks yet I feel a little fear.    
   > > Sandy$    
   >    
   > Hmmm... crying for the dead snake? or the left liar? The fear aspect is also   
   interesting. Matthew 10:31, "Fear NOT—" which is a simple way of "canceling   
   fear." Whether one learns to use it effectively (or not) is another issue.    
   >    
   > Personally, I started learning to overcome general fear by simply "breathing   
   through it." A cloud of fear would come over me (IRL) for no reason *in   
   sight*, and so I figured, that sense of fear was gonna be there awhile so I'd   
   best just learn to "   
   breathe through it," and sure enough, the fear faded away. The next time it   
   returned, I started "breathing through it" and it left even more quickly than   
   before, and eventually stopped coming back.   
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   Hello Dick,   
         I didn't say anything to the guy about my feelings because I didn't want   
   him to know how I felt.   
   I believe the guy took my advice about going to the hospital because he saw   
   how upset I was, knew me  and cared about me.   
   The mask symbol, I may knever know what it stood for.      
   I only had a little fear after waking up but it faded away quickly.   
                                                                 Sandy$   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)