From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 7:58:57 AM UTC-5, sandy$ wrote:   
   > ____On Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 7:45:50 AM UTC-6, Richard Silk wrote:    
   > > I realize this is being posted a day late (on Thursday, the 25th) but it's   
   for yesterday morning, Wednesday the 24th:    
      
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   > Hello Dick,    
   > When that person was shot, did you hear the noise of the gunshot or was it   
   silent?   
      
   So I had to review just a bit to find out what "shot" was being referenced.    
   This is what I found "in the same block" of dreams:   
      
   *>In "The Amoral Idiot? (and the gal who ended him)" there's a scene of 3   
   people: Female (about 40? slightly heavyset, slightly upstage left) the   
   amoralist, just left of center) and a guy (seated slightly slightly downstage   
   right) who gets immediately    
   shot dead (by the amoralist) who I *think* fired with his left arm   
   outstretched towards the victim. The shot was nearly immediate, with no rhyme   
   nor reason given leading up to it. The amoralist simply shot the victim.    
      
   The gal seated to the amoralist's right (slightly upstage left) asks the idiot   
   something nearly as inane, such as "Did you just shoot that guy?" or possibly   
   "WHY did you just shoot that guy?" (or possibly both. Sometimes, a "feel" of   
   more than a few    
   discrete thoughts may come across as *one* thought in a dream.)    
      
   The idiot gives some kind of non-defensive reply, such as something *akin to*   
   [he was a waste of space] (or air, etc.) or [he was offensive just sitting   
   there.] The point being, the idiot gave *no* defensible reason (justification)   
   for having murdered    
   another person.    
      
   The gal with whom the idiot had been answering took a gun in her right hand,   
   aimed it at her right ear (as her left ear was towards the idiot, such that he   
   could not see what was happening on the right side of the gal's head) and   
   pulled the trigger. The    
   shot not only went *through* the gal's head, but also then *into* the head of   
   the idiot to her left.    
      
   Believe it or not, there was some type of discussion that took place with the   
   gal, as if the fact that she'd just blown her own body away was irrelevant to   
   the moment.  <*   
      
   So as to the question raised:> "...did you hear the noise of the gunshot or   
   was it silent?"   
      
   If this had been asked within a day or two of the dream, I'd likely be able to   
   give you a "more accurate" answer.  As it is, I can barely remember the dream   
   itself, although the journaling of the dream (quoted above) is relatively   
   accurate enough to    
   bring the "blocking details" back to mind (who was where, did / said what.)   
      
   Now, if you've ever been to a "firing range," the sound of a gunshot (even   
   with ear muffs) is fairly loud.  Yet the *loudest* single gun shot I ever   
   heard came from a "broom handled Mauser" fired by my brother-in-law at an   
   outdoor shooting location.   
      
   In comparison to *those* examples, I've got *nearly* zero recollection of the   
   sound of the gun shots.  There was the "undeniable sense" that someone *had*   
   been shot.  If there *was* a "sound" component to the dream, it would've   
   carried about as many    
   decibels as the dialogue itself.  At this point, the best I can recall would   
   be "muted" in comparison to the sound a gunshot makes in reality.   
      
   > At least you are dreaming where nothing is happening in that area of my   
   sleep.    
      
   When one is having difficulty sleeping or dreaming, here are a few tips:   
   1) (hard to practice, but *very* effective!):> "Early to bed, early to rise,   
   makes [one] healthy, wealthy and wise."  ([Ben Franklin] if I recall   
   correctly.)   
   2) When the body is tired, exercise the mind; when the mind is tired, exercise   
   the body.  (My dad!)   
   -- when they are *both* tired, take a nap / go to bed. (...Addition mine.)   
   and of course, my favorite:   
   3) The Right Eye Technique:  (GREAT for power naps as well!!!)   
   tinyurl.com/RightEyeFirstTechnique   
   (First posted in alt.dreams or similar USENET space--   
   the tinyurl alias (shortcut link) points to a "newer" publication online at   
   Quora.com).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)