From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   The dream before waking was rather symbolic in various ways, nearly to the   
   point of "cartoonish" in that the dreamer was clearly viewing things that   
   symbolized other things.  Hopefully, this will become clearer in the telling:   
      
   The dreamer actually was "waking up" (coming into focus) in the bedroom of my   
   youth (as well as recovery) on Scottland Drive, and was saying something   
   aloud, as if responding to a call from out in the kitchen, that *seemed* as if   
   Gina were out there,    
   calling the dreamer, and the dreamer was responding something like, "I'll be   
   right there," then (mostly to himself) "It's [an type of joy] to actually be   
   saying that to my Father, that Gina is actually *here, NOW*"—  although the   
   only words there that    
   were heard clearly include: "It's," "Father," and "Gina"—   
      
   The curious thing was the mental feeling of thought, swirled as if around a   
   thread, as the dreamer went into what would have been a living/room kitchen,   
   only the entire scene setting changed, so that what was being viewed was   
   something *like* a large    
   sheet of paper, roughly two-thirds the size of a standard poster board, like   
   what you could get at a Wal*Mart or Hobby Lobby, etc.   
      
   The drawing was *roughly* that of a house, much like a young school kid would   
   draw: squarish with a door in the front, only it was two stories, and had   
   windows, a chimney and an inverted cone over the top, a bit like an   
   upside-down oil can shape.   
      
   The dreamer was asking aloud, "Whose is this?" or possibly "Who drew this?"   
   although the original tone may have been a shade harsher than intended.   
      
   There were some young kids around, namely Samanthia ("Sammie," "Pie," the   
   daughter of a previous domestic partner, and friend / nearly step-sister to my   
   son, Charles) and also (I think) Charles, and (possibly) Logan, Landon and   
   Alyssa, although none of    
   the kids were actually focused on, rather that the characters of children were   
   in the background of the dreamer asking aloud about the drawing.   
      
   The kids were somewhat shrinking back, as if slightly fearful, but the dreamer   
   restated the question in a kinder tone, similar to: "No one's in any trouble.    
   I just want to know what this is supposed to be?" (as if asking for the artist   
   to provide an    
   interpretation of his or her own drawing.)   
      
   Someone (sorry, unclear as to who it was, precisely) outed (identified) the   
   artist as Charles, and the dreamer asked, "OK, but what is it a drawing of?"    
   (Mind you dream questions are typically in the form of a simple    
   hought-expression, but what I'm    
   writing out here is as accurate a translation as I can come to expressing what   
   was being communicated within the dream.)   
      
   Someone mentioned *something* like "the Tin Man" in connection with Charles,   
   as if perhaps it was Charles seeing himself *as* the Tin Man (from the Wizard   
   of Oz) and, taking another look at it, the dreamer could see that the column   
   of the chimney had a    
   cover *similar* to that of the Tin Man's oil can.   
      
   And yet, the dreamer felt that it was more than just a drawing of the Tin Man,   
   and looking at the drawing, noticed that there were some characters moving   
   into and through the house in the drawing.  The characters were like a blend   
   between the style of    
   Charles Schultz (Peanuts / Snoopy / Charlie Brown) and that of the human   
   characters drawn by Stephan Pastis ("Pearls Before Swine") — They moved as   
   if going in through the front door (which was to the viewer's right, facing   
   the drawing) up to the    
   second floor, and then left (from the viewer's perspective) as they were   
   visible through one of the top floor windows.   
      
   The dream ended as the dreamer was contemplating the comparison and contrasts   
   between the Tin Man and the life Charles had growing up / has as an adult, and   
   *also* how "Life Father, Like Son" may apply to the overall communication.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)