From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   The dream / encounter began with some type of meeting (reunion?) between the   
   dreamer and a female somehow identified (introduced?) as my first grade   
   teacher (which brought to mind Mrs. Caffey ( facebook.com/ann.caffey.3 ) a   
   young woman in the mid-to-late    
   '60s, with darker, auburn-reddish hair, who at times in my life has reminded   
   me *just a tad* of my own mother, who was likely a few years older than Mrs.   
   C., like maybe 10 or so, possibly 15?)   
      
   At any rate, the teacher-character was on the dreamer's right, yet there was a   
   bit of a shift, whereby the teacher was positioned directly ahead of (and   
   facing) the dreamer, and she said *something* to the effect of "I'd like to   
   discuss your book with    
   you" (or possibly: "About your book....") (when I awoke from this dream, I   
   *could* have stated it verbatim, it was that clear) followed by some type of   
   comment regarding the "meaning" within the text.   
      
   At some point, either while she was speaking, or while the dreamer was   
   replying, as she took the position facing the dreamer, there were *at least   
   three* extremely bright lights *behind* her, which caused the dreamer to   
   "lower his [my] gaze" so as to    
   avoid staring directly into the brightness of those lights.  They gave the   
   dreamer the impression ("reminded him") of the high-spots mounted over the cab   
   of a red-neck's pick-up truck, as if the truck were behind her, facing her   
   back / the dreamer's    
   front, and giving the dreamer just a *hint* of the analogy of a deer "caught   
   in the headlights," except that the dreamer had no thought of avoiding nor   
   fleeing from the lights, just that they were there, presumably for the purpose   
   of "shedding light on    
   the subject" of the discussion content, being the book (that I've written in   
   real life) that the teacher was discussing with the dreamer.   
      
   The dreamer (pretty much, "me") gave a very clear reply as well, although this   
   journal entry is *much* later in the afternoon (the dream/event occurred   
   likely before 8:30 AM, possibly even before 6:30 AM) so what follows is a   
   *rough* recall of the word/   
   thoughts shared:   
      
   "Well, yeah, after all, the word 'word' *is* 'logos' (λόγος) literally   
   meaning 'meaning,' 'logic,' so it's clearly logical that the words within the   
   book have meaning...." but even so, the dreamer realized that, *perhaps,* the   
   "teacher" was    
   indicating that the overall understandability of the book might improve with   
   some artful editing, even though that was not specifically said (or heard) as   
   part of the dialogue.  It certainly matches an underlying current of thought   
   that I myself have    
   about the book.   
      
   I *think* the dreamer went on to inform the teacher, "That's why I'm   
   re-posting it section-by-section online," to help "smooth-out" the narrative,   
   prior to transferring it *back* into book format, whereupon it will *again*   
   likely get another ironing to    
   help "smooth out" some of the more intricate thought / word structures.   
   (Corollary: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it   
   well enough.”~ Albert Einstein?)   
      
   As to how much of that was actually spoken *within the dream* beyond the point   
   of "the words within the book have meaning" were actually a part of the   
   session before the teacher, being spotlighted by the 3 great lights, well,   
   that's all debatable.  That    
   the dreamer actually made something of a *valid* "play on words" in responding   
   to the teacher, well, that's rather interesting in and of itself.  Like, *who   
   does that in a dream???*   
      
   So that dream basically ended, clarity a bit of a mix between 7 (symbolic) and   
   10 (those three quasar-like lights were *very* bright!) and 11 (presuming this   
   was some type of astral event, and seeing as how I have 3 sons, could well be   
   the case.)   
      
   There was another (short) dream (rather average, yet "cute") wherein the   
   dreamer was in an area *like* a field, *like* someone's larger back yard area,   
   where the ground was *dirt/desert* type composition (no green, just   
   brownish-tan everywhere) along    
   with at least one other person (possibly female) and *possibly* another male,   
   of anywhere along the spectrum of "adult-aged"— from young adults (young   
   married couple?) to maybe 30s (although no actual age was detected.  Could've   
   even been 50s+!   
      
   As the dreamer and the adults were standing in the yard area / dirt-zone,   
   there was seen a small critter-like object, possibly a rabbit, moving as if   
   just at the level of the soil, sort of like a submarine cruising along above   
   the water line, only this    
   critter had the impression of being fur-covered, even though it was never   
   clearly seen.   
      
   As I'm typing this up, it occurs to me it *may* have been a mole or ground   
   hog, but "rabbit" was the thought within the mind of the dreamer.   
      
   The critter was moving fast, and trying to set the positions, let's say the   
   dreamer was "center stage" while the adults were a few feet, possibly yards,   
   "stage left" (the audience's right) and *just slightly* downstage (further   
   from the camera    
   perspective than the dreamer) yet within comfortable conversation distance of   
   each other.   
      
   The critter was seen moving (in this arrangement) as from far backstage right   
   (furthest away from the audience, to the audience's left) to far upstage   
   right, like making a direct line of motion from "north to south" as it were.   
      
   My dog (IRL) Ginger came to the dreamer's mind, and at that point, sure   
   enough, Ginger came into the scene from off-stage left (like, as if from out   
   in the audience, to the right) and was chasing the critter to backstage left   
   (from south to north) a good    
   number of yards away, as if along a property line or such.   
      
   So to recap:  the critter came burrowing at rapid speed from north to south   
   along the western edge of the yard, then was seen being chased by the dog from   
   south to north along the eastern edge of the yard.   
      
   The dreamer was *as if* shrugging (his) shoulders to the others, as if to say,   
   "See what I mean?" but the dream ended before anything was actually said (best   
   as I can recall this late in the afternoon / early in the evening.)   
   Overall clarity, 8+/9-.   
      
   Now *just for fun,* here's a note of what happened *IRL* a short while ago:   
      
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