From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Kids will be kids?   
   Odd dream about kids darting about outside a home, as if between houses   
   (possibly a friend's house to one's own house) involving at *least* 2 or 3   
   (more like 3, *possibly* 3+) kids, all of *around* post-puberty to very young   
   adult (pre-college) age.   
      
   The "narrative perspective" is *as if* the narrative mind is seeing a male   
   adult (similar to myself, perhaps around age 40-ish?) who *seems* to be   
   something of a "director," as in the role of a guy directing actors in a   
   scene, *similar* to: "Now    
   everybody scramble into the house" (although those words are just in the text   
   of this description to give the reader an *idea* of the *idea* of what was   
   going on.)   
      
   The *peculiar* bit about this is that *one* of the kids, seeming much like a   
   version of myself, around age 13-ish, happened to be stark nekkid, and was   
   scrambling as if to hide himself *from* public view, whereas the other kids   
   were simply scrambling per    
   the director's direction.  Clarity: feeling somewhat confused, maybe 7+/8-.   
      
   Curious phone call:   
   The dreamer is holding a *cordless* phone, like one of those older types (that   
   are still made, incidentally!) that connect to a *phone jack* typically found   
   along a wall, such as in a kitchen or bedroom (aka "land line.")  The cordless   
   *base* transmits    
   the signal via radio frequency to the handset, which has a range limited to   
   the range of the base transmitter (usually around 100'±, or less.)   
      
   Here's the thing:  the dreamer character *appears* to be NOT on a call, yet   
   simply *listening TO* a call, as if the cordless handset happens to be picking   
   up someone *else's* phone line.  (This used to be a problem in the early days   
   of the cordless    
   handset, just as it was in the days of the "party line" back when telephony   
   was still in its infancy.)   
      
   The sentence being overheard sounds rather clear (the words are clearly heard   
   in the dream, but the moment the sentence was over, the dreamer discarded the   
   content of the sentence, as if to say "That wasn't meant for me") although the   
   words did sound a    
   shade "critical" (of something, or someone.)   
      
   The dreamer turned his attention away from the handset (the "cordless phone")   
   and the dream ended, clarity 8+/9-.   
      
   HUGE travel tent trailer:   
   The dreamer is in the midst of a swirl of energy brought about by person A's   
   excitement over event B:  It's a "feeling" that person A *may* have been   
   either a form of myself *or* my (biological, late) father, in about his early   
   40s, and the event is that    
   of his brother's wife (my Aunt Margaret) having just acquired a kind of mobile   
   tent.  Now *if* my dad's brother (my Uncle Al) was present in the dream, or   
   not, I simply can't recall.   
      
   History:  in real life (IRL) my dad's brother's family ("my cousins") would   
   come to visit once a year (for maybe 2 or 3 years) and bring along a trailer   
   of the type similar to a small square, like about 8'x8'x3', on a single axle   
   (2 wheels) that hitched    
   behind their vehicle (from what I recall, *similar* to a GMC type, in the mid   
   '60s) and once in our driveway, the trailer "unfolded" so that it had fore and   
   aft beds.  All I can really recall about the thing is that it was *neat!*   
   (like a super-cool    
   clubhouse for kids) but what it really did was provide extra sleeping space   
   for visiting relatives (as my family had 7: 2 parents and 5 kids.)   
      
   So in the dream, what was being trailered was a *HUGE* tent-like package,   
   folded up *into* a trailer that was more like a flatbed, that is, it was   
   *LARGE!* (like something the military would haul into an unimproved area so as   
   to provide immediate bunks /    
   shelter.)   
      
   Comparing it to something I *am* familiar with, mobile homes, I'd say it   
   likely had a 16' wide bed of about 40' in length.  I had the impression that   
   it would be simply left in a spot, and from there, could unfold (nearly like a   
   circus tent) to provide    
   around 48' width x (48'?) length.  That's a LOT of "square footage" (48'² =   
   2304 sq. ft.)   
      
   So while there's a bit of discussion here regarding the detail of the object   
   as well as the people / action viewed, there wasn't really anything *else* to   
   the dream.   
      
   Sure, it *could* be symbolic of the tents used by the Children of Israel as   
   they wandered in the desert for 40 years, but that's simply a "possible   
   symbolic similarity."  (Anyone who ever goes camping knows what it's like to   
   be "content with tent.")     
   Clarity 7-ish.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)