From: Richard.Silk@Juno.Com   
      
   Sorry, readers (if any) - but while the dream was *super-clear* at the time of   
   dreaming, and *fairly* clear after waking, it's *somewhat* muddled this much   
   later in the day, but I'll do what I can to repeat it as accurately as   
   possible.   
      
   LAST EVENING, late into the night (past midnight) I watched a rather   
   *questionable* movie:  either A) it was a fictionalized account of a TRUE   
   story,   
   or B) a true representation of a fictional story.  Either way, it was *thought   
   provoking* and to an extent, disturbing, yet entertaining at the same time.   
      
   The movie was "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (imdb.com/title/tt0270288) -   
   the   
   "unauthorized autobiography" of Chuck Barris (creator of "The Dating Game,"   
   "The   
   Newlywed Game," and "The Gong Show," being 3 of his best-known works.)   
      
   A person would have to "watch" the movie to understand how disturbing yet   
   entertaining it actually is.   
      
   The point being, I'm *fairly certain* that the movie was the "cause" of the   
   "disturbing dream" I had before waking, around daybreak this morning.  The   
   dreamer was as if caught within a building / structure, wherein there were   
   people (and things) designed to kill the dreamer, including (but not limited   
   to)   
   a room where two (adjoining) walls were expanding (inverted!) *into* the room,   
   sort of like:   
   ? (« where the space available to maneuver became like a very narrow hallway   
   along the lower- and left-facing walls.)   
      
   Somehow the dreamer escaped that room, only to find there were assassins   
   outside, and those had to be avoided as well.  Sorry, but the dream was so   
   fraught with tension and "drama" that I've pretty much forgotten most of it,   
   sort of like "good riddance to bad vibes."   
      
   Around daybreak, I let the dog out for a few moments, then resumed my "morning   
   nap on the couch," where I soon had a *very clear* dream / astral experience,   
   nearly, *as if* a group of intellectually charged "astral entities" (aka "dream   
   bodies") were in a room, much like a small, college classroom (or advanced high   
   school something or other):   
      
   Also, as to which position the dreamer / narrative mind was "primarily   
   associated with" in the dream *may* be position of the headmaster of the class   
   (aka "the teacher") - regardless, this is about how it "unfurled," so to speak:   
      
   The instructor of the class, sort of like a lead philosopher / instructor, is   
   asking the class (as a whole):   
    "How does one add value to a person?"   
      
   The prepositional phrase of "to a person" seemed less important than the core   
   structure of the question, "How does   
      
   one add value...?" (to any living being or objective "thing.")   
      
   There was a clear moment of silence in the "classroom" as the students (those   
   people gathered there) pondered the question.   
      
   Someone (*possibly* the dreamer / narrative mind as well!) requested   
   clarification of the question, using only two words:  "Define 'value'-"   
      
   The instructor replied directly (as if he'd been expecting the question) "That   
   which is greater than zero."   
      
   At this point, there was perhaps a *somewhat shorter* pause, and I (as the   
   person posting this dream) am unclear as to whether it was a "correct response"   
   *given,* or whether the instructor simply answered it for the class, yet   
   regardless, the answer was (is) accepted as a "correct" or "valid" answer-   
      
   "By giving it [or possibly 'him'] a name."   
      
   That is, to give a person (especially as a newborn) (or any *thing*) a "name,"   
   the individual (or "noun") is given "value."  That value may *decrease* into a   
   negative range if the person becomes a "liar," whereas the individual reveals a   
   "positive value" when sharing / revealing that which is logically TRUE to   
   others, to the world.  A value of "0" typically indicates that which was never   
   born.   
      
   Clarity?  I suppose one could say that depends upon the perception of the   
   reader   
   / listener / viewer / receiver.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)