From: Richard.Silk@Juno.Com   
      
   09:40 AM 5/18/2024   
   While I had an *early* start this morning, I also got an opportunity to take an   
   after-breakfast nap on the couch, and *that's* where all the whacky (as well as   
   orderly) things came in like a wave of dream after dream:   
      
   Starting with:  The Frisky Kitten:   
   The dreamer was having fun with a particular little gray tabby kitten, the kind   
   that loves to get tickled and turn into a small claw-ball of fur wrapped around   
   the tickler's hand.   
      
   The dreamer would razzle the little fur ball around on the floor and let it go,   
   after a few moments, it would return and the cycle would start all over.   
      
   This went on at least 3 times before the dream ended, clarity 9+, as it was as   
   enjoyable as if playing with an actual kitten, claws in hand and all, IRL.   
      
   NOTE:  This *may* have referenced a Twitter (X) video I watched later in the   
   morning regarding a baby lion cub trying to make a roar-sound (which sounded   
   more like a human baby clearing its throat) which was absolutely *adorable.*   
      
   In another dream, the dreamer was in an outdoor area of about an acre in size,   
   with a large pond in the middle, taking up most of the space, although there   
   was   
   land around the sides of the pond.   
      
   This dream actually had something of a "pirates / zombies" type feel to it, tho   
   not of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" genre, more like something from D&D.   
      
   There was an area of terra firma (land you could stand on) in an area around   
   the   
   middle of the pond, only it was just below water level:  The idea was that if   
   one were to stand on that spot, one could pull a lever that would affect   
   something (such as drain the swamp/pond?)  (I'm thinking this may have   
   something   
   to do with the 2024 election cycle...?)   
      
   There was also some type of interference regarding zombie-skeletal-death-like   
   figures that seemed to want to interfere with anyone pulling the lever.    
   Clarity   
   7 (symbolic) to 8+.   
      
   In another interesting, basically "life-like" dream, the dreamer was observing   
   a   
   mild rain (nearly a drizzle) out the west side of the dreamer's back door (like   
   as at 1103 Scottland) while there was *also* seen a view of the sun coming   
   through the clouds (at around an hour before sunset on the western horizon)   
   which prompted the dreamer to wonder just *how big* a rainbow was possibly   
   visible in the east?   
      
   While IRL, the general procedure is to go look out the front door (facing east)   
   for some reason, the dreamer was only able to look up over (his|my) right   
   shoulder (toward the north) and try to look eastward (via looking north)- The   
   northernmost, descending arc of a rainbow was visible, indicating that it must   
   have been *SOME HUGE* rainbow to have extended that high into the sky so as to   
   be seen encompassing the northern-western area of the sky over the house!   
   Clarity 10 to 10-, possibly 7, possibly 11.  I *highly* suspect it has   
   something   
   to do with Trump's ongoing success in the fraudulent "trial" ("witch hunt")   
   being waged against him in New York City.   
      
   13:40 PM 5/18/2024, I had a bit of a break between *starting* this write-up   
   (journal entry / post) this morning (at 9:40 AM) until this effort to conclude   
   it (at 13:40 PM) and at the moment, I'm drawing a *complete blank* as to what   
   "banquet hall" may have referenced, however, there is this other, far more   
   memorable dream (involving a semi-tractor/trailer rig/truck 18-wheeler) so here   
   it is:   
      
   The dreamer is observing a path much like a road, only the road appears filled   
   with white shells of some type, almost like shrimp shells.  And not just   
   scattered, but *filled* with this chaff / frass / detritus.   
      
   The stuff has no appearance of "filth" or anything "horrendous" about it, just   
   that it forms a rather crunchy (white) path rather than a road.   
      
   There's an 18-wheeler traveling along the road, and it appears as if there's no   
   one driving it.  Now sure, in today's world, it *may* have been a driverless   
   18-wheeler using the latest software to remotely pilot the rig, but in the   
   dream, it was simply as if there was *no one* driving, and the vehicle appeared   
   to be crunching along the road/path as if headed towards destruction.   
      
   The road came to a T intersection, whereat the rig somehow ended up heading   
   left, which concerned the dreamer, like as if the truck had been left alone,   
   disaster may have been the result.   
      
   Somehow, the dreamer gets *into* the driver's (American, left) side of the cab,   
   and starts driving the vehicle directly (and no, I do not have my CDL IRL,   
   however, I do have a chauffeur's endorsement.)   
      
   The dreamer (now driving the rig) comes almost directly to a type of Truck Stop   
   (one of those *large* island-type fuel, rest, relaxation, shower,   
   restaurant-all-in-one locations) and begins "circling," looking for a place to   
   *leave* the truck (at the side of the road) because A) the dreamer felt as if   
   he'd only been "helping out in an emergency situation" and had no business   
   driving a big rig, and B) the dreamer wanted to leave the situation as   
   gracefully as possible, and if possible, escape without incurring any legal   
   hassles regarding what he'd just done.   
      
   The idea was that if the dreamer could simply leave the vehicle parked, *then*   
   someone could eventually figure out what to do with the rig (and any   
   freight/cargo it may have been carrying.)   
      
   This is where the dream returns to "weird," as even the dreamer was having a   
   bit   
   of *question* regarding what was going on:   
      
   The dreamer passed what was clearly a good stretch along the side of an   
   off-road   
   (where he could've left the rig, if he'd had a better heads-up as to what was   
   coming) but ended up driving past it, and had the intention of circling back   
   around (if possible, as you may be aware, one simply does not just "turn   
   around"   
   a big rig!) and using the right shoulder / grassy area to park the rig.   
      
   Only that's not what happened-   
      
   The dreamer/driver came into an area seen almost in miniature, compared to   
   "life-sized scale," wherein there appeared to be a rectangular *pool area*   
   (yes,   
   of water) where drivers simply pulled their rigs into the pool, whereupon the   
   rigs laid down on the right side, and apparently the driver would then log the   
   rig with an attendant in some manner.   
      
   Now at this point, I'm gonna make a type of interpretive assumption *in-line*   
   with the posting of the dream, because it's the only way that any of this makes   
   sense:   
      
   *What IF* the dreamer "stepped into" the mind/body of a *very tired* OTR (Over   
   The Road) driver who'd been hauling a load of frozen shrimp (or seafood) and   
   the   
   driver had been very nearly to the point of exhaustion / sleep, such that the   
      
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