From: Richard.Silk@Juno.Com   
      
   So there were a number of dreams last night, mainly with low clarity / some   
   evaporation that renders the majority of the content as "evaporated" rather   
   than   
   "remembered."   
      
   One of which involved a building, as like a barn, in which there was some   
   attempt to clean out the floor, by raking soil / material / detritus from one   
   end of a stall towards another, although whatever else was in that dream has   
   evaporated.  Clarity 6-ish, possibly 8- originally.   
      
   But near waking (around 7-ish AM) there was an unusual "event" that was simply   
   memorable as can be:   
      
   The dreamer (in this case, myself) saw a scene of all white, all bright, with   
   the image of my late mother's smiling face as something of a discernible image   
   in contrast with all the bright white light.  It's as if the areas and contours   
   of her face were *barely* less bright than the surrounding frame (as if the   
   mind   
   could only perceive in a flat, two dimensional plane, much like as one views an   
   upright TV screen.)  Clarity 11+!   
      
   This was followed by a general time of reflection, wherein the dreamer (that   
   is,   
   I, myself) fell back asleep wondering about what had just occurred, and what it   
   possibly meant.  Then, coming back to the waking state, there was a much   
   fainter   
   re-visit of the same scene, as if someone had turned down a 100 watt bulb to a   
   5   
   watt bulb, which I could only process as perhaps the brighter image being   
   something coming *to* me, whereas the fainter image was of my *leaving* that   
   particular moment.   
      
   How might this relate to "real life"?   
      
   IRL, I've been processing some "thank you" cards for those folk who mailed   
   sympathy cards after Mom's passing.  I've finished 6, and there are 8 left to   
   go.  In some of them, I took the opportunity to insert a hand-written letter,   
   written on the paper-pad / notebook that Mom had requested about a half a year   
   or so before she passed.   
      
   Also, as the return address (on the back of the envelopes) I *mostly* used   
   Mom's   
   return address labels, as they may as well be put to good use rather than   
   thrown   
   away.   
      
   It *could* be that this interaction with others (who bothered to send sympathy   
   cards) is the general cause of the white image / dream / astral encounter.  It   
   *could* be that Mom simply wanted to smile at me for "doing the right thing" by   
   sending out the thank you notes.   
      
   Either way, I thought I'd journal this one up, because it's rather unlikely   
   that   
   I'll be forgetting it anytime soon, and it was/is certainly different from most   
   every other dream I've ever had (although it *is similar* to one in particular,   
   only *that* one was animated (contained "live action") and involved Gina   
   talking   
   *to* Mom, who was seated on the couch, listening to her.)   
      
   Meanwhile, after breakfast, I took a small "after meal nap" on the couch, and   
   that's when I had some rather action-drama-packed scenes unfold as dreams:   
      
   In one, the dreamer seemed to be evading a particular female who seemed   
   familiar, yet also like someone from the screen, such as TV or movies.  She was   
   perhaps in her mid-20s to mid-30s, Caucasian (possibly European lineage, seemed   
   American) and was sort of a "cross between" some of these characters:  1) The   
   "T-X" character, played by Kristanna Loken   
   (imdb.com/title/tt0181852/characters/nm0518085) in the Terminator-3 film, "Rise   
   of the Machines"   
   and 2) the Bionic Woman, "Jaime Sommers," played by Lindsay Wagner   
   (imdb.com/title/tt0073965/characters/nm0905993) and 3) a young Elizabeth   
   Montgomery, as "Samantha Stephens"   
   (imdb.com/title/tt0057733/characters/nm0000548).   
      
   At any rate, the woman seemed imposing, unstoppable, and out to "end" or in   
   some   
   way destroy the dreamer.   
      
   That is, until the dreamer simply stood firm, and attempted to enter into a   
   discussion / dialogue with the female character in the dream.  There was   
   something of a mindset of:  [I know you have your directive, but I'd like to at   
   least understand....] and to be honest, I have no clear recollection of how   
   that   
   scene ended.  (Clarity 9+)   
      
   There *was,* however, a follow-up scene, in which a female (similar to the one   
   just described) was being in some way "dismembered," although rather than being   
   a biological female of flesh and blood, it was more like taking apart the right   
   leg of an android (as seen from a distance of about 10'.)   
      
   What or who was taking apart her leg was unclear (possibly *unseen!*) although   
   there were clearly some elements of machinery around what would be a "knee   
   joint."   
      
   There was also a feeling of empathy from the dreamer, as if there was a desire   
   to help the android somehow reassemble the bottom half of her leg (below the   
   knee) to the top half.  Clarity 8+.   
      
   There was also one *very short* clip, a segment wherein the (male) dreamer was   
   "taking a leak," only instead of the older male with an enlarged prostate issue   
   (a slow stream) this was of a *strong* stream, much like a young teenager would   
   have.   
      
   This may be a coincidence, but I just found a 4000 mg bottle of pygeum (Prunus   
   Africanus / Gorilla Cherry) online, and I'm suspecting it may actually have a   
   tremendously beneficial effect.  Time will tell!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)