From: Richard.Silk@Juno.Com   
      
   The dreamer and some other individual were going through an area in search of a   
   critter.  Why they were searching for a critter, one may only guess, but there   
   was the impression that a rodent of some type may have scurried into a human's   
   domain, therefore needed to be evicted, as it were.   
      
   While the other individual continued on (elsewhere, outside the narrative, so   
   to   
   speak) the dreamer stopped in a room *similar in size* to a two-car garage,   
   although the walls on up were of less concern than the four baseboards & walls   
   which formed the borders of the floor area.   
      
   The reason for stopping in that area was because the dreamer *heard* something   
   minute that caught the dreamer's attention, as like, "Could that have been a   
   mouse?"  Any sound of motion at all within an otherwise motionless (static)   
   room   
   tends to trigger a person's awareness of Newton's 1st Law of Motion (Inertia)—   
   that an object at rest remains at rest, unless some other force (critter) acts   
   upon it.  Thus, even the *tiniest* of rustling noise / sound indicates the   
   possibility of a mouse.  (If it weren't for what comes next, one might've   
   thought the dreamer was a cat.)   
      
   As the dreamer contemplated the miniscule rustle, there was another tiny tone   
   that confirmed the probability that the first was had actually been heard,   
   rather than imagined, and at this point, the dreamer gets a hose (similar to a   
   garden hose) and begins spraying water along the baseboards of the walls.   
      
   I realize this is likely something would *not* do unless the room were designed   
   for water to flow *out* of it, however, there was the sense that the dreamer   
   simply wanted to agitate whatever critter might be hiding so as to focus the   
   action in on whatever may have been trying to escape the water being sprayed   
   like a deluge.   
      
   At around the 2nd or 3rd spray, the focus of the dream narrows to a point   
   wherein the dreamer makes a nearly "blind stab" (grope) and retrieves a mouse   
   by   
   the scruff of its neck, much as how a small mammal carries its young by the   
   scruff of a pup's or kit's neck.   
      
   There's a moment wherein the dreamer is concerned as to whether the mouse-like   
   rodent could turn its neck enough to effectively bite the dreamer, and so   
   there's a span of a moment wherein the dreamer adjusts the grip of the scruff   
   so   
   as to focus the grip directly behind the critter's neck, thus minimizing the   
   freedom of the critter to turn, bite, claw, attempt to escape.   
      
   Barely a moment later, the critter may have begun to relax, sensing that the   
   dreamer's grip was non-threatening, but more incapacitating than anything, and   
   the dreamer actually brings the critter to the dreamer's bosom, as the poets   
   used to say, much as how a human would normally care for a cute kitten or   
   puppy,   
   using the left arm as a type of resting/supporting surface for the critter (yet   
   not letting go of the neck scruff.)   
      
   As the dreamer's mind turns towards releasing the critter *outside* of the   
   building's walls, the dream ends.   
      
   Now I've got to make one, small note on the face of the mouse, because the eyes   
   had a slightly green, luminescent glow to them, as if reflecting light in the   
   same manner as a cat's (which amplifies moonlight, as a type of nature's   
   night-vision.)   
      
   As to whether this dream was symbolic (clarity 7) which it *very likely could   
   be,* or an 8+ (as there wasn't much detail of the environment visible) is   
   undetermined, but I'm leaning towards the 7/symbolic.   
      
   In the A.I. Drone Project, the dreamer is in an area *similar* to the campus   
   grounds of MTSU, around the Judd/Sims parking area on Alumni Drive, where it   
   bends around the front of Smith Hall, along Old Main Circle (a street route.)   
      
   There's a Frisbee®-sized object, but thicker and fuller in shape, much like a   
   "flying saucer" containing volume, *rather than* as a hollowed-out disc (such   
   as   
   a Frisbee®.)   
      
   There's the idea that, for some reason, the drone (with believe it or not, a   
   name, similar to either Voyager or Andromeda) had been through some type of   
   *rigorous* event earlier (like, in the recent or not-too-distant past, relative   
   to the drone itself) that had caused its programming to reach a point of   
   sentience, in something of a Nietzschesque consequence ("That which does not   
   kill us makes us stronger") which resulted in the drone becoming "more than   
   just   
   a machine," but a sentient being.   
      
   Well, this gets all sorts of complicated, when some *other* entity/construct   
   happens by and *captures* the drone right out of the air in which it was   
   operating, sort of like "big drone captures little drone."  Only rather than a   
   physical capture, like a bigger fish swallowing a smaller fish, it was more   
   like   
   it simply *absorbed* it, more like how a bigger drop of water joins a smaller   
   drop of water, and they become one big drop.   
      
   Some form of discussion occurs, similar to that of a human being pleading a   
   case   
   to a larger entity, on behalf of a smaller entity, for the smaller entity's   
   restoration.  That is, the dreamer was pleading a case on behalf of the smaller   
   drone to be returned, as was performing vital research of some manner, and its   
   results were nearly ready for collection, analysis, conclusion, distribution.   
      
   For whatever reason, the larger element returns the smaller drone, but in an   
   unusual manner:   
      
   The dreamer is holding a larger disc, and is positioning it over the ground so   
   that it "materializes" a smaller disc upon the ground.  Mind you, rather than   
   the effect of "element A dropping element B" beneath it, the effect was *much*   
   more in the style of the "teleporters" of the Star Trek sci-fi genre.   
      
   If you've ever worked at a pizza joint that offers 4 different sizes, XL, L, M,   
   and S, it was like holding a medium pizza over the ground while allowing a   
   Small   
   (12") diameter pizza to depart from it.   
      
   One element of note within all this involves a central, red, luminous focus   
   point, perhaps a tad larger than an *old-fashioned* (Eisenhower type) silver   
   dollar.  This red, translucent disc was at the center of *either* the hand-held   
   unit the dreamer was using to retrieve the drone, *or* possibly a point of the   
   drone itself (Voyager/Andromeda.)  The point being, that when the "original"   
   drone had been recovered, the central hub was *clear* rather than luminous red.   
   It was as if the drone had been reset to factory new condition, and even its   
   Nietzsche-like sentience had been erased.   
      
   This was considered "unacceptable" to some degree by the dreamer, who began   
   advocating a point with the larger entity that the drone's software /   
   programming also be restored, at least to the point of where it had achieved   
      
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