From: Richard.Silk@Juno.Com   
      
   While there were perhaps a few dreams from last night / this morning, they've   
   mostly "evaporated" by now, what with going to Bible Class & Church this   
   morning, taking the dog around the block afterward, watching some TV, fully   
   allowing it to drop me into an afternoon nap on the couch-  it was the couch   
   naps that were *loaded* with content:   
      
   In one scene, the dreamer was walking southward along Scottland Drive (towards   
   where it intersects with Greenland Drive) where there was noticed a *large*   
   tree   
   on the right, as in someone's front yard, only this tree was so large it had a   
   whole flock of sheep gathered within the shadow of its leaves, thus it must've   
   been around noon time, but the angle of the shadow indicated it could've been   
   around 1 PM, as the shadow was slightly aligned to the southeast (although   
   depending upon any real life sun / shadow arrangements, this could've been any   
   time between the Spring Equinox and the Fall Equinox.  Still, the day seemed   
   cool, or at least cooler in the shadow, giving it the indication of *late*   
   Spring or *early* Summer.)   
      
   The sheep were gathered as if resting on their bellies upon the grass under the   
   shade, within the shadow of the tree's leaves.   
      
   The dreamer was walking past, much as in the way one would normally "walk   
   around   
   the block" (in the case of Scottland Acres, around the neighborhood) in a   
   counter-clockwise direction.   
      
   When the dreamer approached the sheep, there was a slight urge to go over and   
   pet one of them, however, there was a commotion to the southeastern-most tip of   
   the shadow, where some of the sheep were darting about, and the dreamer caught   
   a   
   quick glimpse of a border collie rounding them back into the herd.   
      
   As the dreamer was having an internal argument over whether to go and actually   
   see some of the sheep, or to continue walking around the block, I *think* the   
   final idea was that it would only likely disturb them (and the border collie)   
   so   
   the dreamer opted to continue along the counter-clockwise route around the   
   block, and the dream ended, clarity 10-.  (There is no tree *that* large in the   
   neighborhood, at least not in *that* area, nor are there any flocks of sheep on   
   Scottland Drive, although there *is* a small congregation that meets in a home   
   on Whitehall Road, where the dreamer would've gone had the dream continued to   
   the next point, going around the block.)   
      
   In another scene, there's a young (30-ish?) reporter-type interviewing someone   
   (possibly a woman) in a sunny, outdoor scene, in an area with a large pool   
   (possibly a man-made lake) with very low (well, basically flat) banks, so that   
   the view from a standing perspective of only maybe 20 yards from the edge of   
   the   
   pool shows the flat grounds, as the reporter and the person are walking   
   leftward, from the camera perspective of the narrative mind of the dreamer.   
      
   The place has a "frenchy," European feel to it, as if the scene were actually   
   in   
   Versailles or a place similar to that.  Then the reporter, in commenting upon   
   the lovely scenery of "Murfreesboro," is somehow addressed over the   
   (practically   
   Freudian) slip, as the area was *not* Murfreesboro (or at least, no where I   
   know   
   of in this town - and there's no pond that large with banks that flat, although   
   there *are smaller* ponds in the 'Boro, and a few abandoned rock quarries along   
   Old Nashville Road that now sport some of the bluest "lakes," but they have   
   *steep* sides, seeing as how they used to be active rock quarries.)   
      
   While the scene was well lit and had notable topography (regarding the nature   
   of   
   the surface of the earth) the dialogue was none-too-clear, and even with the   
   day   
   of bright sunlight, it was perhaps a clarity 9+.   
      
   In another scene, the dreamer is in an area very much like a high school shop   
   area, specifically, a mechanics / car repair type shop area, where there's a   
   car   
   (looking a bit like a low-slung sports car) with the hood open (pivoting upward   
   from the area near the windshield, rather than near the front bumper) and there   
   seems to be a slow-no-start situation going on, where turning the key barely   
   gets the engine to moan, as it were, and the dreamer is listening to / filling   
   in words for the instructor, who seems to be interrogating some of the students   
   as to the possible causes of the exact nature of the problem.   
      
   While the dialogue was a bit technical, the dreamer seemed able to fill in a   
   number of the words as the instructor was pausing in the delivery of his   
   sentences.  For example, the instructor may have been talking about the   
   ignition   
   coil (of course, newer cars don't have ignition coils, but older cars do, along   
   with distributors and rotors) and as the dreamer began filling in the names of   
   the parts the instructor was pausing at, the instructor began noting the   
   dreamer, as in looking into the dreamer's face, taking interest, as the   
   instructor began practically testing the dreamer's knowledge of specific   
   components within an ignition coil / distributor / cap assembly.   
      
   Now in real life, I could barely get any of these right, although I have a   
   basic   
   knowledge of what they basically do.  But in the dream, seeing as how this was   
   a   
   car in a dream regarding dream-car-parts, just how closely any of this "matches   
   up" (or not) is a bit beside-the-point.  Add to that, the actual words / names   
   of the parts being mentioned have largely evaporated as well, but the   
   conversation went a bit like this:   
   [blah blah blah... "Part A"] (where the dreamer speaks up regarding [part A])   
   then   
   [blah blah blah... "subcomponent B"] (where the dreamer speaks up regarding   
   [subcomponent B]) then   
   [blah blah blah... "subcomponent C"] (where the dreamer speaks up regarding   
   [subcomponent C]) then   
   the instructor asks the dreamer if he knew what a "Brasso" was.  (IRL, Brasso   
   *used* to be used on brass buttons on marching or military uniforms to shine up   
   the decorative brass buttons, but in this dream...)   
      
   "No, I really can't say as I've ever heard of a 'Brasso' before," as if to   
   indicate that there may be an actual car part the dreamer hadn't heard of, but   
   was willing to allow the instructor to retake the lead of the discussion.   
      
   The instructor begins to look at and address the dreamer directly, suggesting,   
   "You seem to know a lot about [engine parts]" to which the dreamer replied   
   *something* to the effect that "I used to work in an auto-repair shop as an   
   office manager," but the dreamer's reply was far less articulate.  I've got the   
   suspicion the dreamer was *attempting* to be "humble" rather than arrogant.   
      
   Either way, the next action involves the dreamer asking the car owner (or   
      
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