Yes I'm often trying to find things too, Doug, or am on my way to some appointment, then I get distracted in a neighbourhood spinning out of shape.
Bill
> On 11 Sep 2014, at 1:47 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Spent what seemed like hours trying to find the car I had parked in a neighbourhood that seemed familiar, then I woke up: this morning.
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> Doug
>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Interesting, Andrew, about the wallopers. If ever I get self-criticism in a dream, it takes me ages, maybe years, to decipher it. And the aging, I don't feel like a young kid nor particularly old, just an innocent abroad I suppose.
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>> Bill
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>>> On 10 Sep 2014, at 8:52 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> My dreams are often a dramatic criticism or cautionary tale addressing what
>>> I am doing or not doing on a daily basis. They often make me squirm as I
>>> try to avoid what they are obviously stating! Phew, they pack a wallop!
>>> And, yes, I age.
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>>> Andrew
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>>>> On 10 September 2014 20:23, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Thanks, Doug, Sheila, Pat. I tend to be bewildered in dreams but just run
>>>> with it. It's gotten me by since I was a little tacker.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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>>>>> On 10/09/2014, at 9:44 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
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>>>>> I like what you convey here, Bill, especially as this sensation is so
>>>> real
>>>>> and true for most dreamers, it would seem!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your always intriguing pieces!
>>>>> Sheila
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Do we age in dreams? As dreamers, I mean,
>>>>>> forty, fifty, eighty years after experiencing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> our first dream, are we conscious, in a dream,
>>>>>> of being older? Running, swimming, flying - upright
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or Superman-style - does it feel as effortless,
>>>>>> as light as it used to? Or does gravity - and time -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> exact the same slowing price in prone night
>>>>>> as it does in wakeful day? Don't know about you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but the stuff of my dreams, for decades: the grip
>>>>>> the slip, the sense of sudden loss, remains
>>>>>>
>>>>>> unaffected by the march of time. Morpheus
>>>>>> maintains my ageless dream noir.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bw
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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