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.
Doug
On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Bill
>
>> On 10 Sep 2014, at 8:52 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>> On 10 September 2014 20:23, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 10/09/2014, at 9:44 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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