Mindblogging

In a more positive development, one night last weekend I had a dream-filled night. One of the dreams featured a house with a large marble staircase. The stairs appeared unusually narrow, and in the dream I studied them for this reason.

Thursday night, I returned from a trip to Chicago right before a powerful thunderstorm let loose. It was actually one of the scariest landings I’d ever been in: the crosswind was so strong that the wings of the plane were not level until about 5-10 feet above ground. I had actually begun wondering if our landing would hurt when a voice inside of me said to trust things would work out. And they did.
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I’ve long seen tornadoes in my dreams and used them as lucid dream triggers. They usually work well as triggers as my dream self easily recognizes that I’ve never before seen them in waking life.

I’ve noticed that these tornado dreams seem to precede severe weather events, usually ones threatening enough to spawn tornadoes. Now I wonder if the tornadoes I see in my dreams may be a mental weather forecast rather than a simple sign I’m dreaming!

My grandmother died a few years ago after living to a fine age of 92 years. She was a widow for the last 30 of those years, living alone (and reasonably happy) right up to the end.

Since her passing my grandmother has occasionally appeared as a character in my dreams. Rarely do I get the sense that it’s really her, though: most of the time she appears more as a face in a crowd, so to speak. Or it could be that our communication occurred on a much deeper level and what remained in my groggy conscious mind was simply jumbled snippets.
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I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve dreamed about hanging out with world leaders the past two nights. The night before last my dream had me spending a day hanging out with President-elect Barack Obama. He struck me as a very wise man.

Last night’s dream had a different tone. I was a guest of Queen Elizabeth’s at one of her castles. She apparently took a liking to me because I wasn’t a spoiled brat like most of the family and friends who she typically deals with.

I didn’t have deep conversations with the Queen like I did with Obama, but I did find it cool that she let me scuba dive in her giant, floor-to-ceiling aquariums. Until my dream I had no idea the Queen had private, giant indoor aquariums one could scuba dive in. Thanks, Lizzie!

I woke up this morning with a dream lodged in my head. Lately it seems I’ve had difficulty remembering many dreams so I found this notable.

In the dream I was in some kind of building or shack filled with radio racks and equipment. I was somehow threading a cable up through the ceiling and the cable was somehow supporting itself as it went up. It was a very, very long cable that stretched for miles.

As I unspooled the cable I suddenly began to get fearful of being electrocuted. I’d forgotten all about the large high-voltage power lines next to the building. I hoped the cable wouldn’t be blown sideways where it might come in contact with the lines. The dream ended somwhere around that point.

Later today I recalled Nikola Tesla’s patent for a Radiant Energy Collector: a device very similar to the cable I dreamed about. Then there’s the space shuttle tether experiment that briefly generated electricity before the cable melted. I also remember something someone allegedly found with solar cells – that they collected energy not just from sunlight but from something else, too. The “cosmic rays” Tesla mentioned?

I wonder if my dream was meant to prod me into some research. I need to come up to speed with electrical theory but it does sound interesting.

I woke this morning with a dream in my head in which I saw my late Uncle Don. I did not interact with him much: it seemed he was more a character in my dream rather than the real, live person I knew.  I woke with the dream fragments in the back of my mind and went on about my day.

Fast forward to the evening. I’ve been taking a weekly class which showcases the services that the City of Raleigh offers its citizens. Tonight’s presentation was on Raleigh’s Community Development services. I was enjoying the presentation of the director of the program when someone in the room said something humorous. Right then, the director began to laugh.

I noticed it instantly: he had the same distinctive laugh my uncle had! It was then that I noticed that at certain angles he had an uncanny resemblance to my uncle!

I chuckled through the rest of the presentation, realizing the “uncle” I’d seen in my dream was standing right before me.