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Mickey Mouse Man, Cafe, Road Ice SkatingThursday, January 15th, 2015


All I recall is Mickey Mouse with an average man’s sized body in the form of a doll. Unfortunately, I didn’t stay awake long enough to recall the rest.

There was a cafe and I had come back from a vacation. We were there with another couple, and I recall setting a USB cable down on a table. We visited for a while and when it came time to go, I already had the USB cable with me but I used retrieving it as an excuse for going back into the cafe to see something tho I don’t remember what.

I was standing near a road that had obsidian or anthracite rocks covering the side. I was wearing ice skates and I needed to get up to the road to skate. I was climbing the rocks in the skates which was challenging. When I reached the top, I wanted to impress someone that I could actually skate well. I’m not even sure if there was ice on the road but I found it easy to skate uphill and worried a little what it would be like skating downhill. I found that I took to it easily, slaloming in the same way you would on skis. It was quite fun.

Players: Me, Mickey Mouse
Thoughts: It was interesting that I would be devious to have to return into the cafe to see something. And that I would feel that I needed to impress someone.

Yahoo! & the SellTuesday, January 13th, 2015


I was hired back at Yahoo! to fill some role but when I got there, the whole floor where I was going to work was empty of furniture. There were a number of employees there with nothing to do except stand around and talk about how they were going to have a bbq. I suggested that we take the space and it for meat drying racks which drew a little chuckle. It seemed that people were waiting for some sort of imminent shutdown of the facility or something. It made me wonder why they were hiring me. A girl was needing to go downstairs to retrieve something for the bbq and she needed help so I followed her downstairs to the first floor kitchen

I was then sitting on the floor of some sort of temple. I was wearing a hoody and the hood was up. Around me, this guy who had obviously been a part of whatever faith this was, was doing a hard sell of products that were developed by the temple. CDs, incense, books, that sort of thing. He was even trying to get one of the older members to vouch for the quality and superiority of the products but the member didn’t seem to have much familiarity with the products so wasn’t really cooperating in supporting this salesman. It all felt very Hari Krishnaesque.

Players: Me, temple salesman, Yahoos
Events: Planning for bbq, sitting in temple
Symbols: Yahoo! eating it, trying to sell spiritual things to survive
Thoughts: The feeling of a sinking ship, yet planning a bbq to celebrate something is incongruous. Maybe it’s indulgence. Somebody trying to sell me something I don’t really need is something I don’t want to do to someone else. I found it filthy event tho the things were nice. It all has a bit to do with materialism. Makes me wonder how you can do all these things honourably.

Spinous Processes & CatMonday, January 12th, 2015


I was the passenger in a car and was driving along with two women and Mel. I was talking about my business and how I was finding it difficult to make enough money to continue. We parked the car at the end of a street and got out and one of the women started running her fingers along my spine. She said to Mel, “Look how these spinous processes stick out here. If they get any larger, he’s going to become a chronic liar.” Then she did something to my spine and said, “Look at it now, it’s completely different.”

I was sitting at a large banquet table and a woman was talking to me about a little girl with a bump on her head and cat. She said that the girl didn’t trust people. I looked to my right where there was a wall with ivy growing on it and a cat came climbing over the wall, head first. It was a small orange cat. When it reached the floor, it came over to me and jumped onto my lap. Then, a little girl, probably about 6 of 7 years old with wispy blonde hair and large bump on her forehead came crawling down the wall like the cat. She came over and stood next to me, observing the cat as if she would react in the same way the cat did, which in this case, was favourable. Then the cat jumped off my lap and started eating out of one of the bowls of food on the table that was closer to the floor, on a small end table. There was a group of people that suddenly stood and started to enter the auditorium. I asked where they were going and someone told me that Kyle was doing a cortices presentation. I was like, “Kyle, wait a minute… do they know that I’m a BodyTalk practitioner?” I walked to the other side of the small auditorium on the outside and started talking with a woman there about my rates. She asked if I charged $9 and hour? I don’t know where she got that figure from and I said no, “I charge $100 a session.” She looked at me like there was no difference between the two and indicated that it was a good deal.

Players: Me, girl, cat, woman, Mel
Event Sequence: Driving, woman touching my spine, woman talking, cat and little girl, discussing BodyTalk
Symbols: cat (which is elusive), spinous processes, lying (untruth about self)

The Aqua NetSaturday, January 10th, 2015


Funny that I didn’t make the connection to hairspray until I wrote the title of this. There was a young man who turned into a large hairy beast. He lived in a town and there were three boys whom were much younger that I was trying to avoid. He didn’t want them to know that he turned into this beast. He had somehow gotten ahold of a fishing net that was aqua/turquoise coloured. The boys wanted it and were chasing him thru the town. He went to his parent shop and transformed before the boys got there and he played it off that he wasn’t the beast, but one of the boys discovered the net and took it.

Next, I was sitting next a young man (maybe the same) who was going on a long sailing journey, far out into the sea, to see a witch, or merwoman or something. I was teasing him that he would be going to where there was no time, and who knows what would happen to him without time. He took off and hitched a ride with some sort of water craft to bring back this kind of skim board. He launched off of the water craft as he came to a stop at the shore of the small island I was sitting on. I became aware that I was possibly blue, and wasn’t human, and maybe even had magical powers.

Players: 3 boys, 1 young man, myself
Event Sequence: boys chasing young man, conversation with young man
Symbols: aqua net, travel by sea, beast, skim board
Thoughts: I’m still unsure who I was. The image of a blue octopus comes to mind.

Autumn Leaf GarlandsThursday, November 13th, 2014


I was with Kirby and we started discussing what it was like when we first fell in love. He was leaning back into me and I was stroking his head and I felt a fondness for him. We were talking a bit about how things had changed. He leaned forward and I noticed that he had a tattoo on his shoulder of some autumn coloured leaves. As he leaned forward even more, he had garlands of autumn leaves up his arms and across his back. He said that he had become one of those types of guys. He had a tattoo of a woman’s torso wearing a burgundy corset exposing her breasts. It was life size and very detailed. The garlands went down his waist onto his legs.

Players: Me, Kirby
Events: Holding Kirby, him leaning forward and seeing his tattoos
Symbols: Garlands, tattoos, corset
Thoughts: It just felt so real. I had so much love for that man. I felt the shift in energy as he leaned forward and the difference in his energy. It made me sad.

David SprintlerWednesday, November 12th, 2014


I was with a group of people at night, around dusk, in a large field. The sun was going down off to the left so we were facing Northeast. The sun had gone behind a huge cloud bank before it had reached the mountain on the horizon, casting a large shadow on the soon to be night sky. There was a man there that made something really amazing happen. There were poker playing cards individually floating horizontally in the sky. They were enormous cards, about the size of a house, but you could only see them in profile. They were flexing and undulating slowly, and every so often you could see the surface of a face card. They were in a sort of grid pattern, covering a vast portion of the sky, but there was also a mist and glowing light surrounding them, creating a very atmospheric effect. Then the cards dissolved, and a huge picture that probably stood 200 feet vertically rose up into the sky. It was a picture of the man, David Sprintler with his labrador retriever who was standing on it’s hind legs with a ball in it’s mouth. The colours of the picture had an iridescent quality to them, and there was also the misty atmospheric haze. Then the picture dissolved. The crowd was astonished that someone could make this happen without projection. It was like a piece of his was creating this scene because he was connected with the sky.

When this was all done, I walked into a large tent as was talking with some people. Ken Mowery walked in and we started chatting about how amazing it was the David was able to make things appear in the air. I commented on how light it had gotten outside because the huge cloud that was obfuscating the sun had gone away casting beautiful rays of a sunrise across the field. Suddenly, I was in a restaurant/cafe with some people and some library books. I’d left the books there and walked out with the people and when I returned, I couldn’t find my books, only someone else’s. A man was assisting me. Then, another guy came in the man called him Hank and I realized that where my books were. I walked up to this big guy named Hank and told him that I’d put my books in his room and started to open his door. The man remarked that I’d put my books in Hank’s room instead of paying him to watch them. I was like, “Oh well.” So was Hank…

Then the dream switched again, and I was with a guy watching an old music video of David Sprintler. He was a bass player, and at least 10 years younger. I wish I could remember the song because it was very animated as he played bass. I mentioned to the guy that I’d just seen David in the field and how much older he was. He remarked that that made him feel old as well because he remembered when this particular video was on TV for the first time. I was then in a kitchen with 3 other people talking about making dinner. I was there but didn’t really know these people. I knew people they knew, who weren’t there, so felt a little out of place.

Players: Me, David Sprintler, Ken Mowery, Man, Hank, guy with video, people in kitchen
Events: In meadow, cards and picture rise in the air, talking with Ken about this and the sunset, in restaurant with library books, locating books, watching music video and talking about David, in kitchen
Symbols: Playing cards, picture with labrador, sunset, library books, bass guitar
Thoughts: David is more than a person who does magic tricks or art, he makes this happen. It’s a transforming experience and I know I want to do that. I’m not sure why he chose the playing cards or picture. It felt very personal to me that he chose a picture of himself. I played music with Ken. The library books, I actually do need to return today. The music video was interesting because Ken is a bass player. The playing was really cool actually. Lots of sliding. It’s also the instrument I played before I played guitar which I just remembered, but I never got really good at it and Ken actually gets gigs and makes a living at it. The kitchen at the end, and I’m really detached.

Mom in the Flooding HouseTuesday, November 11th, 2014


I was in a big beautiful house at the beach. I came in and there was rising water that I could see out the front window. It didn’t look like a terrible storm so I’m not sure why the water was rising but my Mom was moving furniture around but there wasn’t an imperative. The house had never flooded before. I left the room. A while later, I came back in and the water was hitting the front of the house. It was really serious. I left again, trying to rescue some things. My mom called to me and when I came in the water was in the house. There was a pool of murky, muddy silt swirling in the room. I kept thinking of moving furniture and things upstairs. I took a tablet and dropped it into the murky swirl and things started to surface so that I could grab them and rescue them.

Players: Me, Mom
Events: walking in and out of room as waves grew higher and finally infiltrated the house, rescuing things
Symbols: rising water, things, Mom
Thoughts: Just wondering what Mom represents to me. My creative but can’t accomplish things part of self? Feeling small?

Class at the TheatreTuesday, November 11th, 2014


I was looking into a cloud that had a sun associated with it. I had been thru a nice office layout for healing practitioners and I was trying to see myself there. There was lots of sky blue, kelly green, and white. It seemed like a nice place and the feeling was good. There was something about the agreement that the practitioners had tho I don’t recall exactly what it was. I was thinking about that and Sonjue’s office. They were geographically opposite each other from where I was. They both seemed to be on hills. Suddenly, I was walking to a conference. I was walking thru a mall and into a movie theatre, looking for the numbers of the rooms. I got up to the end of the rooms and saw the number 750 but I didn’t remember that to be the room number. Someone behind me said that was the room so I went to show id to the guy and the security guard outside. I opened my wallet and showed him a business card and then my driver’s license. But then, the security guard wanted to see some proof of my mother. So, I pulled out my cell phone, and of course it was going really slow and wouldn’t allow me to scroll thru my pictures. It was really frustrating. I kept asking myself, “Why is this necessary?”

Players: Me, security guard, other guy
Events: Going thru office, reflecting on offices, moving toward conference, haggling over security
Symbols: Cell phone, conference, 750, movie theatre, offices, cloud, sun
Thoughts: I had two dreams about my mother tonight and I have been looking for an office. I wonder what 750 is. 12 = 3. Maybe 3 is my ultimate number. In house numbers, that’s Jupiter.

The Only Other Way Is UpTuesday, November 4th, 2014


This was associated with the song I heard. There was actually another song playing in the room but I can’t remember it. I only remember the sound of a gravely sliding bass line that really provoked the feeling of the song which was about people crossing over. So, I had walked into this room and it was filled with either dead people or people who were terminally ill, I’m not sure which. They were all holding devices that I believe were receivers for information. I was part of a group of people that were walking in with sending devices or communication devices. I had one as well but mine was loosely wrapped in a carrying bag. I felt a little out of place but walked thru the room with the others, pointing our devices toward those who were already in the room. There was a song playing that was the perfect crossing over song. It was brilliant and I remember thinking that I’d wished I’d composed it. After I’d made a round of the room, I went and sat down in a chair at a different table than Mel because the chair next to him had things on the table in front of it so it was obviously already taken. I was sitting at the end of the table next to a largish man who I didn’t recognize. There was an empty chair on the other side of him and Kirby came and sat down in it. That’s when I realized that the man I was sitting next to was Trey. When I looked over at Mel again, he was gone.

Players: Me, senders, receivers, Mel, Trey, Kirby
Events: Walking thru room with device, listening to song, sitting downing, recognizing Trey.
Symbols: Communication devices, chairs, song, dead or dying people
Thoughts: The fact that my device is wrapped means I haven’t really stepped into this, but I’m close. I felt very disconnected from Mel. Trey and Kirby were connected.

SenseiThursday, October 30th, 2014


I was wandering about a town looking for a sensei. I went into a dojo but didn’t stay long. They I happened upon a class and I kinda like it and sat down on the floor. The teacher told a couple of the students, who were doing things that looked like yoga poses to keep working while he spoke with me. He was a white man with thin, long, straight honey coloured hair, very pudgy or thick in the face, with thick arms and hands. I noticed that has hands looked extremely weathered. He had me follow him out the door and either up or down some stairs, I don’t recall. We ended up in a space that looked like it might be under the building. There was a pipe set hanging from the ceiling of this dark area of dirt, with only cracks of light to illuminate the darkness. He jumped up on the horizontal pipe and spun a whole bunch of times, creating a blur. When he landed, I told that it was impressive. Suddenly, he laid on the ground and turned into a snarling dog, obviously trying to intimidate me. I bent down and told him that I loved dogs and held my hand out for the dog to sniff, and then starting talking to and petting the dog and asking it if that wasn’t a whole lot better than being aggressive.

Players: Me, sensei teacher guy, students, dog
Events: Searching for sensei, going under building, petting dog
Symbols: Sensei, dog
Thoughts: It seems like I’m not afraid of a teacher, but not sure what that has to do with anything.


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