Spiritual Food: Magic Mushrom Ice Cream!

The dream this morning had me in a school cafeteria. The serving line was designed to be self serve. It was long and had a great variety of prepared foods stacked within each insert on the line. In fact it was stocked to ridiculously high levels. I am standing in line trying to serve myself. A lunch lady comes around the counter to assist me. She is a short little friendly woman who is eager to help. I am worried that the food will fall everywhere if I am not careful. I manage to pull a slice of lasagne out from a middle of a tall stack without toppling it.

I have filled my disposable Styrofoam tray, I hate those things, and I move out to a huge outdoor court yard where everyone is eating. Much to my dismay most of the tables are folded up and moved to the outer perimeter of the courtyard, and the chairs are stacked up! What the hell! Where am I suppose to eat? I manage to find a table to set my tray on and next I go searching for a chair. I mill about the courtyard in my search for a chair. I see other students standing about in clusters of groups. They are talking or playing games. They are enjoying their time together outside the classroom.

I give up my search for a chair and abandon my food. The food was cold and it was pre-packaged, and warmed up, and unhealthy crap anyway. I decide I'm going to walk out to the surrounding city and find me a restaurant. I'm giving up school for the rest of the day.

The city is apparently somewhere in Austria. I see cobblestone streets and old world architecture. I can smell wonderful foods from the restaurants and I enjoy the whole ambiance of the city.

I am walking down a side street and I see a short man walk up along side me. It is Bill Hicks the infamous stand up comedian who died in 1994!  Bill looks up to me and says enigmatically, "If it is not spiritual [food] don't take it.".  I am stunned. Bill was very controversial when he was alive. I am convinced he has strolled into my dream on purpose. He loved to provoke people into thinking about the nature of our society and how things could be much different if we were awake and conscious to what really was going on. He loved pointing out the perverse absurdities of life by being perversely absurd in his comedy routine.

Bill had his own unique style of stand up. Bill was big on mocking the war on drugs and pointing out the evil cabal that runs the world, and how messed up the culture has become. He lived in obscurity when he was alive and his fame, as so often happens, skyrocketed after his death. He was a voice in the wilderness.

Bill, I got your message! I will be thinking on this for a good while.

So I continue my stroll through the old city and I come to an ice cream shop on a street corner. I walk in and cue up behind a young guy in his early twenties. A line forms up out the door. This is a popular place! The guy in front of me is talking to a woman inside the counter. It is the actress Drew Barrymore! She is sitting in a Plexiglas cube of magic mushrooms. No wonder this ice cream shop is so popular! Drew is up to her neck in mushrooms. The man in front of me is having a discussion with Drew about the mushrooms he wants in his ice cream. Drew is amazingly well informed about magic mushrooms and dazzles us with the nutritional and medicinal facts.

Suddenly, a mature well dressed woman comes out and around from behind the counter. She is the owner/manager of the store. It is late and she wants to close for the evening. She moves to shut and lock the doors. The customers behind me and outside are locked out, and she humbly apologizes to them all.

Ice cream and magic mushrooms; now that sounds like a winning combination! I think old Bill would approve. It certainly sounds like spiritual food to me, Bill! Hey, if Drew Barrymore endorses it, it must be good! Ha, ha!!

What a strange dream we have here. I don't know what to think. The school cafeteria is an absurd
farce. Bill would love pointing out the hypocrisy of it all. I image he would say, "Send them kiddies to the ice cream shop. They will learn more there!".