The dream this morning has disturbing, to me, images in it. I dreamed about an old friend, Kal, and his dogs. Kal, is a long time friend I served with in the army national guard. He had a dog who was a mixed pit bull and lab mix that passed away recently after a long battle with heart worm. Her name was Scrappy. She was a very sweet and intelligent dog. I miss her.
This morning I dreamed I was sleeping in a tent or something sort of shelter near a river or lake. It had been raining and I was wrapped up in a blanket or tarp of some sort. Scrappy came in and slept along side me with her head at my feet. I wake up in the morning and I uncover the blanket to find her gone but I see Kal's four other dogs, all pit bull mixes, huddled together beside me. They are puppies again. They seem to have injuries like broken bones and such but suddenly become healed and scurry out the tent. They are happy to be alive.
Next thing I see is my friend Kal and his son Steven. He wants to go fishing, from this point on it gets really weird, we walk down to the body of water with fishing poles in hand and the river or lake is polluted. It has turned to some kind of gel. It is firm enough to walk on and I wander out on it in my bare feet. Kal and his son have shoes on. The gel is clear and my feet sink in several inches and get coated with the stuff. Suddenly, my feet crack and bleed and my toes fall off! It is like a knife cut them off. I hear an audible crack as my toes separate from my feet. It is a very horrific sight to see and feel. I am so startled that I wake up.
Coincidently, Kal calls me on the phone several hours later to tell me he has just had the prop fixed on his boat. It was an expensive repair, but his boat is now in good working order. I am thinking damn! This is all very strange! I have been experiencing a bunch of weird synchronicities lately. The universe and the collective unconscious is definitely trying to say something to me. Now if I could just decode the meaning in all of this!
It is no surprise Scrappy would visit me in a dream. That dog loved me and always knew I was coming to visit before I even thought about getting in my car or was driving on my way to get there. Kal would tell me she would get the "look" and he would call me and ask how close I was to his house not knowing I was coming to visit. It was the most bizarre thing! Scrappy would sometimes sleep beside me when I stayed for several days.
I imagine her siblings at home grieved when she died. Perhaps, the fact that they miraculously healed in my dream was an indication that they have since healed after her death. The rest of this dream just buggers my understanding.
Why is the water polluted? Why am I doing something so stupid as to walk out on it? Watching my feet crack, bleed and fall apart was very disconcerting! Is this a warning about eating the fish or not to go fishing with my old buddy? Am I symbolically on shaking ground? Or this just the case of being too preoccupied with my athlete's foot affliction as I go to sleep? I don't know but it sure disturbs me. I need more information to figure this puzzle out. Again, the unconscious, proves how whacky it is and how difficult it is to fathom.
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