More dreams that are probably manipulating you too

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I have spoken before about dreams where someone is trying to get me to do something.  It's quite often someone whom you might call "deeply flawed" in some publicly obvious way.  Now that I've said that, you won't be too surprised about who showed up in a recent dream.

Unfortunately, I can't find where I wrote it down when it happened so I can't tell exactly when it was, but it was within the last two weeks or so.

I was doing some important work in an office when Senator Ted Kennedy came in and told me that I needed to issue some documents from the Senate.  I asked him where the documents were, and he told me to write them myself.  But I was to write them as if they were from the Senators.  I pondered this a moment and then told him that I didn't know how to word such a thing as that and couldn't pull it off.  So he dictated one to me.  I wrote it down and understood it at the time, but of course now the sense of it is gone.  Still, I told him that the language was such that I wasn't sure I could write a convincing one for the other Senators.  He looked at me in an odd way, like he couldn't believe I was really that dumb!  He left without another word and I wondered whether I was really going to do this or not.

After waking, I realized that this was another one of those dreams.  Somebody wants me writing things as if they come from a higher authority.

No thanks.

Another dream recently was perhaps similar.  I was out with a bunch of bigfoot researchers that I know, and we were crossing a river which had stepping-stone rocks about halfway across.  The other guys ran in and when the rocks ended they just started wading across.  I didn't want to do this because I couldn't tell what was in the water.  (Water is a symbol of the chaotic and monstrous, you know -- well, among other things.)  I was getting a bit stressed out that they were going into the water without regard for their own safety and then also stressed that I wasn't going with them.

At this point a weird dream moment happened.  It turned out that I was an owl, and of course owls have wings!

It's true, owls have wings.

Now, the owl is a symbol of wisdom and maybe I'm sometimes wise, but I'm not that wise, so the owl is probably not really a good symbol for me.  You have to watch out for flattery in dreams because it's a sign of its own.  Maybe someone is trying to lead you by the nose..

Anyway, as happy as I was about being an owl and being able to catch up with my friends, I soon learned that there were FIGHTER PLANES in the air, and they would dive down to shoot at me the minute I took wing.

A bit of overkill, don't you think?

Well, it was frightening, but the planes had a lot of trouble shooting me because they couldn't maneuver in tight enough spaces.  They were just too big for the job, and I got away.  But I did not catch up with my friends.

In a way, this does depict what happened when I dropped out of bigfoot research.  But it also smacks of ye olde "ego trap."

"O ye are so wise, ye owl!  Surely you should do something with all that wisdom."

Then I've also had several recent dreams which showed various dangerous situations that caused me a leg wound.  The leg wound is a symbol with a rich tradition in English, being the wound given to the king in the "Fisher King" myth, and adapted to some King Arthur tales.  With a wounded leg, you can't follow your path, see.

It all builds to something if you let it.

One last dream before I go -- I was wrestling with a lizard man who had a whip that had some technology in it that I wanted.  He was rather friendly for an enemy, and I could tell from the look in his eye that he wasn't really fighting me.  On waking, I thought he was really trying to manipulate me into taking that whip.

Roleplaying games have that covered.

And the really interesting thing?  He looked like a bigfoot when he wanted to.

Even if you are inclined to believe that there's something to dreams, you shouldn't take any of these at face value.  Someone -- hey, maybe it's just my own twisted subconscious, right? -- but someone, somewhere, wants me to do something and isn't being straight about it.