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Thursday, October 1, 2015
FOUR: THE DREAM OF THE FALLEN CITIES
That was a long ago dream. There
was another in the dream and it was a dream of a fallen city at night. There
had been some problem, - well, problem to say the least. The city was in ashes
and there were large machines, like malevolent robots of some sort, roaming
about. The other person in the dream told me to get down when I tried to get up
and look around. So odd, so impossibly odd and peculiar. I didn’t know what was
what, and had no context, no point of reference. The other seemed to know, and
was nice enough. I mean, the end of the world or civilization is not a time to
worry about niceties but still, he seemed kind. There are many who are not and
I have seen those two, in dreams and in waking reality. So, there was the
feeling of orange. I am just reporting, you know? Why there was orange I don’t know.
It felt real, not like a dream, but we need to use language. It always stayed
with me. Jung calls them, I forget the tern, but defines a type of dream that
stays always in memory for its impression, for its deep result. It was like
that for sure. I wonder if I shall ever meet him. Maybe it is in a past life.
Perhaps it is in a future life. Or, it could be an alternate time-line that was
avoided. How is one to know now, though everything happens in the same
timeless-time? That dream was long ago, and I suppose there were others, I know
there were others.
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