Blue_Opossum

Morning of February 18, 2014. Tuesday.



The environment in this dream starts out in an atypical and ambiguous location. It is the southwest corner of the living room on Duffy Street. It is different in that a bed is in the space. Also, there is the area from my sister’s older living room in Wisconsin (Loomis Street), as well as the front hallway and porch of our Barolin Street house. Such composites are very common for me (although as I said, this particular one is atypical) but always seem very unusual and “obvious” in afterthought - as the sleeping mind never picks them up in my experience other than rarely. As such, the compass points are usually rendered nonviable or pointless (pun intended). This time I have included the implied compass points in each (more focused) part of the composite (in the image) to note the diversity.

What I have noticed here is that the Australian parts of the composite are compatible in orientation although the American section is reversed to the others (regarding real life orientation). This is probably not a “rule” but does seem more common than not. Sometimes I think that composites of this nature are not that important - the mind just mashes everything together just to make a jury-rigged “stage” for more important concerns. However, in the past, I have discovered, of course, all other types of composites (including common composite precognition) are very meaningful in the nuances of hybrid aspects. For the most part, I have not quite worked out the higher aspects of locational mashups in some dreams with more atypical superimpositions (as this one) relating to memory, though I have in others. I do believe such things are important in other levels of continuity, just more elusive than most. (For example, my sister has just passed away recently, yet her “living room” is the only composite facet of this dream).

Why is our bed located in the additional living room and near the entertainment center’s shelf (which was on the opposite side of the living area in real life - my computer setup had only been there in reality)? Perhaps because even though we can be “at rest”, we are still “living”. This may be related to the black male ghost who also sleeps in our bed (who does not know he has died) at times. Regarding the Barolin porch, this was a huge porch (and enclosed with beautiful stained-glass “church windows”) compared to our present smaller fully open one. It was so large that you could look into the darkness from one side and not see the other side very clearly at night, and there was a sense of expansion. It was very good for deep meditation of the kind which actually causes sudden body-wide intense “skin pain” when even a very soft noise occurs to disrupt the state (even a leaf hitting the ground outside) - otherwise it is a very positive experience.

The somewhat athletic-appearing male that is staying with us is probably around forty at the most. At first, I do not even know he is a ghost, as he seems very much alive with a real physical body and has no “ghostly powers” of any kind. He is resting in our bed but leaves a bit later to go to work, I believe - but seems somewhat negative about the potential outcome of the day. We talk a few times and he seems friendly but somewhat sad or disappointed with recent events in his “life”. The information that he is a ghost comes later. He had been staying with us for about a week or so with his young daughter (who is alive, by the way). His wife is also alive, but not a direct character in the dream. There is a photograph of her seated on a large sailboat. I am not sure how he died. It seems he may have died while saving his wife and daughter from drowning. The daughter sits at a table with my sister (who I believe is still alive in the dream) and is also looked after by my wife.

This scenario seems ambiguous. If the wife is still alive and knows her husband is gone, why would the living daughter now be with the father’s ghost - and at a stranger’s house at that? Near the later stages of the dream, there is debate about whether we should tell him that he has actually died or wait until later on, relative to his “readiness” in learning of this.

In the most vivid scene, I am on the Barolin porch part of the composite home and the male suddenly appears, in much smaller form (only the top of the head first appearing), appearing from near the doorway of the hallway, rising up from the floor and becoming his normal size once he has finished rising from the floor as he is seemingly walking naturally (while rising) that whole time. (This reminds me somewhat of the scene from an old Casper comic book but greatly enhanced - where a very small timid ghost suddenly grows to giant size to scare someone and then returns to normal later on. The implications are nothing like the dream scene, though, but somehow “triggered” in memory as such. There is also a sort of “reversal” of this from another Casper comic where I believe an ogre gets smaller and smaller with the implication he is going faster in his escape.)

The man’s daughter had seemed happy. I am not sure how she views the situation or if even she knows her father is a ghost. Even though he had risen from the floor while changing size, I still do not think he knows he is a ghost. I believe he is somehow going into a different realm, thinking he is still living his life as before while there. Perhaps the task is to have the daughter back with the living mother and reveal to the male that he may move on (fully) into the spirit realm, whatever/wherever that may be.

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