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A
dreamy woman sent us her dream:
I was in a newly-built house, but there was no furniture in
it. It had space
for a computer room (tile floors, heavy duty electrical and
air conditioning), and I think someone had just moved
computers out of it. I
was there alone, but it felt like someone was looking for
me--to hurt me. I
saw him and it was the guy from the movie Con Air who molests
children--a creepy (in a psycho way) looking bad guy named
Garland Greene. (The
actor who portrayed him is Steve Buscemi.)
So I started to run, I could feel Garland chasing me. He's
chased me before. I ran into the open garage on the same
street--there were two guys in there.
I didn't feel that these two guys could take on Garland
and win. I told
them Garland was chasing me and closed the garage door.
It closed just before Garland got there. I froze, Garland was trying to look in the tinted garage
windows for me. I ran out the back, and hopped over a few tall
fences, I could still feel him far behind me.
I have a memory lapse here--somehow I was face to face with
Garland, talking to him. I started to feel love for him, and
he didn't feel so threatening.
I hugged him, and knew he wasn't going to be a threat
to me anymore. It felt like that part in Con Air when Garland
leaves the airplane, is talking to the little girl, probably
going to molest her, but she starts to sing
"He's got the whole world in his hand."
Something in him shifts, and he leaves her alone,
taking only her Barbie doll.
*******
What a lovely bunch of contradictions, dear dreamer. New house/but previously occupied. Creepy psycho/with a cheery verdant name.
Although you are likely safe in a closed garage with
two guys, you leave. You
flee in fear/you face in love.
And transformation just in the nick of time!
Ok, you start out in a place with the potential for megalots
of information to be processed, in what seems to be a place
with no history. But
is there ever really a place like that?
The house, a container for someone's life, has just
been built, but already, knowledge has been removed.
Some believe that, as a child is born, she begins to
forget everything she knew from previous lives.
You feel threatened by a malicious person with an unexpectedly
friendly name, see him, and run from him.
You'd be right to ask for and receive protection from
the two guys in the garage, and to stay there with them, but
you see the threat still regarding you, though dimly, and you
MUST save yourself. And
don't you do it in style, Superwoman!
Leaping tall fences in single bounds!
You know something that no one else knows, dreamer, and
that is that you can only run from your problems for so
long--even if you do it well.
The time comes to stop, turn around, and face the menace with
an unlikely name. And
do you kill it to deactivate its threat to you?
Nope, you embrace and love it.
Is there someone or something which is wreathed in an
illusion of growth, but which you feel as a threat?
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