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Dreams Waking Within the Dream Too Dumb for Words 031401 I'm discussing lucid dreams with three gentleman. We are seated at a table in a wide hallway in a small house. In answer to a question, I say: If I suspected this were a dream, I would look around to check my surroundings. I do so and pause for a second, wondering at something as I examine the gray plaster walls of the house... But, not wanting to seem a fool, I turn back to my companions and continue: For instance, I know this is Nancy's house (nodding to Loren, Nancy's husband). After I woke, I shook my head in disbelief. What an idiot! The Nancy in the dream was a girl I knew in high school. Loren is a character in Arthur C. Clarke's "Songs of Distant Earth" (the book I'm currently rereading). And the other two guys... who knows? The point is, there was a moment when I almost caught it -- when I should have caught it. I'd never been in that house. And a table in a hallway big enough for four people to sit at? C'mon! I was so caught up in my pontificating Extolling the virtues of my vast knowledge and awareness That I didn't think to think -- to question my own beliefs of the moment. Sheesh! No wonder the walls were gray. This is a perfect example of a blundering bonehead in action. Nice to be reminded of just how much I still have to learn. Next |