All Terrain Thinking

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Dreams

Dreams are a funny thing.

I often wonder if they are real, simply in a different universe/reality/dimension.

 

If so, what is it that limits us?

• Most of us are better in our dreams
  
  
• Most of us behave better in our dreams
  
  

Then we are and do in our common reality.

Are we really better then we act, can we really be as bad as we act here and now?

 

My version of the Cable Guy

Today is August 15, 2005, so far so good.

I don’t care what John Cary would have done as “The Cable Guy”, I got this cable 9 months ago and finally ran it as a temporary install across the floor 6 months ago.

Last night or this morning depending on how you look at things I had a very strange dream, nothing violent or ultimately destructive, simply strange. One of the few clear aspects was how things were handled about something that I recently found myself yelling, scolding, really pissed of at some of the most important people in my world.

To make it clear, the peeve is a cable, a cable that I went to great lengths to acquire, and yes it cost a bunch. Even more important, the true cost would be that when I climb into the attic to run it, if it failed because it had been stepped on too many times. Just think a guy weighing 355 pounds, yes I am that big, crawling in the cramped confines of a San Diego Attic. To do so and later find out that it was all for naught would be very painful. So as you can imagine,… Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I have had this cable connected, but laying on the floor for six months. So far I have never stepped on it.

I have warned everyone entering the house to STAY OFF if it. Seems clear, ya sure. My son in law walks on it first thing and looks like “So What” when I yell at him. My Daughter is in shock when I yell at her for stepping on it, then proceeds to do so again within 5 minutes (the young have such short memories).

My spouse/wife/girlfriend/significant other (all the same person) also does so several times before “Getting IT”. On top of these, a very long term friend (of over 20 years) came to town, of course I had to offer her a place to stay.

Some of my first words were “Keep off the BLACK CABLE”, no the color did not make a difference. Second day, after she went to a funeral, what did she do, No Shit, she walked into my office and STOOD on the CABLE.

Well you can guess what I said.

I guess most people just do not recognize when some stupid thing has an important status.
OR
The other option that I really hope is not true, they just do not give a Dam’d about anything not theirs.

 

Anyway, on to my dream, now that I think you have some perspective of the background.

 

One Strange Dream

It all begins with my hosting an acrobat, my first impression is this is a single individual, maybe for a day or so. I have no idea why I am doing this. Some where around 11pm (all times are dream time not clock time) I awake to a loud cacophony in the front yard. Expecting that my house guest is already in bed and asleep, I storm out the front door to discover something just short of a full 3 ring circus in my front yard. Holy shit! Somehow what I say is, “The neighbors won’t believe this, nothing EVER happens in front of my house.

Well as things would be, this devolved into the biggest party I have ever seen. Having no idea just where it went or how long it lasted.

By now you probably wonder, what about the dam’d cable. Well just hold on now.

As things wound down, my acrobat guest came in and began readying for bed….next thing I knew, my entire home had been invaded by the circus, every kind of person, couples of trapeze, half dozen clowns, an animal act and so many others. My dining room was a nursery of chimpanzees, my den was some combination of something strange. As I looked around I found that every aspect of my home had been changed. It was as if I had been cleared out and a whole new reality was moved in. Each area with its occupants even had its own carpet or floor covering. This was really weird, in my dream, I had nice carpet, in reality I have old hardwood floors that I hate. Anyway the “Groups” each had brought in a complete living unit and installed it in a part of my home. I do not recall if my bedroom was so invaded or not, I think not.

As to the cable, I walked a long distance to where my TV had been, No tv, OH Shit’, what, the cable was coiled up against a wall very far away that it did not come in thru. Strange, it had a connector on it, just a simple connector.. I began to wonder, “What the “&*#$”, I found the TV in the bathroom. Guess what!? On the end of the CUT CABLE extending from the TV, was the most fabulous connection device I had ever seen, I cannot describe, nor do I even know if it worked in my dream. It was so weird, it looked like a cylinder 2-3 inches in diameter and 5-6 inches long. I went back to check the other cable, it had a simple screw terminal, now what. OK, So I may have over reacted to the cable shit. What about the circus and acrobat, I have like 50 families in my home tonight, they are everywhere. Strange, they are courteous everywhere, to each other and to me, yet there is no space of my own.

Here there is a huge gap, Some where along the line, everything packed up, all of my home placed back where it belonged and the circus was gone. Nothing in the front yard, no dead grass, no trash. It seemed like hundreds of people and vehicles, all parked in front of my place and in my front yard. Yet no sign this morning. What Happened?

Well this is the best I can relate the vivid images and actions of my dream, I probably left out a bunch, maybe I will remember later and update things. For now It is almost the most memorable dream of my life…..

Another Dream

Let me tell you about the one where, like the Skylark series, by E.E. "Doc" Smith, I conquered the entire known universe. Killed no one, controlled everything. (I was 11 years old at the time). And no I did not need a ship let-alone made out of "Plasteel".

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