What about dreams?
Recently a restaurant (Bodine’s) that our family particularly loved to frequent closed it’s doors to make room for yet another casino. This one is supposed to be a western theme. Oh yea that’s fresh and new for the area. So I knew I was sort of morning the loss of a place that held so many great memories of good times with my family but last night I had the strangest dream. I was meeting my mother for lunch at Bodine’s. I must have still been working at the time because I only had an hour to have lunch with her and get back to work. The waitress came past our table and said she would be with us shortly, but half an hour went by and she hadn’t come back. So I was complaining to the hostess and she sent over the owner. He took my mom’s order but wouldn’t take mine. He said our waitress would have to come and get my order. Well I waited another 15 minutes and she still hadn’t come back. I called my work on my cell phone and told them that I would be late. For some reason that was just fine with them. I then got up and tracked down my waitress in another room and yelled at her that she was a terrible waitress and shouldn’t be working at this really great restaurant. She completely agreed with me and said she was sorry but I was till fuming and went through the kitchen to find the owner to tell him all about it. When I couldn’t find him I went back to my table to find my mother sitting calmly still waiting for her food. She told me to relax and sit down that it would all be just fine. Then the dream switched to some other crazy stuff and I can’t really remember any more. Now what meaning could this have for me? I know that I really haven’t dealt much with my mom’s or my dad’s passing. Could this be my way of working something out? Does setting in the now closed restaurant have some significance? Many people think that when our body sleeps to replenish our strength that our spirit plays out our emotional issues that need resolution through our dreams. I really don’t know, but this dream made me want to find out more. Then when I woke up and turned on the television a show called new morning (http://www.newmorningtv.tv/todaysshow.jsp) was on. It was all about dreams and how important they are and that we shouldn’t take them so lightly. We need to use them to strengthen ourselves. Wow it made me really think. This one Indian man who makes dream catchers Dream-Catchers.org was on and he told of how each one is different and how it is important for the dream catcher to have symbolic items on it that mean things to the owner. It is supposed to be a conduit for that person to use his dream to help them cope with life and make the most of it. Anyway I think that I am going to make my own dream catcher, and then start journaling my dreams and see what happens.
God speaks to us again and again when we are deeply sleeping."
-- Book of Job
posted by Moma Bird @ 3:12 PM
6 Comments:
Indeed dreams are somethign else. Most the time I just brus them off and laugh at them, but some are just to crazy to ignore. Especially re-occuring dreams. I have a re-occuring dream where I fall off a cliff and land on a flat rock and then their is complete silence and the next scene is me looking at myself lying their dead. It's all in color as well which I am told is a rare thing for dreams. I have recently had some strage ones that don't even fall in line with what goes through my head when I am awake. Anyway it is strange stuff sometimes. I like your blog C.C.
Insightful stuff! I keep a dream journal by my bed, and always try to write stuff down when I wake up. I get many great story ideas from these, and it helps me sort stuff out and pin down what I might be stressing about, or missing in life. Lately, since I have been working so much, I mostly just dream about doing my work. Heh. The ones I hate the MOST though, are when there is something I REALLY need to do, like go to the DMV. I dream about doing it, and getting it done. Then wake up, and realize it was a dream. It always makes me feel like I've been robbed of productivity. hehe
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I have always dreamed in color except when my dream gets to like gory it turns into that shades of brown kind of picture. You know like you get when you go to those old time picture places like at Virginia City. I guess that means I can't deal with too much reality.
I think your dreams means that you wish you had done more with Mom when she was here and maybe are a bit frustrated by all that, but, then again, mom was all calm about that and is saying that it is okay, to calm down and enjoy today.That things of this earth come and go (like Bodine's) and people of this world just don't care about your timing etc.. but mom (who is in heaven) represents the eternal things that are what is important. To rest in Him, the one who who is in control. Worry just causes ulcers, sickness and unsettledness (is that a word?) I love dreams about mom and dad, I've had alot of them. Just like finding those pennies and the dead sticks that grew leaves after dad's death. I look for signs now.
Wow, I needed that!
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