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The Interpretation, Last Night's Dream

Last Night's Dream

Last night I had a pretty disturbing dream. It was so disturbing that I remember it in detail. I dreamed that I was traveling with my dad in a rustic raised up Toyota Land Cruiser over what appeared to be a rustic countryside. I was riding in the back seat and my dad was driving the vehicle. I could only see the back of his head but I knew it was my dad by the color of his hair and skin and by the way his hands looked on the steering wheel. I could pick out those hands among a million.

In the dream I looked out the window and it seemed like I was on an English or Scottish country estate because I saw a rock wall surrounding a big mansion in the distance. As my dad drove toward the mansion the two giant doors in front opened up and my dad drove directly into the house! In the house there was a path that cut through the giant living room and out the back through two additional giant door to were I could see a huge crowd that was gathered to watch a field hockey match. There were big stands filled with people and there was no room for a seat. So I peeked through the fence to watch the match and I could see two teams playing against each other.

One team was a group of young girls around college age and they were arguing with the other team that appeared to be their seniors, around the age of 65 and up! There seemed to be a problem with who should gain possession of the ball after what seemed like a questionable call by the referees. After the refs conferred with one another it was decided that the younger team would get possession and shortly after the whistle blew to resume play the younger team charged down the field and scored a wildly contested goal against the older women. As they celebrated the score I could see on the older ladies faces a look of defeat and exhaustion.

In my dream I turned from the game thinking, "This game is completely pointless" as I knew the older women could not match the energy and athleticism of the younger team. I wondered why so many people had turned out to watch what was obviously an unfair match up. But then I wondered why those older women even agreed to play in the same game as the younger ones.

With questions in my head I went back to the car where my dad was patiently waiting for me. As he started up the car and drove back toward the giant doors we had come through I thought about what I just saw. Inside the house it seemed like the path that we had come through to get to the field in the back of the house got noticeably narrower. I looked out the back window at one point because it seemed like my dad was going to knock over a coffee table but as I looked out I could see the back of the car barely missing the expensive furniture that was all around. He was navigating smoothly without error.

As I looked toward the driver seat to voice my pride in his driving skills I realized that the whole car and my dad had disappeared and now it was just me walking on the narrow path through the big mansion.

As I walked the rest of the way through the house I felt the house growing darker and darker behind me so I started to run. As I ran I realized that the path that I was on was not the same one that led out of the house but one that just seem to take me deeper and deeper into the mansion. As I flung open door after door in the mansion, more doors were presented and I felt like instead of leaving the mansion I would be lost inside of it.

As I tumbled through room after room, half trying to find the exit and half wondering what was behind the next door,  I heard my dad's voice yelling, "Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger!" As I shook violently in my bed I suddently woke from the dream breathing really hard and my heart beating really fast and I wondered what the heck all that meant.

Presidential "Race"

A few blogs back (Tuesday, October 24, 2006) I told you guys to watch out for Barack Obama and now he is closer to becoming the democratic hopeful for the race toward the Presidency. Many political analyst have said that Barack's campaign is changing the political landscape of the entire country which is shocking to those who have relied on those demographics for so long. Along with Hilary Clinton, a woman candidate, they are are making history.  Why do you think people are so interested in these candidates? Are we long overdue for such? I am curious to know your thoughts on it.

Whether you support Barack or not you have to eventually ask yourself how come the nation has come out in such huge support for him? I was particularly impressed with his 2004 speech made at the Democratic National Convention where John Kerry was the nominee running against a Bush second term. In that speech many who heard it secretly wished he was the candidate. I know I left feeling like, "Now why can't we have a guy like this run for President?" Eventually that question was answered as Barack would throw his hat into the Presidential ring to duke it out for the nomination.

There are some interesting facts that I discovered concerning his possible nomination. I discovered that if Barack wins the nomination he will speak at the Democratic Convention. The convention will be held on the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. It may not seem like a big deal for most people but to the African American community it was one of the most significant events to happen since Brown v. Topeka Board of Education where segregation became illegal in the school system, or the enactment of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. The promise of a Black President will be the next.

Race isn't everything but when the past 43 Presidents have been white men, the thought of anything other that the norm is pretty darn exciting regardless of what race or gender you are. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the days ahead.