{"id":161,"date":"2008-04-09T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/161"},"modified":"2009-01-10T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T10:54:17","slug":"dream-hugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/dream-hugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream hugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jon Stewart gives great hugs.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I found\u00c2\u00a0 out in my Monday night dream.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, I don&#8217;t know what he was doing at my deceased grandmother&#8217;s house on 7th east, along with an assortment of other people I apparently knew.\u00c2\u00a0 But as I bid them all farewell, he gave me the most amazingly warm, memorable hug.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <em>And he looked great in his grey suit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">Last night&#8217;s dreams were not nearly so rewarding. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seasite.niu.edu\/Indonesian\/themes\/Animals\/wild_animals\/images\/shark.jpg\" height=\"125\" style=\"width: 165px; height: 125px\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>In one segment, I was fending off rather large sharks with a knife and a stick in a rope-infested bay <em>(yes, large\u00c2\u00a0ropes were floating around the surface of this water, making it a challenge to swim).<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea what prompted me to leave the safety of the rowboat I had been in.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last couple of nights my dreams have been a bit like short story collections &#8211; one segment completely unrelated to the next.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There was quite a bit of hiking over straw and snow covered hills.\u00c2\u00a0 Ashley (looking about age 10 &#8211; she often shows up in my dreams as a baby or young child) happily slid down one of them, out of site. \u00c2\u00a0 I took a cd of music in to my massage therapist in hopes they would exchange it out for the weird music they&#8217;ve been playing lately.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Some guy was trying to talk me into taking his $800 self-help seminar (I said no.)<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>my dreams are usually more like full-length feature films<\/strong> &#8211; very vivid, very realistic, often very entertaining.\u00c2\u00a0 Much more so that my waking life.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I literally wake myself up laughing at the silliness &#8211; other times it seems like they were an important message I need to figure out.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" width=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldenembrace.jpg\" alt=\"A dream Hug\" height=\"173\" style=\"width: 140px; height: 173px\" title=\"A dream Hug\" \/>Occasionally <em>(not nearly often enough)<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0I get to enjoy a nice, steamy dream&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 most recently with\u00c2\u00a0David Peckham (a guy from my\u00c2\u00a0neighborhood when I was growing up.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Completely random.\u00c2\u00a0 No idea what prompted that, since I never even had a crush on Dave in my teen years and haven&#8217;t seen or\u00c2\u00a0heard from him since high school.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But it was a memorable dream : )<\/p>\n<p>Shemar has yet to make an appearance, however.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">What memorable dreams have you had of late?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Do you think they have any meaning?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Any ideas what MY dreams meant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart gives great hugs.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I found\u00c2\u00a0 out in my Monday night dream.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, I don&#8217;t know what he was doing at my deceased grandmother&#8217;s house on 7th east, along with an assortment of other people I apparently knew.\u00c2\u00a0 But as I bid them all farewell, he gave me the most amazingly warm, &hellip; 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