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More dreams: flood and modern college
May. 12th, 2024 09:18 pmSaturday night I had at least four dreams (as I was woken up mid-dream that many times) of which I remember two:
1. I was in my home town walking along a small creek when torrential rains caused the creek to grow into a big torrent (a very flood like event) and I was carried away to an area I did not recognize. It looked like a Christian private school that closed its doors just as we started washing ashore as the torrent was slowing down. I started walking along the banks looking for a way to get away from the torrent. At one point, I found an area that looked like a way out, but it was a weird dead end: an inside out Catholic church: it looked like the inside of a church except with all the features of the outside walls, ramparts that stuck out and the only opening towards the creek. I woke up before I could find a way to get away from the creek banks. I think this is the first dream I had about a flood event. This dream might have been related to the headline I read about an American Orthodox priest that wrote a detailed critique of the Catholic church and why Orthodoxy was the true apostolic church.
2. I was visiting with colleagues or classmates a foreign university and we were all housed in the gym filled with over one hundred sleeping bags. We went to explore the area and soon descended into the tunnels under the university. They were poorly lit, giving them a feeling of being forbidden and we were the only ones there. They were numbered however and seemed to have a certain logic to them as at periodic intervals there were separations (either heavy curtains or hatches) that were numbered. Eventually we resurfaced into a big enclosed area that felt like a corridor. While walking along it, we spotted at least two swimming pools, one basketball court, one big food court, a movie theatre, concessions amongst which a popcorn-only wicket with a chrome-plated guard rail to ensure single file access to a window at which two people were waiting for their popcorn. I also remember thinking that I should go back to my sleeping area to make sure that my passport did not get stolen. The whole area had the feeling of a mall and I was thinking how it made sense given that this university was very new and very modern. I don't recall seeing even one classroom or professor.
1. I was in my home town walking along a small creek when torrential rains caused the creek to grow into a big torrent (a very flood like event) and I was carried away to an area I did not recognize. It looked like a Christian private school that closed its doors just as we started washing ashore as the torrent was slowing down. I started walking along the banks looking for a way to get away from the torrent. At one point, I found an area that looked like a way out, but it was a weird dead end: an inside out Catholic church: it looked like the inside of a church except with all the features of the outside walls, ramparts that stuck out and the only opening towards the creek. I woke up before I could find a way to get away from the creek banks. I think this is the first dream I had about a flood event. This dream might have been related to the headline I read about an American Orthodox priest that wrote a detailed critique of the Catholic church and why Orthodoxy was the true apostolic church.
2. I was visiting with colleagues or classmates a foreign university and we were all housed in the gym filled with over one hundred sleeping bags. We went to explore the area and soon descended into the tunnels under the university. They were poorly lit, giving them a feeling of being forbidden and we were the only ones there. They were numbered however and seemed to have a certain logic to them as at periodic intervals there were separations (either heavy curtains or hatches) that were numbered. Eventually we resurfaced into a big enclosed area that felt like a corridor. While walking along it, we spotted at least two swimming pools, one basketball court, one big food court, a movie theatre, concessions amongst which a popcorn-only wicket with a chrome-plated guard rail to ensure single file access to a window at which two people were waiting for their popcorn. I also remember thinking that I should go back to my sleeping area to make sure that my passport did not get stolen. The whole area had the feeling of a mall and I was thinking how it made sense given that this university was very new and very modern. I don't recall seeing even one classroom or professor.
