A Year?

One of my favorite places on Earth is the Alpine Tundra biome. I found myself in a dream within this beautiful alpine landscape. I'm looking at a map to find what is on top of a specific peak that I had never been to the top of. I was ready to check out the new territory and was delighted to find that there was a lake at the top of the mountain.

Once at the top, I notice that there are homes and a small development there. I remember thinking how beautiful it would be to live there, but how could it be possible in the winter. Even though it is a beautiful place, a development would simply destroy it. I wondered if the people who lived there only stayed for the summer. I looked around at the houses and cars, but didn't see any people. I was suddenly in a small white house, looking across the street. I noticed two houses. One in particular caught my attention. It had gray siding and the address 365. This seems to be one of the most important pieces of the dream, since I remember the number so vividly and the details of the outside of the home. I didn't realize it at first, but now realize that is the number of days in a year.

Vortex

In this dream, I'm packing up my backpack, getting ready to go on a  hike with Chief. The weather outside is a little grey and cloudy but storms usually pass quickly here, so I decided to set out anyway. We started our way up the mountain when I started to hear rolls of thunder in the near distance. I decided we should turn around and go back to the house. As I'm walking down the mountain, I notice a very distinct low-rumbling sound. We get back to the house and I notice some interesting movements in the clouds above. I notice a rotation in one area of the sky and realize that a small tornado had formed. The rumbling sound I had heard had come from the tornado and I was glad I decided to bring us back to shelter. I found it very odd that there would be a tornado in the mountains. This one was not threatening however, and I just stood there watching it continuously come together and fall apart, over and over. I was intrigued by it and not afraid. As I'm watching it, it begins to change dramatically and now I'm witnessing a very large vortex open up in the sky. It was gray and threatening looking, but I still was not afraid of it. I continued to watch it, knowing that I was witness to some supernatural event. I wasn't sure if I was witnessing an apocalyptic event, but I really didn't care. I was completely drawn in to what I was seeing before me. It seemed comparable to an amazing cosmic event of creation or destruction. I looked briefly to my left and noticed another family with a young boy who were also standing there in awe watching what was happening in the sky. They didn't seem afraid either and were also drawn in to the mystical beauty of the event unfolding above. It had been dark and gloomy, and suddenly, it was as if the sun came out, but rather, the bright intense light was from a rainbow, not the sun. It was so bright, you couldn't look directly at it, but in my peripheral vision, I saw one large rainbow, with others moving and flowing around it, like waves of light, not produced by sun and rain. Suddenly, these rainbow beams of light are flowing in and out of the vortex. One goes directly in and the colors become a part of the vortex itself and begin spiralling within in. It is one of the most amazing things I've seen. I then have a camera and try to take a photo of it, but catch it only as the intense colors begin to fade.  I realize witnessing the event through a camera was taking away from my experience, so I put the camera away and continued to watch.

The bears are back :)

 

In last night's dream I was in my room with my mom (I believe). We notice a huge bear outside the window and then see her little cub. We watched them and were a little worried about how close they were to the house. They seemed to notice us. I went looking for my camera to take their photo. Suddenly, the cub jumped through my bedroom window. I noticed there was no screen or glass covering the window, it was completely open to the outside world. I knew we were in trouble then and was just waiting for momma bear to get pissed at us and come after us. I tried to get the cub to go away, but it wanted to come in and play. It was hanging and playing on the inside of the window frame. Momma bear came over to the window, but she didn't come after us. She came up to the window and started grabbing for her baby, but couldn't catch him/her. She never did come in. Finally they both ended up back outside the window and were wandering around. They now had a bunch of baby birds with them, as if they were caring for them. My mom or someone said they were egrets (wtf is an egret? dreams are so weird!). Now there were a bunch of people gathered outside, having picnics, just hanging out in nature. I was worried that someone would get attacked by the mother bear, but that did not happen, even though some stupid humans were approaching the cub. The bears seemed to ignore everyone and the dream ended there.

Psychic

Very rarely do I have dreams when someone tells me something very specific. This was the case just a few nights ago. I found myself face to face with some guy that I never met. He begins telling me things about myself as if he was giving me a psychic reading. The only part that stood out and was clear to me was that I was going to be making a lot of mistakes. Considering the fact that I have a lot of important and life-changing decisions ahead of me, this did not make me feel good. He disappeared and I just started feeling like shit, as if I have many difficulties ahead. Suddenly I'm back in that same place and he's there again. He told me not to feel bad and that these mistakes were going to be necessary to get to me where I truly need and want to be. They were not necessarily a bad thing, but a way to get me where I need/want to go.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. ~Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~Sophia Loren

Salsa, and I don't mean dancing :)

I like to think my dad is still around, somewhere, and I dream about him often. In last night's dream, I found myself in an unfamiliar house or apartment. I knew it was my house. I was walking around, singing or talking to myself or something of that nature, when I noticed a huge bowl full of diced jalapenos, tomatoes, onions, garlic, all the stuff needed to make salsa. I thought how strange it was and out of place, as I had not left anything like that out. Just then, my dad walked by, all dressed up as he was when he went to work. He startled me as I didn't know anyone was there. I then realized he had started to prepare salsa (he was well know for his hot green chili and other Mexican foods). He didn't speak to me, nor did I to him and then the dream was over.

I find it interesting how many dreams I have had of my dad being around but does not say a word to me. I also recall a previous dream where he called me on a phone and told me that he could not touch or reach out to me that I had to touch or reach out to him. I think there may be a message there, that is still trying to be spoken...

Bears

I found myself walking on a sidewalk when I noticed two bears in the distance. They continued to approach me. I was afraid of them and assumed they would attack me. They came right up to me and started sniffing me. They started biting me, but these were friendly bites, like a dog when it's playing. My fear quickly subsided and I trusted the two. I began walking with them down the sidewalk. We approached a building, maybe a doctors office or an office building. I had to go in and I was bummed to leave my new bear friends. From the inside, I watched them and how people reacted to them. They finally disappeared from my view. Inside the building I had been waiting in a line and everyone had files. I'm not really sure what I was doing there. I decided to leave and try to find the bears, but they were no where to be found.

Tornado

I found myself on the open plains, very similar to the landscapes in the Midwest where I grew up as a child. I was on what seemed like a farm or a house with a lot of land and surrounded by farmland and open spaces. My aunt and two uncles were there. In the near distance we see a tornado and it is coming toward us quickly. I remember running into the house trying to find a place to take shelter. The house had no basement and I was running around frantically trying to find a closet or some other place in a bathroom that might be safe.

I wasn't satisfied with anything in the house, so oddly enough, went outside to "take shelter," basically right in the path of the twister. I laid on the ground in some kind of box made out of 2x4s. There was a lot of junk, including blankets and other things. My family members were all there with me as we braced for the storm. I recall pulling down pieces of metal that were sticking out of the ground so that they wouldn't fall down on us. I grabbed on to my uncle's arm and closed my eyes. The earth was shaking and the sound of the approaching tornado was nearly unbearable. I covered myself with a blanket and closed my eyes. I could hear the tornado approach us.

As it got closer, probably about 5 yards away, the rumbling decreased. The tornado had dissipated right as it passed us. I opened my eyes when the sound of it subsided and saw it break apart and ascend back up into the clouds. All it had left was a few black marks on the house where it began to break apart.