Shannon's OFv3 Journal

[Shannon]

Last night I had a dream that I was walking through a store with an odd looking humanoid creature that was spindly, gangly and seemed to be sexless. It had sections of limbs that were somehow too long and too skinny, and a head that was too small. It was light brown, and wore no clothes, and had skin that was not smooth but I don't know how to describe it. It seemed almost like a mismatched skeleton with some flesh, but not as much as a normal body would have, and the head was very reminiscent of a skull with skin, but again, not enough flesh.

This creature was walking with me, behind me, and I felt no fear of it. This was natural and as it should be in the dream. Then as I approached and started down the aisle furthest from the door, which was against a wall of the building, I felt a surge of fear, and the creature reacted by climbing up the shelves to the top and hiding behind some of the extra merchandise and boxes stored on the top shelf. These shelves were from floor level to well over 10 feet up, I would estimate. I felt the surge of fear, but it was blunted, muted and very short lived - about a second. It somewhat surprised me that this creature would react so swiftly and so definitively to hide. I attempted to call it and calm it down, but it was not responsive. So I told it to be comfortable in its own way, and I turned back to what was on the shelves, which was shipping and packing materials - bubble mailers, manila envelopes, bubble wrap, tape, etc.

After a few moments of doing this, I started back towards it and I called to it again, and comfortingly re-assured it that everything was okay, and it could come back down now. At this point, it moved from behind the boxes and came out, climbing down. I calmly and comfortingly spoke some more words to it, praising it for coming down and trusting me. It seemed to have no response to praise itself (i.e., was without ego) but responded to the calm, comforting caring energy I was sending it at the same time. It seemed to have the level of awareness a horse might have.

To my conscious mind, this thing - whatever it was - looked like it could be scary enough to others to cause them to respond the same way to it that it had reacted to this surge of fear, but it was very vulnerable, sensitive and afraid itself.

At the end of the dream, I was contemplating how to go about touching it in a calming, caring, comforting way, but I wasn't sure it would understand that. Then I was awakened by my dogs whining to go outside.