Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Shannon, I'd like to relay a situation that happened to me last night on OF3.

I have many dreams on OF3 even though I don't remember all of them. Last night I was having a dream where I was at my parent's house. I don't remember much of the dream but I was going up the stairs to the second level of the house and there was a cat in the bathroom. In my dream, I thought "we don't have a cat" so I forced or commanded it to leave. When I did it hissed at me and at the same time my dream state was disturbed and began to take a fearful feeling. Regardless, the cat hissed and ran away by quickly getting sucked up the bathroom faucet. As it left it stuck its head out of the faucet and hissed one more time at me before fully retreating . I thought that was rather funny even as I was waking up. As I was waking up I was also releasing a large, and loud, exhale. I did not do this consciously. I feel like it was some large fear in my life to have such a reaction that was being released.

Thank you for OF3 it was worth the waiting for development to get this far.

Very interesting! I had quite an interesting dream last night myself. As I'm currently limited to my phone I'll just say that it involved me visiting my 1st grade school only to find it was long abandoned and mostly crumbled. I was wandering through what had once been decorative windows next to doors and classrooms, reminiscing and letting go of something... Not sure what. 

And then I was in a hospital in the nurse's lounge. GF was a nurse in the ICU burn unit and she wanted me to put an app on my phone so we could chat while she worked. NeuraChat, the hospital's chat app for staff. Lol Then it was showing me lessons on how to apply artificial skin to severe burn patients.

Someone gave me a loaf of bread roughly shaped like a 4 legged tardigrade. Then I was outside trying to catch a cat I'd never seen before to pet it but I couldn't. A young boy grabbed a huge cat by the tail and handed it to me, and when I grabbed it's tail and it started running and dragging me behind it at such high speed that I was being lifted off the ground when it changed directions.

Then I was back in the old abandoned school building again, wondering what happened.

That's actually a really complex dream. Multiple time frames and things happening but tying together at the beginning and end with the school. Tardigrades and cats to me seem to be a different way of expressing the same thing. Tardigrades are hard to kill and cats are seemingly capricious, do whatever they want, and don't take orders well. Both sound like representations of fear but are also the different manners they appear in. I'm not necessarily a dream interpreter so that's the best I can come up with.

My cat seemed to be a little critter that was trying to be somewhere it shouldn't of.

Anyways, why cats? 

tardigrade shaped bread that I took a bite out of. Could be a representation of fear. But tardigrade shaped bread isn't that hard to kill.  Giant housecat as fear. I can see that being possible too. 

Its a very complex dream and I understand it to be going through old worn out memories that spark fear that are being revisited and let go of as I scrutinize them and realize how run down they are as the general theme. I don't need to get much more specific than that.  Just pleased at how OFv3 is working so well.