Two Dreams- One Of Them Prophetic

[poliphilo]

We've opened the bedroom window in honour of it being spring- a little prematurely because it was damn cold last night. As a way of compensating I
dreamed I was in Australia and looking up at the Southern Cross. My, but it was spectacular! I've always wanted to see the Southern Cross for real. I wonder if I ever shall.

Talking about dreams I had a distressing one the night before last where I threw a cat across the room and damaged its eye. In the morning I was looking at a set of photos by morrison_maiden and there was one I particularly liked of her cat sitting on the windowsill, hidden behind a pot-plant, with just one eye visible. I wrote a comment and after I'd placed it, it suddenly dawned on me- "O wow, that dream was an anticipation of this!"

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

A interesting dream! Isn't that odd? How you anticipated the icon?

I had a dream last night that confused me: I woke up in Heaven, and it was a room, with chairs. My brother was there, but he was a Roman Catholic, and I suddenly realized I was in Catholic Heaven! That there were different rooms for all the different religions.

Of course, the Pope and his last week has been much on my mind. I have found myself admiring his life more than I could have expected, since I didn't agree with his conservative views and thought them reactionary and antiquated; but learning more about him, I have found myself wistfully wishing for that sort of relationship with God--with Jesus, with Mary--that he had all his life.

I guess he's not stuck in a waiting room being surprised.

Oh, dear.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read Dunne's Experiment with Time? He argued- from his own experience- that we dream as much of the future as of the past. He then went on to show (using mathematics I couldn't begin to understand) that we live in a multi-layered "serial" universe.

I have complicated feeling about the Pope. On the one hand I think it insufferable that one unelected old man should think he has the right to impose his rigid, pre-modern morality on the rest of us, but on the other I admire this particular Pope's remarkable strength of character.