 I was having an interesting dream this morning when two of my three cats woke me up. I'm retired from my full-time job, so instead of an alarm clock waking me up, my cats wake me up. I was dreaming about watching a sci fi movie on Netflix and recording it. |  |
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 I had an interesting dream last night. I normally bring to work a lot of coffee in the three containers in the picture of this post. It's usually two thirds Hazelnut Creme decaf and one third Chocolate Capuccino coffee with caffeine. In the dream, one of my sisters was helping me to make lots more coffee. We made about ten times the normal amount that I bring to work. I think I was telling myself that I'm spoiled and love coffee a lot.  One of my cats just woke me up when I was having a great dream to remember for Thanksgiving. I was in an amusement park the size of Disney World in one of my sisters' backyards. No, her backyard isn't really that big! I was there with many relatives, and we were having a lot of fun riding trains, eating chocolate, and doing other things together.
 Dreams can help animals and people to learn, as many of the poems in Paw Learning Mazes show. "Dogs Helping with the Writing Process" (pages 11-13) has a rescue-center employee learning about some effective content from rescue-center dogs in one of her dreams. There's also a maze poem version of this poem on pages 1-10. "A Cat Learning How to Fly" (pages 15-18) has a cat dreaming about flying like a bird in pouring rain and learns how birds fly; when waking up, the cat is now less scared of water.
 In this wonderful month of December, in one of my dreams, I was talking to a student. She had done an essay that analyzed an ad. The ad was publicizing clothing for work and featured several people in formal suits. The student's essay was talking about comfortable pajamas. In the background, someone was talking on a TV show and said, "You need to look at it again, notice the pictures, and re-read all of the words." I often tell students that, for effective analysis, they need to look at things more than once.
This dream obviously included some information that I use while helping students in my reality. I'm guessing the dream was also about working from home when some people can wear pajamas, unless they need to show a video of themselves.  Not just people, but animals also dream. Paw Dream Mazes has many examples of animal dreams.The dreamers in Paw Dream Mazes include people, animals, and aliens. One of the dreamers is a kitten who has been trashed. She has a dream about her trash experience. Here is one of the stanzas from page 131 in Paw Dream Mazes; the kitten is dreaming as a part of the poem "A Trasher Trashed":
The person who often did trash his cats had placed his face next to three thrashing rats, opened his mouth to scrunch his metal-like teeth, and scared the rats that were above and beneath.
 Several weeks ago, I had an interesting dream. I was visiting with family members. There weren't any COVID-19 components, so everyone was having fun together without any masks or need for distancing. One of my family members convinced me to walk with her to the Warwick Mall. We then went on a great walk together; we even carried some weights, in addition to our purses. The mall is only a little over four miles from my house, and I've sometimes walked over six miles in one day. I also usually like to exercise. I'm guessing I was trying to tell myself to exercise more than what I was doing. I might also have been telling myself that I wanted to visit more with family members during these tough times of social distancing.
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