Black mambas, Fox and scorpion, tuatara lizard, de-extinction dreams

Addendum to the last post. After chatting with nephew I watched Classic Arts Showcase from 3-6 am. Then I passed out watching the Today Show. I dreamed about being trapped in a colony of sustainable living advocates. Eventually their use of new technology grew to be such a burden that I was literally hemmed in by Tech so that I was almost trapped. I was crawling past the Tech on the walls almost like when I went caving in the Grand Canyon, only I could see the sun and sky shining through overhead through the brilliant blue passive solar glass. When you go caving everything is pitch black and night critters are scurrying away from you. Anyway eventually I got some space after the sustainable living colony declined into a lower population. I was able to try out the new genetic modification device. It de-extincted plants and animals. I was trying to resurrect lizards when I brought back a brilliant iridescent green four-legged creature that was dog-sized, venomous and intelligent. It opened its mouth and hissed while shining one of its icy blue eyes at me. I could see a row of sharp fangs. Nevertheless, I tearfully embraced it. It was after the 6th great Mass Extinction Event, so any natural creatures were precious treasures. As I embraced him and we stared at each other he made this evil grin. Then I woke up.
   After waking up I recalled the fact that Nature had rerun their 2010 Black Mamba episode this week. I had several Black Mamba dreams after that, including one where I was performing a veterinary operation on one.

   I also remembered the Aesop parable about the Frog and the Mouse. Of course I remembered it as the African version that I reread more recently in an 1990s anthology of African writers. In that version it was a Fox and a Scorpion

I mused then that the venomous lizard I was embracing in my dream made no move to bite me.
   I was delighted later when I turned on Jeff Corwin's Ocean Mysteries on ABC this AM and found that he was also very excited about these tuatara lizards on Matiu Somes island off the coast of New Zealand. They reminded me very much of my dream-lizard. Corwin also searched out their favorite food the weta insect.

College prep school, black mamba operation, PBS, grandmaw's tipple dreams

   Once again my dreams are a matter for the family chat room late night with my naturalist nephew. I had a dream Wed night about @PBSNature where I was operating on a Black mamba snake. It was a successful operation. Just now my dream was about college academic bureaucracy. Pretty tame stuff. My nephew says that he dreamed about one of my running jokes with him. I'm often referring to "grandmaw's tipple" when I joke with him, the bottles of wine my mother brings home and drinks every night. This week it turned out to be a big gallon jug of red wine. So now my nephew dreams about them. In the chat room this is shortened to "gmas tipple." The link to the @PBSNature episode about Black mambas is here. This chat log is mildly expurgated. I also removed the name of a local politician & family friend who dealt with a plagiarism charge.

[02:11:06]    
hi
[02:11:15]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
mornin
[02:11:20]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
never got to bed lol
[02:11:43]    
i just had an odd dream
[02:11:47]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
how's it goin
[02:12:04]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
another one huh
[02:12:17]    
well i have a million of em
[02:12:47]    
i also remember them 80% of the time when i wake up cuz its so fast
[02:13:23]    
anyway in this dream my academic college record was in the toilet again
[02:14:06]    
I took 3 of my journal papers and revised them to turn them in as my own work like I did for my first Master's thesis
[02:14:58]    
a bunch of stuck up college preps met with me and looked at me calmly informing me smugly "That's plagiarism"
[02:15:19]    
even tho my college adviser told me that it isnt
[02:15:55]    
see they are fuckin arbitrary as hell about that "plagiarism" charge
[02:16:09]    
they stick anybody they dont like with that one
[02:16:34]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
IC
[02:16:52]    
for example they tried to say that *local college president* plagiarized his doctorate paper
[02:17:09]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
they make sure to tell you over and over again that it's a big deal and they'll screw you for it, I know that
[02:17:46]    
no evidence, they just somehow proved that he lifted some words from another paper without citing them properly
[02:18:30]    
anyway it was a big deal and he had to pay 3 other professors to read his revised paper
[02:19:12]    
somehow it always means that you pay off the 3 most stuck up asshole professors in the entire college system
[02:19:38]    
that's what a bogus "plagiarism" charge means
[02:19:42]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
as usual it comes down to monnnnneeeeeehhhh I C
[02:19:50]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
The root of all evil
[02:19:52]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
lol
[02:19:54]    
for grad students it means you are kicked off campus
[02:20:14]    
undergrads get suspended for up to 2 years
[02:20:30]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
yeah suspension and all that, that was always at least implied when they talked to me about it
[02:20:52]    
I still think its applied to anyone a professor doesnt like
[02:21:34]    
you know in some cases its like calling the pope a plagiarist because he lifts his best lines from the Bible
[02:21:54]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
sorry about school dreams : ( last thing I'd want to dream about
[02:22:18]    
oh i dream about college shit all the time
[02:22:45]    
considering my entire career was at college or in dead end jobs its a wonder it aint every night
[02:23:26]    
i mean who wants to dream about wiping asses or cleaning grease traps?
[02:23:48]    
so i dream about stuck up assholes in every form
[02:24:14]    
if I had worked at the beach instead then id be dreaming about the beach every night
[02:24:35]    
y ocean sunsets and sea turtles etc
[02:24:39]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
oh I see
[02:25:33]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
difference in dreaming tendencies, I guess. Mine are always at least apparently devoid of real-life context unless I think about it for some of them
[02:25:43]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
weird surreal shit
[02:26:08]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
beach dreams with turtles would be great lol
[02:26:11]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
space turtles
[02:26:22]    
well i find it more disturbing that it was a group of 4 black alums who informed me that the plagiarism was going into my academic record
[02:26:32]    
alumni
[02:26:51]    
y space turtles
[02:27:21]    
I prolly dream about that after watching @novapbs 2 nights in a row before bedtime
[02:27:52]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
fuck yeah nature
[02:28:03]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
they had the black mamba thing on again last night
[02:28:21]    
oh y hes pretty
[02:28:31]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
I kin share nature links if it'd help kick the college asshole dreams out
[02:28:45]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
haven't sent you the bugs in a long while etc
[02:29:06]    
i dreamed about how they stuck a tube in his mouth and operated on him wednesday
[02:29:27]    
sure go aghead
[02:29:28]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
aww
[02:29:45]    
he had pretty eyes
[02:30:15]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/794600/bgimage
[02:30:31]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/794547/bgimage
[02:30:34]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
y he did
[02:30:42]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
very much so
[02:31:11]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
that shit looked painful :( was glad they turned out to be functioning normally afterwards
[02:34:20]    
oh y
[02:37:05]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
that dream discussion last night must have jump started the dream centers of my brain; finally had another. Gma gave me this bottle of what was ostensibly wine, but tasted more like tropical fruit juice. I proceeded to drift through time and space, and ended up in some far off city full of shoppers. Everyone was trying to sell me shit. I took another swig, and the stuff made me invisible. I therefore hid away from the crowds under a tree, and wondered why I didn't taste any alchohol or feel any related effects. As I looked down at my gut drowsily, my head merged inside of it and I briefly saw nothing but darkness. When I pulled my head out, this big woman was looking worriedly at me holding the bottle of whatever-the-fuck. I wanted it back from her, but she ran off with it.
[02:37:44]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
Not a very long dream
[02:38:11]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
Gma doesn't have any mysterious foreign possibly-magical fluids hiding amongst her tipple does she? lol
[02:42:07]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/794570/bgimage
[02:43:52]    
http://www.fishwrapper.com/post/2013/06/28/miley-cyrus-we-cant-stop-music-video-parody-dogs-adorable/
[02:43:56]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/794528/bgimage
[02:48:05]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/794370/bgimage
[02:48:10]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
http://bugguide.net/node/view/768716
[02:49:01]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
The many legged ones and I wish you well w/ better dreams
[02:54:04]    
thank you
[02:55:11]    
for right now to take my mind off of dreams about college, I'm watching anime about college
[02:55:15]    
http://anilinkz.com/chobits-episode-16
[02:55:47]    
this guy got flunked out into college prep school where he's making straight Es
[02:55:54]    
lol
[02:56:19]    
i suppose its college prep overkill
[02:58:30]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
lol

Time Stop & Climate Change dreams via chat log w/ my naturalist nephew

[13:56:45]    
you know swirly caught a bird this morning and tried to eat him in here
[13:56:57]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
lol mighty huntress!
[13:57:13]    
she let him go and used my bed as a trampoline to catch him again
[13:57:14]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
day by day she grows in skill in powah
[13:57:23]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
we are amazed at her prowess purr
[13:57:34]    
y its true
[13:57:41]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
lol don't let it get loose in the house warrior princess
[13:57:41]    
tampoline skills
[13:57:46]    
trampoline
[00:35:23]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
hi guys
[00:43:19]    
hi
[00:43:45]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
I'm up at midnight again X_X
[00:43:48]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
so's joe
[00:43:50]    
ive been having a superweird dream
[00:44:02]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
recurrent?
[00:44:05]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
those
[00:44:11]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
are always odd
[00:44:25]    
i was stuck in a time stop and kept reliving two minutest agan
[00:44:44]    
reliving two minutes
[00:45:04]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
O_O that would get torturous fast
[00:45:13]    
 only they kept changing and these mafia guy kept coming to kill us
[00:46:33]    
in the end i chose life and light instead of darkness and kept arguing with them that they shouldnt kill me
[00:46:54]    
they were members of the cops mafia
[00:47:10]    
you know crooked cops
[00:47:27]    
i was a physician who wanted to save everybody
[00:48:26]    
i kept wanting to kill everybody but if i did that then id be stuck in the time loop forever
[00:49:01]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
weird
[00:49:30]    
so i lengthened the time loop to 3 minutes by trying to save everybody even tho they were intending to kill me
[00:50:24]    
at the end of 3 minutes i had taken 2 bullets and fought them off while explaining why they shouldnt kill me for exposing them
[00:50:48]    
also i saved one of their number who had gone down in the firefight
[00:51:41]    
i was in the corner applying tourniquets and arguing with him when i woke up
[00:54:13]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
that's pretty strange lol the more people you keep from dying the more time you get but you'd need more than a few mins to save them I would think.
[01:02:01]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
I've been mostly dreamless lately, kinda strange really. I had one REALLY funky climate change/dystopia/death related one a couple months ago and can't remember having any after that
[01:10:13]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
I was on wolf creek. The power plant on lake of egypt had become a massive supercomplex of smog spewing factories and other assorted industrial buildings. We were all trapped there; crowds of despondent people lined the water's edge dressed in rags. I went to the end where the cars usually turned around, and this weird robed guy was holding a dead girl. He looked at me and said some weird mumbly stuff, then knelt down next to the water. The girl's body turned to oily sludge and drained into the water. End dream, tho thinking back I wonder if the line of people were those waiting to be transformed and emptied into the lake
[01:10:34]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
it freaked me out a little
[01:10:52]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
same day you told me about those rednecks who shot a circus elephant IIRC
[01:11:08]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
haven't had much since then
[01:11:16]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
lol it's a little morbid sorry
[01:11:51]     [Tom - 25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439]
anyway I'm no dream interpreter so can't help you there
[01:16:04]    
oh well i usually have time stop dreams when im mediatating
[01:16:53]    
I suspect it was because I was forcing myself to stay on my left side all night to void rolling on kitties
[01:17:13]    
they come and go from my bed at night you see
[01:17:48]    
When I passed out Sticky was sleeping in front of me while Swirly kept jumping up to tampoline on my bed
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Addendum:

I said that I was laying on my left side to avoid rolling over onto kittens in bed.In truth I was laying on my RIGHT side. I have to meditate while asleep to stay on my RIGHT side because I favor the left. If I don't do this then I frequently thrash around and damage the wall.