Guest dream post by my naturalist nephew (Dirk Diddly): Climate Change apocalypse in 2100, from Iran to Illinois

   My Naturalist nephew & I have been chatting and meeting more regularly since we attended the Southern Illinois Biodiversity Conference 2 weeks ago. James Hansen retired from NASA last Wednesday to focus around the PR problem of convincing the US public in the polls that climate change matters as an national issue as well as internationally. Most of them apparently consider it even more abstractly than they do the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty with southeast Asia. Nevertheless it is these two polarizing problems that are seated on either side of the Keystone XL oil pipeline Politics. In order for the US to take part in 21st century Climate Change mitigation and prosecution of corporate eco-criminals, the TPP treaty must fail. And in order for the TPP to succeed, the Canadian tar sands development and other fossil fuel project decisions must not take into account "environmental externalities" the biggest one being Climate Change. They are both competitive and mutually exclusive with one another. Consequently the latest environmental tumblr blog I am looking at is "Neoliberalism-Kills" after the secret terms of the TPP that have Western governments murdering their own future citizens through non-enforcement of environmental crimes. My nephew knows my strong positions on the matter, so that has probably affected his dreams. I wiped my own chat log from Saturday so this is a copy of his chat.

[06:40:00]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://anilinkz.com/series/anime-mirai-2013
[06:40:12]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
good anime
[07:46:09]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/americas/292131-leaked-cable-reveals-bush-administrations-strategy-for-undermining-chavez
[10:03:20]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-GOP-Plan-to-Kill-Ameri-by-Walter-Brasch-130405-968.html#.UV7byukbQa8.tumblr
[10:05:33]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://grist.org/food/oh-rot-the-white-house-just-gutted-the-new-food-safety-rules/
[10:10:01]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://grist.org/news/meet-roy-blunt-the-senator-from-missouri-and-monsanto/
[10:25:29]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://
[11:11:42] >>    www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/04/rhino-horns-poisoned-poachers-protect
[12:16:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
there is a disturbing similarity between these 2 articles
[12:16:47]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/secret-service-reptile-aliens/
[12:16:58]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/FBI-Out-of-Gas-and-Stranded-as-Mexican-Cartels-Increase-Networks-in-USA
[13:01:51]    
what the wired vs the breitbart?
[13:02:20]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[13:02:38]    
I don't even want to click on the breitbart shit lol
[13:03:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://twitter.com/Wonkette/status/320287454366146560
[13:03:34]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
im the last 2 replies
[13:05:49]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
oops the conservative white supremacists are trolling it now
[13:05:54]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://wonkette.com/510537/breitbart%E2%80%99s-brandon-darby-ar
[11:11:42] >>    yan-brotherhood-can%E2%80%99t-be-racist-because-they-have-mexican-friends
[13:06:22]    
y
[13:06:36]    
they sound just like yahoo answers trolls
[13:08:04]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure they troll anything that looks 'Liberal' to them
[13:08:25]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
whether gay or black or mexican or abortion etc
[13:08:52]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
that worst ones that I read these days are on WGNNews
[13:09:24]    
lol this wonkette mag looks cool
[13:09:34]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
there's some heinous gangster racists trolling Tribune corp news for being too liberal
[13:09:36]    
I like the catwoman logo
[13:09:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
occasionally they troll McClatchy too
[13:10:22]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure wonkette is cool but she also has to do a lot of retractions because of her heavy reliance on social media
[13:10:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
nearly 100% of her news sources are online
[13:11:06]     [oldParasiteSingle
[11:11:42] >>    - 25.80.239.98]
i consider her a reliable conservative media critic tho
[13:11:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
if she wants to troll Breitbart.com then I say go ahead
[13:13:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Drudge report needs some major asskicking too
[13:14:03]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/resources/lewinsky/timeline/
[13:15:07]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Jan 19, 1998 will live in internet infamy as the day pictures of Monica Lewensky's cum-stained dress from the oval office was posted on Drudge Report
[13:15:47]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
ever since then 80% of internet trolls have been conservatives with a boner
[17:13:58]    
I had another odd dream about us being in weird places last night
[17:14:27]    
We were some years into a future wrecked by climate change
[17:15:08]    
The northeastern US west to Illinois had renamed itself to Iran and had a permenant desert climate
[17:16:01]    
We were walking from Missouri, which was only sl
[11:11:42] >>    ightly less deserted and fucked up, into the new Iran for reasons unknown
[17:16:36]    
We walked many miles, cars were outlawed b/c of their climate change contribution tho we still saw them occasionally driven of course by rich pigs
[17:17:05]    
They had stations set up every 20 miles or so for wayfarers equipped with stagnant water to drink and rudimentary restrooms
[17:17:28]    
We were mostly the only ones on the road, others rarely left their homes
[17:18:05]    
We made it all the way to central illinois or so to an airport where we planned to immigrate to more hospitible country
[17:18:44]    
but when we got there you started walking back and said you'd rather walk back for some reason
[17:19:30]    
end of dream lol
[17:19:52]    
didn't make much sense
[17:20:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
actually it does kind of
[17:21:17]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
I told you about Skilling/fermilab predictions right?
[17:22:01]    
possibly
[17:22:02]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Friday he said that Illinois climate in 2100 would be like East Texas in the summer and Chicago would be like Reading, PA in the winter
[17:22:32]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
that means itll be hotter than hell with a snow dump in the winter but almost no rain
[17:23:07]    
huh
[17:23:11]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
we will still be able to farm probably with irrigation and aquaculture
[17:23:14]    
already seems to be getting there
[17:23:18]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[17:23:28]    
that's about how I would describe the last coupla years
[17:24:16]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
anyway your dream suggests that we would be climate change refugees from the oppressive desertification, but that I would want to turn back to my only home once you are safe
[17:25:06]    
IDK I would want to leave if half the country became Iran and turned into a rocky desert wasteland XD
[17:25:12]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
its only natural you would think that way since I traveled extensively for a few years bef
[11:11:42] >>    ore coming back to stay
[17:25:51]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
actually Iran isnt a wasteland like north africa
[17:26:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
It probably will be some ind of no mans land after 2100 but itll be one of the last Middle East countriies to do so
[17:27:15]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Pakistan and Afghanistan along with India will be unholy hells tho
[17:27:43]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Iran has extensive farming and more arqable land than Israel
[17:27:51]    
coo
[17:28:09]    
I need to brush up on geography
[17:29:06]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
np
[17:29:27]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Iran
[17:29:59]    
http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/2013/03/18/announcing-fermilab-2013/
[17:30:09]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel
[17:30:13]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thanks
[17:31:08]    
come to think of it the rehydration stations were just ol
[11:11:42] >>    d battered rest stops lolol
[17:32:02]    
for some reason they were the only places left on the road with any water
[17:32:23]    
I don't suppose that's really gonna be how it is
[17:32:36]    
but things will be fucked up at this rate for sure
[17:32:55]    
and we HAVE been having severe droughts
[17:33:06]    
other parts of the us even more so
[17:34:51]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Texas#Piney_Woods
[17:35:00]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Texas
[17:35:21]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thats what our summers will be like circa 2100
[17:35:35]    
IC
[17:36:24]    
60 inches of rainfall
[17:36:35]    
and warmer winters
[17:36:38]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[17:37:15]    
lol texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the us
[17:37:15]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
however we will be more vulnerable to atmospheric oscillations and drought than east texas
[17:37:21]    
I did not know that o-o
[17:37:36]     [oldParasi
[11:11:42] >>    teSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure
[17:37:37]    
I suppose it's BIG
[17:37:39]    
but
[17:37:49]    
thought it'd be ny or st
[17:37:54]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thats where most of the oil refineries are
[17:38:01]    
Oh IC
[17:38:23]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
power plants & cars make a lot but refineries make the most
[17:39:13]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
technically I believe agriculture makes that most GHG but we cant reduce those too much w/o mass starvation
[17:39:38]    
hmmmm you know I should come over or st
[17:39:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Texas also has a lot of beef and agriculture
[17:39:52]    
done with biz for the day
[17:39:55]    
it's nice out
[17:40:03]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
per pound cows make the most GHG of any agricultural produuct
[17:40:14]    
we could walk down to FF for junk and pet kitties in what's left of the day's sun
[17:40:21]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
they waste a hell of a lot of land and water too
[17:40:25]    
LOL cows n t
[11:11:42] >>    heir methane
[17:40:28]    
y I fucking know
[17:40:37]    
domesticated animals wreck shit
[17:41:03]    
farmers go apeshit about large predators
[17:41:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
brb i have to visit the medicine cabinet
[17:41:38]    
y agri stuff messes lots with the environment
[17:41:42]    
k
[17:42:02]    
pesticides
[17:42:12]    
ferilizer in our rivers
[17:42:15]    
gmos
[17:42:17]    
lol

Equinox, Old Ones, vampire queen, liche priest, animals, nature, sunlight dreams

   Dream diary update. I usually expect weird disturbing dreams on the equinox and this time was no exception. Perhaps the oddest thing was really that my disabled naturalist nephew had dreams about being caught by a tentacled deep sea creature. One of HP Lovecraft's Old Ones no doubt, although he put it in context of sea life anatomy. Chat log:

[14:37:24]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
I had a really weird "dream". I could swear I was basically awake, but I could not move and I saw this huge gelatinous tentacled creature advance upon me and caress me with its tentacles
[14:37:33]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
it freaked me the fuck out
[14:37:50]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
but when I "woke" up there was no change of scenery
[14:37:58]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
the creature just disappeared
[14:39:09]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
I'm not sure if I was awake and still in a dream state at the same time somehow or if I just happened to dream that I was laying in the recliner facing the kitchen in exactly the way I actually was during the dream
[14:39:13]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
no way to tell
[14:39:29]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
It was a WEIRD fuckin creature
[14:40:34]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
its tentacles were like lampreys and it was glowy blue, looked like one of those big assed siphonohores tryin to wrap itself around my head
[14:41:52]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompic
[15:16:53]    
hi
[15:18:22]    
thats a nice equinox dream
[15:18:39]    
my equinox dream was odd too

   Well, I didn't tell him my equinox dream. Its because it was a disturbing gender bender one. I dreamed I was a character from one of my favorite anime, Saya from Blood+. She's a vampire hunter queen with a sword. Also I dreamed that we (her assistant Chevalier, Haji, and I) were trapped in a cell deep underground with only candlelight to illuminate our attempts to escape. We were fighting all types of undead, not just vampires. There wasn't any time for food or sex. I was about to surrender to the liche priest when I awoke. It was just 1 hour before the equinox at 6:02 AM CDT. I'm not much of a gamer but my nephews are constantly reminding me about how tough they are whenever I talk to them about Baldur's Gate and other games we used to play together.

   My other dreams during the equinox were last night and they were mostly nature, animals, animal spirits, and sunlight. I woke after midnight concerned about my animal friends and the cats all glommed me after I came downstairs to blog in bed.

Ash, Yew crown, Harvest King, and angel's wings dreams

   Dream diary update. Its been at least 6 weeks since my last entry. That is the desired interval, so that the blogging doesn't interfere with my sleep or rhythms. I just want to use it as sort of an imagination diary, to keep track of new ideas that occur to me in my dreams. It also helps me to focus on my prognostications (my tumblr news analysis blog.) I frequently wake up seemingly knowing things that I probably have no right or reason to know.
   Lately my sleep has been disturbed at night, so I nap at midday. It became more disturbed Monday after 2 of the tomcats didn't come home. Dad assures me that they took up w/ a female cat in heat at the Mexicans' place next door. They stayed away during a cold snap, but they must be getting fed there.
   Today I dropped off twice at midday. First time I woke up and immediately changed the tv to watch Illinois Lawmakers/WSIU interview IL Rep Mike Madigan on environmental concerns he has about the new fracking bill. Then I ate lunch and dropped off again.
   I slept the second time with Swirly kitten while sitting up on the couch. I dreamed that I was in a fiery pit at Mount Pinatubo.

I rose up into the clouds with the ash. While soaring above the clouds, an angel flew up from behind and embraced me. I became aware of her first by seeing her wings enfold me. She drew my neck back with her delicate fingers until I saw her eyes and kissed her. I became aware that others around us were singing "Rise" by Oriya from the anime OP for "Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig."

   I realized that there were more white wings around us. She gestured down and I witnessed the mountain forests growing and unfolding in natural majesty. Gold and Silver oak leaves and red maple flew together on the wind while colorful rainbows cut through the mountain clouds. I became aware of a yew crown atop my head. I realized I was to be the Harvest King this year. Finally I awoke to the sounds of Oriya sighing and the smells of birch or wintergreen. I thought I could still feel angel wings stroking my face, but as my eyes focused I could see that I was just waking in our drab living room..I immediately changed the tv to watch cspan 2 and Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan/CIA over the drone memos.
   Interpretation: I have no idea why I was wearing a fairy crown and not a crown of iron or thorns like I usually do. The only reason why I might've dreamed about a good harvest is that the CME group/Bloomberg business report on @WGNnews today at noon announced that the eastern US is free of drought and now expected to have a bumper crop of corn in 2013. I was nodding off/hypnotized when I heard it. The natural setting reminded me of fractal landscapes. It was much more vivid and colorful a palette than reality.

Anne Hathaway, Fantine, Les Misérables, musical, Gershwin tune, male dancers, catwoman dreams

I had a dream about this last night, even tho I didnt watch the 2012 movie, this is my first time seeing Hathaway sing it, and I ignored the golden globes last night except for checking out Hathaway on twitter in her white dress.

 I make no secret that I consider Hathaway highly attractive, having said so on tumblr & twitter last month when I posted her old desktop image from Princess/Bride/Catwoman..

In addition to this little ditty, my dream lady also sang 2 other dark Gershwin tunes (are their any?) to the accompaniment of some male dancers. I don't feel like trying to figure out which musical elements were Gershwin & which Les Mis since it is really a fragmented dream musical composition. Weird dream. Unexpected, though I suppose it should have been since I consider Hathaway the most attractive woman I looked at Sunday. We'll see if she darkens my wet dreams in the future, with her Madonna singing against the bankster aristocracy in another Gilded Age.

Tarot reading, Killer Whales, freedom, grandmother, Kentucky church, destruction, Climate Change dream

Dream diary update. I know it sounds strange to make a tarot reading in a dream, but that's they only way it happens for me nowadays. I have my decks safely tucked away in the shed. I got tired of having too many dreams about Death and The Devil to practice meditation readings anymore.

   So anyway after another tumultuous night Saturday I fell asleep between 7 pm-10:30 pm, and again from 4 AM-7 AM. As I awoke just before 7 AM this morning (Sunday), a flurry of images from the prior 10 minutes of dreamsleep assailed my consciousness. I immediately turned to my tumblr blog to write about the Hudson Bay killer whales trapped by Climate Change.

   I wrote that I believed now that they were free. The reason I didn't give on tumblr for this fancy was a series of tarot images from my dream. I saw flashes from the Waite deck; "The Sun", "The Moon", "The Stars", and "The World" in conjunction with the ending music from Happy Feet 2, "Under Pressure."

Note that all of the Pixar creatures singing in the number are either whale or orcas food. The meaning of this sequence of trumps preceding "The Stars" suggests that the whale pod are now free together. However, "The World" following "The Stars" suggests that this freedom was achieved through some agency of extinction. Possibly the pod leader, or "grandmother" as Diane Sayer referred to her, sacrificing either herself or other members of the pod for the salvation of All. I believe now that the orcas pod still exists, but that the grandmother leader may have sacrificed herself to save her family from Climate Change disaster. I suspected the same thing as I listened to Diane Sawyer's news read Thursday night, but my dream Tarot reading seemed like confirmation for my suspicians.
   After these images about Climate Change and the lost whales, Next I saw a superposition of Senators Mitch McConnell & Rand Paul together w/ a Kentucky church and the Tarot card "The Tower" reversed. I only found out later that another local church had been destroyed by Climate Change Saturday in Kentucky no doubt somewhat deservedly. KY religious Conservatives have a lot to answer for, not least of which is the actions of their Senators and their coal lobbyists in MountainTop Removal (MTR) pollution murders of children. Since Kentuckians refuse to fund either socialized health care for children or public firefighters, they are lucky no one else was consumed by flames last night. However Kentuckians do fund a lot of Conservative child rapists instead, including murderous school principals and imitation cop-rapists. Remember they are the only state to have murdered a 2010 census worker by public lynching. IMAO They are lucky not to have lost more churches last night.

Green tea, dragon, death maze, walking cane, reanimator dreams

   Dream diary update. I just had a dream where I was a God building a death maze. I floated around backwards through the maze creating death traps and playing tricks on several female deities, specifically Hestia, Sekhmet, and Astarte. After sinking the rest of the humans into slumber I re-animated a medium-sized dragon. Finally the death maze was finished. I could feel the slumbering humans and my reborn dragon rouse themselves to run the maze as I awoke.
   After I woke up I started worrying about the white peacock. Dad hurt himself walking around in the snow looking for the bird yesterday after trying to feed him a dozen times. It seems dad fell through a snow drift and ended up hanging between 2 fallen trees. Perhaps that's why I was dreaming about walking canes last night? Anyway it will take several days for dad to recover. I may be displacing worry about dad's injury on to the bird. No doubt the dragon dream is from drinking Lemon Ginseng Green tea before bed.

Guest Post: My nephew "Dirk Diddly" dreams about me mountain biking & being attacked by giant zombie Van Damme

My nephew had this dream about me this morning, shared via himachi chat log: 

[06:59:45]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
WOAH
[06:59:51]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
weird fuckin dream
[07:00:07]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
I dreamed you and I went to kroger
[07:01:03]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
while we were there, we attracted some kind of evil, we only sensed it slightly there but we all felt kinda strange
[07:05:25]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
See you had lost all the toes on one foot but were entering a mountain biking competition anyway
[07:05:34]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and we were getting supplies
[07:05:35]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
lol
[07:06:11]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
when we got home we sat at gma's table and talked about random crap
[07:06:21]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
but suddenly you said WOAH LOOK AT THAT
[07:06:28]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and we didn't see anything
[07:06:40]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
but then some really really odd music started playing
[07:06:49]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and I saw kroger parking lot
[07:06:58]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and a GIANT FUCKIN ZOMBIE was coming out of it
[07:07:21]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
they had firefighters and shit trying to stop it but it swiped em away
[07:07:36]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and we all knew it was coming for us
[07:08:39]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
Then a virus scan window popped up in my head and demanded a bunch of shit removed
[07:08:42]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and I woke up
[07:08:55]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
and now joe wants me to go to kroger
[07:14:48]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
I think the zombie was Jean-Claude Van Damme
[07:15:05]     [25.237.132.57 / 2620:9b::19ed:8439 - Dirk Diddly]
A giant zombie Jean-Claude Van Damme came after us

Dream Interpretation: In context, I had asked my nephew to look out for canned cat food on sale at Kroger for our ailing cat Sticky.  So that's probably why he was dreaming about Kroger parking lot. The "mountain biking and missing toes" dream sequence about me pertains to how when he was growing up I was a fitness nut with a revoked IL drivers license, so I mountain biked everywhere. Whenever he saw me I would be peeling off my socks and jokingly complained to him that I would probably lose some toes this time after having exercised for 3 hours and biking 24 miles to see them. It was my idea of a breaking the ice joke tradition, and it also served to remind my paraplegic nephew to be aware of his toes. The 'Van Damme' and 'viruscan' dream elements are other things that I had introduced him to while growing up.
   My own dreams lately have been interesting and peaceful. Ive had maybe 2 nights of dreaming about outer space and meteor showers, several nights of dreaming about being a forest god, and one or 2 nights as a druid high priest and a hermaphrodite. Standard stuff for me. Its actually surprising that I haven't had more dreams about fighting demons and beating the crap out of things. I usually have regular dreams about my martial arts training and boxing, but no. I will probably lose my next fight from getting soft.