Stabbing Dream

Last night I had a dream that I was in the desert with Amber, stranded in a dry sand storm with the faintest hint of a ruling castle in the distance. At some point, a dark figure approach me and there was a struggle, after which I was stabbed at the top of my left thigh, right about where my front pocket would be. As I write this I can still feel a real burning sensation in that area of my leg.

After being stabbed, Amber and I were left alone in the dunes, and huddled in a large burlap sack. I expected to die and had plans to just wait out my death. At the very last moment, I regained my will to live and I got up to start walking towards the castle, Amber following behind.

Very shortly we came across a lively modern carnival, and immediately I went to the medical facilities on the premises. I walked up to a counter and said “I’ve been stabbed”. The woman working the counter gasped a bit, and had a man take me to a back room where he inspected my wound. It was smaller than I imagined, not bleeding, though deeply infected and full of yellow chunks like couch cushion stuffing.

After I was bandaged, Amber and I walked out of the carnival, where she asked the woman guarding the entrance for a hair tie. The woman said “You’re the seventh person who’s asked for a rubber band”. The woman had her son run back into the shack and fetch one. As we walked out into the street with the crowd, I noticed rapidly generating cloud formations that were shaped like bird footprints in the sand. Then I noticed large ice crystals falling from the sky. The word “chemtrails” hushed among the crowd. I picked up one of the contaminated crystals, and saw that they weren’t just solid ice but actually small branches with barely fruited blossoms and large decorative seeds completely covered in frozen crystals.

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  1. tim boucher says:

    Chemtrails:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Rain’s_a-Gonna_Fall

    Wound in thigh:

    The Fisher King or the Wounded King figures in Arthurian legend as the latest in a line charged with keeping the Holy Grail. Versions of his story vary widely, but he is always wounded in the legs or groin, and incapable of moving on his own. When he is injured, his kingdom suffers as he does, his impotence affecting the fertility of the land and reducing it to a barren Wasteland. Little is left for him to do but fish in the river near his castle Corbenic. Knights travel from many lands to heal the Fisher King but only the chosen can accomplish the feat. This is Percival in the earlier stories; in the later versions Percival is joined by Galahad and Bors.

    Confusingly, many works have two wounded Grail Kings who live in the same castle, a father (or grandfather) and son. The more seriously wounded father stays in the castle, sustained by the Grail alone, while the more active son can meet with guests and go fishing. For simplicity, the father will be called the Wounded King, the son the Fisher King where both appear in the remainder of this article.

  2. admin says:

    (Gen 32:22-31 NRSV) The same night he got up and took his
    two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and
    crossed the ford of the Jabbok. {23} He took them and sent
    them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
    {24} Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until
    daybreak. {25} When the man saw that he did not prevail
    against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s
    hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. {26} Then
    he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob
    said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” {27} So
    he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
    {28} Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob,
    but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans,
    and have prevailed.” {29} Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell
    me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?”
    And there he blessed him. {30} So Jacob called the place
    Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my
    life is preserved.” {31} The sun rose upon him as he passed
    Penuel, limping because of his hip. {32} Therefore to this
    day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the
    hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the
    thigh muscle.

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