Author: bonniemitsch

I am with Deb and Margie. We are riding on a garbage truck. We get off, but need to get back on. (we get on and off the back of the truck). We then get on a large, fancy garbage truck that is like a ferry. We look around. We have our suitcases with us. We go into one room and see a display of pictures of sea animals from San Diego on the wall. Margi has these stones and we try to read her Tarot, but we can’t. There isn’t a book and the stones are not cards!

We are on our way to Siren, Wisconsin. I give Margi and Deb these little, rubber bands for their hair. A couple of girls give us some wrapped presents. We go to dinner. There are a lot of people. I see Ted Middleton. He is young (early 20’s) and I am also. We are nude. We sit in the hallway to the dining room. The other people are not comfortable about us being nude. We are not. Ted and I go into a bedroom. We talk and then sleep. In the morning We touch a bit. I ask him questions about what he does now. I can visualize what he tells me. It is very sweet.

Ted Middleton dreams are a series. I am not sure what they represent. I had a very strong crush on Ted when I was 19 and really until I was 40. It was not reciprocal. Later, when I got together with him, I realized that he would not be a good match for me and that he made everyone feel special. I didn’t really know him.

I had a lot of short dreams last night. One of them is with Dee and Ed. This is the 3rd time they have come into my dreams.

I am in a small “Roman” bath with Dee and then Ed joins us. We are all nude. Dee gets up and grabs a towel and starts to get out of the bath. I do not have a towel. This feels like the bath belongs to Dee and Ed. Dee gets me a towel. I am younger and feel good about my body. I do not feel self conscious getting out of the water where Ed can see me nude.

This is the third Dream I have had in March with Dee and Ed in it. The first dream was: How Did the Bridge Get There? The second dream was: The Canoes. I worked these three dreams with Kathleen and Shaney. This is what I wrote and I will summarize ideas I got from Kathleen and Shaney.

If this were my dream, I am with Dee and Ed, my positive feminine and masculine energies. I feel I can trust them completely. I am to stay at their casita, a small house in the backyard of their place. A house can represent my psyche. In a casita there is usually just one room other than the bathroom. It is a guest house. Dee, my feminine, is pointing out a bridge behind the casita in the woods and she doesn’t know how it got there. A bridge connects one side to another and usually goes over an obstacle. This bridge doesn’t do that. It runs parallel to the back of the casita and then has two short sides. It is about 4 feet above the ground. It does have a railing, but now stairs. It is made of wood. The bridge (Shaney) may represent a connection from my old life now to a new life, but it is in transition and is not complete and it is above the ground, so it could represent having some perspective. Dee says she cleans the casita periodically though in the dream it seems clean enough. Do I need some cleaning out of some old beliefs/complexes?

The second dream has two canoes. These could represent Paul and I. Dee and Ed have put them on the other side of the lake. The goal is to get to the canoes, but it is a challenge. We are on the other side from the canoes. We are first driving on a rough road, then Paul and I have trouble breathing and finally, we have to swim across the lake to get to the canoes. Canoes are self propelled-no motors. The one in the back steers. They are vehicles used on water usually for recreation, but now a necessity? The canoe could not represent a necessity to deal with emotions (water) and that I have to do more and more of the steering. However, I have support (Dee, Ed, and my unknown woman (guide?)

The part in the dream when the masseuse starts to touch my private parts brought up how I feel now about telling people about Paul’s memory issues. It is a private subject for him as well as me. I feel a bit like I am betraying his privacy when I have to tell, for instance, the dentist he went to last week, that he has memory issues and can’t answer his questions.

Swimming across the lake is even more of an effort to move through the water-very self-propelled. It is one stroke at a time.

Lastly, I am in a Roman bath with Dee and Ed. In waking life, a Roman bath is a communal experience. A bath is a cleansing as well as a relaxation. We are all nude. I feel very comfortable in my body and do not feel awkward being nude with Dee and Ed. This feels very freeing.

Shaney brought up that all three dreams have water in them: a shower, a lake and a bath. To do with emotions? Cleansing? Kathleen felt that the bath was womb-like-a rebirth? The expression, Not out of the woods yet, goes with the first dream with the bridge in the woods. I came up with the idea of moving full time to AZ and buy a place with a casita so we could have a live in person help me with Paul as his dementia worsens. I think this dream came first.

Paul and I are younger. We drive to a place in the Minnetonka Lake area. Paul is driving. The clouds are beautiful. They “shoot light” from their tops. I try to get a photo, but cannot. We get to a person’s house to pick up something from the guy’s father that Paul knew in the past. It is made of cloth, but I don’t know what it is. The guy knows who Paul is. We stay for awhile. The guy, years ago, when he was in Bali was bitten on the face by a shark. He has a scare. A woman is around. She rolls across the floor for her exercise. The guy’s wife is around and is nice.

Then I see a small dog and a girl about 12-13 years old. I recognize the dog from my previous dream where I was working at a school and the dog was there. The girl explains that the dog belongs to a guy who is out of town and she/they are taking care of it. I feel sorry for the dog. It is a sweet dog.

Then Paul is gone. It is night. I go outside and look for the car and it is gone. Everyone runs around, looking for a phone to call him. I look in my purse and I do not have my cell phone. Someone does and calls Paul. He comes back. I tell the man with the shark bite that Paul has memory issues. Paul is driving a convertible and has put the top down.

We drive awaay and then stop in Mound. We see these garish, run down apartments that are about 3-4 stories high. We stop at a party There is a guy’s daughter who made and plays this instrument that has these white tubes. I go to look for Paul. Again he is gone. Tow guys come and start to rape me. I wake up. A nightmare!