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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 2718103" data-attributes="member: 1025">Well, that big storm system blew over us last night. Now I know this is not a "storm" in the sense that anybody with real weather would call a storm. "Mild drizzle, with fog" is about what I would have called it, had I been awake.But these weather systems that move in off the Pacific always bring pressure changes that cause strange dreams in those of us suceptible to such things.I had a large bouquet of nightmares last night, ranging from ebola on the new Battlestar Galactica kills pretty much everybody, to one about needing to file lions. ("File" as in I'm a records manager and I'm in charage of rounding up all the unlabelled adult male African lions running loose around my office and getting them indexed and put away in thier proper filing cabinets.) That sort of nonsense--you get the idea.Anyway, after a hideous night of about five of these--and several incidents of waking up sweating and gasping-- I staggered in to see the Scampering Chaos this morning. She says to me: "Mom, I think this dreamcatcher needs new batteries." "Did you have nightmares?" I asked her."No, but I had one really weird dream," she says. I had a sudden image of the poor charm hanging there bulging at the strings trying to hold back what blew through our house last night.She describes how things went from strange to bizarre, and then just as they were about to get scary, the dream ended. " . . . And that's when it must have started working again," she concluded."In that case," I replied, "it's probably working just fine, and probably doesn't need new batteries. I'll bet it worked pretty hard last night."She leaned over  "It doesn't actually have batteries, Mom," she whispered, "I was just sayin'.""I knew what you meant," I replied, amused both by her imagery and by her literalness.In any case, my batteries are all fueled up with images to shake the soul now, so I'm ready for posting images anytime. Four or five picture beads, and a web of gut . . . let's just see what dreams dare come.</blockquote>

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