Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Weird Dreams
This holiday has been pretty stressed out in many ways. The other night I had a pretty odd dream. As in most of my dreams, it goes in short, semi-related episodes. Here's what I can remember.
It started on a space station of some kind. There was a breech in one of the windows and my space suit was several rooms away contrary to SOP. I could feel the panic of not knowing if I could get to me suit before I suffocated. I did manage to get into a suit before the air was gone, but I don't think it was mine.
I was being interviewed for a job and the question of religion came up. I answered that I wasn't very religious and didn't believe in god. After the interview was over, I stayed worried that perhaps I would lose my job over these negative religious feelings.
Somehow I knew that earth had been surreptitiously invaded and "they" were among us. They being canine-people. (For some reason, dog never came to mind in this dream, only canine.) At one time, when I was in my office, one of them came in and leaned on my desk with dog paws believing I was in the know as to who they really were. It seemed they could mask themselves as human. One other time I was in a store when someone walked in. As soon as the stranger walked in all the other people in the store began to act like crazy dogs. I'm not quite sure why some times they would mask themselves as dogs and at other times as humans.
It turned out the religion question had been to determine my possible status as one who could be trusted to work with them. Making me a quisling of a sorts, I guess. The idea being that if I didn't believe in god, I wouldn't have quite too much trouble dealing with leadership who were doglike pagans, instead of human.
When I look at all the little bits, it seems that we were in space at this time and there was a secret invasion of canine appearing aliens who could mask themselves as humans and needed humans to do their work. It seemed I had no problem accepting that - which I suppose is good and bad - and became one of their loyal minions.
I can see some of the stress with the past weeks in this. Job security, new leadership of the country, religious holidays, emergency response and management, and noisy next door dogs all blend into this mess.
