Last night I had the strangest dream
I sailed away to China
In a little row boat to find ya'
And you said you had to get your laundry cleaned
Didn't want no-one to hold you
What does that mean?..... Matthew Wilder

I dreamt that I had my babies, and they were healthy and happy and I was learning how to nurse them. But then Sean turned into my cat, Tituba, only she was also still my baby. I guess it's cause my subconscious doesn't quite know what to do with the new input of being a mom to something other than a kitty. But it was interesting, to say the least.

Very vivid dreams are always intriguing-- some people think they don't have dreams, but you do, you just don't remember them. For years, I've been considered one of those people that others like to tell your dreams to, for some reason. I don't even necessarily tell anyone else that I am good at dream symbols-- they just start to tell me a dream and say "I don't know why I told you that" but many times, my helping them sort through the symbolism has been helpful for them.

I read Tarot cards, (not in an "I'm psychic" way, but in a "let's interpret symbols and see what you think it is" sort of guided-therapy way) and so I suppose some folks think because of that I can do dreams too. I'm actually not bad at it. As a literature major who specializes in fairy tale and myth and magic, I know a lot about symbols and what they traditionally mean. But really, what YOU think they mean is usually even more important than what any dream interpretation book says it means. There is no real "fortune telling" to it-- it's just helping you figure out what your subconscious meant with the symbols. Cause you really do know what the dream meant, on some level, you just have to think about it and know how to read the symbols.

Have you ever had a flying dream? They're supposed to be astral traveling. All I know is they're really cool to have. You wake up and you just want to keep dreaming. Andrew says he has them sometimes, and in them he's very wobbly and out of control, like the guy in Greatest American Hero (remember that show?) I can see that in him-- he's a dreamer, like me, but he doesn't quite feel in control of it. I can do magic in dreams, sometimes, too, and I love those dreams. It's like reading a great book and really becoming immersed in that world, only better.

I have had a few dreams that one could argue were prophetic. When I was about 16 I dreamt that I saw this kid get run over by a car in a parking lot. Watching the news later that night I found out that indeed, this young person had been killed in a parking lot nearby. A number of the details of my dream matched what had happened. So that was weird as hell. I also dreamt about a plane falling from the sky (what was really bizarre about it was that there were hundreds of scorched teddy bears falling from the wreckage) about a week before a plane crashed (years ago). That one was really scary, and I hope to never have that happen again! Again, I'm not saying I'm psychic or anything-- not in the least.

I guess if I'm anything, it's a believer in Jungian ideas about the collective unconscious and that one can sort of "tap in" to energy that runs the universe and sometimes that means you see or imagine things that are real. It's not an established philosophy so much as a gut feeling, but I dunno. It's just hard to ignore when you have had a few things "odd" happen to you in your life, and you can't explain them. As Hamlet says: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5.

So there. A dream about babies turning into little black kitties and falling out of their nappies. And me holding them both and trying to figure out what to do. They were dressed in butter yellow and lavender, like their nursery colors, so now I know which is supposed to go with which baby (Sean is the lavender, Maia the soft yellow).

It doesn't take a genius to figure that dream out. But it is kind of cool, cause it's the first time I've dreamt where both babies were there and I was figuring out the whole being a mommy thing. I know the blog has been obsessed with this lately, and it's really hard to write something other than that. If you bear with me, I'm sure I'll be writing about more thought-provoking things soon. :)