I’m trying something new using the bullets to identify the actual dream and then the reflections are left justified. I’m hoping that it’s easier to read.

• In the first one I’m chopping up cilantro that is covered in tomato paste and it’s making a mess and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger

It’s from the about cleaning up something and not worrying about who’s responsibility it is to do so. It’s about working as a team instead of the “who is the top dog” mentality. Also owning the saying – if I’m not part of the solution, I’m part of the problem.

• In the next one we’re (I don’t recall anyone specifically – just a lot of people) at a camp and we have a lot of music we’re going to perform. At this point in time I’m stressing out about getting all of the music learned, we’ve had the music for about 3 or 4 days, when we get together to pass out the music folders to keep it organized. The folders are pink and … half the normal height. Not like any folders I’ve ever seen. And someone has a schedule for the learning curve. I look at them and wonder why didn’t they tell us that in the first place and realize how simple it is if we can do it that way. There isn’t any reason to stress. It seems like there is more to this dream that is on the edge of my consciousness – but I don’t seem to be going there at this time.

This one is fairly obvious to me in that I have a tendency to want to do it all yesterday and I get stressed when things aren’t coming together when I “think” that they should. It’s all part of the trust that even though things are not clear right now and some things need to shift – it’s all in the music and I’ll get it learned in the proper order. Just like there are a couple of different ways to learn a piece for performance – so is there a plan for life. The trick is to know and trust my own style – not someone else’s.

• In this one there was a picture reference where I am trying to get a picture to look a certain way and it is from one place and I want a different one and I keep trying to get to the one i want.

I think this is another way of saying the same thing as the last dream as well as being able to re-frame how I see things and look at or for the original issue if there is a problem. When I go to the source I can change it all.

• In this last one my grandmother was choking on a mint and she coughs it up but when I get over to her head is severed and laying on a pillow but she’s still alive. I can see the bottom of her neck and I’m kind of surprised that it looks like it has … cellophane covering the bottom of it to hold all of the blood and other contents in. I also know that we’re just going to put her head back on. I’m talking to her and she’s smiling – she thinks it’s kind of funny the way this happened – like she coughed her head off????? I’m surprised that she is here – I know that she is dead and I’m trying to figure out what is happening.

OK so this one has me a little stumped. I’m not sure what, if anything, she is trying to tell me. I realized that yesterday I actually “learned” to whistle the way my daddy used to. I say learned because one of the boys was trying to do it and I was showing them the technique and it actually worked. It’s also incredibly loud and shrill. I was really tickled since it had been years since I had tried to even do that. Maybe that’s all it is