1. Preparing the Temple
Half a circle of people, listening to someone, museum, courtyard, wall on the left. Different groups present are student organizations, maybe to conclude the year.
The first room is full. The place is full with academics, students, and Wiccan people. One of those is Else, who is a priestess of Freyja.
Lunch break. Before I did not help at the conference. And now I have to go to the temple and I fear that I will have to help arranging the room. There are two adjacent rooms, but the temple room is an upper room, like a dais, but the difference in level is maybe two meters. This whole thing is an upper store. The entrance is below and on the left. The street outside is on the left. This is in a city. In the dream, I've been here before.
Before lunch we used this lower room, now we will be using the other one, more reds, and curtains to veil it from view, but they are open now. Chairs, black plastic ones. There are a lot of chairs and also tables.
I am the only one left there, the rest will be back later.
There were some discussions going on that I overheard or was part of, by different groups, all distinguished middle aged men in suits. Different topics, among which Ancient Rome.
At the end some one of them says something about the Fenekes (Feneken). Of course this refers to the Phoenician people. And at the same time to the phoenix. They all go outside.
For some reason, I don't get myself to clean up the place. I stall it the whole time. And so time goes by and eventually, everyone comes back, first the people who have to set up the temple, such as Else, and I am relieved that the time has flown past so that I don't have to do my bit.
There is also something about asking ten questions, and books about Old something maybe Raven.
There is also a misunderstanding or misinterpretation about the fact that I want one, more than one or none. I was looking at a stack of bibles. Green, big ones, hardback, I knew they would be there. And someone, the lady that sells them, table as a stall, puts one in my hand and says that that is the one I ordered and whether I don't need more. But I don't need the one even. I cannot return that one politely, so I keep it. I will have to pay of course. I am a bit angry because of this, I can't talk myself out of it. This is about one particular translation of the bible, and apparently, I might have said in the past that this is something I should really have.
Later, back in the room. A show starts. This is at the far left corner of the lower room, at a table for four persons. I sit there by accident. Two women sit down and suddenly start a piece of theater. I am in the middle of it. It is Brasserie Romantiek. Veerle Baetens is there and says her text. She is red headed, she also looks like Mi of the coffee bar down the street by our shop.
I start to tense up, because I have a feeling this will get a little embarrassing, because people will now expect me to play along, and I don't have the text with me, neither do I remember. And I know the piece, and I know I had the text, too. But I can't remember it at all. For a long time I say nothing, and let the two of them do the talking, but I realize that at a given point I will have to join, because people will think it is funny otherwise, if I am in the scene. Like Thuis, or something. In the end I say a little, but I am not very certain and I don't speak a lot and not loud and try to forget it immediately after.
Before that, but I don't know exactly when, I dreamed of a goldfish that needed rescue, one in someone's house. One fish. In the attic.
I do have books and magazines with a goldfish on the cover. Blue cover, you almost don't see the fish, but it is there. I am considering using this to solve the problem, but this will not work (can't read notes perfectly why not).
2. Travel Guides for Indonesia
Maybe an earlier dream, maybe the same dream.
Indonesia, travel guides. Someone buys them. These people will visit that place. I sit with them at the table.
Maybe this was the beginning of the dream.
I think we discussed Indonesia, like whether I visited this or that place and when and I had to admit that I've been there only twice and a long time ago, and mostly the same places.
Residue.
ReplyDeleteDream 1. This bible thing seems like a residue from work? Also is residue of seeing a green bible, not Belgian but Dutch, at home of parents, and decided to keep it, because of otherness.
Dream 2. I think I saw someone buy travel guides for Indonesia yesterday, and I wondered whether I should say something, but I did not because I can't recommend anything. Even if I have family living there, I don't know the place.
Interpretation.
Dream 2. Saving a fish is something that Bale used to speak of, she dreamed that quite a lot when we were first together, as students, long time ago.
The latter part with the discussion between the actress and the other one with me stuck in the middle, reminds me of what happened today, when my boss asked me if I knew anything about the return of comic books which I would have prepared, I said that Frre would have done that and he said she said that I had done it. I remembered the case clearly, and I spoke firmly, but it could not be confirmed nor denied and in the end it is still a mystery, because the return box is gone, but I know my part in all this very well. Digr reacted immediately to this kind of situation, a little angry, because that is typically something he does not like, pointing fingers at each other. In fact, I remembered well, because the time before I did not remember things at all, so this time I made sure. But somehow Frre and the upstairs crew messed up. I can't keep an eye on everything, can I. Also, I was not familiar with the procedure.
The piece before, about wasting time so as not to work, might reflect my current attitude at work, still I work hard.
The first part of this dream might also be a Hall of Learning or of Wisdom. Or it might be connected to my attempt to set up a rune study group.