It's been a very, very long time since I've posted a dream. For a while it felt as though the dreams would never come back. But finally, finally I had some last night! Two of them, actually, because I remember waking up after the first one - it was around 2:00 am. The second one was much later, and yet both of them were somewhat related.
I am at some fitness camp, and I appear to be the only woman there. Gender is disregarded, and we are all wakened up very early in the morning and out running through beautiful forest trails. It is early fall, with the trees all shades of green, yellow, orange, and red. Some of them have already shed all leaves, and these crunch beneath our pounding feet. I feel so alive!
Suddenly, as we go around the corner, I see something utterly amazing - a very large lake, so clear it looks as though it's not even there. Not a tinge of blue or green, just this crystal clear water that on the surface is catching the dappled golden sunlight and reflecting it like diamonds. We all begin to shed our clothes and joyously jump into the lake. But this is no fun romp. The swimming begins in earnest as we strike out on this next lap of the physical endurance. I keep close to the shore, not being all that confident of my own stamina and strength. It's so easy to see how the shelves of earth and stone shelves progress beneath the water, and I make sure I keep close to where I can easily step onto one.
The water feels amazingly cool and warm at the same time, buoyant and yielding, and I find I'm slicing through it without any effort. And doing so, I swim towards consciousness and wake up.
The second dream starts with me being in a dormitory setting with about three other women. This is I immediately sense that we are part of a theatre troupe. I also sense that there has been a spat between two of the women the night before, and the tension is still quite strong. Nevertheless, we all talk, as only a group of women will, and things are smoothed over. Our first task is to go to the gym for a workout, and I choose to run around the gym this day. I find my stride, and soon lose myself in the rhythm.
Dream shifts and blurs, and now I find myself with not only my roommates, but others of the troupe, in Wardrobe (where else!?) being fitted out with our costumes - beautiful shimmery silk saris. We become a virtual rainbow of jewel tones - emerald green, ruby red, sapphire blue, royal purple, soft violet, rose pink, and tangerine orange, which is what I am wearing.
I recognize the significance of that colour and tell the girl next to me that I have had previous dreams of me wearing this colour. I even tell her exactly the dreams as I deftly wrap the beautiful fabric about me, expertly pleating it in front and sensually draping it across my left shoulder. I can't get enough of the feeling of raw silk flowing through my fingers, and it is with that sensation that I wake up to see the morning sun tugging at my eyelids.
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