.......digital friendships

i do not feel very creative today.. none the less... i do want to write out this story for a precious friend of mine... LinBow... my favorite hippie... and author of one of my favorte books..... The LinBow Expericance .... give it a read.... you might just no be able to put the book down..

OK... now... about our dreams.... the world we love to visit and talk to yourselves... a place where we make sense of the matters that move in and out of our precious world...

this is a story once told to me by a very wonderful women... a doctor a UCLA... involved in male... female differences.. the audio tiggered mind and the visual tiggered mind.. a truely outstanding individual...

She was speaking to a group of individuals interested in her reseach... and asked this question of them... what thoughts are triggered when you think of a strawberry... well... like all of us... thoughts around taste and texture.. color and freshness... and the sort..

as she was getting this feed back from the small group... she noticed a shy young lady with tears in her eyes... tears streaming down her cheeks... now.. just how can the thoughts of a strawberry bring tears to someone.. she must be hurting for another reason... it is now that the tears have found their way to expression...

the young lady answered... when i see or hear about a strawberry... i can not help but cry... why... the doctor asked her...

when i was but fifteen... i worked for a farmer picking strawberries.. and he raped me in a field of strawberries... now this is all i know about strawberries.... the pain of rape... (this brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.. never mind the write...)

so here is the teach.... yes.. things.. people and events that pass through our lives are symbols.. not words... we use words to communicate with others... but with ourshelves we use symbols...

for this shy young lady.. strawberries will always remain a symbol of pain... and in her dreams... when she needs to talk to herself on a matter that comes into the realm simlar to the events of the strawberrie farmer force.... it will be stawberries that will drift through the dream...

i would say.. when ever she finds herself in a place in life where something is a strong force.. even at the smallest level.. outside of her own free will... something bad...she will have strawberrie nighmares...

this is somewhat simplistic for such a major event... but simple is where one always starts and where one always want to get too.. there of course would be a number of deep symbols printed into her mind from this even... like the mans eyes... this will be a drift through the nightmare and i can go on...

there you have it.. symbols not words pass through our dreams... learn your symbols... and you can understand your dreams.. nightmares included...