The dreamer is as in a darkened audience, viewing what appears to be myself (my male self) onstage, literally bathed in light all around, so much that the inner contrast of the figure is that of only light and darkness, rather than as a person with normal skin tone standing on a stage in a spotlight..

The figure onstage is looking as if directly to the dreamer, who is clearly in the darkness of where the audience would be seated, about mid-center, perhaps "10 rows" deep, maybe 20'–30' or so from the speaker figure onstage, who seems rather friendly, and appears to be inviting the dreamer (in the audience) to join him up on stage.

This dream / (astral?) vision/experience occurred at some point near before / around 7:AM. As it's presently after 9:35 AM (local) time as I'm writing this, there has been some "evaporation" as to what was actually "said" between the figure onstage and the dreamer in the audience, however, it was very much like a direct (spoken) invitation to the dreamer to come up onstage.

*IF* I recall correctly, the dreamer was replying something to the effect that [it's your show and I don't want to intrude] but again, IF I recall correctly, the dreamer was getting up to head left, possibly as if to exit the seating area, possibly to get a closer view, possibly in actual consideration of coming up onstage. Clarity *very well lit!* but otherwise around 9±.

There was another dream before this one--- trying to draw it out of the evaporation—

Ah yes... a few days ago (possibly yesterday? the day before?) in real life (IRL) I was sitting here at my laptop, when I thought I heard my elderly mother (92+) call me from her bedroom where she'd been napping— "Rich?"

It had a peculiar sound to the tune that I was preparing myself for the possibility that something eventful may have happened. When I approached her door, I could see she was sleeping with the deep, regular breathing of someone sleeping soundly. Later that same day, a second sound caught my attention, although at this writing the definition of what it was or may have been escapes my recall, other than again, I thought it was something from her, although it turned out that such was not the case "in the world of the waking / living."

The reason I mention this is because it *may* have something to do with the nature of the dream that I *nearly* forgot from last night, likely between 2 AM and 6 AM: The dreamer was in the presence of a number of people, having mainly a type of "professional" yet "personal" / family-like connection, as if some of them may have been rather wealthy or generally successful individuals, very care-free, no noticeable stress. And although I (the mind within the dreamer) did not identify any of them by name (or in correlation with anyone in particular from my personal youth / past) it could well have been that they were some of the coworkers / bosses / employers of my mother from back in the day when she worked at Courier Printing Company. There also seemed to be an arrival of even more people in addition to those who were already present. It "felt" as if they were all (as the ghosts of) "entities past" coming to gather on behalf of my mother. Whether as in celebration of her life on earth, or to welcome her into the world hereafter, that's another issue. Clarity ?