9:40 AM 5/12/2021
Need to start up with a few from the past few nights, just now making their way to the journal here:

Starting with:
The "Root" of the Bible: What very little I can recall of this (and that's all I was able to recall) had to deal with a view of a root at the surface of the ground, not unlike how a pine tree root may cause an issue for a lawn mower, but— this root was yellowish-whitish in appearance, basically "root colored," and there was some type of narration regarding "the root of the Bible" being John 3:16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Well, that may well be considered the "root" by many, but the *summation* point of ALL the Bible, of ALL knowledge, as best I can determine from my perspective, is Matthew 5:44, where Jesus teaches us to "Love thine enemies." After all, Love creates Unity (tinyurl.com/ITTA-Topic-Ud) whereas NOT love (such as hatred) increases duality. After all, lovers love lovers AND haters, because that's what lovers do; haters hate lovers AND haters, because that's what haters do. Such is the binary nature of the Universe. Tinyurl.com/ITTA-BooleanMonotheism — I *suspect* this perspective is what brought about the "root" scene. After all, everyone has a "different perspective."

There was *some slight* activity "above" this root, a sense of motion regarding a left-right shift in perspective, possibly some oscillation, however, the view departed upward to the right.

10:03 AM 5/12/2021
car trip uphill to find location
frustration inside office trying to find working phone (and how to operate it)
finding some "mini checks" (about 4)

strange "series 4-valve trumpet-conglomeration"
game of improv
game of herding
packet of orthodontic rubberbands.

car trip uphill to find location: The dreamer is driving (left hand side) up a rather steep hill (nearly 40°!) and actually uses the accellerator pedal to gun the (internal combustion) engine so as to more directly reach the top. The dreamer is looking for a business, but sees a type of housing complex atop the hill, not unlike an apartment complex. Still, sometimes such complexes contain businesses, especially "home" type businesses. The dreamer seems to have an idea of calling another person for a precise address, but the action moves into the next scene:

frustration inside office trying to find working phone (and how to operate it): Action takes place inside a set of conjoined rooms, like an office suite, but more with that feeling of an apartment complex-turned-workplace. There was a series of at least 3 different telephones having a type of "initiation button," where the button was pressed to turn the phone "on" or "off", *rather* than the selection of different phone lines like in the 1970s/80s type office phones. The dreamer was having trouble understanding how to operate the phone, and tried at least 3 different phones waiting to hear a dialtone. (It's possible that these may have been "digital phones" like today's VoIP systems and didn't actually use *any* dialtone.)

finding some "mini checks" (about 4): the search for a working phone seemed to "give way" to the discovery of some "mini-checks" (best way I know how to discribe them) being roughly 3/4" in length (1" max) by maybe ½" to 5/8ths" and barely thicker than a sheet of paper, more like a piece of plastic. At any rate, they seemed to be checks designed for writing / assigning disbursement of funds. There was some slight maternal element involved in this scene, possibly as part of a last will or possibly the mother was the boss in the office in charge of payroll (?) No idea.

11:04 AM 5/12/2021
strange "series 4-valve trumpet-conglomeration": A typical (modern) trumpet has 3 valves, and with these 3 valves, can play any of the 12 half-steps (11+octave, making a full, "chromatic" scale) necessary in order to play along with any (classical, traditional) musical work. However—

In this dream, the scale was not 12 half-steps, but 16 intervals (15+octave) and to play this scale required a FOUR-valve trumpet, likely based upon the binary / octal arrangement of:
0000 (all valves open) 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 (that's 8)
1001 1010 1011 1100 1101 1110 1111 (that's 15, +0000 = the octave.)
And yes, I heard an octave scale played using 16 half-steps.

But that wasn't the "odd" part: What was "odd" was the "amplification" of sorts, achieved by linking 4 of these trumpets together, such that something akin to:
lleb>vvvv+vvvv+vvvv+vvvv<eceiphtuom (mouthpiece>linked+horns>bell) produced a 4-horn instrument (theoretically) playable by one person. And although this next bit wasn't *quite* as clear, I had the impression there was a *twin* horn beside it, such that the view was something akin to this:
lleb>====<seceiphtuom (mouthpieces>linked+horns (beside each other)>bells)

About the only thing that comes to mind in this regard is if somehow it represents a) a new scale of music (16 tones) or b) a new form of computer (possibly a type of quantum computer, but why so many processors seems a mystery. Sure, linking together chips in a network leads to "faster / stronger" computer power, but....?)

game of improv: There were a few youth (highschool, likely) involved in a type of "game" where anyone could pick any subject and start an improvisation. The only thing being, that those watching could ask the actor any question that comes to mind regarding the improvisation. In an example given, a guy picks up a newspaper and starts reading it aloud while walking forward. This generated a follow-up session of the observers asking questions regarding a) why the person chose to do that act (because it was simply how the Spirit moved him) and b) questions about the story / article / whatever was just read aloud.

The dreamer (camera perspective) wasn't too much concerned over the content of the article, but was feeling anticipation mixed with anxiety over possibly going "next."

game of herding: a group of youth (possibly high school) were in two "bands" (or "teams," if you will) such that one group (the outer perimeter) was "herding up" the other group (the inner core, all seated together.) The outer group was running around, as if they were assassins, randomly picking at members seated in the core. The dreamer was seated on the ground in the core and felt a gentle prod, as if with a dowl, or possibly even a thumb, about the area of the right rear kidney, possibly a tad higher, as the dreamer was sitting at the time. The "tag line" was akin to "tag, you're dead," but the dreamer regarded this as a game and merely sat and watched a moment more before the dream ended. There was the observation that the "prod" was as if a small, smooth, thumb/dowel (or see awl) was like a darkened shape, but again, it was a prod *rather* than a puncture, and as such, *did NOT enter* the body of the dreamer, but rather, retreated as the youth moved on.

I get the impression that this is analogous to "He shall come again in glory to judge between the quick (living) and the dead," but that is "human" dogma. Jesus teaches us in biblehub.com/matthew/10-31.htm (Matthew 10:31) to "Fear NOT" and in biblehub.com/matthew/7-1.htm (Matt 7:1) to "Judge NOT".

But I digress....

packet of orthodontic rubber bands: The dreamer is in a *dark* area, much like the front row in a movie theater, with rows of seats going further back (toward the rear of the theater, away from the screen.) One of the people there has an aged, robin-egg blue packet, maybe just larger than the typical yellow packet handed out by orthodontists to kids who have braces, maybe 3"x5", and it's full of orthodontic-type (oral) rubber bands, only these are slightly larger than typical oral rubber bands. There is some discussion with someone there that these (allegedly) belonged to (the late) James (Jim) Vining, the maternal grandfather of my youngest 3 children (IRL) — [NOTE: of those 3 children, only the eldest, Logan, had a DNA test which indicated he is my biological son. However, there is no cause to doubt the parentage of the other two. Someday, hopefully, after they reach 18, they'll seek & find and come visit me ♥.]

11:50 AM 5/12/2021

11:03 AM 5/13/2021 Thursday: Cracking the Bank

Car in front yard right side, gravel driveway on left, dad on front porch:

The dreamer was driving (left hand drive vehicle) and pulling into a yard (on the RIGHT side of the lot, whereas a gravel driveway was on the LEFT side!) where roughly a foot of snow was on the ground. The dreamer had a very clear thought (as if talking to the passenger, but it seemed more like thought than speech, as if thinking to oneself) that [the roughness of the yard would improve the traction beneath the tires in this snow.] However, the dreamer's father was out on the front porch (looking like my dad must've looked like in his 30s) and said (and possibly motioned) to park on the left (in the gravel driveway.) While the dreamer was "wont to do so" <just using that particular expression because it "feels good" typing it, not because it was actually stated grammatically within the dream> he "obediently" did as requested, and began to back out of the *yard* where he'd driven in, in order that he could then pull a bit further along the road (possibly north to south, possibly east to west, certainly in a right-to-left direction) when the dream ended. I *suspect* that it was the choice to be "obedient to the father" that was the key issue in this dream. After all, it appears to be the entire literary "conceit" (plot / purpose / point / mechanism) within the book of Deuteronomy, as well as much of the first 5 books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) as well as much of the New Testament. Clarity 8+ (it was gently lit, rather than brightly lit as in real life daylight; there was not even a hint that it was a dream while the dream was going on.)

In apartment parking area, truck w/LOUD (annoying) sound system in bed, w/cover tent over head, leaving apt. complex:
The dreamer was as if outside, standing in the parking lot area of an apartment complex, not at all unlike the "Brown Drive Apartments" (currently dba "The Cove at Center Point" https://goo.gl/maps/r8458u77MuGgCvup7) when this very loud, obnoxious audio-blaster system (similar to a political campaign PA) came rolling through, mounted in the bed of a (modern day) pickup truck, only the TOP of this PA system was *covered* as if by a tarp with poles reaching slightly outward
\___/ from the 4 corners of the bed so as to create a slightly larger coverage area than the actual bed of the truck. It instantly reminded the dreamer of the tent used in the desert by the Israelites after leaving Egypt. At any rate, the truck was in motion, and rather quickly (yet not hurriedly) exited the parking area to the left (west, in my real-life orientation, however, IRL, the lot does NOT directly connect westward as the truck drove in the dream) exiting onto Old Lascassas Road and heading right (north.) End of dream, clarity 9, as the day was more brightly lit than in the previous dream.

Cyclical feeling of weeks of getting hired / fired:
— until finally fired, the dreamer started asking around as to obtaining another job, and finds [himself] talking to a couple (one main guy, about 40-ish, with a "Kojak" look about him (imdb.com/title/tt0069599) about covert weekend job (something like an illicit, floating hedonism-type operation) possibly as a DJ or *any* support service (yet even the event was not supposed to be "public knowledge" to the point where *just anyone* could talk about it) to which the guy tells the dreamer something like "[that's only available during winter]" (ironically.) (There was some hint of nudity involved, which is what made the position-only-in-winter so amusing.) The dream ended with the dreamer still feeling [unemployed.] Clarity 8-, as the scene was simply poorly lit, on the verge of "dark." Most "dim" restaurant settings, however, appear "darker" than this setting, which *started* well-lit, almost as if in an office, then ending up darker as he was talking with the Kojak-looking guy.

The naked turtle:
The dreamer was "out and about", without any definitive setting to speak of, other than the ground, where the shell of a turtle (about 5" or so in length) was visible, *as if* it had been smashed flat over time, although not "smashed up" but definitely "empty." The dreamer went past this sight with only a slight feeling of sorrow for the absence of the turtle that had lived within it, but at some point shortly thereafter, the dreamer happened upon a curious-looking critter with a head, body, and 4 appendages (and a tiny tail?) that appeared frightened / on the verge of outrage, except for it's comparatively small size. There were possibly two scenes, or possibly one scene that was instantly "back-skipped" then allowed to play again, so as to be seen twice, much like one experiences while using a DVR device. At the time of the first pass, the dreamer noted the resemblance between the critter and the empty turtle shell, while at the second pass, the dreamer had a definite inkling that the critter resembled the living creature of the turtle *outside of* [his] shell. There was a *tiny* inkling to stomp/squash the critter, but the dreamer passed on by and the dream ended (peacefully, for the dreamer. I expect the turtle was still a bit outraged at being outside of [his] shell, likely from a state of fear.)

The birds:
This was perhaps a more enjoyable dream that I have had in some time: The dreamer was in an open space, gently lit / daylight, with the air intermittently populated with birds flying around. And while they appeared to be mostly circling, there was one fellow ("Seagull" came to mind) who had a nearly majestic appearance, as if he were the most handsomest bird out there (which he was) whom I recall was facing left (from the dreamer's perspective.) But before getting into that, I suppose it may behoove the reader to get a bit more of the details of the other birds:
They were of various types, such that it was NOT a "flock of crows" or "flock of seagulls" or any other type of flock, but rather, various types of winged (bird-like) creatures, all of which seemed "beautiful," each in its own way. One appeared to be somewhat hen-like, and *may* have been pecking at a small, dark figure (almost as if a man had been reduced in size to an insect about the size of a moth, roughly 1" in size) although it was unclear as to whether the (brownish) hen actually pecked the critter/figure or not. What had the dreamer's attention was more along the lines of the wing shapes of the other birds, and the idea of the airfoil shape of an airplane wing started to come to mind.
Now IF I'd gotten to writing this down immediately after waking, chances are I'd have more detail on the other birds, however, the majestic-looking fellow seemed to "take center stage" if you will, as in "held the dreamer's attention" as in "pulled focus" away from the surrounding components of the scene.
The bird seemed mainly of white coloring, however, with darker top, feathers, and perhaps a dash of purple near the face, possibly lending toward that "majestic" aura noted previously. It is *very likely* that this bird represents an author with whom I've recently made an effort to get into contact after a number of years without contact. I very much suspect that's who the bird represents. For whatever it may be worth, as the bird was facing left (and standing upon the ground) only his left eye was aimed in my direction, but had a very "knowing" kind of look. IF the bird in the dream scene had been viewed in human form AND been facing me, it would've been his "opposing right eye" (still his left, but viewed as focused upon from my right eye.) This is meaningful in the sense that a person's "right eye" is considered one's "thought eye" while one's left eye is considered one's "heart eye" (as it is "closer to the heart," although that's more of a metaphorical sense than a biological sense.)
Clarity is very much 7 (symbolic) but it has a very strong sense of "meaning" to it, as of a 9+.

Cracking the Bank: :-)
This one was fascinating in the sense of how it ended: The dreamer was with a group of people (with various vehicles!) as if outside a drive-in wall of a bank. Those familiar with such walls may also be familiar with the sometimes dual nature of the wall: in today's world, there may be a drive-in window (although many of those have been "blanked out" for purposes of "security") while there may ALSO be an ATM machine (for personal use for checking/savings, etc., typically activated by use of an ATM card) while what even fewer folk may be familiar with is the "night depository" box or chute: a kind of pull-down lever of either a flat or rounded, hardened surface, such that by pulling down the sheet metal, one may then enter some form of a "night deposit bag" of the kind used by restaurants and such in order to make nightly / end of day deposits. Typically, a person such as an assistant manager will take the nightly checks, cash, and possibly coin, and "lock" them all into a bag along with a deposit slip, and drop that bag into the night depository on the drive home (or away from the business.) This night depository device is what was being featured as the center-point of the dream:

As I mentioned, there were at least 3, possibly 4 or 5 vehicles congested around the depository device. Someone (a couple) had gone inside the bank, and were on their way out, back to the dreamer, who had been trying to open the bank deposit device which in this case was numerically accessed using a 3 or 4-digit PIN (numeric combination sequence.) The dreamer had been having difficulty at getting the device to open, as if possibly having forgotten the exact PIN sequence. The numbers that were being thought of during this process involved 2,3,4 and 6.
Someone offered to try to get into the device as the couple informed the dreamer something along the lines of a confirmation regarding some bit of advice the dreamer had given them, something involving gold (possibly gold foil) in the sense that (whether it was to buy or sell) the advice the dreamer had given the couple had been a sound move. At that point, the dreamer attempted to again enter the numeric sequence into the depository device in order to open it, and put in the numbers "2 3 4" and was "thinking" the number "6" AND was putting forth the forefinger of the right hand in order to enter that last digit when there was a *CRACK!* / clunk-like sound that indicated the device had unlocked. End of dream. Clarity 9, but that *CRACK!* had a distinctive electromagnetic unlocking sound to it as if a very thick metallic dowel (pin) had been released (likely electromagnetically pulled BACK from a spring-held position that had been keeping it "closed" / pegged) which was practically a clarity 10-. The only way it would've seemed more "real" would've been for me to have heard this "in real life."
14:25 PM 5/13/2021

12:23 PM 5/14/2021
Office training / observation?
The dreamer was "working" / "employed" in an office / corporate environment, being asked to simply observe, and possibly take notes, as the "narrator" of the dream was wanting to see the notes of the observer, *presumably* for analysis with respect to finding ways to increase efficiency overall. Clarity 8-ish, maybe even 8-. It's been awhile since morning, and a good bit of evaporation has occurred, but that was the gist of the dream.

Interesting sidenote: Nature gradually increases the efficiency with which it culls the inefficient.

Warehouse exploration?
The dreamer is somehow moving along with a tow motor / fork lift inside a warehouse. There's a wide, black, pleated-type (cushioned?) seat (for sturdy / industrial usage) along with a seat belt. There was some centrifugal force as if the forklift were executing a pivot, which nearly put the dreamer "into" the seat of the vehicle. At any rate, the view perspective shifted to seeing the forklift reaching up a bit to lift a pallate full of bottles (plastic? water?) as if to lower them to ground level / take them somewhere, but that's all I can recall at this point, clarity 8-, possibly 6+, as the scene seemed slightly "different worldly".
12:33 PM 5/14/2021

Meanwhile, in personal meditation this morning, I understood that "All glory to God in the Highest" refers to 1÷1=1.

I very nearly forgot about this one other dream I had, as it was so different from the office/warehouse dream(s):

Again, a LOT of this has "evaporated," but the core (visual) element of the dream remains:

The dreamer was "drifting" as it were, nearly "floating" but more in the sense of "traveling" along an upward path, along a wall of whiteness. And yes, Sandy, I'm *fairly certain* this "whiteness" has a spiritual context!

All along this wall were aligned "spirits" (and this may require some description):

Imagine, for a moment, that one's "spirit" is like a "costume" one puts on, a "full Edgar suit" to borrow a term from "Men in Black."

This spiritual "suit" is visible as a contrast of mostly white but contrasted (outlined) in black. And while "black and white TV" has a kind of silvery white, grayish black, this was more like "light" outlined by "nothing."

There were a number of "spirits" along the wall. I only saw perhaps a dozen during the duration of the dream, but neither did I view the borders of this wall, so size and extent were undefined.

The dreamer had an impression that something fearful was very faintly in the background, below, as it were, and yet in motion, such that the dreamer felt the sensation of being "followed" (or perhaps more accurately, "shadowed") by whatever this fear may have been.

The dreamer had the impression that if time had been taken to stop and chat with any of these spirits on the wall, they would've "animated / come to life / " engaged in conversation. It is unclear as to exactly how this dream ended, but I seem to recall the dreamer was still drifting upward when it occurred.

As my memory of the dream is a bit evaporated this late in the day (13:44 PM 5/14/2021) I prefer to refrain from putting a "clarity" rating on this, as it was *very nearly* "lucid", certainly "spiritual" in nature, yet possibly NOT "symbolic." I simply have to put this one in the category of "vision-type dream."