Dream of: 11 December 2013 "Lesson In Flying"
the story is the essence of a dream
*My ex-wife Carolina (around 20 years old) and I have moved into a small white concrete building located on the large business lot which my father owns in New Boston, Ohio. The building only has one tiny little room. Carolina and I are cleaning some junk out of the building and arranging things inside. A couple small beds take up almost the whole room. I pick up one bed and lean it against the wall in order to create more space. I want to use the two chairs which are in the room so we'll have a place to sit.
When I walk outside, instead of the normal vacant lot, I find the building surrounded by many trees. I notice a blue jay holding a flat piece of concrete (around three centimeters in diameter) in its beak and I assume the jay is going to use the concrete as part of a nest. Sure enough, it flies up into a huge nest (almost a meter in diameter) built in the fork of two gigantic limbs and it starts busily working on its nest and moving the leaves around. Just as I point the jay out to Carolina and tell her that we will soon see some baby blue jays, I notice a gray cat sitting on the edge of the nest. I pick up a couple rocks and throw them at the cat which promptly jumps away. The threat of the cat removed, the blue jay continues working.
I see a large gray animal moving toward me through the trees and I realize that the animal is a hippopotamus. Astounded, I tell Carolina that I just saw a hippopotamus. As I look at the animal closer, however, I see that it has a big horn on its nose and I realize that it isn't a hippo, but a rhinoceros. By now the rhino has walked over close to the road and some children have climbed onto its back. It looks rather dangerous to me, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I let it pass.
As I walk around through the trees, a man dressed like a forest ranger walks up to me. We start talking and he begins giving me some instructions about moving into this building. It turns out that the little building is something like a dormitory room. Apparently many other similar little buildings are in the area, although the others are up higher on the hill which rises beside the lot. My building is apparently at the bottom rung.
As we talk, the man touches my chest and tells me that I'm not allowed to wear tee-shirts with wrinkles. I look down at my tee- shirt and notice that it does have a few wrinkles. I'm unsure if the man is trying to tell me that my shirt is wrinkled.
I ask the man if he's a ranger here and he tells me that he is. I mention that my father owns this hill and the neighboring hill. I somewhat proudly tell him that my father lives at the top of the hill in the big white house which can be see from all over Portsmouth. As we talk, we walk along a path which leads up the side of the hill. It simply looks live a green levy at first, but when we reach the top, we are high at the top of the hill from which we can see the valley far below. We reach a rock cliff with a path along the side. At first there is a railing, then the railing ends and there is nothing to prevent someone from falling off. As the ranger continues walking along the narrow path, I stop in fear - we are extremely high. I even crouch down on my hands and knees. I am much too frightened to walk along the narrow path with the rock wall on one side and the steep cliff on the other. The ranger turns around and walks back to me.
I know what the ranger is going to do even before he does it: suddenly he jumps off the side of the cliff! He starts plummeting toward the valley far below, but he's somehow able to control his descent. He holds out his arms and legs with his face toward the ground as he floats gently toward the earth. He floats almost all the way to the bottom, then somehow he starts floating back up. I'm totally astonished that he's able to do this. He floats all the way back up and lands right next to me. It's incredible. I can't believe that anyone could do that, especially since I'm still crouching in fright on my hands and knees.
I stand up and the ranger and I start walking back down the hill. When we reach the bottom, we walk into an attractive wooden building and walk out onto a balcony on the second or third floor. Some other fellows who apparently live here are also standing on the balcony. We can see other people standing down below us.
The ranger looks a bit different now. He's no longer wearing his uniform. He's muscular, has black hair and is only around 20 years old. Abruptly he walks over to the edge of the balcony and begins singing in the most beautiful voice. I tell the other fellows standing here that this fellow is incredible and I tell them about how he jumped off the cliff on top of the hill. Now he's singing so beautiful. Obviously he's multi-talented. I'm totally impressed by this fellow's abilities - he's like some kind of superman.
Dream Commentary
I'm tempted to think that the other little buildings on the side of the hill house dream-writers from the Dream Journal web site, while I can't help but think that the ranger in this dream is representative of some of the dream-writers on the Dream Views web site, some of whom have extraordinary abilities.