Last Nite I Dreamt, Last Nite I Dreamt I was getting milk from a farmer I know, and I looked over at a field at his cows, and thought they looked a bit funny - their ears seemed more round. I asked the farmer whether these were actually cows or some kind of deer. He responded that he had some trouble with feral ponies that were running amongst the herd, causing some trouble by scaring them and scattering them.
I looked out and only then saw one of these ponies, with a very thick mane and tail, running among the cows. Then I saw a feral girl riding one of these ponies. She was about 5 years old, and had no clothes, riding free. How has she survived with these wild ponies? Then I realized that as the ponies gave birth, they would have milk, and the feral child must have survived on pony milk.
I somehow managed to catch the feral child, and I was strapping her into a seatbelt in my van. I felt that she needed to have a home, some care, and to be tame. She resisted somewhat, and I thought she might bite me (and that I might get infected with something), but she did not bite. At another point, I was putting some moisturizing lotion on my skin, and the child slapped her thighs and chest, indicating that she wanted some lotion too. I was happy to put some on her, realizing that she could handle that.
Before we left, I did some tidying (trying to leave things as I found them on the farm), and I found what looked like scrabble tiles on a flatbed trailer, but they were bright green. I asked the farmer if they were his, and he said "no". I concluded that they were mine. At one point, a young boy (in his tweens) threw a spoon of milk at me.
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Now I must confess that this is actually my wife's dream, posted with her permission. I remember so few, she remembers so many. We've spent some time interpreting - that's why I could put it in the spiritual category. I can subsequently post what we came up with.
Last Nite I Dreamt, I thought I lost something important but I didn't know what it was. So I was going through my room and the desk was cluttered with all kinds of random crap that I didn't want. So as I kept digging through it all I finally found my Bible realized that's what I was looking for the whole time. =)
Wow, it\'s amazing to me how vividly she remembers the dream. All the details, beginning to end. It\'s as if I\'m reading a chapter from a book and want to know what happens next. I\'d love to know what interpretation you came up with.
I didn't actually type all the details she remembered.
On interpretation, the feral child was soo interesting, so we started with her. She is 5, so what happened 5 years ago? My wife (Judy) said that's when a niece died of SIDS, and it precipitated a rejection of my wife's traditional brand of Christianity. She stopped going to church soon after. We couldn't get anything significant from when Judy was herself 5 The farmer was not actually the one that Judy gets milk from, and so we figured there must be some significance for both the milk, and the farmer, particularly because there are other references to milk, i.e. from the feral ponies and for the feral child. Milk in this context must mean nourishment. The young boy that is throwing milk at Judy - that's not the way to have milk; this might represent some poor or mistaken attempt at nourishing. It's not from a loving mother, and certainly not given in a caring way.
The farmer happens to be a strict Christian, one for whom things have to be a certain way. That would be why he doesn't like the feral ponies scattering his otherwise ordered cows.
We figured that the feral child represents some other kind of spirituality developing, not a rigid strict kind, but it needs some care and nourishment). Judy was a little afraid of this development (fear of being bitten, and also the farmer actually represents part of herself that liked the old structure). But, she "does the right thing" and cares for the feral child.
The scrabble pieces are more complicated-to-explain symbol of the same idea - more on that in another post if there is any interest.years old.