Sun, Subconscious, Symbolism and Clarity

(Oreo, waiting for the sun to come back)



Around 5:30 this morning I had two animals poking at me and trying to alert me to the sunshine.  Frank and Oreo were beside themselves and wanted out on the balcony to bask in surprise rays of sun!  It had faded by afternoon but it sure was nice and totally unexpected for a few hours!

Prior to be waken by the dog and cat, I was having a pretty vivid dream.  It stuck with me most of the day.  It wasn't hanging on my mind because it needed interpretation but more because it was so obvious.  I'll never understand how the subconscious works...

The dream (or the upshot, anyway):  Paul and I were in a large house filled with friends, family and tenants from my old job.  It must've been our house (because we were worried about repairs) but it resembled the extremely haunted house of a friend from Virginia (seriously, in real life the house sits on the edge of the Manassas Battlefield at Bull Run and is very, very haunted... dreamwise I think the haunting aspect is pretty telling).  There was a huge storm going on outside and inside we were trying to protect all the people in the house (hm, no interpretation needed there).  The people inside the house were driving me crazy with all their complaints and demands (again, no interpretation needed).  The storm started blowing out all the windows in the house.  There was glass flying everywhere and everything was breaking.  The wind was blowing so hard it blew all the ghosts and annoying people out.  It was terrifying.  Suddenly the storm ended and the sun came out.  Friends and family helped us rebuild the house (made it bigger and fancier) and they surprised us by putting in brand new windows.  At the end of the dream (or at least right before I woke up) Paul and I were sitting in front of a big floor to ceiling window, having drinks and talking about how dirty the old windows must have been beacuse the new windows were so clear we could see the ocean again.

I woke up to sunshine.  I was mildly annoyed that the animals woke me up so early (and that I ran out of milk for my coffee) but I kept thinking about that dream and I felt like my brain was telling me that everything would be fine and after dealing with some stormy issues everything will become clear and we might even be able to see the ocean.  Not bad!