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May 13, 2006

I had the weirdest dream last night!

Way back in the day, I took a great college course on psychology in literature. It was a combination English/Psychology course team taught by two of the best professors I ever had the pleasure to learn from.

We had about 10 books assigned for reading. One of those was Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. As an assignment, we were to record our dreams. I learned to wake myself up from a dream and write down parts of it before returning to sleep.

So, I guess old habits are hard to break. I had a crazy dream last night - it was really kinda funny. It was partly about LaShawn Barber, a very good blogger - example -, who I had the pleasure of meeting very briefly at the Millblog Conference in DC.

I dreamt that LaShawn had built a life-size model of some kind of landing craft that the Army used to land at Cleveland. (Yes, this is a dream, folks). LaShawn had worked very, very hard at putting together this exhibit, and asked my husband, John of Argghhh!, to come take a look at it for her and to correct any historical errors.

Well, her landing craft had been outfitted with those kind of round vanity light bulbs all around the edges - and of course, there were three colours, red, white and blue.

Atop these bulbs were very lacy lampshades in shades of ecru, off white and beige.

LaShawn had also spent hour upon hour aging the craft and putting sand on appropriate places. It was a very impressive, if girly, rendition of the famous landing craft that brought the Army to Cleveland.

Well, John took one look at it, and very politely said to LaShawn - you did research on this? Poor LaShawn was embarrassed and said, yes, but the boat needed some prettying up.

Anyway, the rest of my dream was involved with watching John very carefully working around this life-size model to make sure that LaShawn would not be embarrassed at the unveiling the next day.

My guess as to the meaning of this dream?

Not sure. Obviously, I think LaShawn is a very feminine lady. John is always a perfectionist when it comes to things military. And since I'm trying to redecorate this house, maybe I'm wishing that LaShawn would come and help me make all the militaria here look a little prettier.

Posted by Beth at May 13, 2006 07:35 AM