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Twilight Narrative
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Long dream this morning
The kind when I wake
Then fall asleep again
About Bill
We took a trip together
Which we had never done
Some kind of blazing thing
A celebration of
The Midwest
Though we knew each other
In school
In the East
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I got mad
And sad
Because I wanted to talk
With Bill about something
Happening to me
That I didn’t like my life
In Harrisburg
Wanting to say so
Wanting encouragement
Even advice
And he’d said nothing
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I challenged him on that
A while later
(long dream)
And we got nowhere with it
We could perform
But we could not talk
Not for real
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I woke up, realizing that
Bill would not go on another
Trip with me
And that was doubly frustrating
Mad
And sad
And then I remembered
That Bill
Had died
A brief while ago
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My college roommate gone
With earthly friendship
Following
And I am sad
And sad
And sad
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C L Couch
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Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash
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Bill liked root beer, Dad’s; root beer is brown and dreams are wavy
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clcouch123 
January 31, 2023 at 5:49 pm
Hmmmm. It seems these twilight narratives are happening for many people I know. Me included. Interesting. Why now?
January 31, 2023 at 8:23 pm
Good question! I’ve been having long, vivid, often troubling dreams. If others have had these, is there something connective or prophetic?
January 31, 2023 at 8:40 pm
Well. I can only speak for myself and those spiritual friends who are having the same experience. As you know, from reading my blog, I/we have been more and more opening to a relationship with ancestors and those in other realms. Our sense is that in this opening, our dreams are one way they communicate with us. So in that way it’s connective. Absolutely. I’m reminded of that notion that prayer is when we talk to God and dreams are when God talks to us. I do believe those on the other side and in other realms are very interested in communicating with us. So that’s where I land on this. I don’t find my dreams are troubling…but very challenging. Trying to discern the messages. It is, in itself, a new language.
January 31, 2023 at 9:52 pm
A new language in discerning messages of dreams. I hadn’t thought of that, though I’m drawn to the idea now. I do feel connected to others close to my kind. Irish others? Celtic? Others of which I’m unaware? It does mean that dreams could be a conduit, I suppose: a place and means of communication. I mean, I was taught that dreams are the subconsious working on something from the conscious, which would be a kind of tool use of a dream. But, as you describe, there is a great precedent for dreams as a to-and-fro from and with God. God in touch. Our people in touch. I don’t mean to be ethnically exclusive and wonder how wide could the dream connections be established. Could people of Earth, past and present, any or all, communicate through dreams? It would take that new language and a surrending of ego to receive the real messages. Thanks yet again for your tremendous insight.
February 1, 2023 at 12:09 am
Yes, my friend. We were all taught that dreams are the subconscious working something out with the conscious. But I would suggest that those who crafted those teachings, those fathers of psychology, didn’t really embrace the notion that it could be a soul connection and not just mental…all in our minds. For our minds were their focus. Nothing integrating body and soul. I suggest that’s a limited and limiting perspective. And, as you write, is indeed not a perspective held by other traditions and heritages around the world. Perhaps if we open to that new language we need to let go of the language of psychology. Love chatting with you about all this!!!