Exit, pursued by a bear
Where does my subconscious come up with these things?
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Ever have one of those dreams where you wake up wondering “Where did that come from?”
This morning the alarm woke me from an unresolved dream. I had been walking down a road (probably a narrow dirt road), and off to one side was a bear lying down and looking at me. It had a golden retriever or similar dog sleeping on its back. Other than existing and looking at me, it didn’t seem to be threatening. So my dream self, apparently being young and foolish, decided to take a chance and just walk by it to where I needed to go. I think I accidentally brushed its face with my hand as I walked by.
That would have been head-shaking enough, but the weird part comes after.
Shortly after I got home, a family knocked on the door, with their pet bear on a leash and asked me why I had beat up their bear. We sat down on the large enclosed front porch, and they showed me bruises on the bear’s paws and the base of its claws, and kept asking me why I had done that.
They were nice and polite, no screaming involved or anything. They just kept insisting that I had intentionally beat up their bear.
I really wish that I had been able to dream up a resolution to that before the alarm went off.
And, just for fun, another image Bing came up with in response to the prompt:
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The title is one of the most epic stage directions ever written in the English language. One of my all time favorites!
In guided psychology, a bear is "Problems or a Problem". This bear seemed tame enough it had a dog on it's back, but was still dangerous enough, or you were wary enough of the situation, to carefully walk on by. And while you thought you had brushed by the problem, it was too close, so that you actually touched it. Later, people came knocking at your door, saying that there was more to the problem than you thought, even blaming the problem they had on you, even while being very polite and reasonable, to make you seem the one that was unreasonable. And even with your explanations, they were pushing to say that you should have done more, or that you did more, which was more likely to be their fault, but blaming you (after all the dog was with the bear, and likely the one that caused the injuries to the bear).
Just some thoughts.