The Dream Thread

[Brittany]

I had a dream that I worked for some sort of business firm, or maybe it was an investigative agency. One of the employees disappeared, and then he showed up later but he was acting in very negative ways. He talked to a person who then disappeared and reappeared, this person also suddenly acting very negative, not like his usual personality. Pretty soon this was happening to everyone. Those few of us who had not been affected were trying to figure out what was going on- how these things were happening.

One of the "converted" people took away one of my very dear friends, and I ran outside screaming "Don't you dare take Sam!!!" But he was already gone. I got very angry at the man who had made him disappear and started cursing him, telling him his evil would come back upon him sixfold. Not particularly STO of me, but that's how it was.

Then we found out there was this "other building" that was like the exact opposite of our building, and there was another one of each of us in that building, but it was the "dark us". And somehow we were all switching places or something like that. Apparently the key factor was that our building had one employee the other building did not have. His name was Phillip Higgins. (???) And we were trying to find him, because we knew there was no counterpart he could switch with.

When I woke up I heard "Not all your friends are friends, and not all your enemies are enemies."

Before I feel asleep I was thinking a lot about the protests and my involvement in them...it has been something I have been seriously debating over a course of days, as some of the things that are happening are coming dangerously close to crossing my ethics line, in spite of my initial enthusiasm.

I feel like this dream illustrated how hate and fear can be spread so quickly, corrupting even the most stout of individuals if the circumstances are right. I can only assume the "dark us" was each person's shadow self, and this was showing how that self can "replace" the "whole" self if it is not acknowledged and balanced. I am starting to feel like this is what is happening in the protest. Anger is corrupting what started out as a loving attempt.

I think my personal reaction in the dream ties in with how I tend to react to things differently when they have personal meaning to me, meaning I can let my emotions cloud my judgment, and could perhaps work on the love/wisdom balance a little harder.