Ok. I need to stop watching funky shows and doing genealogy. I should only do one or the other--but not both in the same cycles.
My dreams are always odd. I can pick out (while dreaming) what is dream, what is a replay of daytime events that are regurgitated in strange ways, what is an image or idea from a recent television show, what is none of the above, etc. But today, I had a lot of disjointed dreams from TV--from Bones, A Haunting (over-sensationalized ghost stories), the History Channel, and E! None of it made sense.
Visiting a farm. I'm in Jimmy Choo shoes and a skirt. I'm walking down a fenceline in a field (in heels!) with a guy who brought me there--I've been there before. I play with the trained piglets and scoot them down a walkway between two barn buildings so we can feed them. Then there's a dead body I saw from Bones with eewy maggots.//Then I am in some industrial loft and joining the business. I get hired to re-decorate several famous residences. Then some guy comes and gives me $2.5 million to decorate his place and whatever I don't spend I can keep. Woohoo. The loft is ok. People are nice enough.//Don't go into creepy houses.//Check out markets and architecture in Paris and go to Las Vegas. Something about a giant flea market outside of LA.//Why am I on a farm?
Anyway, I thought I'd forget about the dream...but I am not sure why. Usually I write them down in a notebook I have next to the bed. I've been a dream keeper for about fifteen years. After keeping them for so long, perhaps I have learned to analyze while sleeping?
But speaking of bad ghost stories (not that I was), I came across a post by Dean Radin from the Institue of Noetic Sciences. Here's the whole post. But I was most interested in this paragraph:
One might think that purely out of curiosity the DoD might allocate
say, 0.1% of their annual budget to study what happens after
death, vs. the hundreds of billions a year spent each year on technologies
designed to produce death: 99.9% devoted to the death machine,
0.1% to the follow-up question, then what? Seems reasonable to me.
Entangled Minds post from 21 January 2008
It isn't that I have much to say about psychic phenomena and the study thereof, but I do think that the DoD funding should also do more than find new ways to produce destruction. [Sorry for the soapbox from nowhere.]
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So the genealogy thing.
I discovered I hate typing information into the computer. It is annoying and tedious. But researching databases online is a frustration of a different kind. Say you are looking up person X. Sometimes you find squat. Sometimes you find partial information. But sometimes, you get sixty listings for the same person: 1) posted multiple times; 2) with alternate spelling/name; 3) with completely WRONG information; 4) only one spouse entered (if multiple); 5) terrible legiblity/spelling ability of census information; 6) a name with no information at all.
I'm surprised I've gotten anywhere.
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