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Seemed to be in a school setting again, though maybe high school. Spent time with 2 instructors; one was a man, and one a woman.
The man may have been a band director, for he seemed to be trying to get me to join (I was in band in HS), but the group seemed to involve other stuff like gymnastics, something more athletic. This fellow as in Recruitment mode, and seemed to think I would do well if I tried it. He used an example of one of the young band members, some guy (xylophone player, maybe?), who had been seen doing something idiotic, as an example of how he would appreciate someone with a slightly more mature attitude. I looked at him askance and basically said, Dude, you know I'm almost 50, right...? (As in, there's no way in hell that I could take on that type of activity at this age). He seemed to take that in and backed off, but I got the impression he might have been thinking of some way to regroup to present an altered argument.
(Also, might I have been almost getting lucid there with the present-day age awareness?)
The woman seemed to be a science teacher; she vented a bit about an activity she'd had the class doing where they were collecting samples to measure (of very small fish or krill or something, from water samples), but the students (here they seemed younger than HS) didn't understand the importance of making sure they were sampling correctly; they kept letting the fish settle to the bottom and scooping from there, so it was not an even distribution. I felt sympathetic to the point of wanting to help her run the experiment again, this time 'correctly', but she seemed to demur.
At one point was walking along outside with other people around, saw a marching band (elementary school level) practicing; noted to myself that I might have been in it and liked it had my elementary school had one, back in the day (we didn't have one until junior high).
Woke up thinking that part of the dream theme was about possibly being manipulable by being empathetic to what other people wanted, including being influenceable by flattery. It was really nice to hear someone say, Oh, you'd do so well at that, which in this case was offset by my own self-perception. Maybe I was selling myself short, but... in terms of where I am currently regarding physical condition, my observation was accurate.
Maybe that was the 'theme', then - do we have an accurate self-image, so that we know what we're about, and are thus less manipulable by others (who are not necessarily 'bad', just hyper-focused on their own goals) into activities inappropriate for us?
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A separate dream sequence had me working with a woman to re-organize a crowded closet. In which case the woman would present a fellow co-worker. We put things in designated areas, and had clearer labeling. At one point she moved some CDs to a different shelf, which annoyed me mildly. (This bit has to pertain to the website renovation project we at the library worked on intensively all summer, which goes live this coming Monday).
The man may have been a band director, for he seemed to be trying to get me to join (I was in band in HS), but the group seemed to involve other stuff like gymnastics, something more athletic. This fellow as in Recruitment mode, and seemed to think I would do well if I tried it. He used an example of one of the young band members, some guy (xylophone player, maybe?), who had been seen doing something idiotic, as an example of how he would appreciate someone with a slightly more mature attitude. I looked at him askance and basically said, Dude, you know I'm almost 50, right...? (As in, there's no way in hell that I could take on that type of activity at this age). He seemed to take that in and backed off, but I got the impression he might have been thinking of some way to regroup to present an altered argument.
(Also, might I have been almost getting lucid there with the present-day age awareness?)
The woman seemed to be a science teacher; she vented a bit about an activity she'd had the class doing where they were collecting samples to measure (of very small fish or krill or something, from water samples), but the students (here they seemed younger than HS) didn't understand the importance of making sure they were sampling correctly; they kept letting the fish settle to the bottom and scooping from there, so it was not an even distribution. I felt sympathetic to the point of wanting to help her run the experiment again, this time 'correctly', but she seemed to demur.
At one point was walking along outside with other people around, saw a marching band (elementary school level) practicing; noted to myself that I might have been in it and liked it had my elementary school had one, back in the day (we didn't have one until junior high).
Woke up thinking that part of the dream theme was about possibly being manipulable by being empathetic to what other people wanted, including being influenceable by flattery. It was really nice to hear someone say, Oh, you'd do so well at that, which in this case was offset by my own self-perception. Maybe I was selling myself short, but... in terms of where I am currently regarding physical condition, my observation was accurate.
Maybe that was the 'theme', then - do we have an accurate self-image, so that we know what we're about, and are thus less manipulable by others (who are not necessarily 'bad', just hyper-focused on their own goals) into activities inappropriate for us?
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A separate dream sequence had me working with a woman to re-organize a crowded closet. In which case the woman would present a fellow co-worker. We put things in designated areas, and had clearer labeling. At one point she moved some CDs to a different shelf, which annoyed me mildly. (This bit has to pertain to the website renovation project we at the library worked on intensively all summer, which goes live this coming Monday).