{"id":53583,"date":"2021-05-21T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53583"},"modified":"2021-05-21T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:10:06","slug":"of-what-are-dreams-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53583","title":{"rendered":"Of what are dreams made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane and the Island Moon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/asia-ikigai-1200x966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recent one from the sleeping side of my mind. What is it up to?<\/p>\n<p>This dream occurred in an updated, co-ed Wabash College which I attended for one year, my first.<\/p>\n<p>Several women, including a dean, asked me to return, finish my studies. The men in the dream were rigid, angry. In general and at me. Following the lead of the dean, I said yes. I remember calculating in the dream, &#8220;Yes, even now after 56 years.&#8221; I can still study, write, learn.<\/p>\n<p>At a gateway out of the administrative offices a German Shepherd lunged at me from beneath a cloak and proceeded to lick my face. After passing through the gateway, I was put in a fiery chair with some other men. It burned them but was cool to me.<\/p>\n<p>I had a strong sense of longing, a keen desire to go back, be a scholar\/student again. A writer.<\/p>\n<p>This dream feels important, more so than many of the others I&#8217;ve had recently. Not gonna conclude much about it right now. Any ideas, impressions: welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane and the Island Moon Here&#8217;s a recent one from the sleeping side of my mind. What is it up to? This dream occurred in an updated, co-ed Wabash College which I attended for one year, my first. Several women, including a dean, asked me to return, finish my studies. The men in the dream &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of what are dreams made?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53584,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53583\/revisions\/53584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}