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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

Phrase heard in a dream to describe a group of people fervently and seriously navel gazing about important topics in a purely academic sense without any interest in doing anything about the real world consequences or helping those who need it right now: Truly Angelic levels of Gentrufic Arruvation.
It's nonsense but somehow it fits perfectly. There's so much of this going on right now about 45 and 45 ½ (Musk).
I'm tired of all these gentrufic arruvators hemming and hawing about exactly what laws are being broken instead of doing something about the people whose human rights are being violated.

#WhenIDream#Dreaming#Dreams
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

Do you ever have dreams where you know what's happening is super dumb but the dream keeps pushing it on you like your subconscious is an irascible toddler with "a really funny story" it just has to finish telling?

I had one of those Friday morning.
In my dreams, sometimes I can project elemental powers out of my hands: force lightning, flamethrower, water jets like a Super Soaker, all kinds of stuff.
In this dream, I was in a back yard that was a combination of three different places I'd lived and I wondered if I could call elements.
I pointed my right hand at the back fence and a thin stream of fire shot out and caught the wood on fire. I was like, "oh shit" and used my left hand to send out an equally thin stream of water.
The fire went out briefly but seemed to spread to the lower part of the fence.
I said, "that's not how fire works" but tried using both hands to send even more water.
It caused the fire to turn dark red and sink into the wood which, again, I said, "that isn't how fire and water interact at all."
I was already thinking, "this is dumb."
So I turned away.
As I did, the top part of the fence broke away and floated toward me looking like a thin wooden Thwomp trap.
And again, I was like, "really? what am I, 8 years old?"
So I tried to ignore it.
The Thwomp trap came up behind me and demanded that I face it.
It told me that it wouldn't leave me alone until I did.
I turned back around and it was floating there in the air, looking quite stern and serious.
I asked it, "do I have to mean it?"
And it told me that didn't matter, as long as we had a good fight.
So I shook my head and shrugged, running away from it in faux terror like, "oh no, my elemental powers aren't working right!" while willing little squirts of red fire juice to dribble out.
I saw it in my peripheral vision taking on that red color and changing shape.
It was getting rounder.
I saw a round hole in the back fence and realized it was going to become the fucking Kool-Aid Man. But, I said out loud, "oh no, it's changing into something else--what could it be?" in order to keep the ruse going.
I had enough at this point but felt bad for it.
Clearly it was very proud of this whole shtick and something wanted to see it carried through to the end.
I woke up before the "fight" got underway.

#WhenIDream#Dreams#Dreaming
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

I often think all my dreams have a deeper meaning, that my subconscious uses them to send me messages.
Recently, I woke up around 5:00 AM and wrote this down from a dream before going back to sleep.

Lo Pan tells Emperor Liu Kang that "the people summon what connects to the ungood with Mortal Kombat."
I was a Captain America who had been brainwashed by evil Dr. Dre.

No deeper meaning found.

#WhenIDream#Dreams#Dreaming
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我的夢想

Same flower as yesterday's post, but this time in level with it and with f/1.4. I had to squat here; not a pleasant thing to do with a bad knee! I've made several shots here and I had the intention to see if I can make up a 3D image out of them but till this very moment, I didn't! (For the record, this was shot on March 11th). This was also rendered in HDR, but I didn't go crazy with the tone-mapping and kept it as natural as possible; it helped on bringing up some vivacity to the image in general (it was a bit bleak originally).

#flower #nature #natural #bloom #blossom #dream #dreaming #dreamy #goodmorning
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

There is often music in my dreams. I was never trained in music. I can't play an instrument. I can't read music. I don't know the terminology.
Since I have no words, no way to frame it or remember, its often the first thing I forget when I wake up.
Sometimes the music is based on real world songs and I try especially hard to remember those.
This morning, I was in the basement of a brothel where they were playing a song over the sound system that sounded like TLC's "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" but the lyrics were "Ain't Too Old for Sex". That's the only line I remember. I wondered who their clientele might be.

#WhenIDream#Dreams#Dreaming
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

I had a dream I was living in a castle with family and friends. At one point I started to wake up and then fell back to sleep which led me to realize it was a dream.
I started going around warning everybody it was a dream.
Some folks didn't believe me and thought I was joking or playing a game.
I was doing things like levitating giant rocks like Luke Skywalker and saying, "big fucking deal, I can levitate a fucking rock".
I know I force ligthninged the crap out of someone who told me "you'll always be a boy".
But the reason I'm tooting this at all is because of the person who had been like my lifelong nanny or something. She'd known me since birth basically.
She was lamenting loudly. I know she said, "I have a lifetime of memories! What will happen to them?"
And all I could say is, "I don't know."
There was someone else who had a new toy that was like a remote controlled car but was a living thing. They were so excited and showing it off and telling me all about it. I was so taken by their innocent joie de vivre, that I only smiled and nodded and decided not to tell them it was all about to end.

#WhenIDream#Dream#Dreaming
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