I had this dream a few months ago, but it has stayed with me so maybe I should get it off my chest. It's pretty simple really, I guess.

I am back in Bloomington Indiana where I went to Under Grad and it takes place at what I understood to be my old apartment there. A very heavy acid rain or even some kind of fallout is dropping from the sky and I'm running with my girlfriend (present one) to get inside but we see two bodies laying in the front yard. So we hoist these nude corpses over our shoulders and carry them inside the door to the apartment. The tone of the dream is kind of urgent as if the bodies were still alive but they are not. I wasn't being influenced by any gore on tv or anything so I'm not sure where it came from..and it's really out the ordinary for me to dream of anything like this-- And about a week later a friend of mine who also went to Indiana was chatting with me over a beer and he had a dream with a similar theme but with sexual themes that scared the hell out of him. I wonder if I was somehow being prepared to be more accepting of his dream since before my dream I would have just thought yuck, but actually it's still kind of yuck. Any thoughts?

Beau

Hmmm. Perhaps, Andy. My friend has a lot more religious experience than I do. And I'm not sure if that may have colored his perceptions. He saw his images on what he described as being a lot like a TV screen. He was not participating, but he felt the images were being broadcast to him individually and taunting him with what he felt was a pure evil.

In my dream I didn't feel that it had any kind of evil connotation at all, it just was what it was-- it wasn't even scary really as if we were going thru the motions. What did seem scary though was the acid rain or whatever it was raining down from the sky... But why we would be trying to salvage bodies is strange to me unless maybe the dream was trying to say that I was holding on to dead ways or something and that they were weighing me down. It seems deeper though, but I'm not sure. Thanks for the comment, I know its a bizarro subject matter.

You saying that makes me remember something else. The corpses both looked like me enough that I noticed it at the time. You may have something with that. I was carrying my dead unnecessary self on my back for no reason..and trying to protect it...lol--wow that may be it, Thanks Andy.

So what does Bloomington mean to you? What does it symbolize to you?What do you feel when you think of Bloomington in the dream?

I have unresolved issues arounf school and if I were to dream about Bloomington it would involve those issues. Bloomington to me means my two friends who went there and where they lived and didn't the library shift? and some other friends who went there; like my friend who studied dance; they had the greatest make-up class there (stage make-up), and my piano teacher's husband got his PhD therer in music. And there was a great night scene there. And it is very flat and open and exposed in Bloomington. But those are my images. But I'm trying to use them to trigger yours.

So maybe Bloomington just means you are a student. of something or other. What? Acid rain? dead bodies?It started sounding like "bones" when you got to that point. The rain would make the barely buried bodies float up. What are you trying to dig up? Are you looking for a body of information? to revive something?

Hey this is fun. I'll have to try it on my own dreams! 

So anyway, did you react to anything? or is it all too silly? Are you from IN?

Then you can tell me why I was dreaming I was at school and climbing some wooden stairs like you'd find in a barn and they were covered with water and ice and broke as I stepped on them. Well, the ice is probably from the weather, but that is another issue. Anyway, what is this, college disaster week? Though I was not in Bloomington.

Yeah, that was interesting...I was on my way up but I "froze" and everything fell apart. or where I put my feet fell apart. My support fell apart. Hmm . That could be a clue.

How did you choose Bloomington? yeah, college is an intense time and if it is good or partly good it seems to leave deep memories. I'd comment on the way Bloomington seems to be an oasis in the middle of...well I have friends from IN and I might get myself in trouble!

wow  so you can carry a tune. Do you sing professionally at all? I can't sing well, and ever since I read about Jenny Lind as a child, it has been a thorn in my side! Anyway, I see music still informs your life. You used the phrase "The tone of the dream ..." . I might have used a word like "atmosphere". So does "tone" add anything to your interpretation?

I also grew up in the South, and having left, was amazed at how much the rest of the country indulged in the rabid racism of which only the South seemed to be accused. I've heard things about places like northern IN that really shocked me. (and Boston, for all its arrogance, has had its own racism). Maybe over time a place like Bloomington helped bring change. and so did economics. besides, his mama's family is from the midwest.

Hi beau  I feel the dead bodies in your dream signified the end of your time there and a new begining for where you live now ,and because you miss it there ,i feel your astral bodie is travelling back there for a visit now and then.

Love and God bless   lovre juditha