Res Ipsa Loquitur (phrase)- Latin, Legalese: "The Thing Speaks For Itself." . . . DREAM JOURNAL

Last week I had a dream that my husband was adopting a huge hare, one of those tall, European beasts. For some reason, we were living in my grandmother's old house, but by ourselves--except for the cats, of course. I was worried about taking care of the hare and about how it would interact with the cats. Then, I saw other rabbits in the place, most vividly a small, wild cottontail.

The interesting thing was that I really felt a need to go on a walk the next day, in the evening. A wild rabbit, not unlike the one I saw so clearly in the dream, stopped on the sidewalk right in front of me and let me get really close. I watched him or her eat grass for a while, until a passing truck scared the bunny off the sidewalk. Even then, the wild rabbit let me watch him (or her) hop around in the grass while I passed by on the sidewalk.

The experience reminds me of something I have read about dreams: with dreams, time can be rather non-linear, to say the least. Supposedly, some folks regularly incorporate imagery from the next day or the next week into their dreams.  It's not really clairvoyant dreaming so much as taking material  from your life and basing dreams around it... just happens that some of the material hasn't happened to you yet, linearly-speaking.

I had a bad dream about my cat last night: she suddenly had all sorts of medical problems, her fur was thinning, and I was desperately trying to find a vet. Hope that doesn't indicate a real problem. Probably has more to do with how I am approaching a responsibility, as pets are usually my dream symbol for responsibility or care-giving.

Oh, last week I also had a lucid dream, set in my transcendent dream version of a Canadian city that I used to live in. I was admiring the details and beauty of the buildings, and then suddenly realized that I wasn't actually seeing anything physical and that I was dreaming. I tried to change the color of the sky, but to no avail. Still, I was very impressed by how real everything appeared. It all looked at least as real as the waking world, even though I was completely conscious of the fact that everything I was experiencing was non-corporeal. What an odd sensation.