Miami Vegan Blog

Sometime during the night, I had a dream about a man with a Dick Tracy hat, driving me around in a buggy. There was someone else in the car, a blond woman. He was lost and I couldn't give him directions. We were trying to get me to the airport. During our journey, I made a decision for him to drop me off at the train station. We couldn't find it. The road looked familiar, and I could see the train station (Metrorail, I guess), but we couldn't figure out how to get there.

There were one way streets, dead ends, road blocks etc. Finally, we decided that I should take an air car or trolley to the train station, you know the ones you use to get to ski lifts. Well, the air car was fine until the bottom fell out. I grabbed onto the rail and I was hanging by one hand. My phone fell out. The bottom closed up. When I got to the top, the train station was right there, but I couldn't forget about my phone. I decided to walk back down the steep hill to fetch it. Just as I was bracing the dangerous climb downward, someone tapped me on the shoulder. He had my phone. I said, "Thanks," in a matter of fact way. As I walked away from him, I was bursting with appreciation. Before he walked away from me, he just stared at me. Waiting for a hug or some money or who knows what. He had no idea how much I was thanking him inside my head, over and over. I couldn't express how I felt to him because I was still getting over the trauma of falling and losing my phone. He didn't know what I had just been through or how long it took me to get here, or where I still had to go. He was one piece in a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Then I realized, the man was me. Every person that I've helped, although they didn't show it, must have been feeling overwhelmed by their appreciation. They couldn't escape it, long after I was down the road. I thought about this person for the rest of the dream. I was meant to be on the other side, the receiver's side, to experience that, to understand the power of the things we do not say! But to close your eyes and feel it ...

Wild, huh?

ciao
~inga~