My husband has more dog dreams than anyone I know. In his latest one, Lilly the bossy three-legged German shepherd becomes a victim of capitalism as a company modeled on Rooms-To-Go pays a visit to our home:
As he walked up the front walkway to the house, he passed a lady carrying a large cardboard box stamped SHEPHERD PACK. He came in to find our dog Shiloh happily playing with a new German shepherd, one with all four legs. He asked me where Lilly was, and I told him that I'd called Shepherd-Packs-To-Go and they'd brought out an exchange dog. He was very upset and told me I couldn't do that, and that we had to go get her. His agitation at the situation in the dream ended it by waking him.
Lilly's long-term experiment in mind control continues on track.
Posted by floridacracker at June 11, 2006 02:48 PMDude. That dream is deep. Really.
Dude.
Actually, it is a fairly interesting glimpse into a man's tortured subconscious ... there are alternate, though not mutually exclusive, readings:
1. Mr. Cracker, despite grumpy protestations about the burden borne by caring for your ingrateful and ravenous canine brood, loves the three-legged scamp, deeply.
2. Mr. Cracker, who we already know lives in fear for his life from previous wife-on-husband beatings (see here: http://www.florida-cracker.org/archives/002945.html), subconsciously suspects you of shallowly scheming to sell his beloved (and loveable) gimp dog to the glue factory, in trade for one of those high-falutin', fancy four-legged shepards; the variety both sans hip dysplasia AND with the gratuitous abilities of bomb-sniffing and leading blind folk from crosswalk to crosswalk.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 11, 2006 04:11 PMHeh. I'll go with reading #1. Despite her negative traits, he's grown attached to her and tries to protect her even in his sleep. Why he would wrongly perceive me as capable of doing something dastardly that he's forced to rectify, I don't know.
Posted by: Donnah at June 11, 2006 04:59 PM"Why he would wrongly perceive me as capable of doing something dastardly that he's forced to rectify, I don't know."
Projection? Maybe the Rooms-To-Go thing worried him, after all, it's normally the woman who does the furnishing. Maybe he felt like that was a bad policy if extended. Maybe he felt deep anxiety at the thought that his beloved old things might one day be whisked out of the house. Chief No-Nag would feel that.
This cracked me up. Is Lilly looking smug?
Posted by: MaxedOutMama at June 11, 2006 06:52 PMChief No-Nag, huh? Would you believe my husband actually said to me "Stop giving me chores around the plantation"? Fttttwwwpp.
Shiloh's the smug one. Lilly still gets that desperate look on her face like she thinks she'll get the short end of the stick if she doesn't push herself forward.
I do greatly admire courageous, heroic shepherds and their explosive athleticism, but I wouldn't swap my rickety one.
Bill's "high-falutin', fancy four-legged shepards" line was cute.
Posted by: Donnah at June 11, 2006 07:34 PMI figure he must have eaten something spicy while
watching a broadcast with a lot of 'Rooms To Go' commercials in it.
I dreamed I was riding horseback with Robert E. Lee, UNDERWATER..(we were fishing..trolling shiners for bass..in Lake Howard) and we stumbled across a Goldtop Les Paul someone had inadvertantly tossed in the lake...wonder what that meant ???
Posted by: csason at June 11, 2006 08:43 PMI had a dream last week that would have made Philip K. Dick proud, because I didn't even understand it while it was happening. Something to do with extraterrestrials. Breeding and/or resurrection could have been involved.
Posted by: Chris at June 12, 2006 11:20 AMI'm waiting for the 8 legged variety. Then I can use my German Sheparantulas to take over the world.
Posted by: dorkafork at June 13, 2006 08:09 PM