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Monday, October 2, First Period

Scones and cookies, tea and coffee, are set out on the table. Each student is given a packet of handouts as they enter.

"First, a bit of business. It would seem I am in need of a new TA to assist Miss Halliwell. If anyone thinks they might be interested, please see me after class. Now, today's lecture is on dream interpretation, which is probably one of the most common forms of divination. Everyone dreams, although not everyone dreams prophetically. However, for years psychologists and philosophers have looked to the symbols found in dreams to understand both the mortal mind and to look for insight into the future."

Lecture:
"First of all, there are a handful of common themes for dreams: Animals, Birds, Body Parts, Bugs, Characters, Colors, Feelings, Food, House, Numbers, and Places. Most of your dreams are going to include at least one of these themes. Additionally, there are six types of dreams that nearly everyone, at some point in his or her life, experiences. These are Naked, Chase, Teeth, Flying, Falling, and Exam. The interpretation of these common types is fairly universal to most people.

Moving on to the concept of prophetic dreams, we can look at the symbols, which some psychologists believe are shared through a collective consciousness, to predict things that might happen. This is the commonest sort of prophetic dream, far more likely to occur than a 'dream vision'. Although those happen as well, and I know for some of you, perhaps more frequently than most. What we'll do today is discuss possible interpretations for some of your dreams. And don't worry, you don't have to share the very personal ones. But I do hope you've all been keeping up with your dream journals, and have something you'd like to share for discussion."

Aziraphale indicated some of the handouts, which included two Dream Dictionaries.

"I want each of you to describe a dream you've had, it can be simple or silly or commonplace, and we'll pick out a symbol from your dream and interpret it for you. Also, you'll find in your handouts that I've given you a list of interesting facts about dreams."

Homework: "Next week we'll be reviewing the material we've covered thus far, so I want you to come prepared to ask questions. Following the review, there will be a short test."

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[ooc: The Dream Dictionaries are not all inclusive, so you may have to be creative in how you look things up. ~~For instance, neither offers an interpretation for 'giant lobsters'. Don't ask.~~

~~Please wait for~~ OCD threads are up. May be SP until evening EDT.]

[ooc #2: And now, in the correct location. *headdesks*]

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Pippi thought about what dream to talk about...

How about the one where she was flying a car with Tommy and Annika and landed in a lake and then she went swiming in her clothes while a goat ate Tommy and Annika's clothes...

Oh wait... That actually happened.

How about the one where she flew through a volcanic eruption in a wooden airplane that she built with...

No, that actually happened too...

How about the one With the shark, and Walter, and the Nazis, and the braid of... (http://strongestgirl.livejournal.com/39391.html#cutid1) No... Let's not tell that one...

Hmmmm.

"I sometimes dream that I'm falling. But it's kinda fun. I'm falling over the ocean, then, a few feet before I hit the water, I go zoooooom! And curve up. And then I'm flying over the water, and the sun is sparkling on it and I reach down into the water as I fly along the surface... And then later, I'm floating down a river of nutella on a bit of toast."

"You've got several archetypal symbols in that one, Miss Longstocking. Does anyone want to give us an explanation of one or more of those symbols?"

Blair looked over his notes. "Falling usually means that you're insecure about something, but flying means that you're on top of the situation. I'm not really sure about the nutella."

"I'm not sure about the nutella either."

Joxer looked over his notes, and figured out what the dream meant.

"You want to raise cattle in the fields on Mongolia, with a beautiful wife, two kids, and an emu." He paused. "What's an emu?"

"Emoo? We defeated that this weekend."

The idea of Nutella and toast gave Anders enough of a craving for said foods that he gave up on any actual effort to interpret the dream. "Um. You're destined to be an adrenaline junkie with no motion sickness issues."

"What if I already am those things?"

"Um. Like Blair said, it usually means that you're insecure or scared of something, but what if it means that you aren't scared of the things that usually scare people? Because, you end up flying, so maybe the things that scare most people can't hurt you?"

Lyra looked slightly dubious at her own interpretation, but it was the only thing she could think of.

"That's actually kinda true..." Pippi mused.

"I think it means that you miss the water, and sailing all the time. And you're hungry."

Pippi thought about her time in the mirror...

"I don't think that's it... Though I am a bit peckish."

"That could be saying there's a situation you have a really good handle on. Or, like Nadia said, you could be thinking about the ocean."

"Like a situation involving the ocean?"

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