I don't put much stock in dream analysis. Who can say what a dream means? As that wise old Englishman E. Scrooge said, a dream "may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato.."
And I used to follow a blog called Pepperoni Dreams, in which people deliberately ate spicy pizza right before a nap, and reported on the results. But I haven't seem the blog online lately. Maybe I dreamed about it all along.
All right. Recently, when I am occupying the recliner, I have seen a hornet hovering outside through the deck window. He may well be related to the hornets into whose nest I shoved my nine-year-old hand while climbing a neighbor's tree, which led me to replicate Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity as I plummeted earthward. I don't know. He just hangs around for a minute and then flies off.
But here's the scenario of yesterday's daynap dream: Someone has given Peggy a porch swing for her to use while she sits outside in the morning, sipping coffee and chatting with passersby while I cook breakfast and watch "Kojak." (We are two very different people.) But in the dream, I volunteer to attach the swing to the porch ceiling, so I know I need to brace it with a 2x4. I measure for the 2x4 and go to attach it, and I see a hornet's nest up in the corner, and I head to the garage to get the hornet-and-wasp spray...
And that's when I woke up.
Dream analysts, do your thing. I know Peggy would enjoy gently swaying on the swing, but she would insist on the hornets being displaced. In the dream, do the hornets represent my longstanding resentment of being bitten by some hornets and falling out of Mrs Gallup's tree? Does the swing represent the recent fluctuations in the stock market? Is the 2x4 a metaphor for the logs it sounds like I'm sawing when I snore?
I can't wait to hear what you think.