Flora appeared at the end of a very disturbing dream, only after I called out to her for help several times, and at that she appeared, without comment, for just that moment between lucidity and awakening. This was a Galantamine fueled dream (12 mg at 1:30 AM) and occurred over the night with my awakening at 6:30 AM. In it, I was in a large hall as myself, a retired shrink. I was being shown a baby with an oversized head by a few people who may or may not have been related to the baby. They were worried about him, yes it was a blonde male infant. It was obvious to me that the child had a hydrocephalus and was damaged, though how badly I was unable to determine. Concurrently, (this was taking place in an auditorium with about 200 people) there was a demonstration taking place up on a stage. The leaders were showing the audience an array of men who were said to be murderers. They asked if anyone could tell from the shape of their heads what they had done. The men were an odd-looking group, and at some point, one of them got on a bicycle and ran over several people. The audience dispersed, not exactly in a panic, but not calmly either. I found myself outside, and the folks with the baby were up ahead of me on a tree-lined trail. I tried to catch up with them. I was running down the trail when a wild boar came out of the bushes and started chasing me. I was pretty far ahead when my right calf began to cramp and I was limping. At that point, another of the pigs, came out of the bush next to the trail and I was hard put to keep ahead of it. I was in fact failing, it was gaining on me. My other calf cramped and I had to stop. I turned and faced the boar. It was ugly, a mottled reddish color, with the formidable tusks that make them so dangerous. It was almost on me when I realized I was dreaming, and I used a superpower, the facility to blast energy from my hands, and killed the pig. I then, with superhuman strength picked up its body and threw it at the other pig that was now getting close. I hit it and knocked it over. I continued running, and it was only stunned and was soon up and coming after me again. At this point, the trail ended and I was next to a white ship. The folks with the baby were on the deck and I clambered up onto it. I took a seat at a table intending to go on with advising them about the baby when I felt what I thought was one of the pigs at my side. I didn’t dare look at it, but I called for Flora and N’sonowa, they didn’t come, I called again, then I reached down to try to deflect the boar’s tusks away from my legs (which were quite painful from the cramping) and felt the things head. It did not feel like the coarse hair of a boar’s head, so I looked and it was not the pig. It was a very large fawn-colored puppy, a Mastiff, named Misty. She was friendly and snuffling my hand. I remembered that I had met this dog in a dream two or three nights ago. She had not been friendly during that meeting, not hostile, just disinterested. Her owner, a young woman tried to introduce us but had little effect. So here she was, very happy to see me. Go figure. About this time Flora appeared. She was in her usual state of undress, she sat on my lap and without words began to kiss me. And of course, alas, I awakened (with two very sore legs, which even now, two hours later, are still aching.
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