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Date Posted: 08:01:14 08/22/00 Tue
Author: Algonquin C. Havemeyer
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 209.136.189.162
Subject: The big bad wolf and how to rule the world (inside you)

Some dreams scare the tihs out of me, and some dreams are good.

This one was both. I still remember it as one of the most confidence-building experiences of my life.

I don't remember exactly how old I was (maybe 10? 12?) At any rate -- young.

My dream wove in and out of coherency, as dreams do, until it coalesced around this scene in which I was playing in the street in front of my house. There were an unusually large number of other children outside as well, all playing in their various ways, all of which seemed (at this point) perfectly normal.

Suddenly the children's noise changed from playful yelling to terrified screaming. A panic began to overtake the entire street as the news filtered toward my end -- the Big Bad Wolf was coming.

It sounds cute and funny now, but in the dream I remember everyone, including myself, being overwhelmed in stark terror, in thick black dread at the prospect of being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. All hell broke loose. Children began running madly for their doors, for their exits into their homes where their parents would protect them. I was no different at all. I joined the mass flight from terror as I ran frantically, barely on the heels of my little sister, ran for the door, ran for the house, ran for my parents to save me.

My sister got there first, however, and she shut the door behind herself. As much as I tried, I couldn't open the door. I was trapped outside.

What happened next I have never exactly figured out. I remember that the streets were beginning to clear, and I could see, way down at the other end of the block, the heavy threatening form of the Big Bad Wolf, anger in his eyes, smoke puffing from his nostrils, just like in the cartoons. I was certain that I was about to die. I was frantic, I was scared, I was helpless, and I was about to be consumed by this monster. I was as good as dead.

And then, all of a sudden.. something happened. A realization. I simply realized that I was dreaming. The wolf was a part of my dream. I had nothing to fear from him. The reason I liked the Matrix so much was because the part where Neo realizes how to win (and _saw_ the Matrix itself) gave me exactly the same feeling of power, of absolute spiritual celerity, of completely self-assured well-being as I then felt in my dream.

I then decided that, since this _was_ in fact _my_ dream, that I could do whatever I wanted. So I turned from the door and walked back into the street. I picked up some toy or other, and I began playing again. Even though the wolf was still on his way, he no longer scared me. On the contrary, his very existence was a good thing because it gave me a reminder that I was in power. The fact that I was _supposed_ to be afraid of him kept me from forgetting that I had nothing to be afraid of. I kept playing. I kept having fun because that is what I chose to do.

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Sorry that went on so long, but I had forgotten how incredible that experience was for me. It's helped me ever since.

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jcrtr@hotmail.com

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Re: The big bad wolf and how to rule the world (inside you) -- Laura, 01:54:02 09/17/00 Sun
- Re: The big bad wolf and how to rule the world (inside you) -- Chelsea, 12:30:52 05/06/03 Tue
- Re: The big bad wolf and how to rule the world (inside you) -- Chelsea Renee, 12:32:51 05/06/03 Tue