"Count your frogs....

...before you date them".

Please don't ask me what that means. It was a dream that I had last night.

Okay, the story goes like this. Till a few months back I would regularly see dreams. Dreams that never really made sense to me. But I would remember every single detail. My mornings were an event where I would sit and seek help from my husband, asking him to interpret it for me. But all that was in vain. Of course, there were connections from real life, but those were like 'set intuitions' - only helpful in the beginning. Then my mind would wander to places that I have never been to, see things that I had never seen and meet people who were never a part of my life.

For the last few months, I wasn't seeing any dreams. In fact I had forgotten that a pattern of my life was missing. Exactly four days back I found the bottle of the 'lucky red seeds' that I was hunting for. I was elated. But the happiness was short-lived. Those seeds had lost their charm. they didn't look red any more. And I wondered - Where can I get some more of these, real red ones? I guess the thought triggered something in the 'dream faculty' of my brain. That night in my sleep, I went to a place that was high up on a knoll which also doubled up as a quarrying site. There was dust storm all around me. I walked and reached a place where I saw a few Lambadi women preparing food. As soon as they saw me, they pointed towards a wall with a tree behind it. And guess what? It was the manjadi tree and there they were - the lucky red seeds. I picked up so many that I had to ask them for an extra bag. Suddenly a man appeared and told me "You have to pay for these pictures". That's it. This was around four days back.

This morning I woke up at four. Could not go back to sleep again. So I got online for some time and then tried sleeping again. And I did sleep. At nine, my husband woke me up. We were supposed to go to Thane at seven in the morning. He told me its already nine. I sat up startled and told him that he should have woken me up. He replied, "I did try but you said let it stop raining. I don't want to drive when it's raining". "Raining? Has it been raining in the night?" I asked. At least not in the real world. I got the message. I started recollecting the events of my dream. Here it goes.

I was teaching in a school. As part of my daily schedule I was delivering a lecture on Value Education and the thought for the day was 'Count your frogs before you date them'. Can someone please tell me what this means? And every time I think of it, I just burst out laughing. What on earth does that stand for? I was asking the kids to interpret it and then there was thunder and lightning (Thank Nature for the rains! I don't know what interpretation I would have given for something so weird as that). Suddenly the school declared a holiday. And I stood outside waiting for the rains to recede. May be that's when my real husband from my real world tried waking me up and I said, "Let the rains stop".

I don't know what's in store for me tonight. Happy dreaming1