I had a vivid dream of teabaggers!!!

[get the red out]

OMG, talk about WEIRD dreams! In this one I was supposed to be traveling to some big state event in a van from work, and for some reason this had to do with my office drone job at the university. I start to get on the very full van and see women with tea party type signs already on board. I asked the driver about this and was told since we were a state institution (in a red state, I took it) we were required to transport them so they could protest this event. I was pissed and disgusted, especially when the only seat left was next to two of these women. I almost didn't get on the van but then I decided that they weren't running me out of any thing. Over the course of the trip it passed that I ended up telling these women how disgusted I was with them and their whole movement, one said she had told the other she thought I was low-class when I got on the van. The really scary part I don't want to think about is that these hideous women and I seemed to find some common interests by the time we arrived at our destination, nothing political, knitting or something to do with hobbies. We actually had a somewhat civilized conversation discussing that even though I still burned with rage at what they were doing.

I guess this has something to do with my recent disgust at the irrational hate (and I mean irrational, like thinking he is the worst President ever for taking time to go out with Michele once in a while) directed against the President from some people I have known for years, and how that is changing my feelings toward them. It is like Politics, and total irrational hate of anything "liberal" brought on by media and religion is breaking people apart horribly. I feel like people I have always cared about are people that can't even think, and don't want to. This has been stressing me. Though my husband and I have NOT been talking about politics and our relationship is so much better than it was a year ago.

[MorningGlow]

1. We're all in the same van (on the same planet)

Despite some folks' belief that our realities are going to split and people of different vibrations will end up completely separate from one another, on different planes of existence, the truth is that we all have to exist cheek by jowl on this planet. (For now, at least, although personally I don't believe our realities are ever going to diverge in the physical realm.) So the best we can do is what you did--change the subject, try to find some innocuous common ground, and remember that everybody's human. Then, if we can manage it, find compassion for these poor souls who have cast their lot in with the snake charmers on Faux Nooz and are buying into a perverted version of the "truth".

You did the right thing in your dream, GTRO. :hi:

[northernlights]

4. ditto

and great affirmation, WS! :hi:

[get the red out]

5. I was told that by this dream

I fight my anger regarding these people every day. I do my best, but a part of me thinks I would have "cussed them 'til a fly wouldn't light" as my Grandmother used to say.

Though I have been around this kind of thinking lately and did not behave poorly at all, maybe I am making progress even when I don't know it. I don't know. I just wish we all didn't hate each other in this country right now.

I really feel like this dream was telling me we have common ground with all people, even these people, and to look for it. I have been very angry with a few people at a group I attend on Thursday nights. I think this dream was telling me to keep what we have in common in first place, though I really want to give them a piece of my mind. So hard for me, since I always want to make sure no one thinks I agree with that crap.

I am working on my anger in every way I know how, and about the best I can do at the moment is to not have my anger at Republicans always be first place on my mind. Huge struggle, since I see every problem in this country going right back to them and their Corporate/Religious corporation masters. Maybe I can just know that without the rage at some point.

[Why Syzygy]

2. What MG said.

I'm sorry you feel it is scary to find common ground with those with whom you disagree. To me, that is our salvation. TPTB divide us to conquer us. We are easy to control when we are fighting each other while they run off with our liberties and gold.

I started playing Morrowind (pc game) again last week, and that is exactly the story line for one of the quests. The character needs to run some bad guys out of a temple so a native tribe can find sanctuary. The easiest way to accomplish the mission is to just stand aside while the two factions destroy each other, and then go in and mop up!

Swami:
http://wakeuplaughing.com/precedent.html

Sorry I don't have any dream insights... other than every character is a piece of ourselves (which I sometimes forget). Do you feel intolerance which might be similar to their intolerance?

[get the red out]

6. I was kind of making fun of myself

I have been fighting and praying to defeat my anger with them so much lately, I kind of meant that to be making fun of myself. If I can laugh about my harmful emotions it helps me.

[Why Syzygy]

3. This affirmation..

I was flipping through a notebook and found this affirmation I had written down:

"I am willing to release that part of me that feels irritated when I think of you".

See? I know the struggle.

[get the red out]

7. I will fracking use that one!

Amen, I need that. And to keep burying myself in my knitting, for some reason that peaceful hobby helps me.

[Why Syzygy]

8. There's your lesson!

I bet it really does. I hadn't thought about your knitting in RL. It probably helps you more than you realize. And, it could prove to be common ground some day.