More thoughts on worlds smallest bird

I had something I remembered about a dream I posted last week Dreaming of Synchronicity: Working at a Startup company . 

When I was walking across the floor I noticed a cage that had the worlds smallest bird in it.

Dreaming of Synchronicity: Catching the worlds smallest bird


The gap in bars on the cage was too big and the bird could have gotten out at any time except it did not. 

Playing at Work

I was visiting an old workplace.  They were located downtown and I had to enter through a glass door that had white paint on it to block the view.  The inside was several desks with people working at it.  I noticed some of the people were playing baseball.  They had a pitching mound and threw the ball toward the front right over people heads.  I mentioned to the manager they needed a pitch back to make things faster.  The manager looked at me and then made his best pitch.  He looked like a major league pitcher except for his big belly hanging down. 

Chasing Tigers

I was with a group of people who were chasing tigers.  We were hunting them in a large maze with lots of panels and doors and pathways.  We would find the tigers by letting them chase us down the hallways.  Eventually somebody came up with a trap that would catch the tigers.  It was a huge view camera and the bellows would close down and trap the tiger.

Working at a startup company

I was working in an office with a lot of other people.  Everybody had a desk that was really a computer.  We did remote support for different customers.  The office was all white and the desks were all in neat rows.  I was talking to somebody and he said his customer was working good but the printer was working really slowly.  I told him I had seen that problem before and it was caused by a disk problem.  The company had very little money so everybody who worked there also had to live there.  There was only one place to shower.  I had to shower before going to a customer's site.  I walked across the floor to get my towel and noticed the floor was all soft and squishy.  It was very comfortable to walk on especially since I was walking on it with no shoes.  I told everybody how comfortable it was to walk on but they ignored me.  I walked to the shower but somebody went in right before me and locked the door.  There was also one other person waiting to shower so I knew it would be a long wait. 

Catching the worlds smallest bird

I was with a military unit.  We had to occupy a building that was like a locker room with lots of rows of lockers.  We had to hid for a few minutes while enemy soldiers walked through looking for us.  They did not look very carefully because they just walked right past us without even seeing us.  After they left we had some tasks to do.  One of them was to catch a very small bird.  I caught one in my hand and it was about the size of a dragon fly.  It had translucent wings the same as a dragonfly and buzzed when I carried it.  We put it in a cage except the the bars were too wide and the bird got away.  The building we were in was laid out on a slope.  The high part of the building was where we had to go to catch the bird.  Down on a lower level we had to set up some large guns that were part of the defense. 

Lights out

I was sleeping in a bed with my girlfriend.  She was awake and I was pretending to be sleeping.  She wanted to talk about something but I kept pretending to sleep.  Eventually she got mad and I had to talk to her.  I said it was too dark and went to the door to let more light in.  I looked north and there was Boston all in the dark.  There were several blue lights shining straight up into the air.  I looked behind me and could see all the lights were turning off one at a time and heading to where I was.  I knew eventually they would get to where I was and I would be completely in the dark.  

Drag Racing

I was at the drag races.  Somehow I got involved and was going to race.  I was not too worried about winning because I was racing my motorcycle against cars.  We started off and I was way ahead.  I had to merge onto the freeway because my lane ended and turned into an entrance ramp.  I was still way ahead and the crowd was yelling for me.  Right near the end of the track there was a stop sign and as I slowed down for the stop the car I was racing came up and almost passed me.  I had to give extra gas to win the race.

Old Neighborhood

I was in my childhood town looking for the church I used to attend.  I went down the main street but for some reason it was not a straight through drive anymore.  It stopped with a large building like a bank firgh across where the street used to be then continued on.  I went a few more blocks then turned up the street where the church was.  Because of the snow in the road I could not make it up the small hill.  I had to get out and push up the hill.  When I got there the first thing I saw was the spire sticking up above the trees.  It was summer now and all the trees had green leaves.  The church was changed a lot.  The had added a large gymnasium next to the church and it was connected to the church by an elevated walkway over the street.  They front of the church was all enclosed in glass to protect it from the elements. 

Bad license plate tag

I was riding in a car with somebody.  We drove down some stairs to get to a lower level like a large courtyard.  We had to get in a long line of cars to go to a movie theater.  While we were in line a policeman pulled my friend over.  Apparently the registration sticker was on the wrong corner.  She had to dig her registration while I talked to the policeman.  I showed them how the tag was on the plates but just not in the correct spot.  The policeman made a comment about my friends intelligence and I basically agreed with him.  The policeman was wearing a white helmet with sunglasses.  He had big shoulders like a football player with shoulder pads on.  He also had a black vest that was very shiny and looked to be made out of plastic or metal. 

Working on a space station

I was at a large space station.  It was very big and the main living area had couches and a glass ceiling and glass walls so people could look out at space.  I was brought along to do a special task but my supervisor did not want me there.  I had to find things to do to keep busy.  A group of us had to go to a part of the station that did not have any gravity to do some work.  We went through a large door like a safe door.  Inside was ladders and walkways.  I was floating and had to hold on to the ladders to keep from floating away.  I tried to spin somersaults but the space was too crowded and I kept bumping into things.  I noticed it was very cold in this part of the station and all the other people were wearing sweatshirts with hoods to keep them warm.

I was working with some people on the front of a computer.  The computer was on a raised floor and was very cold.  Somebody suggested we put carpeting down on the floor to keep the cold out. 

Back in the main living area I was working on a computer that had a problem.  It was a large computer and the problem was the fans would not shut off.  There were two switches that controlled the fans but I could not come up with the right combination to shut the fans down.

It cam time for my supervisor to leave the space station.  I was very glad to see him leave.  When he left the captain of the space station maneuvered the space station to get to a higher altitude.  He dipped one side down very sharply and I was afraid.

After we got settled again people were working all over the station.  Most were underneath desks and cabinets like a mechanic underneath an automobile.  I had to put food away in the freezer.  I noticed there was a lot of meat that was not in the freezer and just sitting on top of the freezer.  It was still cold so I put it back in the freezer.  Some of the meat was pepperoni slices.   

Blind man driving.

I was at my grandfathers house and in the yard were a lot of cars parked.   I was helping somebody get out of the house and guiding them to a car because they could not see.  I assisted him into the passenger side of the car and went around to the drivers side.  Somehow this car had the drivers side on the right side instead of the left side.  The blind man started the car up and started to drive.  Unfortunately the car was in reverse and backed over a cliff.  The car was balancing on the cliff.  I jumped up and grabbed the bumper to bring the car back on the ground.

Surfing on Cement

I was by the beach and there was a whole crowd of people with surfboards.  There were so many people there was no room to surf at all.  One of the surfers was The Silver Surfer from the comics.  I had water skis and started skiing on the road.  There was nobody pulling me I just was self propelled.  I continued on the road and the road started going up hill and swerving right and left.  The curves in the road got quite extreme and I had to lean over to make the turns.  Eventually one of the curves was too sharp and I went over the edge of the road .  Below me was a cliff with a rocks and water.  I tucked down like the ski jumpers do and hit the water and kept skiing.  I went around a small cove and took a break.  There was sand and it was warm.  A lady came by and asked if I would watch her two kids.  I did. 

Typing at church

I was doing some typing for somebody at church.  It was a big book and all hand written and was a very big task.  It came time for church and there was not enough room for everybody to sit.  Somebody  said we could go to the upstairs room which had more space.  We had to get to it by squeezing through a small space that was really just a hole in the ceiling.  I mentioned to the pastor that I had gone through that space before and did not want to do it again.  Also there was somebody who was overweight ant they would never have been able to fit through the hole.   The pastor ignored me and climbed up through the hole.  There must have been somebody already up in the attic because all the pastor had to do was lift her arms and somebody pulled her through the hole. 

Wrestling

I was in a wrestling match.  The person I had to wrestle was a very highly ranked wrestler.  We started to wrestle and he was doing all kind of fancy moves.  I finally got him down but was unable to pin him.  The referee said I had to pin both shoulders and both hips at the same time.  I was unable to do that even though I had him down.

Civil War Battle

I was fighting in a civil war battle on the Northern side.  The battle went bad and a group of us had to leave and try to get back home.  Since there were so many people searching for us we had to stick to shadows and bushes.  We found a large hedge next to a house that was a perfect hiding spot.  I noticed that the Southern side was starting to make some technological advances, mainly automobiles.  They started riding around in highly decorated cars that were souped up and very fast.  Pretty soon they lost interest in fighting and were just racing their cars around.  That was when we all headed home.

Playing Music

I was in a schoolroom setting with desks and books.  I was thinking I did not have time to do all the work involved.  I walked out and back in again to get my books.  There were so many I kept dropping them.  The teacher in the front of the room thanked me for signing up to be in the band.  I told him I would gladly play but did not want to march.  He told me he had a special place picked out for me.  the spot was on the outside all by myself and ruined the perfect square of the rest of the band.  The teacher told me I had to try our first by playing some sheet music without practicing it.  I was playing electric guitar and could sight read quite well even though I had never seen the music before.  The music was on a green board in the front of the room and I played sitting down at my desk.  Everyone was impressed with my ability to play. 

Iragi coins!

I was in a room with a bunch of desks and aisles, much like a school room.  There was something shiny on the floor and I picked it up.  It was an odd looking coin about the size of a quarter but had foreign words written on it.  There was also a silhouette of a man I did not recognize.  A friend of mine sitting next to me said it was a coin from Iraq and the words meant Iraq is Free.  I wondered how he knew what the words mean.  We speculated that a soldier returning from Iraq had dropped it by accident.  When I looked at the coin further I could see it was really an American penny that had just been re-stamped with the Iraqi design.  I could still see Abraham Lincoln's picture and there was parts of the penny that were no longer round from the stamping process.  There were ragged edges all around the outside of the coin.