Shiftkitty
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I had what I believe to be a PL dream last night, but I'm trying to nail down a location. I recall a baboon-like creature that featured prominently in the dream. Maybe if I spell it out, someone can help. I don't think it was Africa, but trying to find out through meditation is like asking a dog for his mailing address. He knows where he lives, he knows what it looks like, smells, like and sounds like, but he couldn't give you an exact location.
There was a lot of detail in this dream, but I'll spare the lengthy version for now and give the pertinent details. I am very dark-skinned. Not African dark, more like Middle-East dark. My mate and those of his tribe are lighter-skinned, but I wouldn't call them "white". They're only slightly lighter than I am, but it's just enough to see the difference. I am not of those people, but as I showed up right at the start of a period of prosperity, I'm seen as bringing good luck. As long as I do things their way, I'm welcome to stay. I don't recall much about the language, but our tongues weren't that different. Sort of like comparing American English to British English.
Here's where the baboon comes in, and I found the mindset interesting. We live in a hilly area with a couple of caves. We're not hut-builders quite yet, but lean-tos are not unknown. The period of prosperity that I seemed to have ushered in has led to an increase in our population. There is a small valley nearby fed by a river. Good hunting, good gathering, BUT...
The propsperity has also seen an increase in the population of our rivals, a baboon tribe. (I say baboon because that's the creature that they seemed most like.) The valley has abundant resources, but there's not enough to support both tribes. To ensure our growth, we will have to "own" that valley. The baboons feel the same way and we have frequent skirmishes. We are on the verge of war, and both sides are confident that they can take the valley.
The mindset that amuses me so is that I didn't have the sensation of "human vs. animal". It was a sensation of "hill people vs. forest people". We saw them as people, albeit people who sometimes walk on their knuckles and have a strange language that sounds like a lot of screaming and howling.
A couple of days earlier, one of our hunters confronted the baboon "chief" at a distance. He had gone to scout for meat when the baboon appeared. Without going into detail, the baboon gave ground when more hunters appeared, and the tale was told back at hills. At the time of my dream, I was relating the story to some others, really hamming up the baboon's way of walking all puffed up and confident. We called him "Big Walker" and I had my arms up over my head in an ape-like manner and was walking by stepping very high. When I got to the part where our hunters showed up, I squeaked and started running, inadvertently letting some gas go out the back as I did. (Laughter is a sound that hasn't changed through the ages, by the way!) :laugh:
I'm trying to nail down where this place was. The trees that I noticed were mostly deciduous, no evergreens, and I don't recall tropical varieties. Where would there be trees like that with baboon-like creatures?
There was a lot of detail in this dream, but I'll spare the lengthy version for now and give the pertinent details. I am very dark-skinned. Not African dark, more like Middle-East dark. My mate and those of his tribe are lighter-skinned, but I wouldn't call them "white". They're only slightly lighter than I am, but it's just enough to see the difference. I am not of those people, but as I showed up right at the start of a period of prosperity, I'm seen as bringing good luck. As long as I do things their way, I'm welcome to stay. I don't recall much about the language, but our tongues weren't that different. Sort of like comparing American English to British English.
Here's where the baboon comes in, and I found the mindset interesting. We live in a hilly area with a couple of caves. We're not hut-builders quite yet, but lean-tos are not unknown. The period of prosperity that I seemed to have ushered in has led to an increase in our population. There is a small valley nearby fed by a river. Good hunting, good gathering, BUT...
The propsperity has also seen an increase in the population of our rivals, a baboon tribe. (I say baboon because that's the creature that they seemed most like.) The valley has abundant resources, but there's not enough to support both tribes. To ensure our growth, we will have to "own" that valley. The baboons feel the same way and we have frequent skirmishes. We are on the verge of war, and both sides are confident that they can take the valley.
The mindset that amuses me so is that I didn't have the sensation of "human vs. animal". It was a sensation of "hill people vs. forest people". We saw them as people, albeit people who sometimes walk on their knuckles and have a strange language that sounds like a lot of screaming and howling.
A couple of days earlier, one of our hunters confronted the baboon "chief" at a distance. He had gone to scout for meat when the baboon appeared. Without going into detail, the baboon gave ground when more hunters appeared, and the tale was told back at hills. At the time of my dream, I was relating the story to some others, really hamming up the baboon's way of walking all puffed up and confident. We called him "Big Walker" and I had my arms up over my head in an ape-like manner and was walking by stepping very high. When I got to the part where our hunters showed up, I squeaked and started running, inadvertently letting some gas go out the back as I did. (Laughter is a sound that hasn't changed through the ages, by the way!) :laugh:
I'm trying to nail down where this place was. The trees that I noticed were mostly deciduous, no evergreens, and I don't recall tropical varieties. Where would there be trees like that with baboon-like creatures?
I’ve had something similar, on a programme about Dogger Land (the dry North Sea basin of the Ice Ages) had a reconstructed view across the landscape, and it hit me like ‘yes, that’s right!’
