Oh Dear… (11/6/11)

From the Dream Dictionary: “To see a deer in your dream symbolizes grace, compassion, gentleness, meekness and natural beauty. It has feminine qualities and may point to the feminine aspect within yourself. It also represents independence, alertness, and virility. Consider the symbol to be a pun for someone who is "dear" to you.”

I won’t delve too deep into the Artemis Orthia aspect of the deer, since I spent way too much time reading journal articles about this for a project, and it really has nothing to do with the connection between the dream and how I feel.  (Artemis is the goddess of the hunt whose characteristic animals is the deer.  In post-Messenian War Sparta, there was a sanctuary built to which people offered lead figurines).  So, the actual dream was just a really, really adorable deer running after me in a field and then lying down to go to sleep. Random, right?

Last night, I returned to the classical ballet lessons, but because of the Dartmouth-Princeton Hockey game, I was the only one there.  Dancing is my priority, and I really enjoyed having a private lesson.  The girl taught me this really cool across-the-floor leap combination.  I never realized how gracefully and gently I could move until I saw myself in the mirror without anyone else around me.

On the flip side, I spent much of the night with floormates on McCulloch 3.  We decided to waste the extra hour we had from daylight savings time.  Yes, I know that we were unproductive in our work, but I felt like such a cool college student hanging out with them.  Some questionable things were said, according to the quote list, but it was 2 AM…  However, I was alert, and I remember everything.  Maybe I’m too accustomed to being nocturnal!

And finally the pun.  I have someone who is dear to me.  I have some more who are dear to me.  Although we are polar opposites, but we shared a dipole moment in the McCulloch 2 study room.