Has anyone seen the film, Duel? I saw it a year or so back. Duel is a 1971 Spielberg film starring Dennis Weaver. It is a nail-biting, edge-of-your-chair thriller and probably caused my weird dream which happened after I turned off the TV. In my dream, I was in a northern state in the springtime and ice was breaking up on the lakes. In celebration, people were driving their cars into the lakes with chunks of ice floating around them. It was a crazy situation but they were not concerned. The drivers were having a wonderful time.
Dreams! I don’t mean hopes and goals, I mean the things that pass through our minds as we sleep. Do you pay any attention to them? I’ve read that some are caused by what has happened during the day, or perhaps long ago. Some are subconscious thoughts and worries that surface while we sleep. I really don’t believe they are a portent or a warning of something that might happen.
The second Ned McNeil cozy mystery, By the Fright of the Silvery Moon, opens with Ned’s dream; actually, it’s a nightmare. While it may not be a portent, it is an inkling of the things that are about to happen in Ned’s life and, in Ned’s case, they are just as scary as her dream.
The best thing to do with a bad dream is to get out of bed–don’t go back to sleep! Brew up a pot of strong, black coffee, and determine you’re not going to let that result of indigestion (as Scrooge put it) ruin your day.
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