Last night in my dream I had images of flooding. I was visiting a large group of people who lived in an apartment which was part of a series of old Victorian-style apartments on a river bank. I was up one tier, and the river kept rising to the level of my car which was parked outside on the street.
I ran outside to the car, and after some fumbling with keys, losing the needed ones, I managed to get my car parked on the crest of the hill. I ran back downhill - I think I had a child to take with me. I’m not sure if others in the apartment were planning to evacuate, but I sure was. This wasn’t the first flooding incident in that neighborhood.
Then I noticed a large family of impoverished Hispanic women and children returning to an apartment further down toward the river. I ran down to warn them, in Spanish, of the river’s rising. The mothers were unmotivated to do anything to save themselves or their children. It seemed the government had harassed them and they just got their children back, and felt overwhelmed and traumatized by the events they’d been through. They could not handle any more, so they refused to worry about the flooding.
Then I saw a family next door to them, living in a more prosperous looking apartment. I asked them how they survived, and they said they just shut the door. I guess their apartment was waterproof! They were sitting in there relaxing and watching TV, undisturbed.
I ran back uphill and the river started rising again. I had done what I could to warn the women and try to save their children. Now it was time for me to save my own and get out of that neighborhood.
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A dream of flooding indicates feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope. I believe this dream indicates that I feel overwhelmed by my blogging activities. One of the blogs is for families falsely accused by CPS, and I feel the apartment filled with traumatized women and children represents that blog. It is my most popular blog, hence, closer to the river. The other apartments could be symbols of other blogs I’ve been working on. I didn’t see a Geniyyah Healing blog, but it may have been there. I didn’t visit all the apartments.
The contrast between the two riverside apartments could indicate what it takes to be a successful blogger. I feel I’ve been part of the women/children group for many years. I started blogging in 2001, partly as a result of being traumatized by the 9/11 tragedy. I raised children from 1973 to the present time - that’s almost 35 years of being a mom. My youngest is now 17.
The waterproof apartment had three relaxing people in it. They were prosperous, with a plush white carpet on the floor. No children were there. I need to be part of that group of bloggers who are capable and competent because they have fewer constant worries in life.
The people I was visiting with uphill were other bloggers. None of them seemed ready to bail. But I’ve decided to work on multiple blogs because my interests in life are so diverse, and I’m having a hard time keeping all of them up to date. I’ve heard of at least one professional blogger who worked on eighteen blogs, updating them daily. Wow, I’ve got less blogs than that, and am lucky to get to some of them twice monthly. In the world of blogging, that’s completely unacceptable.
I’ll be working on this issue, privately, trying to do the right thing by keeping blogs up to date or eliminating blogs that don’t work for me. Geniyyah Healing won’t be one of those - I see my future as being deeply involved in spiritual healing issues, so expect to keep seeing me here.
