Creation of a Brand New Squirrel

Dave’s Dream:

Beginning to process and input the last year-plus of dreams, the first of note was this one… from September 15, 2010

Walking up a mountain, dry with pines, I suddenly saw something move quickly out of the corner of my eye. Following the mysterious animal into the bush, a clearing soon opened up. Atop a rock was a squirrel-esque being, unfamiliar to me, with pointy ears, stripes like a chipmunk, and a striped and bushy tail.

I had a squirrel field guide with me and started flipping through the pages. Finally, there it was: The Mount Wasson Quail Squirrel. That had to be it. Right there in my handy field guide.

The only problem was… it was a dream, and I certainly had not discovered a new squirrel species. But I DID think it interesting that my dreaming mind used “Wasson”, since my ONLY connotation to that word is the last name of Gordon Wasson, a mycologist who, early on in the 50s and 60s, brought to America the wisdom of the shamanic and healing uses of mushrooms as practiced in Mexico.

Bizarre.

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