Saturday, December 13, 2008

Toad and Maggot

In the dream i am approaching the door to a small wooden house. It's a 'cracker box' house but standing alone instead of in a subdivision with a million others that look just like it. Or maybe it's just a little simple farm house. Not sure. Anyways, there's an old man in the yard working with some piece of equipment that isn't working. Might be a riding lawn-mower. As i reach the door to ring the bell my attention is caught by the sight of a large warty toad struggling with a large white squirming object in an oversized flower pot. The toad is working to push the white thing out of it's "nest" and is having difficulty because the white thing is nearly as big as the toad. Fascinated, i simply watch to see what will happen. Finally the toad manages to push what i realize now is the larvae of some kind of insect out of the nest and it falls down into the toad hole below the nest. The toad quickly crawls down after it and i realize the toad is going to consume the larvae. The toad begins to eat the maggot and i quickly turn away, feeling sick in my stomach as i hear the toad biting in to the larvae. I reach for the door handle to get inside the house and away from the toad and maggot but there's an insect - a small grasshopper or maybe a preying mantis on the handle. I look back at the man in the yard wondering if he knows what is going on but he is still fiddling with the machine. I turn back to the insect on the door handle and blow it off the handle with an exhalation (i huffed and puffed and blew it away?).

It's dark and dank inside the house. The only light is what filters in between the gaps in the curtains from outside. There's a big queen sized bed right inside the door in the living room and i wonder what's going on. The place looks abandoned but i know that there's somebody living there. I get around the bed and go in to another room. It also has a bed in the middle of the room. Only a full size bed this time but it still takes up most of the space in the room. I get to the kitchen and the dirty dishes are piled high.

That's all i remember. It was not a fun dream.

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