Magic Caterpillar

I’m in the mall i go to sometimes in dreams. Scott and Mike are clothes shopping. We’re in the men section but i decide to browse around and look at shirts anyways. There’s a bunch of shirts on a rack that’s just almost out of my reach but i see a shirt i want to examine more closely. It’s got ruffles on the front and i think it might be cool. As i reach up to get it by the edge of its hanger, a couple – young man and woman, walk up to the same rack i’m standing in front of and begin to crowd me out. The man’s back is to me and he’s pushing me off balance. I say something to him about needing to stop crowding me. He and his girlfriend just look at me like i’m a freak. I almost have the shirt down but Mike and Scott are ready to go so i leave the shirt and we leave the store to go back out into the mall.

The dream sort of morphs here. We’re still in the mall but now it’s Scott and some other younger boy. I have a little black caterpillar that has special abilities of some sort. We go into the electronics store looking at stereos and the younger boy pinches off the very tail end of my caterpillar. I don’t think anything of it – it’s how the caterpillar performs the magic apparently. The little piece that is pinched off begins running around and around on the card that i keep the caterpillar on. The salesman seems to understand what the message of the caterpillar means and directs us to another place. We leave that store and go back out into the mall. As we’re walking, Scott pinches off a bit of the caterpillar from the bottom end again. Again, the little niblet goes running around and around the card. I don’t know what it means. Then we come to another ?store and the young boy pinches off a bit which again goes running around the card. I feel sorry for the caterpillar and tell Scott and the boy to stop pinching off little pieces because they’re getting close to the part of the caterpillar that contains its vital organs and it’ll die if they keep on taking bits of it off. I show them that all you have to do is ask the caterpillar to do whatever you want it to and it will. I tell the caterpillar to turn into the colors of a rainbow. As we watch, we can see the caterpillar go from black to rainbow.

Dream morphs again to ?the desert or some rocky dry place. A girl is explaining about some of the other things the caterpillar can do… but then it’s a new dream and i’m in an underground maze-like place trying to escape from a ?minotaur and wake up.


The telling doesn’t do the dream justice. It was very intense and primal feeling. The caterpillar turning into rainbow colors was very cool. It reminded me of fiber optic lights – cool and soft looking. Not sure what my unconscious was trying to relay.

Is the caterpillar the key or am i focusing on that aspect to much? Couples? Shopping “off the rack” ?

Maybe just a reaction to all the Tiger Woods drama. People keep pinching off bits of him until he’s dead or his career is destroyed? Hmm. I dunno. Doesn’t really feel right but i do hope his golf game isn’t affected by any of this crap. The caterpillar was segmented so it was easy to pinch off little segments. In its regular or natural state the caterpillar was black with bristly hairs and the little nubbin running around was also black with bristly hairs but when the caterpillar turned to rainbow colors it became opaque white looking with the colors appearing from deep inside.

No idea. Poor little caterpillar. The Minotaur part was probably residual WoW gaming flotsam because of the characters my rogue has been interacting with – especially the Tauren and Orc characters. At least this mall dream didn’t include losing my identity or forgetting where i parked my car.