Ahh, there we all are. Time for the reveal!! 1. Morpheus is a god of dreams who appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Morpheus has the ability to take any human form and appear in dreams. His true semblance is that of a winged daemon, imagery shared with many of his siblings. Starting in the medieval period, the name Morpheus began to stand generally for the god of dreams or of sleep. 2. Wonderland, of course, as in Alice in or Through the Looking Glass. Said the Cheshire cat, as she slowly dissolved. 3 . Sigmund Freud developed a theory that the content of dreams is driven by unconscious wish fulfillment. Freud called dreams the "royal road to the unconscious." He theorized that the content of dreams reflects the dreamer's unconscious mind and specifically that dream content is shaped by unconscious wish fulfillment. He argued that important unconscious desires often relate to early childhood memories and experiences. Freud's theory describes dreams as having both manifest and latent content. Latent content relates to deep unconscious wishes or fantasies while manifest content is superficial and meaningless. Manifest content often masks or obscures latent content. In his early work, Freud argued that the vast majority of latent dream content is sexual in nature, but he later moved away from this categorical position. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle he considered how trauma or aggression could influence dream content. He also discussed supernatural origins in Dreams and Occultism, a lecture published in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. I was going for unconscious wishes or desires. 4. c. Most dreams last anywhere from five to 20 minutes. People don't only dream in black and white, as was once believed - it is believed this had more to do with watching Black & White television. Even though they may not remember them, everyone dreams several times a night. In fact, during a typical lifetime, we spend about six years dreaming. People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound). When people are snoring, they're not dreaming - I can attest to that!! 5. a. It is said that five minutes after the end of a dream, we have forgotten 50 percent of the dream's content. Ten minutes later, we've forgotten 90 percent of its content. Why is that? We don't forget our daily actions that quickly. The fact that they are so hard to remember makes their importance seem less. So as you can probably guess, I didn't sleep well on Saturday night!! I got thinking about dreams and sleep. So, for Cynthia: For TM: For Annette: Bobbie, you didn't chime back, that I saw?? Thanks to all for playing - see you next week!! Nancy.

Hi all. Isn't the internet wonderful: connecting rose people from around the world? : ) Playinmud, from what I can see, your rose looks like "Louise Yeadaker"! The photos of Duet on HMF don't look like the "Ubel's Pink", but photos elsewhere do. Regarding "Duet's" fragrance, several years ago while visiting gardens in CA, I made a notation in my journal which read, " Duet - fragrance YUCK." I remember nothing else about the rose aside from the fact that I detected an unpleasant smell. I don't find "Uebel's Pink" to be unpleasant, but must say, that chemical/burnt sweet smell could have caught me off-guard several years ago. Who knows? I'm at least a week from my first bloom of "Radiance." One sniff and we'll be able to ID "UP" as "Radiance", or not. Thanks again for your help. Jen.

LOL Gray that's exactly what I thought....I couldn't whine to him about my day after he called with the car issue. He's fine by the way, a bit sore but he's just moved into a new house, and a new office so he thinks it's that and not the car issue. The car on the other hand is totaled :( Sad because it's a really old car but had onlyu 30,000 miles on it so it was the perfect winter car for me (to drive just when I visit and during the summer). Now we have to buy another and I bet they total it out at next to nothing :( My mother was here over the earlier part of the weekend...even with all the whining I have to say I did have a nice home coming. I still had five baskets of laundry from the 20 guests and she did it ALL! Also emptyed the dishwasher, fed the kid, dog, herself, left me a brownie, and vacummed the main floor. The woman is a freaking saint (though she makes me feel lazy LOL) Mom you coming to visit soon? I found some more laundry under the pillow pile downstairs Heh heh (I'm kidding!!!) The trees are still standing but DS did manage to break the three glass ornaments we had (the rest come this week). Not touching the trees is killing him so I have to get the one in his room up soon (yes sue, that will be number three, then one in our room, number four....and maybe one in the guest room LOL) As long as I hav a big house I might as well enjoy filling it with christmas :) Today DS and I moved furniture, labeled the furniture for the movers tomorrow (he removed and replaced the labels so many times I don't know where stuff will end up) and we're now enjoying a lovely riesling (Ok I am....he has a bottle). The dining room tree is straight, but the parlor tree I'm hoping, will relax to straightness soon LOL (right I know but I don't have a saw to go cut it straight). Or mom will show up and help me if it's a stand thing (which it could be....that was a hard tree to do on my own on a table). It's 6' tall and I really wanted a 12' tree so I put it up on a table to fool passers by LOL You know...if you work really hard, then relax in front of the fireplace (electric) with a glass or few of nice wine, and leave your glasses off, the electric fire almost looks real.....

Skibby - Yesterday I finished Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler, and like you, I can't stop thinking about it. I even had to back-off from starting another book last night because it was interfering with the warm, pleasant and calm feeling that Birds in Fall left me with. I wanted to keep that going for a while. As Skibby already mentioned in our September reading thread, the book is about a disparate group of people who come together at a B&B on an island off Nova Scotia to be near the site of a plane crash in which each of them lost a loved one. They are there to grieve, attend a memorial, and to claim whatever remains and personal belongings have been found in the waters surrounding the crash site. I am still marveling at the author's skill at providing such a pleasant, and even uplifting, reading experience about such a melancholic subject. I guess you can tell I really, really liked this book. Thank you for recommending it, Skibby.