In the first, I had taken a photo of something -- a T-shirt maybe, or a bag -- that had lots of little pictures and words printed on it. Using the photo software on my phone, I zoomed in on part of the photo where there was a picture of a ladybird beetle and under it the word WOW in big black letters. I used my finger to draw a red circle around this part, with the ladybird and the WOW inside. In the dream, I took the ladybird to be a reference to Our Lady, the bird part being relevant because of the similarity of aves "birds" to Ave Maria. WOW, of course, is just MOM (as in Mother of God) written upside down. Only after I had drawn the circle did I notice that there was something else printed between the ladybird and the WOW, in smaller, gray letters: "NOT A DREAM."
In the second micro-dream, I saw a meme using the cover art from Centaur Aisle by Piers Anthony with the caption "She had no choice but to be rescued by the Abelards."
I understood that the Lady in Green was a prisoner of the three male figures, and that the bird-like monsters -- the "Abelards" -- were saving her. She would have preferred to have been rescued by something other than ugly bird-monsters, but there was really no other option.
This latter dreamlet was no doubt influenced by my recent discovery (see the comments on "Oscar") that the Mexican version of Big Bird is named Abelardo and the reminder (via a comment from WG) that The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams features a horrible pterodactyl which attacks a woman, who thinks that "in some way it was Abelard." Before the bird Abelardo was established in Mexican Sesame Street, he was preceded by a dragon-like creature also called Abelardo.
Given the presence of a Lady and birds in the meme, it may not be unrelated to the first dreamlet.
Centaur Aisle is associated with Claire via the line "My tail is dun."
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My friend J and I occasionally watch stuff together through Discord screen sharing (about the only way to go about it, as he lives in Finland). He's big on weird stuff, and one movie he's had lined up for a long time is Waking Life. After reminding me of it over a week ago, we finally saw it on Saturday. Yeah, definitely weird. For much of the movie, it's unclear whether the protagonist is awake or continually dreaming.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
A more direct sync showed up during a long scene where the protagonist talks to a man that appeared much earlier on. The man discusses a dream he had involving a psychic, whom makes the man levitate up to the ceiling. He continues: "And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory. Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory." Plenty more was said but it's kind of complicated; if you haven't seen the movie before, it's worth a look.
Note that the green dress wasn't the thing that caught my attention. Lady Gregory and Yeats featured in a previous post of yours, one I reread recently.
narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2024/05/yeats-joan-and-claire.html
As promised in my previous comment on comprehension, here are a few thoughts relative to your dream. You won't like them, but that isn't really relevant here.
Readers of the Book of Mormon (those who take it seriously, at least) would be familiar with two different, specific, and opposite mothers identified in that book. One is Mary, the Mother of God, who you chose to identify this Mom or Ladybird with. The other is the one terms the "Mother of Abominations" and "Mother of Harlots".
It is this second Mom I think you are symbolically seeing here, unfortunately, and not the first. The upside-down Mom in black lettering would be our first big clue.
I've associated the Mother of Harlots with Ungoliant, whose own signature color is black, or the void/ absence of light, which fits neatly with the lettering. Then there is the upside-down nature of this. If this was Mary, the Mother of God, why would Mom be upside-down here?
There really isn't a good reason, but there is a very good reason for it to be upside down if this is Ungoliant or the Mother of Harlots, or the Great Whore.
This Being, as Nephi was shown by the angel, would do some pretty bad things, but one of these things would be to 'pervert' the truth. Here is the a description by the angel:
"And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord, yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the dust and great shall be the fall of it."
Remember that dream of you fighting against Diego-Israel? Anyway, the angel says that the Great Whore - your Mom from the dream - would do this perversion. Pervert, if you look up the word on Etymonline, comes from the Latin "pervertere", which means to "turn the wrong way". Further, this word is specifically called out as being associated with the Latin "invertere", which means, interestingly enough "to turn upside down".
Thus, to my understanding, an upside-down Mom written in big, black letters can only point to one Mother - she who perverts what is true.
I will have to continue this in a part 2 (still counts as one overall comment in my book).
Part 2 -
As you noted, Mom upside-down spells Wow. Wow is today used mostly in a positive way - as in something good has happened - but in its original form it was much more neutral, and even had serious negative meanings that line right up with Ungoliant and her nature. It can mean "to bewilder, confound, overwhelm", with bewilder giving us the even more dead-on definition of "lead astray, lure into the wilds, confuse, perplex".
And this leads into that strange phrase you noticed afterward that read "This is not a dream". In Nephi's use of Isaiah's words in 2 Nephi 27, he once again references those that fight against Zion. So we have that theme again that I just mentioned above. In that quote, we have this:
"And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion."
We are in something that is somewhat less than real, as symbolized by being in a dream. Ungoliant and her minions would have us believe otherwise, but it will be like Nephi and Isaiah said, I think.
In any case, Mommy Fortuna is a symbol on my blog that came up with respect to Ungoliant, and as you've called out numerous times, your name means "Son of Fortune", making a reference to Ungoliant as your momma in the dream make sense as well.
My last name, for what its worth, means "Worker", while also sometimes used for a carpenter or craftsman, which is one reason why I found our disagreement as whether "putting in the work" as being a good thing to be actually quite profound. You are the only person I know of who thinks of that phrase in a negative way (likely because I said you hadn't done it). Everyone else, including me, views it as meaning someone has done what is necessary in terms of effort and sacrifice to achieve something. A very good thing, in my opinion.
OK, this kind of leads into your Turkey dream, so I'll get to that when I can as my second comment I promised to you, but not sure exactly when.
This morning, I was teaching some very young children the "short u" sound, using a little book that had several words with that sound, each with an example sentence and an illustration. For the word "bug," the sentence was "A bug has six legs." The illustration was of two insects: a ladybird, and a generic black bug with a roundish body, perhaps meant to be some sort of beetle.
"Is that one a spider?" asked one of the kids in Chinese.
"No," said one of the others. "It has six legs. If it has six legs, you can be 100% sure it's not a spider."
So that would seem to be a clear "no" from the sync fairies to the theory that the ladybird and the black WOW represent Ungoliant rather than Our Lady.'
I wonder if there are two voices at work here. I have noticed a number of occasions where a dream message seems to be the mirror/opposite of a sync message, not unlike WOW turning into MOM. It also calls to mind the Black Madonna video you just posted in which (if I am following her lyrics correctly) the singer slowly realizes the Black Madonna is a false Mary, the WOW version even though she had been presented as the MOM version. Anyway, there is clearly a pattern of reversal on this blog and it makes me think there are two Voices at work perhaps.
"If it has six legs, you can be 100% sure it's not a spider."
This is a really inaccurate statement, though. Your syncs are lying to you, and by the way I hope there was a responsible adult in your classroom to correct the error.
While all spiders start with 8 legs, it is fairly common to come across spiders with limb counts less than that. Whether through injury, molting issues, self amputation, whatever, spiders can have fewer than the starting 8. Thus, just counting legs alone isn't enough to properly identify a spider. You actually cannot be 100% sure a 6-legged being isn't a spider. In fact, the older a spider is, the more likely it would be that we would see fewer than the full set of 8 limbs... and the spider we are dealing with here is very, very old.
I thought about this after you left your comment, but decided not to mention it. You don't care. I did wonder if something would happen, though, that would support this alternative view, like my youngest son would come talking about a spider he saw with 6 legs or something.
That didn't happen, but tonight Debbie did provide the sync, or at least what led to it.
She left a comment which included mention of an octopus, another 8 legged creature. As an example, she referenced the secret organization Spectre, from James Bond, which has an octopus as its logo.
My initial thinking went right to Ungoliant, the Great Whore (your wow/ mom) who as our formerly 8-legged spider nemesis was also seen by Nephi in his vision as sitting upon the many waters. In my mind, the octopus became a great symbol of a spider-like creature built for water.
As I thought this, I then remembered another fictional movie/ comic/ book organization called Hydra, from the Marvel stories. My youngest son has been really interested in these movies recently, with Captain America being the latest and which heavily feature Hydra.
I remembered that Hydra was also a secret combination that had an octopus-like thing for a logo, but I couldn't remember what it looked like. I searched for it online, and wouldn't you know it... the Hydra octopus-thing has but 6 legs. Octopus, like Spiders, apparently can have only 6 legs as well.
Here is a link to a site that has the image:
https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/HYDRA
The funny thing, of course, is the mythical creature Hydra that the organization was named after has many heads but only one tail, and so the octopus logo makes literally no sense. In fact, to Leo's observation, it is yet another example of inversion in symbol and meaning.
At first, I thought your proposal that the ladybird was actually a spider was just you reading your own ideas into a sync , with no real grounds for doing so, but these latest syncs have certainly got my attention.
Actually, elsewhere in that same book I was using with the kids, there's a picture of a ladybird with only four legs, which definitely undercuts the claim that you can classify a creature accurately just by counting its legs.
The six-legged Hydra octopus has a skull for a head. I've posted before about a spider with a skull for a "head" (cephalothorax), so that reinforces the spider-octopus link.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2024/03/skeletor-hieroglyphic-bearing.html
In a comment elsewhere, you quoted me quoting Turnus asking a supernatural messenger "Who brought you down to me?" and commenting that Turnus rashly vowed to obey the messenger without waiting for an answer to that very important question. This reminded me of an image I posted some time ago that said "Who sent you?" I found it in this post:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2023/01/hurry-up-cakes.html
The question "Who sent you?" is illustrated with a picture of a skull with flaming eyes, sitting on water, and wearing a red bandana (as if to disguise itself as a ladybird?)
I found that post by searching for "242," remembering that that number was involved. The first search result for "242" was this post about crabs -- another creature that might be considered an "aquatic spider" despite having the wrong number of legs. The post also highlights the numbers 6 and 8.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2023/02/242-and-crabs.html
Crabs are also associated with inversion, as they proverbially walk backward.
You've convinced me that this dream does likely have to do with Ungoliant.
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