Stately Bev

Just before waking, I had a strange little dream. I saw a woman standing perfectly straight against a featureless white background. “Your attention, please,” said a disembodied male voice. “This is Stately Bev.” Bev stood there for several seconds, staring straight ahead with an expressionless face. Then she turned 90 degrees to her left (my right) and again stood perfectly still and expressionless, offering a profile view. It looked almost as if she were having police mugshots taken. I understood that I was being shown this person so that I would be able to recognize her in the future.

Bev looked to be in her thirties and had a face one would call handsome rather than pretty. She wore no makeup or jewelry and had something of a puritanical air about her. She wore a long cream-colored dress of 19th-century cut and had her hair up in a bun. She seemed rather tall, though the featureless background made that hard to judge. She reminded me somewhat of Homily Clock as depicted in the original pen-and-ink illustrations for the Borrowers series.

I have no interpretation of this so far, but it’s a good rule of thumb that when a dream begins with “Your attention, please,” you should remember it and write it down.