Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Shampoo as food

Last Friday, one of my Taiwanese students made the strange mistake of confusing the English words butter and shampoo, and wrote a sentence about spreading shampoo on toast and eating it.

Today, I checked the Babylon Bee, where one of the new articles was "RFK Announces It's Actually Fine To Eat The Stuff In The Little Pouch That Says 'Do Not Eat'." The article ends with this sentence:

At publishing time, RFK was reportedly questioning the warnings on shampoo labels notifying users that the product was for external use only.
 

2 comments:

William Wright (WW) said...

This is an interesting one, or at least generated an interesting set of connections to think through.

First, though, I had a dream involving hair two days ago, and given that shampoo is specifically used to wash/ cleanse hair, I thought I'd quickly share it.

The dream involved a massive evergreen tree, in something like a forest or collection of other trees. In looking at the tree, I thought that it needed to be pruned, cut, etc., particularly the areas high up, where it just seemed too massive. I stood there for a bit thinking about how I was going to get high enough to do that. At some point, however, the tree became synonymous with or was transformed in some way into my hair, as in I had this massive amount of hair on my head that I needed to cut in some fashion, just like the tree. It was strange.

Anyway, after waking up and thinking through it a bit, I tied the dream to Jacob's retelling of Zenos' allegory of the tree in Jacob 5. "Hair" has been directly linked to Israel in my symbols, or I've guessed that is the case, due to Israel being Finwe, and Finwe having the root of "Fin" which mean "Hair". So, in the dream I had a Tree that was also Hair, or Israel, which is what you have in Zenos' allegory. Zenos' also talked about things like the "loftiness" of the trees, which seemed to jive with my looking up at the height of the tree and needed to prune an area that was unreachable.

Wasn't sure of what else to make of it, but then noted your mention of shampoo, which then got me thinking more about hair.

If Hair is Israel, then Shampoo is what would be meant to 'cleanse' it, which seems to point to baptism or something like it given the bath/ shower relevance. The question in the image you posted is someone asking why everyone hates them, with the answer being the person is eating the shampoo. Or, symbolically tying this comment in, that the person is eating something that was meant to clean Israel.

This then brought to mind Terry, since I've guessed he represents John the Baptist, and his comment in the dream was that he didn't like you, just like apparently people don't like the shampoo eater.

And, of course, eating something that was meant to heal or clean others/something, takes us to Pharazon and the Lilies, and the ongoing and somewhat unanswered question as to just what those Lilies represent.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Three or four nights ago, I dreamed that I was in a "forest" in which the "trees" were actually very long flat cardboard boxes which had been stood upright like dominos. I climbed up to the top of one and then ran across the "treetops," leaping with each stride from one box to another. This caused many of them to fall down, again like dominos.

Back on the ground again, I asked what was being.stored in the boxes and was told "hair." I found this hard to believe and said, "Hair?!?"

The man I was with, who was called Craig, started opening some of the boxes. They didn't have hair inside. Instead, they contained live specimens of extremely venomous beetles and lizards and other small creatures, all of them potentially deadly. It was my understanding that they had been created via AI, by giving it prompts like "Make a lizard more venomous than a bamboo viper."

I told Craig maybe it wasn't such a bright idea letting all these unnatural poisonous vermin out of their boxes, but he insisted that it would be fun.

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