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DREAM
I'm in Arizona in the middle of a patch of pinkish gravel separating some buildings in a parking lot. I see a large, clay medallion with some kind of cactus logo painted on it. It seems out of place here. I think it's lost or missing from somewhere.
I try to pick it up, but it's heavy, so I push it however I can down a small hill to the nearest building.
I alert the staff at the first door I enter. I see that the place is some kind of combination office and mental hospital. Nurses are in uniform, but the rooms look like cubicles and conference rooms. It's open very late, because suddenly, it's gone from a sunny afternoon to a cool, dark night.
The people on staff inform me that certain spirits will be attracted to this medallion. They tell me that those spirits will be visible through points of light that will appear where they shouldn't, and that gusts of wind that will rush through the building where there shouldn't be any. These spirits have been described by the Native Americans whose land this building is on.
No one is quite sure what the spirits' intentions are--not even in those Native American stories. The people in the hospital just receive faint impressions of the spirits' existence, but the spirits haven't done anything harmful yet. They just frighten everyone a little.
I go through the hospital, and I think I'm experiencing some examples of what they were saying. It gives me chills.
INTERPRETATION
I think this dream is an impression I get of living in Arizona--the orangey-pink colors of the gravel-filled parking lot, the cactus medallion on clay, a tendency towards supernatural thinking, the blazing hot days contrasting with the cold nights, and the buildings and institutions that are sitting on Native land.
