The Squirrel of Forgotten Wisdom

Date: 2/25/2023

Dream started off very different. I bought a pair of long earrings that I think were in the shape of boots, and were basically a style of earrings I'd never wear, but I felt really good in them when I put them on in front of a mirror. I also remember being noticed by my lifelong crush and we started talking on my way down the stairs in this dimly lit, luxurious mall. Later I was outside some kind of a wellness centre? There was a large fountain and pool full of various fish, there was even a pufferfish that fascinated me. It was sunny. But I was a little annoyed. This wellness centre was a joint project by the government and a holistic healing organisation. I don't trust holistic healing, and felt a bit angry that the country's official healthcare system recognised them as a legitimate medical practice. There was an intermission dream between the last one and the next one. It was humorous and silly. At one point I was back in a classroom and I was paired up with a girl and we giggled a lot. There was a biology question about eyes and gender, but I don't remember exactly what it was. We sat by the window. There was also a scene of a pier at a lake where Celine Dion was singing "My Heart Will Go On" and then Leonardo DiCaprio comes out of the water and takes her down with him and for some reason it's hilarious. I feel like we're all just goofing around. The next thing I know, I'm flying away, above the lake, up in the misty sky, and find myself in the next dream which is more serious and detailed, almost lucid even. I feel like I'm in a medieval fantasy world, a combination of Tolkien's Middle Earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros. In this world there is a great conflict, a war. Armies marching and burning everything in their wake, capturing and killing whoever crosses their paths. I felt I was initially a male hobbit, along with other captives like me, certainly compared to the men that had taken us who were tall, large and strong mountains compared to us. We may have just been young boys though, for all I know. The captors were very brutal and I was terrified, so I tried to be on my best behaviour so they'd like me or see value in keeping me alive & unhurt. At one point, they wanted to torture one of the prisoners in a very specific way. They wanted to turn the prisoner into a eunuch, cut his balls off. They had a very specific method of doing this, which didn't involve a knife, but a technique involving wires and cloth. They wanted one of the other prisoners to do it, so they picked me. When I confessed I had no idea how to do it, they had a man come in and show me, demonstrating the technique on a raw, fresh piece of meat that still bled when he squeezed it. He explained it like there was nothing to it. Another one of my fellow prisoners had to watch. The thing is, at this point we weren't in chains or in prison cells. We were more like labourers in this town the army was temporarily staying at. The reason we weren't restrained was because there was no escape anyway, someone would always catch us. I guess it reminded me more of the Lannister army when they were staying at that ruin in Game of Thrones. The connection clicked, and when I finished watching the demonstration and feigned understanding, the man left, and I got into some kind of argument with one of my fellow prisoners, who threatened to cut off MY balls. He had a knife on him for some reason, and when he put his knife against my crotch, he felt something wasn't right down there. I said "You can't cut off my balls because I haven't got any." And he realised I'm a girl. I was in disguise, and I took pride in the fact that I'm a girl. Just then, we heard the roar of a dragon, and suddenly we were under attack. The dragon swooped over the barn and easily tore apart the ceiling, which was crashing down upon us. I heard soldiers and farm animals panicking everywhere, but I saw this as an opportunity to escape to freedom, and so did the other prisoners, of which there were many. So we ran, looking for a way out of the barn, looking for cover, risking our lives while the soldiers shouted and the dragon roared. I never actually got to see the dragon. Eventually I got into this lush forest. My first priority was to hide myself from the dragon, so with my bare hands I dug a hole next to a tree, curled up into it, and covered myself up with soil. After I was sure the dragon was gone, my next priority was to hide from any soldiers that may be coming this way, although I was less paranoid at this point. I felt pretty free, but I wanted to find a hideout anyway. On my way through the forest, I found some of my fellow prisoners who were happily headed home. They asked me to come with them, but I didn't feel it's safe enough to travel yet, and insisted on finding myself a place to hide away for a while. I eventually found a hole on the side of a hill and thought "I could make a nice hobbit hole out of this." I was anxious to get in, although when I did, I wondered if I stumbled upon a den belonging to a hostile animal. However, the den was unoccupied. I got to work and cleaned up the inside, made it more spacious. I found a large & flat rock that fit perfectly as a makeshift door. I even managed to get a candle going somehow. I was very much occupied with making a cozy little hideout for myself. More escaped prisoners passed through the area and they bothered me. I eventually made myself a better door, made of two layers of wood, which enabled me to close the door and not have to see anyone else. I felt pretty safe like this. I don't know how much time passed, but eventually I decided I was ready to finally come out and continue on with my journey home, wherever that was. But before I could do that, I spent my last time exploring corners of my den/hole I didn't look closely enough at before. I found that on the other end of the den was a stash of green-coloured marbles or gems of some kind. I had no idea what they were so I left them alone. Then on my way out, at the wider portion of the den, I noticed in the ceiling above me were some acorns. I poked them and they fell out. A whole pile of them kept pouring out and started covering the only door! I got to work digging the door out from under these acorns, when a dehydrated and barely conscious squirrel falls out of the ceiling as well. I dug out the door and took the squirrel outside, where there was a freshwater pool there and let him refresh himself. Then I realized the whole scene around me changed. It was like we were in the modern era now, on a sunny day, and the place had become a water theme park full of people having a good time. All I could think about was "How long have I been hiding in that hole for? Why is everyone so happy and relaxed?" It was a completely different world. The squirrel sat down next to me as I watched the scene. He said something wise but I can't remember what. I felt strange.

AI generated interpretation I felt like he was trying to tell me something, like he was the squirrel of forgotten wisdom. This dream may reflect your feelings of being disconnected and out of touch with the world around you, as well as your feelings of being overlooked and undervalued. The earrings you bought may symbolize a desire to stand out, to be noticed and appreciated. The wellness centre in your dream may reflect your ambivalence towards holistic healing and your distrust of it as a legitimate medical practice. The intermission dream may reflect your belief that you must be playful and humorous in order to stand out and be noticed in the world. The medieval fantasy world and the conflict in it could be symbolic of your struggles with authority and your feelings of powerlessness in the face of those with more power than you. The squirrel of forgotten wisdom may symbolize a part of yourself that is wise, intuitive, and knows the answers to life's questions, if only you would remember to listen.