Dreams have always been a part of people’s lives. From the beginning of mankind, as long as people sleep, there have been dreams. Some kept quiet, others written of. The Bible has many accounts of dreams, their meanings, and interpretations. Written stories about Jacob, Joseph, Daniel, Paul, and others. Scholars have studied and tried to classify the different types of dreams during a person’s sleep cycle.

A common example of a dream that many people have is the one that some college students have. Many will dream that they are being informed that they have an F in a class they never enrolled in, but the school has information otherwise.

It seems most of my dreams focus on my working days. As a teacher, many different situations are encountered that we are leery of. One of my dreams is that I am in charge of a class of fifty band or vocal music students. I know nothing about either of those topics. The only thing I can play is the radio. In my dream, I seem to want to just run away from this class.

Another crazy type of dream I have is of farming. When growing peanuts, farmers had a saying, “A peanut crop is a one hundred forty day worry.” Very true statement. In my dream, I have planted twentyfive acres of peanuts and didn’t get a stand. Not enough peanut plants came up to even bother with. What a disaster!

Another farm dream that I have is about cattle, I have lost four or five calves that were ready to take to market. Not by theft, I just lost them.

Interesting note about selling calves and the reaction from the mother cow. If you sell a calf in June, the mother cow will hang around the cattle corral for two or three days, missing her baby. If you sell a nursing calf in August, the mother cow will help you load the calf into the trailer. Then all she does is say, “bye, bye.”

I don’t know what it is about people, but we seem many times to dwell on what we have lost rather than what we have gained. Case in point: when you start a conversation about basketball with people from Velma-Alma, they forget that their team won State in 1974, but only remember that their team lost to our Allen team in 1983.

When I was in the real estate business, there were always highs and lows. Most agents were like me; they would forget about the really good sale, and almost get consumed about the big sale that they lost. This is also one of my recurring dreams. I have a large land sale that is going south real quick. To this day, I still can tell you most of the sales I lost rather than the sales I made.

One of the craziest dreams I ever had was after I heard some gossip after Someone Said that a couple was breaking up. I really didn’t give the story too much thought. That evening on the television news, a story was told and shown about a building in OKC that was imploded and brought to the ground. The name of the building was given, maybe Hotel Black, I can’t remember the name now. That night in my dream, I saw this building coming down, at the corner of Main and Highway 48. The Cummings Building. In my dream, the name of the building was, “Someone Said.”

Be careful of gossip, whether verbal, or something you read online. Remember the old statement, “The writing is on the wall.”