(12/18/08) all that's left of the lion

Dream #1

I stood across the street from a big building like Grand Central Station. The face of the building recessed about midway along the building.

From within this recess there pointed out the nose of a craft which looked to me like an SR-71. Judging by the nose, however, I assumed the jet must have been enormous. I got very excited.

There were a couple people with me. One woman, who was about my age, was to my left and just behind me. I told the woman we should walk farther along to look directly into the recess of the building. The woman didn't seem to be as excited as I.

I now saw the whole recess directly. The "SR-71" stood at the bottom. It was enormous and may have been grey. A number of other jets hovered, as if hung by wires, all the way up along the height of the building, within this recess. There may also have been a few jets standing atop the building, just peering over its sides.

I thought, There's a jet show! I forgot all about it! I hope I'm not too late!

The woman and I went inside the building. The woman wasn't excited about the jets at all and made me feel ashamed for being excited.

The inside of the building was, like the outside of the building, like Grand Central Station, except with display cases everywhere, like the jewelry and perfume sections of a nice department store.

I may have been looking down at some jewelry. The woman called from behind me, telling me she had found a lion. I thought, Well, we were here to look for jets, but perhaps they also have (stuffed) wild animals here as well.

I turned. The woman, whom I still couldn't see, directed my view to an old, rich-looking woman. The woman wore a fur coat. On the fur coat was a circle, maybe six inches in diameter. The circle had white plastic backing and was inlaid (?) with pale, golden-blonde hair/fur. The fur was kind of short, maybe one inch long. The top of the circle of fur had three oval, pale purple, polished stones lying on it. The whole thing seemed to look as if it were under a magnifying glass.

I thought, This is all that's left of the lion? I felt like the woman (my friend) was trying to mock both my excitement about this event and the lion itself.