> Hi Ellie --
In my 20's and 30's I had a lot of scary dreams about my mom that I'll
never forget. They were very frightening, yet had a VERY comical
element. The most vivid was one where I woke up in my dorm in the
middle of the night and the sky was purple outside and the trees were
vibrating funny and everything was very, very hushed and weird. We all
went outside to see what was going on. It was my mom. She was an alien
from another planet, and she had landed in a large spacecraft. She
projected her image onto a huge holographic screen and told us we must
buy cars and work very hard. In another series of dreams, she started
out as a cold, inaccessable woman in a fur coat who later turned into a
big brown bear in later dreams. In those dreams my dad was helpful in
protecting me and calming my fears. My husband told me when he was a kid
his mother would freak out and grab him by the neck so hard he couldn't
breathe and felt he was strangling.He's had a lot of dreams of her
yelling and strangling him.

By the way, my raw food instincto friend when I visited her recently
told me that for the last six months or so she'd been noticing my face
looked very different, and she had been sure why. She said it no longer
had a "heavy" look. She went on to explalin the heavy look had had
nothing to do with weight but was something else. We know what that
was! Depression is a very heavy look! I'm noticing more and more now
that my face is looking a lot more youthful and does seem to have
thinned out, and I think it's because I'm not going through chemical
crises in my body every 24 hours. That's got to be a powerful force for
rejuvenation. More later. Love and Joy -- Shirley