The nightmare I was having was like a storyboard… like the images people in the movie business draw up, so they can visualize their motion pictures.
Medusa was in the nightmare. In Greek mythology, Medusa was one of the monster figures known as Gorgons. She had a head of hair consisting of snakes.
As I was wondering why Medusa was there, President Trump’s family appeared, too. They were doing some dance moves and celebrating, backstage, as their father was about to exhort the crowd at his rally, last Wednesday, to march to the U.S. Capitol building. Don Jr., his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Ivanka Trump were celebrating. And what followed, after President Trump’s exhortations to his crowd, was the desecration of the Capitol building.
News videos, that day, apparently, were in my subconscious mind.
So… the cast of characters, at that point, featured Medusa, Ms. Guilfoyle, Ivanka Trump and Don Jr.
And later, Adolf Hitler appeared. Maybe old videos, or newsreels, were also surfacing in the nightmare, showing Hitler doing a little dance, as he was celebrating atrocities he had instigated during his World War II reign of terror.
And then, awaking, some, but still half-asleep, I heard guns firing, the distinctive sound of rifles, not pistols. From my Army Guard days, I can usually tell the difference. The sounds were real, but I knew what was happening.
Around this time, in winter, there’s a brief duck hunting season in wetland areas along the peninsula, some 20 miles south of San Francisco. A neighbor of ours, who knows something about local history, once mentioned this to me.
Medusa. President Trump. His offspring and Ms. Guilfoyle. President Trump’s crowd that desecrated the Capitol building. Adolf Hitler. And rifles firing.
What a really bad dream that was!