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In dreams you meet many people and see many things, but they are all part you. Dreams are in fact stories of your real life that are metaphorically told from the viewpoint of your inner-self. In my dreams, for instance, New York City was depicted as Pompeii in ruins, a TV as a pilotless bomber, smartphones as sex toys for orphans, and I (female) as a male actor with huge testicles who is playing woman's role in a dress. Without seeing our 'reality' through the eyes of dreams, we will never know what our 'reality' really means.

A dream of drugs in snow balls. (Yellow cab? Or subway?)
Acrylic paint, collage on canvas. 26 x 40 inch. 2015
Whoever you met or whatever you saw in your dream are metaphors of you. In this dream, I looked out of a window in Karaoke room at an amusement park and saw a huge Elephant monster with octopus arms catches huge white fish monster in a canal. It seemed to cause a flood very soon, so I urged to draw the scene on a paper and show it people in town to let people know what is going on. I hurried to back to town to do so. On my way to back to the town, I saw a lot of big snow balls on a street. I picked one up. It was very very light and seemed a follow ball. When I broke it, small drugs came out from the ball. I thought it might be a good idea to buy some drugs on my way to back to town because most cops are out of town to dealing with monsters and a flood. But I had no cash, so I stopped by a hotel to draw some cash from ATM. I asked an old lady at front desk if they have an ATM, but she said 'Do you have a marriage towel? If you want to draw money from your account, you need it'. I totally got confused. What is a marriage towel? I never heard of it. I ignored her and found an ATM in the basement. I put my bank card to the ATM to draw some cash, but it dispensed a lot of MTA card instead of cash. What!? I got confused again. I gave up to