The Russian Fire
From the Journal, 12/31/2023
I have the impression I am with President Putin of Russia. I ask him, “if your predecessor got into office by cheating, and I’m talking about Biden here, then he never had authority to make any agreements on behalf of the United States. The incoming president could, and I think should, immediately nullify all such agreements, particularly foreign ones. If the incoming US president did that after Biden is out, would you understand, and how would you react?”
Putin then motioned that I follow him into another room. Once inside, he pulled down his pants to expose a fairly large you know what. I didn’t know how to react to that, so I just said, “I see,” and then left the room.
After I left, I realized what he meant, and said, “Did you mean to say, ‘whoever is bigger gets to say what he wants?’”
At this he nodded, and said, “I notice when I was there, a cinema I went to in Virginia did not work. I would fix that.”
Then I saw something that I now think was symbolic of Ukraine. There was a small fire on Putin’s doorstep. A man there scooped it up and brought it to a fireplace that had what looked like an out of control fire, threatening to expand beyond the wire screen in front of it.
He threw the doorstep fire onto the other fire, and something odd happened. First, the small fire seemed to quell the larger fire, creating a pile of ash, and then the bricks of the fireplace, all cube-shaped, had been in disarray, but as soon as the two fires are put out, the out of place bricks start flipping back into place, effectively paving over the ashes of both fires, as if they had ever been.
Next, a woman came over who I understood to be Putin’s wife. She said her name was Anna or Hannah, something like that. She said something like, “We (meaning Putin and herself) will be great friends.”
Then I wake up, thinking she meant, great friends with me. I also thought I saw Zelenskyy earlier, when Putin engaged in the size contest, but I don’t know where. It was like the idea of Zelenskyy was there, though he wasn’t.
Comment
This dream is saying that Ukraine’s “fire” (the fire on Putin’s doorstep) will be extinguished by Putin’s larger “fire” (military force), thus extinguishing both. The result will be the reassembly of the Soviet Union (the out of place bricks that return to Putin’s fireplace (Russia).
The example of the two fires was the point of the dream, but the brief intro with Putin was interesting as well, if for no other reason but that Putin’s way of expressing himself was consistent with his brash public persona.
Overall, the idea of a little fire being absorbed by a bigger one, extinguishing both, makes me think of peace. That sounds good, even if the reassembly of the Soviet-era countries as part of Russia is ominous.