I'm finally back after a long bout of a dreadful affliction, GUFN (Grounded Until Further Notice) by name. I've had a very strange, but very detailed dream. I need a little help on it, it's from four days ago.

As it begins I am in a house that I know to belong to my Aunt, although it looked nothing like its waking counterpart. All I really remember about it is that it was full of light and beauty, decorated with glass ornaments. I knew I wanted out, but for some reason I was afraid of going outside, I did not even look out windows. I whiled away time with my cousin, while my Aunt greeted a string of boyfriends as they came over, though the door was never opened while I was in the room and my Aunt was almost always naked. One day, while I was sitting talking with my cousin, someone came for me. It was at the same time totally unexpected, but also I felt that I was just waiting for the moment she came. She was unfamiliar, and familiar, she felt like she was some sort of mentor to me, and also like a grown version of a forgotten friend. She wanted me to go outside with her, to go somewhere else with her, and for once I didn't feel fear at the thought of outdoors, and so I went with her.

When we went outside, it was the most terrible thing I had ever seen, for horizon to horizon the place seemed caught in the instant of a very large storm, and I half knew that this was what it had always been like. Tornadoes cropped up everywhere, some large, some so small that they simply suspended the people a few feet off the ground. Some lasted seconds, other seemed to never end. The women took me to a place that just felt like some sort of hotel, and in the center there was a large square hole in the ceiling that went to the outside. While the one who had taken me there, and someone who worked for this place talked, very suddenly a tornado came down through the whole, and though it tugged at the women who I knew and didn't know, it disturbed nothing else. I lunged forward to hold the women to the solid ground, and eventually the tornado seemed to give up and went away.

After that I was standing on a dock outside the hotel place, and surrounding me were cages filled with hundreds of otters and seals. But in front of me was a cage that contained two things that looked part otter part seal. The cage was partly submerged in the water, the upper half lifting over my head. One of the otter-seals came up from the water, and for a long while I just stared eye to eye with it, and it seemed like we were comunicating, though I couldn't tell you what was said. There was a hole in the cage at just the right height to touch the creature's head. I was afraid he might bite me, but I reached in and touched it anyhow, and I was glad that instead of moving away or attacking, he leaned into the touch. I turned from him, and on a dock a few feet away was a tornado that was trying to convince me to it, but one step in its direction and I was slammed to the dock by the otter-seal. I forgot the tornado and the otter-seal and I rolled around the dock, playing, and soon after I woke up.

Wow, what a wonderful dream. It's seems like there's all these storms surrounding you--metaphorically speaking---yet you are untouched. I like how you reached out to the otter-seal despite your fear it may bite. Do you consider yourself the type to venture forward with new projects or ideas and you feel the fear and do it anyway?

I don't often do things that I am afraid to do. Mostly I get forced to, unless I'm afraid but it feels natural. I'm a bit of a coward, really.

All your dreams tell me that you are like a half Devil, half Angel(Clashing soul) with members of your family who embrace the dark side and you are quite different to them.

Even though you know the pathway will be worst before better you prefer the light side.

No, not really. I think inside you there is a brave person. And a compassionate one, judging from the way you reached out to the otter-seals. Compassion conquers fear.