people,  no  doubt,  I  would  like  to  develop  the  "artist"
within me, so I was startled to suppose that the person in
my dream whom  I had rejected might have something to
do with the artist.  The  story  teller explained  that it was
the "unkempt appearance"  of  the person  in  the drawing
that  had  suggested  the role  of artist. That remark made
me aware that  in  the dream  it was the man's appearance
that  I  had  used  as my excuse  for not  sitting  with him.
That  moment  of   honesty  lead  to  further  discoveries
about  how  I  cut off  the flow  of creativity by imposing
arbitrary standards of social acceptability.
     The  second  picture  portrays  a dream where  I see a
magazine ad for "Olympia" beer. I  tear out the picture of
the bottle of beer and eat it.  The  picture turns into a real
bottle and  I  spit out  pieces of glass. The  story  that  was
told   concerned     a   person   undergoing   a   period  of
purification. This person had gone to Mount Olympus to
obtain some special healing water. The water was having
a  purgative  effect,  inducing the person  to vomit up the
impurities  in  the body.  In  this  story,  it was  the  word
"water"  that   rang   the  bell,   the  trademark  slogan  for
Olympia  beer  is,  "It's the water." I  had  "forgotten"  that

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