Mess in the woods

I dreamed my friend from college escorted us out into the pines, where he’d made a grisly discovery on one of his regular walks. It was some immense animal, unidentifiable, hairy skin but its body turning to mush, swarmed with giant, hideous flies.

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I dreamed of a fountain inside a small, tiled room, on which was also lit a constant flame. There was a voice coming from the foundtain, that had a threefold hymn. I can't remember the exact words, but it was something like:

Remember the God
to whom you turn;

Remember the God
who gave you form;

Remember the One whose words
in your soul burns.

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I dreamed my son got jumped on Ridgewood Ave. while he was walking over to visit his girlfriend (he doesn't have a girlfriend in the waking world, to my knowledge). It was either in front of Sal's junkyard, or one of the perpetrators was a kiid named Sal, or perhaps both. He had fended them off and only had a few scrapes to show for it. We were trying to get him to describe the exact location, and I was drawing a map using a pencil. My son found it funny that the map was drawn on a paper on which was printed a different map.