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Subject: Posole with toasted garlic

lynnlibra

09:15 14/10/1999 

I was babysitting two little girls. I was cooking dinner for them: actually warming something their father had left.

It was a HUGE batch of posole - a Mexican soup made with hominy and meat, a staple in my childhood cuisine.

It was so huge I couldn't find a pot big enough to warm it in. It was in big plastic bags. I finally got some of it into a small pan by combining small portions of the ingredients.

One of the little girls was trying to help me but turned on the stove too soon and burned the plastic bag which stuck to the stove burner.

I have this lasting image in my mind of pouring ingredients into the pot, and when I dump them in, I discover these funny looking, dry brown flakes in the bottom of the bag. I taste one to see what it is and very distinctly taste and smell toasted GARLIC.

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I used to smell and taste in dreams all the time but this is the first time in ages.

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jennifl

14:19 14/10/1999 

Hi Lynn, I too smell in dreams. I identify garlic with healling, my mother administers it when any of my family had a hint of cold/flu so when I dream of garlic I always look for what needs healing/ repair/ or conscious thought. On the soup, maybe something that was a basic or a sustaining thing in your life as a child ? does that ring any bells ?

Lynn

18:37 14/10/1999 

Yes, I was thinking it must have something to do with healing/feeding something. In my family, Posole was like chicken soup- it's serious comfort food. It seems both the dreams I've posted point to a need to heal something from the past, I just can't seem to come up with what. I'm starting to be a little afraid of what might be coming. I've been so mentally healthy lately. haha

judyst

16:58 15/10/1999 

The thing that struck me was how much soup there was - lots of it, in fact too much to cope with at once. And the soup is a comfort thing from childhood. I wouldn't be afraid of it. It sounds like something good from the past that needs using again but in small doses, so there's plenty left over for later. What else used to comfort you when you were a child? What else sustained and 'fed' you on an inner level? What can you do to bring that back in to your life now, but in small doses? Hope this helps. Regards. Judy

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