dream.recall • synthetic.interp

By way of a prompt: dream recall | 06.17.26 it is towards the end of a long and eventful dream where much happens, all interesting in their own way. but it is the last part of the dream that feels symbolically charged when i awake. in that last segment, i am walking barefoot along a dirt path with several companions when i veer off it, stepping onto a thicket of very tiny plants that look like spikes of minuscule, bamboo thorns. they look wavy, like grass, but in a flash both the soles of my feet are embedded with them. i feel no pain but nevertheless must stop and sit on the ground, to take each one off. i do so with my fingers and am able to remove bunches of them at a time, but it still takes a while. one of my companions expresses alarm but i say it’s no big deal and they can wait a bit while i work on removing all the thorns from the soles of each foot, first my right foot, then the left. i pluck the thorns out, in small bunches at a time, and i can see all of the undersides of…