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1. Orange Dream TAGS: Color. Dreams. Faith. Maroon. My Stuff. Orange. Psychology. Quirky. Ramblings. Thoughts.

This morning I gradually woke up while having an orange dream. In the dream I was a girl in high school who had just joined the Orange Club, which initially came across as some sort of pep squad. In the dream I was somewhat skeptical and concerned that possibly the Orange Club was too flaky or cultish or dumb or sexist or whatever. But as the dream progressed, I got into the higher levels of Orange.

• The Orange motto was roughly "Fresh and Clean, Sweet and Tart".
• Fresh oranges are better than stale. It takes discipline and creativity to stay fresh. Human oranges can stay fresh even as they get older.
• You can wash dirt off of an orange but a rotted orange is a bigger problem. External dirt is more easily cleaned than internal dirt. However humans can recover or forgive themselves: Human oranges can cleanse internally. In general though, you want to keep dirty or rotted oranges away from clean oranges.
• Sweet is good but must be balanced with tartness. The tartness of citrus is part of the orange identity. The cattiness and clickishness of some cheerleaders was too tart, too bitter. Sweetness can also become sickeningly so.
• Oranges are largely perceived as female but males can be Oranges too. Orange is neutral toward gender, ability, intelligence, age, etc. Bold oranges can be very powerful and popular, but mild oranges are also welcome.
• The Orange Club at the high school was apparently just one manifestation of the larger organization, The Orange, that was already over 100 years old. Apparently there were adult Oranges all over the world.
• Oranges are sexy. Fresh and Clean, Sweet and Tart translated into some Willing and Wanting hanky panky.

I may have fleshed out some of the details with my just-waking mind but my sleeping mind had captured the whole feel of the idea. I could also flesh out more detail with my now fully awake mind but that's as far as the dream went.

I find it fascinating to have a "philosophy"/world view encapsulated by a color. There's the Church of Purple and the Invisible Pink Unicorn. I personally have had Maroon as my favorite color. There are implications of dark, sanguine, blood lusting, etc. with maroon. However I think I like orange as well. My favorite T-shirt has one of my heroes on it: Mr. Rogers. I have been contemplating over the past several months how it is often more useful and pacifiying to think "What would Mr. Rogers do?", instead of "What would a Spartan do?". I think that I should be predominantly an orange sheepdog who switches to maroon wolf when needed.

A toast to Orange!

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