A Strange Little Dream

Last night I had this crazy dream… unlike any that I've ever had before…I read online a few weeks ago about the cicadas emerging this year and I just kind of glanced around some of the news articles… like the one that mentions that zoo animals are all excited because these cicadas taste so good and they're a beneficial addition to the animals' diets....

So anyway…. I haven't really had cicadas on my mind other than that, so the dream I had was kinda strange….well, here goes….

I was visiting my friend that lives at Ransom Canyon. His house has a back yard that starts out kind of flat and then climbs into the wall of the canyon at a steep slope…. It's not particularly landscaped intricately, but in my dream, as we're standing there in the back yard talking, a large cicada comes whirring by, all around our heads a couple of times, and lands on the ground near us, where there are three stump-like protrusions coming up from the ground, surrounded by a rocky planter. It seemed like the stumps looked like small trees or some sort of cactus that had been cut back…they were in a triangle pattern.

The cicada started going around and around in the dirt around one of the stumps. Pretty soon it had uprooted the stump at the top of the triangle. While it was doing it's little 'job', I remember feeling like the ground beneath my feet was shaking and vibrating heavily. A very odd, powerful feeling… like a jackhammer but less intense.

Suddenly, the stump rolled off the planter and fell out of sight. Then the cicada started whirring again in the center of the planter between the two remaining stumps, but this time it was digging straight down. I could still feel the ground vibrating. I looked at my friend and he started smiling and then I woke up. I felt like I could still feel the vibration in my feet and legs.

It was a very strange feeling.

That dream is puzzling me….. any ideas?