Dreams: Changing Others Impressions of You

- Lava Development
- Missionary
- Big White Truck
- DeeDee Walters
- Ryan King
- Changing the perception others have of you
- two piles

This one is interesting. Not sure if I remember how it starts, but at some point, I return to being a missionary for the LDS church (although it is a more liberal mission that what the little white bible currently dictates). In this mission, the Elders live in sets of four, they bring their own vehicles to the mission if they want, and they can wear kahki pants and shorts with their shirts and ties. They can even have opposite gender visitors to their apartments, as long as the mission president knows about it and it's only one person at a time.

My companion in the Lava Hot Springs area has a huge white pick-up truck, and the four of us are talking about a mother and her two kids that we are teaching in the upper mountainous area of Lava Hot Springs, toward Topance Creek. For some reason, DeeDee Walters is at the house, and asks if I was the one who did something to Rosie in high school. I can't hear what she is asking, so I ask her to repeat it. It has something to do about flowers or a date or something, and I finally say "Yes, that was me." To which, she replies, "That was so sweet of you."

In the meantime, the president has called to send my companion and I on a trip to see the investigator. We jump into his big white truck and pull out of the garage, which is part of a white brick house. We are both worried the truck won't clear the doors because of the cab and the mirrors, but it does. We drive through the town of Lava, and I am surprised to see how much development has occurred. For example, there is a big hotel going up on the east end of town where camp grounds currently are. There are also huge, square, soviet-style cement pits where old people are golfing and practicing rock climbing.

As we start driving off, I immediately think of Ryan King and wished he and I were boyfriends and that I could impress him. My companion starts telling me a story about how to change peoples perceptions of you. (Incidentally, this is the reason why I'm blogging this dream.) He talks of two separate piles of stuff. In the dream, these piles are made up of random things, and they are small--no larger than a turkey roasting pan. They are also sitting outside a two-door parking garage, similar to that of the Andrew's flat in Bournemouth, England.

He continues to talk about the piles:
- The location of the piles represent what people think of you.
- Both piles begin at the same starting line
- As you do things in life, the pile on the left moves incrementally toward the finish line. The right pile doesn't move at all.
- The finish line represents your final character, and people's acceptance of that character.
- The pile on the right (the first impression) doesn't move at all. It can be really horrible or really good, but it doesn't move or change.
- If you do something bad, idiotic, wrong, or ill-contrived, or silly, the pile on the left moves backward, or even goes to the reset point (starting line).
- Once the pile on the left makes it all the way to the finish line, then the pile of the right is automatically moved there as well. That's when your character is truly established.