Tao and Dreams

I've been reading wiki's take on Taoism, which isn't what I thought it was, and was surprised that one of its originators was the fellow who dreamed he was a butterfly, and awoke, and wondered if he was a butterfly dreaming of him!  This back in like 300 bc, and much celebrated in Chinese and Japanese art. 

Anyway, I was casting about for a word to describe how difficult it is to report dreams, and came up with collate, like, it's difficult to collate a dream.

I'm on a bluff overlooking the ocean at night, much has gone before that I cant recall, and a black police officer is nearby...nothing is wrong, but I try to tell him from where I'm from, and he seems to understand...next scene I'm in his house, which looks a lot like my house, and family is about, all very polite, and son who has been at the beach relates surfing at the 'wedge', all in perfect oc surfer accent...'this is a parallel world' it's explained...I'm changing my shirt in a bedroom, and look in mirror 'to see if I'm black too', and no, same old mug, but I've got like huge misshapen man boobs over my collar bones!..sheesh..I awake, and glad to find chest flat!

I'm in my house (I dont seem to have just one house!) and it has lots of windows that look out on flower gardens....visitors all over the grounds, two girls pick small white flowers...I think maybe they are the white flowers that are along tioga road, which are in the garden too, but no, these flowers are smaller, narrower, and the petals not ruffled but smooth..to double check this I see the tioga flowers again, which oddly are growing one to a stem low to the ground....

I lost like two or three dreams by not making a written note...all it takes to remember is like one written word, or a short list of prominent things--I have post-its and sharpie pen by my pillow...

One was about a drug deal, pot, going south, in which I seemed to have been an innocent that got tangled up in the deal..things from tv show up in my dreams, watched lots of law and order episodes that afternoon...

A link to anabout Taoism and Dreams:
http://www.tao-yoga.com/deutsch/artikel2.htm

Hawk, Redtail, wounded by a nail gun, and eluding rescuers in Golden Gate Park, has been caught, and is recovering.  Link: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/10/hawk-nail-head-rescued-san-francisco-park-video

I lamented Hawk in earlier post.