Rats in the Harvest Room

[twiceblessed9]

Instead of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, you had the 5 rats.

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Rats are generally considered "unclean" and "vermin". They were the vectors that carried the Black Death during the Middle Ages(this is from memory. I could be wrong).

I think this overlaps with Akwyldeflwr's dream in referencing some sort of plague/pandemic:  http://nationaldreamcenter.com/forum18/Thread-Gang-of-7

Then there's the aspect of a person of questionable ethical actions being called a "rat" or someone who tells/gives up information about someone else, "rats" them out(but this possibility doesn't resonate with me). Given how the rats in the dream shapeshifted from appearing dangerous to cute and innocuous implies that whatever the rats represented will be very dangerous for people yet seem harmless on the surface. That could range from people to whatever might carry a disease.

Concur about the overlap. I was just going to post about the plague/ rat tie. It is interesting to note that the Third Plague Pandemic was considered inactive in 1959 (think 50's theme going on). Also, what would cause the military ( other dreams) to take over and with little debate? A pandemic. Think how quickly California voted to mandate vaccinations after last year's measles outbreak. Who would benefit from a pandemic? Drug companies. Also, I was SHOCKED at how nasty people were on social media regarding people who chose NOT to vaccinate their children. They were basically calling them murderers. So, I wonder if this is what we are seeing and if so, how it will play out. Why am I thinking a little of Jim Jones?

I hope you don't feel we are hijacking your thread Elyse. If so, we can move the conversation somewhere else.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)