that dream i mentioned from before: look out the window, see the big picture, smell the earth

that dream i had
the one before i got this little cold-type-thing
it was very vivid
and it had a smell
my dreams don't usually have smells
it's very rare
so, right or wrong, i tend to think
it's supposed to give the dream emphasis
it has some message, importance

in this dream
i was living in sort of a modified dome
it kinda reminded me of these really pretty-big shelters
that they had at the big woodsy park a little ways out of town
bear creek, it was called
the park where my brownie troupe went for potlatch (or whatever)
the park where my friend C had her wedding reception picnic
the park had shelters the whole wedding reception used one
the brownie potlatch used three, i think

the dome reminded me of
these big concrete shelters
not like a geodesic dome
and it was earth sheltered
and somehow multi-leveled

i had a painting
i was on the highest level
and i reached out the window
and hung the painting on the side of a building
then i went down to the lower level
the window stretched across the entire wall
like a movie screen
above my head now that i was lower down

and the smell
the smell was earth
good clean earth smell

and i looked up
up and out the window
the painting was on the side of the building
and the building seemed somehow to be a mountain
or part of the mountain
or maybe in front of the mountain
it seemed like a skyscraper maybe
i'm not too clear on that
because the painting
which had been pretty good sized
was now enormous
like a giant vertical billboard
the perspective had shifted
and from my new vantage point
i could see the big picture
or something like that

i don't know if that was metaphor
or if it meant something specific
i want to say that you were standing there with me
but i didn't write that down, so i'm not positive

the important things
were:
the window
the perspective
the smell of earth

what do you think the smell of earth means?