In this dream I'm either on a campus, or some institution and I'm walking along one of the sidewalks with three of my friends while touring a college campus. As we're doing this, we enter this building and come upon this door in the hallway marked "Snack Bar". Going inside we notice that there is this little food kiosk in there located on our left, as well as what looks like the contents of a broom or cleaning closet on the right. IE, it literally looked like a snack bar in a janitor's closet. Anyhow, we walk up to the counter and see this gruff older guy (picture a grumpy New Yorker) standing behind the counter.
To my shock and horror, the guy is dirty, as is the entire kitchen and food prep area behind him. Literally nothing was kept clean. I immediately lose my appetite at this. My friends, however, order a pizza, which the guy refuses to fix, and then leaves, and heads to a back office. Upset at this, I go behind the counter and try to fix the pizza before him, but it's literally impossible to do so because the pizza dough the guy made and prepped is literally this nasty piece of thick cardboard, and the ingredients are...eh, less than ideal. Some are even spoiled. There's even cockroaches and other things running around. Yes, it's that disgusting.
So I give up on making any food and look to my right to see a group of three offices against the walls, and a bunch of kitchen equipment, tables, etc for making and preparing food. Behind me is a set of ovens for doing pizza and other food. To my left (I'm looking over the food counter at my friends at this point after trying to fix the pizza for them) and see this three chamber/section dish tank and it's just nasty disgusting, and full of garbage, mold, rotting things, dirty dishes, etc. To the left of the dish tank is a series of shelves that hold cans and bottles of food.
Deciding to start cleaning the first thing I take notice of is these glass jars, like old glass coke bottles, and start examining them. I'm made to understand that these are condiment bottles, and what's inside is either mayo, ketchup, etc, and every last one of them was opened, partially used, then allowed to spoil, and not just spoil, but spoil so bad that the contents had become solid. I remember looking at them in the dream, having originally wanted to clean them up, and save them, and deciding to just pitch them because they were so far gone they could no longer be saved, rescued, or anything. Just straight into the trash.
Also, I noticed they had one of those big 55 gallon trash cans like you see in restaurants, sitting next to the sinks, and it had absolutely NOTHING in it. They literally threw nothing away. Instead it was stacked on the walls, the dish tank, counters, and everywhere else, but not in the trash can. So I set about beginning my cleanup efforts by gathering up all the trash I could find and putting it into that trash can to be carted to the dumpster. The dream ended there.
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My thoughts on this dream is that it is yet another "cleaning" dream (no pun intended) that God periodically sends me as either a message to let me know where in my life I need to clean things up, as in this case, or how I'm already doing in other areas of my life. Now, I don't currently know exactly what part of my life this is pointing to. However, given that it's on a college campus (knowledge, wisdom, learning, etc), it may have to do with the things I've learned over my life, or that I'm currently ingesting as "food" for my soul.
And, just as a point of reference, I've had other dreams like this about other places in my soul that God is either actively cleaning Himself, or areas I need to focus on myself. These places have included storage rooms filled with trash, or other things that need removing from my life, my old family kitchen, my bedroom, basements, a cabin in Alaska, and many other places. He'll then either directly clean up those areas in the dream He gives me (literally either He, or His angels, will come in and actively clean that room for me), help me clean them up, motivate me to move on those areas to clean them, or simply show me what needs cleaning, and let me loose to do it myself.
He'll then will periodically send me new dreams, or visions, or spiritual updates on how I'm doing, how those cleaning efforts are progressing, and so on. So I see this as yet another progress report that follows that same stripe. This one, however, I feel is a change of venue because the prior work that He'd sent me to do is finally done. I make this assumption because my last three cleaning dreams involved my bedroom, with each one getting progressively better, going from a sloppy, unkept mess, to clean and orderly, save only for a large pile in the corner that needed to be addressed, to a small pile that needed to be taken care of.
So this change in venue means that the other room, my bedroom in this case, has been successfully cleaned, and we're on to a new part of my life and spirit that needs attending to. Anyhow, just wanted to share that with all of you. :)
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