So I had another weird dream the other night. I have to be honest I have strange dreams usually at least once a week. Anyways I was at work on a Sunday I walked in and saw a long line already waiting at ten o clock a.m. Since we open at 10 it was odd. I walked in the back and asked who let these people in and was told Tom did. After I talked to him about it then received a call from my boss. She said I was to go to this factory for a special assigment. On my way there I get lost and go to my Mom's house. Then an army tank with a general in it picks me up in front of the house and takes me to do my assigment. I drive unto this military base where I put my hands in a bin where I feel frozen fingers. The general says to me these are all the fingers of the men who have died in Iraq. Your job is to put the fingers in the chute and the computer will spit out how and when they died. Your then to package up the finger with an explanation and mail it to the family members. I took my hand grabbed a bunch of fingers the computer started beeping and then I woke up.

If this were my dream, I would interpret it as a manifestation of the impersonal nature of war and the apathy of the Bush administration in seeking a solution to end the war quickly, and the apathy of the country in general.

On a larger scale, I see a lot of authority figures in this dream---a general, a boss, and mom.
Do you ever feel like just a number in the world, someone who needs to express themselves but is bound by the duty of grudge work controlled by authority?

I never gave much thought to the authority figures in the dreams. I guess the severed fingers threw me for a loop. But now that you mention them it does make sense. I guess I have been feeling like the work I have been doing lately for my job is not appreciated and thats how those feelings maifested themselves.