I'm in a bare room, feeling my left side and upper arm. Worries me, they're very sore--and the pain feels deep inside, like an infected wound. Hold my arm tight to my side. Between them, just below the armpit, I'm squeezing a big crumpled wad of plastic adhesive tape as a sort of crude bandage.

At last, I decide I have to look. I force myself to lift the arm and pull off the tape. Examine the skin as best I can.

Nothing!

And the pain is gone, too. Weird.

Hard to be sure, it's an awkward patch to reach, so I leave my body--I don't even notice at first because my spirit body looks just as solid to me, but I stand up and look down at a second sleeping me in the room, curled up naked. I examine this physical body from above and behind, where I otherwise couldn't.

Looks fine--slick with sweat as if feverish, but no sign of the infected wound I was sure I was hiding!

NOTES IN THE MORNING

I got allergy shots yesterday, making me tired, and my left arm does ache a bit.

Pain in dream = on XENA, Joxer suspects they're dreaming, so Gabrielle pulls out one of his hairs to test it, believing you can't feel pain in a dream--wrong, as this and other pain-dreams of mine have proven.

The dream confirms my therapist's opinion I've pretty much faced all my major traumas. My only real psychological wound now is the habit of thinking I'm wounded and trying to protect myself!

Tape, bandage = "tapes", old messages! My habitual ways of coping with pain CAUSE the remaining pain!

ACTION = relax, stop using old tapes to protect wounds--I'm fine, they're healed.

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