1st awakening: I remember 4 different settings. The action which was occurring just before Calvin woke me up was of holding my long fly rod pole at home and trying to wind up the line on the reel. The line is green and it seemed that when I had it all unwound, it was tied to the reel by a double thickness of black cord. The line became all snarled and tangled up and it was very difficult to hold the line straight from the reel so that the cord could be wound on the reel. Occurring at an earlier point, but I think at an unrelated time I was attending a movie and in the movie was this incident where we were viewing the German Kaiser standing at a particular street corner. In the dream you could notice the fancy street signs and the wording on the signs. Then it seemed as if there were some writing underneath this which said that though the war was over, the Kaiser would not step down and although he was not unhappy about disobedience from his troops, that he would not take orders from anyone else. There was a large number of German troops marching down this street at the time, and you could see the Kaiser there first. Then the troops marched by him. Then you could see that the Kaiser had been shot and was lying in the street. Then it seemed as if I were in the street myself and one of the German soldiers yelled to me something about the Kaiser and I said that he was dead. The soldier then asked who now was going to be the next chancellor and I said something about I don't know. Then it seemed as if the movie were over and I were coming out of the movie walking down the lobby with many people around, and was talking to some one person in particular and joking that maybe the new chancellor would be Goldsmith. This is not anybody in particular, just a name I made up because it sounded Jewish. Then I felt a little bad because it seemed as if this person or someone else nearby were Jewish and I was hoping that they would not take offense because I had not meant it to be derogatory. I believe it was after this that the next dream incident took place. The setting was in a drug store and there was a great deal of Christmas activity going on. That is the Christmas shopping season was just coming on, and all of the clerks were busily putting up Santa Claus posters and in a whiskey store that you could see the clerk was busily washing the top shelves and windows and placing bright colored Christmas signs there. Over near one counter was a woman and two or three boys with her, of elementary school age. I don't know from what conversation or action of theirs, but it seemed as if they were shopping early because they wanted to obtain a present for the boys' father who was away and it seemed as if he were in service overseas. The boys were standing at the counter where there were several fishing poles and one of the boys was holding this fishing pole which consisted of alternate green and white stripes on it, and asking his mother whether this would be a very expensive one. She said that yes, this type would be a very expensive kind. And the boy asked something about whether he might get one for Christmas. The mother said no and blurted out that she had already bought them gas tanks which seemed to mean trucks of some sort, and then she was a little sheepish looking because she had given away the secret about what their Christmas present was. A little before this I had said something to the woman when we were all standing around in the store that it was the Christmas season again and made some comment about its business and the activity associated with it. When I heard the woman make the slip about tanks, I said something to her about, "You mean air tanks, don't you?" and smiled at her. It seems as if I had my mouth full of candy while I was smiling. I was surprised at my having taken the initiative to say anything to her because this is not something that I would ordinarily do with strangers. It's possible that somehow these scenes might have shifted at this point up to the tangled fish line described before, but there seems to be a longer temporal gap in there. There's also a very vague recollection of some earlier incident which seemed to have taken place a long time ago. This involved something to do with the young girl singer who was bout 18 years old. I remember hearing her sing in the dream, and she had a very beautiful voice, and she was travelling along on a train. As you viewed this train moving along in a movie, I believe someone was saying, "You just don't hear anyone with a voice like that anymore. A really good singer is somewhat unusual to find." There was also some reference to a vacation trip or cruise and this seemed to be either a train full or bus full of young teenage girls who were going to various so-called exciting spots. Somehow the girl singer was part of this other situation, but this setting seems to have been from much earlier in the night.