In the dream, I took the rare action of an active sabotage of a business enterprise by poring barrels of oil into their water supply. As I was also working there, it seemed that I was acting as a agent provocateur.
Only after waking up did I realize that the phrase ‘pouting oil on troubled water’ applied here. Ah.
As early as the 9th Century BC, sponge divers would spread olive oil (containing the surfactant olive oil) on the water surface in attempt to reduce the irritating flickering due to surface ripples (Young, L.B. 1983; The Blue Planet. Little Brown and Co. Boston. See J.C. Scott’s paper on: The Historical Development of Theories of Wave-Calming Using Oil Rep. 81, University of Essex, Colchester, England (1977) In 1774, Benjamin Franklin read a paper to the Royal Society. describing an experiment he performed on a half-acre pond. where a tea spoon of oil, which was very rough with wind , became as smooth as a looking glass. Dr. Jim Rohr – SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific.
And, there’s me, in the middle of that dream, wondering why no one came to arrest me for my ‘crime’.
And now, I’m wondering if Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee has the same inference.
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