You didn’t realize that the cafeteria was a flat fee buffet.

Regardless of what you take from the “Buffet of Mormonism” you still have to pay the same $40 (on an income of $400), so you might as well eat all you can.

Oops, sorry, I can see how that could be misinterpreted!

Allow me to clarify: I’m not making any comment at all on your post. I just wanted to let you know that I’m with your wife. She says hi.

Your dream represents Christ’s atonement for our sins. The short cafeteria line represents the select few who stick to the straight and narrow, and therefore have the opportunity to attain Eternal Life. The experience in which you are coerced into paying $40 for $15 worth of food represents the way that God abuses of His monopoly on Eternal Life to force mortals to pay an exorbitantly high price for Eternal Life.

This, in turn, prompts the deep and profound questions that Mormon thinkers have always dodged (to a man!): If Christ had sacrificed more, then would it be easier for us to attain Eternal Life? And if so, then why didn’t He? If we’re not happy with the outcome, can we get Him to try it again and do it better this time? (They let you do that on the GMAT, you know.)

According to the dream website standing in a lines denotes you need to learn patience; a cafeteria that you have a lot of issues eating you up inside.

SO it seems you are impatient in dealing with your problems. So much so you choose the shortline (or shortcut) to deal with them even though it ends up taking just as long with a higher personal cost.

For a Mormon perspective, I don’t know; maybe you are trying to shortcut the repentance process by pretending you are more righteous than you actually are. Thus delaying you progression at a higher cost. That really applies to me so that brings about a bigger question. Why are you dreaming about my worthiness issues?

#5: I like the idea that I am one of the few in the smaller line holding fast to the iron rod. I told a buddy of mine down at the gym about my dream and he said it meant I was one of the few truly superior people in this world, all of whom ,when they start to make noises, have had to pay for their greatness (in my case, the inflated $40 food bill). Gold’s Gym has, by the way, this cool iron-rod weight bench that makes for a good abs workout.

#2-3:

Maybe that’s why you had that particular dream, Burgess. I kinda figure dreams are usually about things you’ve done, things that have happened, things you wanted/want to do, things you’re afraid/hope/want to happen etc etc

There are no specifics here on what was included in the cafeteria menu or what the three items were. Perhaps the word cafeteria is prejudicial here – but depending on what you had on your tray, it’s conceivable that you actually had a bargain price at $40.

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