Good morning, everyone,
Rick, in much European folklore blue garments protect from evil spirits and have been allied with bringing luck. This is why a bride is supposed to wear something blue.
The frog was often associated with transition. That's why it often ended up with a specific role in fairy tales.
Been kissed lately?
The Romans gave the frog divine status, investing it with magical powers. It's role in transition was kept alive in witchcraft folklore, etc.

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Reality, like time, is relative to the observer

Anthony North

Hi Rick,

Interesting dream, you speak of a lucid dream, which is by definition, a dream during one is aware of being in the dreamstate. Do you have these more often ? If so you might go one further and induce them yourself, by then it's called astral travel btw. Many realms there and the frog is an intriguing metamorfing creature in our human mindset, in other words it may have presented itself thus. Now then blue creatures are known to occupy the astral, more than that they are reveered, obviously not where you were. Taking inspiration to paint from these experiences is a good idea, i think.

A matter of choice;
Intimidation, corruption and lies, or serenity, sharing and sincerity.

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/...
Feature article By Caroline Seawright
Excerpt-
Heqet (Heket) was a goddess of childbirth, creation and grain germination. She was depicted as a frog, or a woman with the head of a frog, betraying her connection with water. As a water goddess, she was also a goddess of fertility where she was particularly associated with the later stages of labour. In this way, the title of "Servants of Heqet" may have been a title applied to her priestesses who were trained as midwives.

Froggy Tales From Around The World
http://www.captainfrog.com/FT/index.html
From Captain Frog's website, a compendium of frog tales (tails?)stories and myths.
The Little Blue Frog
By Shoshone Woman A.k.a. Darla Lee Moore

Once a long long time ago, in a time before humans were the most mportant people on the world, there was a time when the world was peopled mostly by frogs. There were many lakes, ponds, creeks, and rivers for the little frogs to live in.

There were all kinds of frogs. There were big frogs, and little frogs, there were smooth frogs, and warty frogs, but they all had something in common. They all were some shade of green, and the all could sing and swim very well.

Everything was going along quite swimmingly, when one day The Great Mystery, (whom some call Grandfather and some call God) did a very mysterious thing. He created a Little Blue Frog. No one knows why the Great Mystery did that, but the Great Mystery usually has good reasons for the things that he does.

This little blue frog had a very hard life. Being blue wasn't his only disability. It seems that not only was he blue, but he didn't have webbed feet and he couldn't swim very well. His toes instead of being webbed, were more like hands with long fingers and with soft sticky palms.

Living with all the green frogs was very hard for him. You see, these green frogs were very unfriendly and impolite, they just couldn't help but make rude jokes about the blue frog. They called him rude names and were very mean to him. Sometimes, they would even shove him into the water, and push his little blue head under the water just to see him sputter. The other green frogs would often point and sing "Blue Frog, Blue frog."

The Little Blue Frog lived through the summer with the best attitude he could muster. In spite of being blue, he was quite congenial and optimistic. He tried to make the best of his life, such as it was. He spent long hours hiding in the weeds, and watching the other frogs swim. He thought that swimming looked like a lot of fun, yet he somehow knew that it wasn't the thing for himself. He loved sitting on lily pads in the afternoon sun. Lots of big green flies would fly about, and he just loved eating big green flies. Even though he was blue, he lived his life very much as all the green frogs, excepting that he couldn't swim very well.

Even back in those days so long ago, frogs lived very much the same as they do today. So, in the fall came the time when most frogs dig deep down into the mud at the bottom of the pond and go to sleep for the winter. The Little Blue Frog also dug down into the mud and went to sleep as well.

The winter lasted for a long, long time. It was very cold and all the grass and lily pads died. All the leaves fell from the trees and all the other creatures had to hide in their burrows to stay warm. All the water in the lakes and ponds froze up. The wind blew snow out across the ice, and it made a lonely whooshing sound. The frogs didn't know about this, as they were sleeping the whole winter away down deep in the mud at the bottom of the ponds.

After a long while the days begin to get longer and longer. Spring was on its way. The air began to get warmer, and soon the ice and snow began to melt. Very soon the trees started to bud new leaves, and the grass began to grow again. In a little while the bugs came out and began to fly about, and the lily leaves were once more growing in the ponds and lakes. It was then that the frogs woke up and dug their way out of the mud and swam to the edges of the ponds. Just as they do to this very day.

After they made their way to the edges of the ponds, They began to gather into groups and began to sing. The singing sounded very nice, and soon a lot of young frogs were gathering together, and the spring courting had begun. The singing is a very important part of this courting, because everyone knows that the best singers make the best husbands.

As they were singing, that afternoon, something very mysterious happened. They began to hear beautiful music coming from somewhere near the pond. Where could this beautiful voice be singing from? The green frogs each took turns singing by themselves to see if this beautiful music might be coming from one of them. Well, it wasn't one of them. They were quiet for a while, and then they heard the beautiful song again. This time they sent out a search party to find this frog with the beautiful voice. To heir great surprise, they found that it was the Little Blue Frog singing from the weeds.

They were just about to ask him to join them for the evening concert, when they heard the voice of the Great Mystery, "Listen to me green frogs. I have sent the Little Blue Frog among you as a lesson. You treated him badly just because he is a little different from you. You didn't even give him a chance to show you his great talent. You shunned him based only on his color and ability to swim. I am very ashamed of the way you have behaved. Because you have treated him so badly, I will give him a gift that none of you shall ever have."

Then to the Little Blue Frog he said, "You have handled being treated badly quite well, and I am proud of you. You will always have your beautiful voice and bright blue color. Now I want to tell you a secret. You can't swim very well because you are a special frog. You were never meant to swim. Look at your toes. They are different for a reason. You are, my child, a tree frog. I created you with sticky toes so that you can climb into the trees high enough so that everyone can hear your beautiful voice."

So, that is what happened a very long time ago when the Great Mystery taught the green frogs not to judge others by their looks or disabilities.

-----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.