I'm in a hypnogogic state. A narrator's voice (belonging to a woman) begins to speak of the difference between the Dreamtime of the Aboriginal people, and the time we live in now. I have an impression it is a matter of perception, a simple yet extraordinary thing, a change of focus.

* I wake up (for real), and am just lying in bed thinking about this message from three or so hours before *

This time a narrator's voice steps in once again ...

"For the Aboriginal people, it is the vast build up of culture, tradition and stories that tell them where they are in time"

and then two more comments, with appropriate pauses to consider the words,

"This is why death faced those who chose difficult initiation paths".

Somehow a link is made between this and the earlier comment. At first I think about the word 'difficult' and wonder if it's the individual who faced a difficult path, then I start to consider that it was their path that made life difficult for the clan. 

There is some further talk of kinship and marriage laws that prevented people from marrying too closely within their family structure, and then the narrator continues...

'Woman who had been unfaithful were seen with painted bones'.

I get the impression of a variety of different rules which had consequences for the culture, that shaped and contributed to it's form.