Errant Penny ([info]errantpenny) wrote,
@ 2005-10-29 22:52:00
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In case it proves in any way prescient
Last night, my sleep was full of dreams.

There was a series of nested dreams. Five or six times, I "woke" only to find somehow that I was still dreaming. Each time I "woke", I found evidence that there had been an earthquake. It must have been minor, I told myself in the dreams, since I had slept through it. However, it was strong enough to have burst my windows, cracked the ceiling, and strewn my possessions around. My answering machine (a weird, recurring motif in my dreams of late), was flashing many messages that I knew were from concerned friends and family, but I couldn't seem to remember how to work the phone.

When I woke for real, with a profound feeling of relief, I immediately went to my computer to see if there had been a minor quake the night before -- there hadn't.

Of course, the quake in my dreams should not be taken literally. I find myself wondering..

What in my life is about to be dismantled?

What do I want to shake up?


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[info]myasma
2005-10-30 06:20 am UTC (link)
Hmmmmm!

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[info]myasma
2005-10-30 06:32 am UTC (link)
Wait--"hmmmm" is not much of a comment.

Maybe your life will be shaken up--maybe it will be cataclysmic! Wouldn't that be an adventure!

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[info]errantpenny
2005-10-31 03:15 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I don't know. I really like adventures, but gentle ones! Is there such a thing as a gentle cataclysm?

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[info]gracegiver
2005-10-30 06:45 am UTC (link)
Isn't that a strange phenomenon, to wake up IN your dreams? It’s like your mind is telling you this is not real and yet the other part of the mind won’t let you wake up for real. I have it happen to me often. I love dreams and even though they make me so uncomfortable trying to attach meaning, there is still a part of me that wants to figure them out. I don’t know that we ever can, though.

I’d like to be a dream analyst. Do think they make much money?

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[info]pinkroo
2005-10-30 08:14 am UTC (link)
sure--just call yourself an analyst, and change $125-150 an hour.

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[info]pinkroo
2005-10-30 08:14 am UTC (link)
uh, charge.

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[info]errantpenny
2005-10-31 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Hm, I don't really know about the earning power of dream studiers.

One of my ex's, the Quebecer I met when I was roaming around Canada, was an amateur Jungian psychologist. Seriously -- he had books and books on Jung. Jungian psychology is all about archetypes, so Jungians are heavily into dream analysis. Every morning he'd ask if I remembered my dreams and if I did, I'd tell him over breakfast. Then he'd ponder them and offer an interpretation. I found it both flattering and discomfiting. After a while, I kept dreaming about shit! I've never had as many dreams with literal feces in them as I did when I was living with Denis and telling him my dreams!


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[info]quiet_life
2005-10-30 02:37 pm UTC (link)
maybe you're in a process of breaking through your own defenses lately-
and it's scary?

(plees to get off zee couch and let me haf my nap! ;-) )

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[info]errantpenny
2005-10-31 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Interesting...like I'm cracking the walls I've built.

Oh, this just made me think of something else. I've created a lovely little cocoon for myself here, but perhaps I spend too much time in it...perhaps, comfort and security -- and solitude -- is not what I need right now...not even what I most want???

Thank you, Frau Dokter!

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[info]quiet_life
2005-11-01 05:18 pm UTC (link)
I've created a lovely little cocoon for myself here, but perhaps I spend too much time in it...perhaps, comfort and security -- and solitude
that sounds like my modus operandi! :)

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[info]inishglora
2005-10-30 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Seems like a pretty powerful dream. I've had those when I dreamed I was sleeping, waking up to find myself sleeping still. "Nested" is a good descriptor. It's like an onion, with layers of sleeping and waking. I take it to mean that various aspect of myself are asleep or awake.

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[info]errantpenny
2005-10-31 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Have you ever seen the movie "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater? It was conventionally filmed and then various artists "painted" over the filmed scenes. It has a very loose narrative that follows the protagonist through a series of nested dreams. I saw it a few months ago. It was presented by a Buddhist professor from Berkeley who gave a lecture beforehand on Buddhist themes in the movie and then followed up with a question and answer session.

I could go on and on with this, so I'll just stop now...let me know if you've seen the movie.

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