and more dreams
Feb. 8th, 2002 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elionwyr(because, as you can see, my mind is on everything BUT work today..)
I had a dream this week about vampires. Well, a vampire.
Classically, vampires are symbols of fears. But for me, in my psyche, they're guides. They always have been. They show predictions; introduce me to netherworlds; they're a challenge, a puzzle to figure out ("Who's the vampire?" "Where's the vampire?").
I can't remember much about this last dream..only that we acted out a scene of some sort, a competition that - I think - ended with him dying - but he didn't really die. I remember him standing up, brushing himself off, and looking at me rather sardonically.. and then I woke up.
I should also add that my vampires are never from the Buffy universe. It's usually the same one - male, slavic, 5'5" or thereabouts, dressing in classic Lugosi style. (How boring, eh?)
~~~
The other dream was last night - a purposeless dream about a house.
Again, classically, a house is the soul or the heart. I have certain houses I dream about a lot - the house that I think is my soul is an old 3 story building built on a cliff with a basement that often leaks. When Maggie (my cat) was alive, she lived in the basement (water=emotion?); now she seems to live on that mysterious new floor (4th?) where nothing else exists. (It's pitiful, really, how obvious my symbols can be.)
Anyway, last night I dreamt of another house - I don't know what it symbolizes, I don't know who lives there. I know that several friends do - or maybe my stepaunt's family, I can see Aunt April's face and feel her energy about it - and that last night's theme was that someone else was renting it, or moving in..there was change going on.
I was talking to the owners - this rather generic group of people - 2? 3? I don't know - and excitedly talking about the bathroom I loved in this house. I wanted to see what they'd done to it; I ran to the back of the house, where this bathroom was. It's usually an awkwardly shaped, narrow cubby of a room; it was more open, not as cozy. I am oddly attached to this bathroom - it's one I sneak off to a lot in my dreams, often with sexual thoughts attached..and no, it makes no sense.
Water..emotion..sex..I guess that connects. Womb? Maybe. That could be it.
Anyway, the bathroom was different, not as cozy, not as private; colored sterile-white, not plush dark-red as it usually is.
~~
Why record it?
In part, again, because of Nick.
He talked a lot about dreams. I may get some of this wrong...He used to record his dreams and try to interpret them, he said. Then he went back years later and realized his interpretations were completely wrong, but that the symbols in the dreams were predictions of the future...that his subconscious knew a lot more than his waking mind did. He connected this to the idea that our original language was made up of images. I find the idea interesting..and I'm certainly actively dreaming these days..so I want to record them.
Much to your reading dismay, huh? ;)
I had a dream this week about vampires. Well, a vampire.
Classically, vampires are symbols of fears. But for me, in my psyche, they're guides. They always have been. They show predictions; introduce me to netherworlds; they're a challenge, a puzzle to figure out ("Who's the vampire?" "Where's the vampire?").
I can't remember much about this last dream..only that we acted out a scene of some sort, a competition that - I think - ended with him dying - but he didn't really die. I remember him standing up, brushing himself off, and looking at me rather sardonically.. and then I woke up.
I should also add that my vampires are never from the Buffy universe. It's usually the same one - male, slavic, 5'5" or thereabouts, dressing in classic Lugosi style. (How boring, eh?)
~~~
The other dream was last night - a purposeless dream about a house.
Again, classically, a house is the soul or the heart. I have certain houses I dream about a lot - the house that I think is my soul is an old 3 story building built on a cliff with a basement that often leaks. When Maggie (my cat) was alive, she lived in the basement (water=emotion?); now she seems to live on that mysterious new floor (4th?) where nothing else exists. (It's pitiful, really, how obvious my symbols can be.)
Anyway, last night I dreamt of another house - I don't know what it symbolizes, I don't know who lives there. I know that several friends do - or maybe my stepaunt's family, I can see Aunt April's face and feel her energy about it - and that last night's theme was that someone else was renting it, or moving in..there was change going on.
I was talking to the owners - this rather generic group of people - 2? 3? I don't know - and excitedly talking about the bathroom I loved in this house. I wanted to see what they'd done to it; I ran to the back of the house, where this bathroom was. It's usually an awkwardly shaped, narrow cubby of a room; it was more open, not as cozy. I am oddly attached to this bathroom - it's one I sneak off to a lot in my dreams, often with sexual thoughts attached..and no, it makes no sense.
Water..emotion..sex..I guess that connects. Womb? Maybe. That could be it.
Anyway, the bathroom was different, not as cozy, not as private; colored sterile-white, not plush dark-red as it usually is.
~~
Why record it?
In part, again, because of Nick.
He talked a lot about dreams. I may get some of this wrong...He used to record his dreams and try to interpret them, he said. Then he went back years later and realized his interpretations were completely wrong, but that the symbols in the dreams were predictions of the future...that his subconscious knew a lot more than his waking mind did. He connected this to the idea that our original language was made up of images. I find the idea interesting..and I'm certainly actively dreaming these days..so I want to record them.
Much to your reading dismay, huh? ;)
