Thursday, 7 July, 2011

Dreaming of Tribal Art?

I'd like to think that my subconscious trying to tell me something important when I sleep, but I can't find anything reasonable in the madness of my dreams.

A few weeks ago I dreamed that I solving a murder mystery. I found a dead body under a car and was then told to look in a cookie tin in my house's kitchen. I found a cheque for $10 million that was crossed out and read $2 million instead.

That one actually had a somewhat reasonable plot, but last night I had a really vivid dream that made absolutely NO sense:

I was in a space ship with a bunch of other teenagers. We were preparing for a space mission, apparently.  There was this gigantic refrigerator in front of us...

We were all seated on the ground packing it full of frozen treats. We put in exactly 8 boxes of caramel ice cream and tons of boxes of ice cream sandwiches. However, we were having trouble fitting it all in.

All of sudden, I was at a Native reserve by myself. I went inside this huge tent as big as a store. There was a stout British woman dressed in a sage green Khaki getup with round, horn-rimmed glasses.

She was sitting down and showed me how she made North American aboriginal artwork. She was holding a stuffed buffalo toy she already made and sewed on parallel vertical stripes with a needle - first blue, red, and then white. Like a messed up French flag, I thought.

Then suddenly I woke up at 6:30 to my alarm.

I've been trying to think about the dream's significance because it's so unexpected and contains so much precise detail, but I'm completely bewildered. I evidently have a very peculiar subconscious...

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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in bereaved acknowledgement
Of their unthinking drums.

- Emily Dickinson