My best friend from high school and I are visiting somewhere (it looks like England, but I don't have a sense that it is England) and we are with a condensed figure that is partially my kid brother and partially the younger brother of my best friend in elementary school. In the dream, however, I know it's her younger brother, although she doesn't really have one.
We're walking around this town and we get to the edge of it. We come to a store where they're selling beds that have huge enclosures around them that make them into mini rooms. We go into the store and check them out, but they're expensive, so we start to leave, but the condensed little brother starts doing flips and swinging around in the store. I yell at him and we finally go outside, where are a couple of the bed-rooms sitting together.
We walk around the corner and we're outside on a bluff. My friend and her little brother continue up the path, but I slip down the bluff until I'm on another bluff looking down at the beach. I wiggle onto my belly and look down onto a flock of penguins! (But they're much bigger than real penguins). They smell me and they dig into the sand until you can only see a little bit of their backs, but it makes a pretty geometrical pattern.
A man comes up to me and he's clearly a tourist because he has a nice Canon DSLR camera and is wearing shorts and a t-shirt with socks and sandals.
He says, "Lady, you sure do know how to put yourself downwind of animals!" and leaves in disgust.
I roll my eyes at him and go back to looking at the penguins. Eventually a doescent comes along and she asks me to leave, but I end up dropping my red backpack (which in real life is my ex-boyfriend's backpack) down where the penguins are. She goes down and gets it for me and I thank her and join up with my friend and the little brother. I wake up then...
Comments (4)
I absolutely love the fact that you illustrated some of the elements of your dream. There are so many things in dreams that are really hard to describe, and drawing them (completely accurately or not) def. helps get the idea across. I wish we would all do it! I would if I didn't have such a deep resentment towards technology and actually knew how to do those kinds of things (the process involves something called a s..can..ner, right?). You know whats funny, I recently told Virtual Light that it would be great if she illustrated her dream. Its called "A short...trip.. dream" and is about her becoming a building that her friend designed.
Oh, I also wanted to mention how your drawings reminded me of Louise Bourgeois's. Most are simple sketches like yours. You may be on to something... =)
Posted by annie hall | November 19, 2006 8:28 PM
Posted on November 19, 2006 20:28
I absolutely love the fact that you illustrated some of the elements of your dream. There are so many things in dreams that are really hard to describe, and drawing them (completely accurately or not) def. helps get the idea across. I wish we would all do it! I would if I didn't have such a deep resentment towards technology and actually knew how to do those kinds of things (the process involves something called a s..can..ner, right?). You know whats funny, I recently told Virtual Light that it would be great if she illustrated her dream. Its called "A short...trip.. dream" and is about her becoming a building that her friend designed.
Oh, I also wanted to mention how your drawings reminded me of Louise Bourgeois's. Most are simple sketches like yours. You may be on to something... =)
Posted by annie hall | November 19, 2006 8:31 PM
Posted on November 19, 2006 20:31
I absolutely love the fact that you illustrated some of the elements of your dream. There are so many things in dreams that are really hard to describe, and drawing them (completely accurately or not) def. helps get the idea across. I wish we would all do it! I would if I didn't have such a deep resentment towards technology and actually knew how to do those kinds of things (the process involves something called a s..can..ner, right?). You know whats funny, I recently told Virtual Light that it would be great if she illustrated her dream. Its called "A short...trip.. dream" and is about her becoming a building that her friend designed.
Oh, I also wanted to mention how your drawings reminded me of Louise Bourgeois's. Most are simple sketches like yours. You may be on to something... =)
Posted by annie hall | November 19, 2006 8:33 PM
Posted on November 19, 2006 20:33
I agree that the sketches really do help with the description of the dream. The geometrical penguins are pretty funny. You know there is a movie out now that keeps being advertised on TV called 'Happy Feet' which looks like its about dancing pengiuns. Was wondering if you had seen the ads and that's how they came into your dream.
Posted by Anonymous | November 20, 2006 2:29 PM
Posted on November 20, 2006 14:29