I fell asleep on the recliner in the living room watching a movie (the movie is Harry Potter--I was watching it for my myth and archetype class, not because I love Harry Potter. It was alright for a kid's movie though). Anyway, my cousin walks in the room, like he always does, and seeing me laying there says "I oughta kick yer ass!," or some shit like that, because that's what he always says when he comes in from workin' and sees me chillin' comfortable. I'm asleep, but I think I hear him, and because of this, I think that I wake up, though I don't. The recliner starts spinning around slowly, like it does when I swivel myself in it, except all the way around and around, and I am not propelling it. My eyes are still closed, but I think that I am awake, and just ignoring my cousin' because he's a pain in the ass. I hear the music going from Harry Potter and everything. And I hear Mike grumbling more and more about how he knows that I am not really asleep, and he should kick my ass and whatever bullshit, and I just smile, keeping my eyes closed, and the chair spins around more and more. After a while, I percieve that he has given up, and is gone, and I am just spinning around slowly in the chair with my eyes closed. And then I realize that I can see the movie, even though my eyes are still in fact closed, and I feel a weird presence in the room, as if, I don't know, as if the room were echoing with some subconcious entity. I fell asleep at the point when Harry and friends were descending into the dungeon past the three headed-dog and searching for the key to the inner room, and that is what I am watching, and I feel weird that the room around me feels so alive, and that I am watching with my eyes closed, and slowly spinning without volition, and still able to see the screen. I realize then that I am not in fact awake, as I thought I was from the moment my cousin walked in the room, and then I awake for real, and notice that the movie is on pause and that I am alone in the room, and I can hear my cousin upstairs.
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That's kind of interesting and weird. Was this the first Harry Potter movie? The fact that you are watching the movie in your dream and that you know what goes on next must mean that you've seen the movie before.. and perhaps even like it? Well, it doesn't have to mean that you necessarily like it a lot. I think it's normal though too...your dream I mean. You're watching a movie and you fall asleep and you continue to watch the movie in your dream. A lot of my dreams are like that, where I will do something in my conscious life, and whatever I did then will follow me to my unconscious dreams and events will continue to take place as if they were part of my consciousness, but are actually not. I've had a few dreams like this. Is there any sort of term for this?
Posted by Lady Hira | May 24, 2007 1:55 PM
Posted on May 24, 2007 13:55