Wild wild dreaming last night!
More dreams of traveling, unsure whether I'll be able to get where I need to go on time. But this one features a reckless partier friend I'm supposed to travel with by train, who the night before gets really drunk and traps me in some situation I want to leave, but can't until I find things from my suitcase that are scattered and taken. It feels like I've been drugged by her, somehow intoxicated against my will.
image by Sharjah
I regret making plans with her, but remember that before this I was very happy we'd be traveling together. It's like she has two personalities. It's very obvious in the dream, that I get no sleep. My phone is out of battery and I spend a lot of the dream looking at the black phone face (similar to a mirror), then trying to find a way to charge it.
At first I feel I can't travel without this friend, that the trip tied to our going together, but by the end reason that I'll fly to the destination even if I miss the train, but still take the train back so I still have some of that experience.
There was a train that came by at some point, but it wasn't my train. I had to pull George back from the tracks so he wouldn't be run over (I've had a lot of dreams about looking for George too, and I used to have those about my son when he was little). The tracks were right in front of the gate of what I recognized as my house in this scene, which I can't fit in with any linearity. It's just sort of there.
It feels as though this and another dream played at the same time but not together totally, because the other doesn't exactly fit, except that I'm still looking for a way to charge my phone.
This one featured a large statue of a goddess head submerged in the ground, First American sort of feeling to the statue, however George W. Bush was there, so I think it's meant to be a blending with the Statue of Liberty... perhaps bringing in of lesser acknowledged histories into the one place. I walk around/on the crowned head to get to the other side of an event taking place, and someone tells me I really should be in on the call, but I don't stop. The environment was brighter and much more interesting in this part, like a resort I would have liked to have lingered in, if I could have.
This part of the dream I understand a lot better, because I've been more politically attuned recently, and there have been lots of calls for support and fundraising on the dem side, also a lot of traditionally republican voters joining what would in other times, be more partisan calls and events. So I guess that's why GWB is there. It's a time when there seems a strong shared desire to reject smaller divisions, so the motley blending makes sense.
Dream 2
I woke up and recorded all the above (and more) on my phone, then went back to sleep.
The second dream is quite different. It's a little like a scene taking place in a video game, because I'm riding a horse, going very fast. I'm not alone in this, several others are also riding fast horses through a scene that is full of large spiky driftwood-like protrusions in the ground, and we're trying to make the openings between the protrusions or jump over them where able, but it's happening so so fast.
As this is happening a small deer jumps from the left and wraps around my neck, and just stays there as if hugging or comforting me. I feel like someone is yelling at us all to keep going as if heading into a battle.
I feel like the horses in this part of the dream may have bee sparked by Kevin's recent No Theme Thursday offerings, and maybe I'm thinking about video games too, because I want to write about Zelda. In Zelda, I wasn't very good at controlling and directing the horses. 🙂
About the dear... no idea. hah
Breath of the Wild, image from Play Nintendo
Horses represent energy and in Buddhist tradition there are a lot of references to wind horse:
The wind horse is a flying horse that is the symbol of the human soul in the shamanistic tradition of East Asia and Central Asia. In Tibetan Buddhism, it was included as the pivotal element in the center of the four animals symbolizing the cardinal directions and a symbol of the idea of well-being or good fortune. It has also given the name to a type of prayer flag that has the five animals printed on it.
Depending on the language, the symbol has slightly different names.
- Tibetan: རླུང་རྟ་, Wylie: rlung rta, pronounced lungta, Tibetan for "wind horse"
- Mongolian: хийморь, Khiimori, literally "gas horse," semantically "wind horse," colloquial meaning soul.
[Wikipedia]
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