The World Beyond BetterMost > Anything Goes
Dream Interpretation
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 30, 2019, 12:13:06 pm ---Interesting dream! If someone were to aspire to singing with Sam Elliott's voice, that would be foolish IMHO.
--- End quote ---
Bradley Cooper did lower his regular voice considerably. Still didn't quite match Sam Elliott, but at least they sounded like they were from the same family.
--- Quote --- I've never heard Eddie Vetter sing or Pearl Jam; maybe I should look them up.
--- End quote ---
Here you go:
Actually, while I love that song it's the only Pearl Jam song I know very well. I was a bit more into Nirvana, with whom Pearl Jam was usually lumped as representing the Seattle grunge scene, back when Kurt Cobain was alive and all were at their peak.
When I analyzed the Eddie Vedder dream later, I realized it was definitely about art vs. commerce in my work. For a while I was writing more creative nonfiction -- essays, mostly -- which were artistically satisfying but completely unlucrative. I mean literally, you might sell an essay you'd spent weeks on for a few hundred dollars at the most and sometimes no pay at all. Now I'm mainly doing regular old newspaper journalism, which can often be creative, but not to the same degree, obviously. Newspaper reporting is not super-lucrative, but at least it provides a regular middle-class paycheck.
I thought of this interpretation because I once dreamed I was considering leaving my then-husband -- a journalist -- for a guy in a creative writing class I had taken. The guy was objectively good looking but I wasn't attracted to him when we were in the class. So I knew at once it must mean something else, and the journalism vs. creative writing contrast seemed pretty obvious.
Meanwhile, this song has been stuck in my head for about a week.
Front-Ranger:
Interesting insight. It reminds me of the episodes of The Crown that I am watching lately. Tobias Menzies plays Prince Phillip, who spends a lot of time looking back on all that he wanted to do but was prevented from doing by the demands of his job as consort. Then, there's a lot of script devoted to the young Prince Charles who was thwarted so much in his career and personal life. The show makes him into a much more sympathetic character, very Shakespearean and tragic in the requirement that he not do or be what he wanted but yet giving him no role outside of being perpetually in the wings. And it draws parallels between him and the previous Prince of Wales, who stepped down from the throne.
Front-Ranger:
I had a dream last night that I knew I would have to record here. My family was at our in-laws' house in California. The television was on. No surprise there, they always had the TV running, even early in the morning. Mercifully, the sound was muted. I came in from outdoors, it was a beautiful California day. Everyone was mesmerized by the TV. I thought they must be under some kind of spell. I tried to turn it off but the knob wouldn't turn. I finally managed to find the electrical plug and pull it out of the wall, but that didn't change anything either. It must have been some kind of Blutooth device.
I was looking at the TV, and I felt myself being sucked in. There was a woman talking, and she had a very large mouth. When she talked you could see her tongue, very soft, pink, and pillowy. And her teeth were all moist and glowing. I watched, entranced, until I woke up.
serious crayons:
Wow, that's an interesting one for analysis, FRiend.
As you all know, but as I was telling my ex-husband just yesterday (he'd had a weird dream where he was working at previous jobs), things that happen in dreams often don't represent those actual things in real life. Making your way through a many-roomed house might be exploring about your mind, etc. Or like my Pearl Jam and writing class examples earlier, they're more about creative writing vs. journalism, not really not so much the band or my writing class. I'm sure you've all talked about this, as I'm a relative newcomer to this thread, so this is probably elementary for you guys.
But with that in mind, what does the TV represent? What is the mouth? Even your in-laws -- could they represent something other than your actual in-laws?
Just a wild guess, but could this be something about the tension between wanting to separate yourself from current events and/or popular culture (the TV) vs. the difficulty of escaping it (being sucked in, the huge mouth)?
You're the best judge, of course. What do you think?
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 08, 2020, 01:35:25 pm ---...with that in mind, what does the TV represent?
--- End quote ---
Oh, I would guess, popular culture, electronics, social media, the world, Trump; one or all of those things.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 08, 2020, 01:35:25 pm ---What is the mouth?
--- End quote ---
Maybe the cacophony of the world, or maybe just the attention-grabbing, demanding, watch-me-ness of the world stage.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 08, 2020, 01:35:25 pm ---Even your in-laws -- could they represent something other than your actual in-laws?
--- End quote ---
Sure! They could represent judgmental people, conservatives, the silent majority, the status quo...that type of thing.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 08, 2020, 01:35:25 pm ---Just a wild guess, but could this be something about the tension between wanting to separate yourself from current events and/or popular culture (the TV) vs. the difficulty of escaping it (being sucked in, the huge mouth)?
--- End quote ---
Pretty good guess, I would say, friend! And then there's also the fact that I watched the new Dracula series that started on Netflix the other day. Just the first program of it. I'm not sure I want to watch any more of it.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version