wow. it snew.
Last night I dreamt about Freud. He was shaped almost exactly like a penis. What does that mean?”
There are few things more annoying than people explaining their dreams to you at length.
Today, however, I discovered one of those few things.
It’s people explaining their dreams to you at length, and then expecting you to ‘interpret’ them.
Standing and waiting before my class today, I was joined by a classmate, who began her afternoon smalltalk with - “I hear you’re really good with dreams…”
“What?”
“I hear you’re really good at reading dreams.”
“I… ah… erm… What?”
Eventually I worked out what had happened; this girl lived with another girl, the other girl had been part of the playwriting class, and at some point I’d tried to silence a irrelevant conversation between some others so that we could all get on with some work.
The conversation had been about dreams, and I rattled out some bull about these things quite obviously revealing a hidden passion for a friend, the desire to marry him and have his babies - Bollocks, all of it.
But they stopped talking and we got on with some work. So it worked.
But now I apparently have a small reputation as a seer, a reader of dreams. I should get myself a tent, a headscarf and heavy eyebrows and the transformation would be complete.
Anyway. By the time we’d worked out all this information, the girl had also managed to slip in the details of her dream, so while concienciously debunking the ‘mystic’ image on the one hand, it was one of those classic everyone-has-them dreams that I found myself debunking,debunking, debunking, and then reaching the end of the sentence and tacking on; -
“Of course it’s a control thing, feeling out of control and such, but it ends positively, so bear in mind that… oh, it doesn’t matter.”
Later I had a conversation with someone from the “dreams are a meaningless resuffling of recent events and memories” school, and while I agree with that to an extent, I think the there is some interpreting can be done about how your dream self reacts and interacts with these people, events and memories.
Not over analysing, but certainly your brain at play or rest is going to come up with some things that are worth looking at.
Then again, maybe it is all about sex, after all.
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