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Entry # million and something in the angst/homeplace dream category. (Don't think I've logged any here, but this is a common dream trope for me.) This one had the angst pretty well leavened by other factors, mostly interesting creative arts action. Living in a big old house with this bunch of crazy artistic types; my mother is in the mix, but kind of distant and emotionally unavailable, a common element of this type of dream; there's no space for me per se, so it's decided that I can have the porch. I'm the adult me, but also a kid, as in, everyone else is older than I am. So I'm like, okay, porch, that's cool, we can work with that. Start collecting things to set it up as my space with a trip to the closing studio of a sub section of the artist types with this one artist guy who I feel closer to--safe and warm with. Cadge a very cool heavy wall hanging, huge and covered with multi-media stuff, encrusted, kinda. We examine some of it, colors and textures, an area with lots of tiny dollhouse furniture which I go gaga over--playing with scale is really cool, he explains--messed-with barbie dolls hanging in bunches, photos, heavy painted areas, etc. Also get an antique light ficture that somehow costs me $1,500, which turns out to be gas-jet and also a heating element which is cool, but it'sreally dirty and gross and smells a little of poop. But that can be cleaned. The big problem (and angst) comes when I try to set up my space, which, as a porch, seems to always be crowded with the artists, who will never go away and give me even the space to set up, get the mud they've tracked in off the floor, or ever have any privacy to write. This goes on, and on. When I finally whine and complain enough to get some space and privacy, I find that one of them burned paisley designs into my favorite sheet, it starts raining apocolyptically, high winds blowing rain through the screens, and the door won't close properly, meaning I can't have Aristotle and Sula out there with me. I was still trying gamely to make it work, hanging the encrusted curtain as a privacy screen, when I woke up.
All of this has led me to come up with my first ever meme. A dream meme.
1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
My answers,
1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
See lj entry. At earlier times in my life, they have been, going back chronologically from now, adventure/apocalypse dreams with lots of intrique and exotic locales (that was a fun period); a recurring nightmare; a serial adventure.
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
During the serial adventure period; I was five. There was a magic wand in the world of the dreams, and I always knew when it was time to wake up and went through the same image sequence to get there (kaleidescope and rose window). I really wanted that magic wand, so one night, before I went to bed, I decided I would grab it just as I began the wake-up sequence. I did, and woke up with a pencil from the bedside table in my little fist.
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
The exotic locale, intrigue, interesting character adventure dreams that I don't seem to have much anymore.
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
A couple: a big national park area and portions of the road that you have to take to get there. Until about a year ago, the house I lived in until I was eight.
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
Yes, the one where I decided I was tired of the angsty dreams about the childhood house and that I was going to build a new one, for adult me, and I did. Woke up feeling sooo relieved and so good.
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
Yes. Blew a logic circuit on the word processor, I think.
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
About a year before my mother left I had a dream that we were in my schoolyard and the neighborhood bullies were there and one touched her and she disappeared and was, like, gone. (I don't know that this was prophetic so much as a kid being sensitive to the household undercurrents and the emotional state of mom.)
All of this has led me to come up with my first ever meme. A dream meme.
1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
My answers,
1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
See lj entry. At earlier times in my life, they have been, going back chronologically from now, adventure/apocalypse dreams with lots of intrique and exotic locales (that was a fun period); a recurring nightmare; a serial adventure.
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
During the serial adventure period; I was five. There was a magic wand in the world of the dreams, and I always knew when it was time to wake up and went through the same image sequence to get there (kaleidescope and rose window). I really wanted that magic wand, so one night, before I went to bed, I decided I would grab it just as I began the wake-up sequence. I did, and woke up with a pencil from the bedside table in my little fist.
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
The exotic locale, intrigue, interesting character adventure dreams that I don't seem to have much anymore.
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
A couple: a big national park area and portions of the road that you have to take to get there. Until about a year ago, the house I lived in until I was eight.
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
Yes, the one where I decided I was tired of the angsty dreams about the childhood house and that I was going to build a new one, for adult me, and I did. Woke up feeling sooo relieved and so good.
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
Yes. Blew a logic circuit on the word processor, I think.
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
About a year before my mother left I had a dream that we were in my schoolyard and the neighborhood bullies were there and one touched her and she disappeared and was, like, gone. (I don't know that this was prophetic so much as a kid being sensitive to the household undercurrents and the emotional state of mom.)
