A paradise, a push, a pull, and a loop
Sep. 16th, 2022 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boccaderlupoI dreamed of a paradise of long hallways and blue tiles that opened on rooms upon rooms. Inside and scattered about people sit on chairs of various designs as if at one of those long, languid Sunday afternoon meals with the family. Everyone seems familiar even though their bodies don't seem to match their bodies from the waking world, and they are all happy to see you, bordering on tears.
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I dreamed of a recurring female character who crops up frequently (she would likely be my "anima," I suppose, in the Jungian sense, and in the dream I called her thus) was asleep on the couch in my childhood home. Piles of jagged furniture blocked her off from me, but I navigated through and covered her with a sheet, then bent to kiss her chastely on the cheek. She awoke and pushed me away, sitting up, and explained that she was not interested. I backed away and sat at a table, and she explained that I had been chasing her all these years, but she hadn't the slightest inclination to be involved with me. I nodded in acceptance, and left.
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I dreamed I was again in my childhoood home, and had rigged up some type of pull-up "bar" with my brother that consisted of ropes and pulleys. There were complicated knots keeping the "bar" in place, but as I tried to pull up on it, the knots came unloosed and I fell. I got up, dusted myself off, and tried to loop the rope back into place and form the knots once again as best I could, but I didn't have much confidence that they would hold anyone. My brother and I just laughed.
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I dreamed I had taken my daughter to a park somewhere in Bergen County on the palisades. There was a field with a dome-like structure. Inside was a giant roller coaster, dark purple rails that simply went in a circle. It was run by a kindly East Asian family, perhaps Japanese, with the patriarch perhaps my age with smile lines etched into his face. My daughter, who loves rides, wanted to go on, so I purchased a ticket, but true to form did not accompany her. The ride went in a circle at astonishing speeds, up and down and again, almost a sheer drop on the descent. When she left the ride, she of course wanted to go on again, but I told her no, perhaps some other time. With a final glance over our shoulders at the strange structure, we thanked the family and left.
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I dreamed of a recurring female character who crops up frequently (she would likely be my "anima," I suppose, in the Jungian sense, and in the dream I called her thus) was asleep on the couch in my childhood home. Piles of jagged furniture blocked her off from me, but I navigated through and covered her with a sheet, then bent to kiss her chastely on the cheek. She awoke and pushed me away, sitting up, and explained that she was not interested. I backed away and sat at a table, and she explained that I had been chasing her all these years, but she hadn't the slightest inclination to be involved with me. I nodded in acceptance, and left.
*
I dreamed I was again in my childhoood home, and had rigged up some type of pull-up "bar" with my brother that consisted of ropes and pulleys. There were complicated knots keeping the "bar" in place, but as I tried to pull up on it, the knots came unloosed and I fell. I got up, dusted myself off, and tried to loop the rope back into place and form the knots once again as best I could, but I didn't have much confidence that they would hold anyone. My brother and I just laughed.
*
I dreamed I had taken my daughter to a park somewhere in Bergen County on the palisades. There was a field with a dome-like structure. Inside was a giant roller coaster, dark purple rails that simply went in a circle. It was run by a kindly East Asian family, perhaps Japanese, with the patriarch perhaps my age with smile lines etched into his face. My daughter, who loves rides, wanted to go on, so I purchased a ticket, but true to form did not accompany her. The ride went in a circle at astonishing speeds, up and down and again, almost a sheer drop on the descent. When she left the ride, she of course wanted to go on again, but I told her no, perhaps some other time. With a final glance over our shoulders at the strange structure, we thanked the family and left.
