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Friday, May 24, 2002

 
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oh, yeah. it's time for the friday five:

1. What's the last vivid dream that you remember having?
heh. the one i just wrote about: i went to visit my mother at our old house in la junta (as part of some very casual, not-related activity). she had 4 other young children, at least two of them daughters, and they all seemed so cheerful & charming & loving; i was jealous and sad. i went & hid in the bathroom, which she had redecorated, and i overheard her say, "do you think i'm proud of what i did? beating my own child with gelatin?" and in the dream i remembered she had spread vaseline/gelatin over my skin to make the belt hurt more.

2. Do you have any recurring dreams?
no, not any more. for several years i had a dream that occured once a year, but now i don't even remember what it was about.

3. What's the scariest nightmare you've ever had?
i'm interpreting this to mean "disturbing," as i have had almost no classical nightmares. i once dreamt i was locked in a room full of rebels and we had to fight our way out. the oppressors could take almost all of us one-on-one but there was nobody for me to take except a guard dog. "kill him!" everyone kept yelling. "but it's a dog!" i kept calling back -- i didn't want to kill a dog. anyway, the dog finally lunged for me & recognizing that it was going to be me or him, i managed to grab him, wrestle with him for a bit & finally break his neck, but i felt horrible about it. i fell to the ground with the dog in my arms, weeping. a newspaper photographer took my picture and published it the next day.

the weird thing about this dream is that i had it while i was staying in a hotel room (i often have my most vivid dreams while travelling). when i woke up, one of my pillows was thrown across the room & my eyes were puffy from crying.

4. Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not?
i do, actually. i have finally almost filled my original dream journal i got for xmas while i was still dating jacob. i got a new dream journal the last time i was in portland in anticipation. when i got my final round of stuff from my parents' house, i found a small spiral notebook w/ dreams i had recorded in college in it -- and i had forgotten having them, but reading them, i totally remember them. :) anyway, i guess i write them down because i think the unconscikous mind is really interesting and sometimes some of them become poems.

5. Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it?
nope. unless you count the one where i was dreaming about creating the adapt logo and i made myself wake up because otherwise i was just going to have to spend all that time recreating it as well as dreaming it.