Remember when I posted an entry about my dreams a while back...well I had a number of interesting ones last night that I'm trying to sort out. In no particular order...
In one of those weird hyper-realism moments, I was walking along a sidewalk and slipped on some ice, but recovered myself. This happened in a semi-conscious state and I felt my entire body tense up as though this was actually happening (and I think, for my body, it WAS actually happening).
And then there was skinny dipping with my friend Brian and Ray Romano in a glassed in swimming pool. Now, I'm no Ray Romano fan and, in fact, am living testament that everybody does NOT love Raymond. So I have no explanation of what he was doing in my subconscious. Especially skinny dipping...
There was a storm brewing outside, so we started getting out of the pool and, as we were getting dressed, Audra McDonald showed up and started doing some work around the pool, as though she were in charge of maintenance, or possibly a lifeguard. Audra and I were, apparently, old friends from school who'd lost touch over the years and I was telling her how much I had enjoyed her second album. I also mentioned that with money being tight I hadn't had a chance to purchase the first or third albums, but that I had heard cuts from them and had enjoyed them.
And the third dream involved male abortion. That's right. I was not in this one at all, but it involved a national debate about men having abortions. As I recall, there was no controversy or even mention of men gaining the ability to become pregnant...that was a given in the dream. There was some poor guy whose home was being picketed because he had had an abortion. He came outside looking very pale and sick and asked to be left alone because he's just had an abortion and wasn't feeling well.
Now comes the weird part...the protests were being spear-headed by John Anderson, the third party candidate in the 1980 presidential election (that year he was running against President Carter and Ronald Reagan, the eventual winner). I wish I was kidding. Anderson was trying to mount some sort of political comeback by riding the issue of abortions for men. Mind you, women were nowhere mentioned in this dream. I think, like male pregnancy, abortions for women were a given. I'm not sure what the difference would be if the person having the abortion was a man, rather than a woman. But, clearly, there was a big one, at least to John Anderson and his protesters.
I have no idea what any of these dreams mean. Anyone have any thoughts?
Posted by Jere at February 15, 2004 12:42 PM | TrackBack