You want to know what
I dream. She said, not in the form
of a question.
Sure, I replied.
I dream about you,
she said.
Ha! I replied. And
what do you really dream about? I
asked.
Lots of things
actually, she responded. And I see that you are a BUSKOLOGIST (not
that I know what that is) but … does a buskologist interpret dreams?
Yes, a buskologist can
interpret dreams.
Yes, a buskologist can interpret dreams. Anyone can interpret dreams. However, anyone is not likely to have such an
authoritative critique as would a certified buskologist such as myself (this is
supposed to be a wry wit, dear reader).
This buskologist began interpreting dreams when he studied
Freud. Of course I studied Freud, in
Psychology. Who doesn’t? I digress.
Sigmund Freud strongly believed that the content of dreams was related to
the wish fulfillment of the dreamer, which the imagery and events in one’s
dreams, served to disguise the latent content and unconscious wishes of the
dreamer.
Carl Jung believed dreams to be more than Freud’s notion of
repressed wishes. Jung believed a person’s
dreams to be a revealing of both the dreamer’s personal and collective unconscious
(archetypes), serving to compensate for the parts of our psyche that are
underdeveloped in our waking life.
And Calvin Hall believed the traits that people exhibit by
day, are the same as those expressed in dreams at night. And being a fan of Projective Psychology, I quite agree with Calvin Hall.
Projective Psychology is a technique for revealing the
hidden motives or underlying personality structures of an individual by the use
of ambiguous or unstructured materials, such as ink blots, cloud pictures, or cartoons
that encourage spontaneous responses. I shall now create a syllogism ... and
suggest then, that dreams, too, for a projective psychologist (and buskologist),
are simply spontaneous sleepy-time responses and adventures that reflect to day-to-day routines and
frustrations.
Like I said, anyone can interpret dreams. Google the internet you’ll gain a wealth of
the purblind and groundling examples from those peddling their books, videos, and workshops. However, reading further
in this particular blog post, you’ll gain a sample of my vade mecum direct from the pages of my personal
wetware (brain). My writing about night watch interpretations I hope is sophisticated, not just scribbles of idle day-dreaming woolgathering.
Well then, here are a
couple of my dreams, stated the zaftig one.
I am riding an
asteroid through downtown traffic … just me and a pit bull … the pit bull is
wearing shades and a tutu. What do you make of this one?
Hmmm, I
replied. An asteroid obviously represents something out of this world, heavenly
perhaps. And you’re with a pit bull …
meaning you’re likely fond of dogs. The
pit bull definitely represents someone significant in your life, and that
someone is really not open to the world (the shades screening the sunshine) and
the tutu represents a feminine side, be it either a male or female. Since you both are riding this asteroid in
downtown traffic suggests that you want this relationship to be very public, so
public that you dare to show the world that you are in heaven (metaphorically)
with this significant person strongly represented by the pitbull. And that’s that.
Actually, sounds like
it could be true, what you just said, she said. Here’s
my recurring dream.
I’ll be on a
playground or in a park about seven or eight years old. I’m always by the swings. And I look up in the sky and then I jump
straight up and I probably go a few hundred feet up and I’m just stuck up there
kinda floating like eventually I do come down but it’s very sudden and
frightening.
Any book on dreams will suggest that flying represents a
desire to rise above a difficult circumstance.
I tend to agree with this notion and so … here is the meaning of your
dream, according to me.
You are longing for
the past. You remember, though your
memory may be hazed through romantic nostalgia, that when you were age seven or
eight, life was good. When you were seven
or eight you loved to play, and preferably you loved to play at a public playground. This suggests that you were a gregarious kid,
liking very much to be around others.
Could it be that you wanted to be gregarious? But were too shy to mingle? And every time you walked over to the
playground you were attempting to find some other children to play with but
were too shy to express that invitation to anyone? And could it be that you would stand in the
middle then, and pretend to shoot straight up, flying high and looking at the
children having fun below. And could it
also be that as soon as your daydream ended, you would be somewhat startled and
upset that still, everyone was having fun, everyone except you.
My question to you
then is, Why are you longing for the past?
I’m thinking it is that you are longing for an opportunity to redeem
yourself, change your nature of the past so you can be that gregarious person
now, right in this present adult state.
How’s that? I
asked. Too thick perhaps, I suggested.
No, not too thick,
she answered. Too true perhaps, she said.
The meanings of dreams are certainly abstruse and laden with complexity, though dreaming,
itself, is simply one of those universal activities in which all of us
may participate. And I remind you, dear reader ...
Those selfie-videos you watch in your sleep are those same antics you would do while awake ... provided the consequences were tolerable!
Those selfie-videos you watch in your sleep are those same antics you would do while awake ... provided the consequences were tolerable!
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| Whitney |
Pictured here are Darren, Ray, and Whitney, of the folk band, PHANTOM TIDE. These are the
characters who marched in my CHAUCERIAN PARADE this past week.
These pictures were taken during our weekly rehearsal.
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| Darren and Ray |
