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universaldonor

Dream a little dream of mediocrity

Sep 08, 2003 17:08

I am a failure at dreaming. I don't have nightmares, which is okay with me on the surface, but I understand that it means I'm denied part of the rich variety of sleep experience, and it's another sign of my emotional dwarfism. But my real failure is more terrible than your foulest goo-dripping polyheaded bogeyman, and the more I think about it, the ( Read more... )

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you are like a pinter play lapsedmodernist September 9 2003, 06:21:41 UTC

it's pretty fucking weird, because i would think normally the more repressed/mild the person is, the more wild their id would go during dreams, like some porno/tarantino version of "the secret life of walter mitty." but you, my dear, are so repressed that your superego controls even your dreams. here is why i think that happens: despite the fact that you are a control freak in all these minutae of everyday existence, your discourse of being, vis-a-vis abdication of responsibility through fractured selves, corresponding to certain states of being, is pretty id-motivated. paradoxically, it is highly verbalized, articulated, controlled it, but id nonetheless. kinda like eminem designating Slim Shady as his id simultaneously sublimates and reifies the id. but anyway, in some ways, much like pinter plays bring subtext into text, your import your id where your ego should be. of course, subtext-as-text is not the same as just subtext, just like id-as-ego is a far cry from the essential distilled id geist but just like pinter's plays ( ... )

whoops lapsedmodernist September 9 2003, 06:22:46 UTC

as you may infer, "geist" was supposed to be italicized but not anything after that.

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Re: but... claudelemonde September 9 2003, 08:17:27 UTC

I'd argue that he might indeed have dreams that are full of craziness and Mongol-style pillaging and unrelenting candy-store robbery sprees and mermaid booty, but that he subconsciously represses them--or leaves them behind in fugue state--so as not to mess with the status quo.

Re: but... universaldonor September 9 2003, 09:57:41 UTC

Look, things are different in my dreams. It's just that I have a conscience, which seems like a ripoff. I like dreaming fine, but more importantly I thought one is supposed to go completely insane if one doesn't dream. Also, I heard you can die in real life if you die in your dream. Also, I heard that our parents trapped a baby-raping janitor in a burning building many years ago and now he exacts his revenge in dreams -- on us, of all people, and where is the justice in that? Fucking vigilante moms suck a dick.

Robin anonymous September 9 2003, 06:42:01 UTC

Would you really want to fuck a mermaid, though? I mean, no amount of dream-state disregard for the laws of nature could change the fact that you're essentially rubbing uglies with an albacore. Ewer.

claudelemonde September 9 2003, 08:15:37 UTC

I started thinking about this and then i ended up making a whole new entry. I hardly ever have sex dreams; they're generally ludicrous and sometimes controllable, and always always have an element of dread. A lot of them are fear of being out of control: I have to drive, but I am drunk, or I have to drive, but don't have my contacts in and I can't see, so i crash the car, etc. I guess they're about failure. Humph.

lapsedmodernist September 9 2003, 08:55:21 UTC

my sex dreams, when i have them, are always weird. very rarely, i may have a pretty verisimilitude-y dream about whoever my current partner happens to be, but otherwise we are talking almost-but-not-quite-consummation, serious gender confusion (am i a boy or a girl in the dream?), and more than once i have had dreams about having sex with girls as a boy (which actually makes sense to me vis-a-vis my theory of why i could never be a lesbian, so that's not so confusing).

driving claudelemonde September 9 2003, 13:23:30 UTC

hey, I have that dream too, where I am driving but I don't have my contacts in and can't see at all. I have terrible vision. It's a pretty awful dream, but it's recurring and therefore sort of nicely familiar.

Last night I had a dream I was kissing someone but I had forgotten how to kiss. I was giggling and trying to just play along, but it seemed absurd, the whole idea. Kissing is weird.

lo

Not in any way related to your post, but I wrote you a love letter. mysteryfood September 9 2003, 09:55:36 UTC

Dear Jeremy,

I think we should get married. Look at all the things we have in common!

1) We are fantastically awesome.
2) We smoke Camels.
3) We have blue eyes.
4) You're so hot. I like hot guys.

Come on, its a pretty good argument. I thank Ze Lord Jebus Christ that I was forced to learn writing persuasive essays in my 6th grade English as a Second Language for Immigrant Retards class.

Re: Not in any way related to your post, but I wrote you a love letter. universaldonor September 9 2003, 13:57:19 UTC

A well-reasoned proposal. I can hardly say no, right? We can get hitched in Yankee Stadium by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, although we may have to go back in time to do so. Back before we met, because he marries strangers, right? I want to see divorce stats on those unions. Honey, have you seen my keys?