i woke up to my alarm clock but could not focus on reality. my dream, still so vivid in my mind, was more potent and real than the waking world. lots of things, maybe most things in the daily protocol ofwhat's called reality feel like artifice, like acting. like going to work for instance and dealing with a corrupt bureaucracy. all the lying and grandstanding and bullshit of the bureaucratic or corporate world of power/profit which supercedes and denies human needs. the bubble of deceit that is the U.S. today led by liars and war criminals for presidents. the sinking titanic of global warming excesses we're all victim/contributor to. the censored deaths and disfigurements of thousands in the name of a fictional war 'against terror.'
but really i mean something much more basic and immediate. the way we don't say or can't say what we mean.
but really i mean something much more basic and immediate. the way we don't say or can't say what we mean.
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Re: dreams
Thu, April 5, 2007 - 3:18 PMAmy ,
I'm curious about the content /subject-matter of the dream . Please describe it ....
Dreams can have such an Orphic and/or Platonic majesty about them ...they can present such a sense of a heraldic purity of form . The better dreams (unlike what I call ' blender dreams' : those which have prosaic images of the day cut up and made into a kind of mental puree ) seem like places that have their own air---their own mood that pervades the environs of the dream with a type of feeling of saturation--- like an aroma .
Good dreams can purge away the effluvium of physical situations with their various tediums . They can leave the mind feeling washed, renewed .
It is interesting to note that there is a verse in Ecclesiastes which reads,
'A dream cometh through the multitude of business . '
(Presuming to refer to business as in being busy---NOT necessarily referring to business as in commerce) .
Good dreams indeed are better than the sordid wakeaday realm of corporations , bureacracy , and similar venal , mundane pursuits ! -
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Re: dreams
Thu, April 5, 2007 - 6:59 PMthe odd thing is that my dream was wrought with feelings of awkwardness, discomfort, contradiction and duplicity. but totally fascinating and absorbing. i was dealing with real issues somehow, in a more direct way than normally possible in waking life.
to read my dream, go to my blog:
www.pagoda.blogspot.com
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Re: dreams
Thu, April 5, 2007 - 8:44 PMYou should write a novel , Amy . And, (if necessary) use a dream as ballast .
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Thu, April 5, 2007 - 8:40 PMAmy ,
Well, I certainly hope that you destroyed the manifestation of awkwardness, contradiction, and duplicity in the dream . -
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Re: dreams
Fri, April 6, 2007 - 5:20 AMwhy would i do that? it's an accurate reflection of life... what's really going on in so many ways under the surface. -
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Re: dreams
Fri, April 6, 2007 - 11:29 PMAMY POSTED :why would i do that? it's an accurate reflection of life... what's really going on in so many ways under the surface.
THE RESPONSE : Eegads....I the words of the old baseball movie of yesterday ----'Say it ain't so Joe. Say it ain't so ! '
Dear Amy ,
Conquer "life" ---make it say : uncle . Take it and purge it of all those contradictions. Purge away the silly realistic, earthy little moments of resignation ....and grind up its elements and pour them into a mould of pure, untramelled, highfallutin, rigid , single-minded BEAUTY .
THE MORE HIGHFALLUTIN AND PURE THE BETTER .!
Let's get into the HIGHFALLUTIN AND PURE FRAME AND STAY WITH THAT ! -
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Re: dreams
Sat, April 7, 2007 - 2:34 PMsorry, but i disagree. i prefer the taoist way of life:
The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
-Lao Tzu
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Re: dreams
Mon, April 30, 2007 - 7:55 AMVery interesting - as if changing of the environment makes our old identity appear mechanical. Maybe we're actors in somebody else's manuscript, and we need to deliver a good performance. What do you think? -
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Mon, April 30, 2007 - 8:42 AMAmy, I know you're all moderator n' shit, but quit deleting all the posts! Inquiring minds want to read.
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Re: dreams
Mon, April 30, 2007 - 5:30 PMdaniel, it does feel like that sometimes. esp when you have to go to the same job every day at the same time. i find that the hardest, most stifling thing about work. maybe this is particularly true of an office job.
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