26 August 2004

Back from the dreamtime...

*chuckle* 8:31pm Sydney time..and what ever this horrid song is that they are playing at the moment the chorus contains "We're gonna make this shit happen now" ... I love Super Request on Triple J...it's a showcase of just how bad popular taste can be...no matter where you are ;)

Just a gentle reminder of how things work Down Under...you can swear on TV...you can show sex on TV...but you can't show gun violence or glorify guns. Amazingly the crime rate in Australia is much lower than the US (on a per capita basis, obvious the fact they only have 20 million people drops the crime numbers)...

Anyways...

I woke up about 3:30 after having been asleep for about four hours. I had the joy of a full hour massage from 's friend Matt. He's in school to be a therapist and will be certified in June, so I was a practice client for him. God, if that's what an "in training" amateur can do...

But I woke up from this dream...and kept waking up...in this dream I was in multiple dreams (i.e. a dream in a dream in a dream ...)

In ascending order (the order I woke up from them in):

1: Working on a Wisconsin DOT crew laying Christmas lights along I-94 between the Dells and Madison...Christmas lights? Strung out via extension cords 50' at a time ... from rest areas?! What the f*ck?!

(Real world note: hold on...Placebo covered "Running Up That Hill?...Triple J plays odd stuff...though it's a good remake)

2: Talking to a woman and her daughter in the back of their pick-up (sitting on the tailgate) about the road crew that was laying Christmas lights (but I wasn't a part of the crew then) but I was hitchhiking across Wisconsin for no reason..just out wandering the highways...at a rest area?!

3: Talking to a woman and her son in their Blazer about working at KVSC as a morning DJ...but how I was now working on a road crew in Minnesota laying Christmas lights between Albertville and Maple Grove...but how KVSC paid better (it was a volunteer positon in reality) because I enjoyed what I did and getting to talk to people...and why was I at the SA off 95th Ave and I-94 in Maple Grove during this?!

4: Talking to people from KVSC (at the station) and for some reason we were having an all night party at the station and I had to leave the party (in the backyard..if you know KVSC, you know the backyard)...and do my Monday morning shift... (this makes sense aside from the party...you know...it might actually have been related to trivia....ponders this s'more)

5: Being in Milwaukee, talking to more unknown people about my life and what I'd done with it (not much)..this was by far the shortest dreamscape...lasting just a few seconds as far as I could tell...

6: Being out with Sean having dinner and talking about our life together, but this was clearly a decade or more in the future, as we were both in successful jobs and doing fairly well...and owned a house together.

7: I'm not sure if this was another level of the dream...or if I just woke up twice...but I think that I dreamed that I woke up from dreaming about this dream...then finally woke up into "reality"

Talk about fucked up...

I'll be the first to admit that I was totally perplexed by it all...parts of it make sense..and I understand some of the later bits...but the work crews/chatting with people while hitchhiking...I don't get those.

3 comments:

ex_quietdanm235 said...

Glad to hear your massage went well. Remember to drink a lot of water today, as it will help.

As for the dreams, they're interesting. Potentially related to the released energy from your massage? Possible perhaps.

bigbearjt said...

I'm on my third 20oz glass already...and I had 6 yesterday...

I've not been drinking nearly as much water as I used to drink...and been drinking a lot more pop.

I'm weaning back to water and herbal tea.

As for released energy...dear me...I didn't think I could relax that much. The only part of me that I kept holding on to/not releasing..was my elbows.

Otherwise, Matt said I was relatively loose with no trigger points and no major knots. I just needed to me worked over and relaxed.

That he did...quite well. I lost the last half hour to relaxation and mental headspace.

ex_quietdanm235 said...

Stress does funny stuff sometimes. The dreams of yesterday probably won't happen again.

Isn't it great to feel that truly relaxed! Such a wonderful feeling that really seems to make the problems of the world not so big and scary.