This week in dreamland, an argument between friends.

[jackshoegazer]

I dreamt I went to visit my friend Dan.  He had married my friend Cathy and lived in a large rooftop apartment with a beautiful gazebo-like patio.  They had three children, all Hispanic, even though Dan & Cathy are both Caucasian.  One of the kids was crying and Cathy was holding him, trying to calm him.  Dan was his usual self, covered in tattoos and piercings.  He ignored Cathy while he went on a rant, gesturing to his apartment, implying the modern human life, and said, "What a shitty way to live!"

For some reason this enraged me, and though I had trouble talking, like my mouth was numb from anesthesia, I said, "This?!"  I pointed out to the crack neighborhoods I could see from the balcony.  "That is a shitty way to live, down there!  Or some lower-caste, filth-ridden ghetto in India - that's a shitty way to live!  This?!  There is nothing wrong with this!"  Dan started to look guilty and cowed as I pointed my finger menacingly in his face.  "You'd better start learning to be content with the life you have, because you know what?  You chose it.  And I don't mean 'content' as in 'mildly accepting'.  I mean 'content' as in..."

The words faded as I came to consciousness, but in was something along the lines of "full of harmony in knowing this is exactly where you need to be, exactly what you need to be doing."

Comments

[stardigan.livejournal.com]

Dreams are so odd. And, lately, no one in my dream has been the correct race, so I thought it was funny when you mentioned the Hispanic kids.

Do you think your subconscious is trying to tell you something?

[marie-paris.livejournal.com]

How wonderful-especially since it's proposed that most often in dreams you are represented by everyone in the dream...it's a great thing to be pointing out to anyone, really.

[anima.livejournal.com]

"full of harmony in knowing this is exactly where you need to be, exactly what you need to be doing."

Thank you for pointing me over here. Such truth from dreams sometimes.