The Weirdest Effing Dream
Oct. 12th, 2004 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackshoegazer* I wrote this immediately upon waking, so it's a bit disjointed, but as you'll see, so was the dream.
Dream: Weird multilevel time and reality split. In one level, I’m some sort of scientist in the future giving a report to my government about what happened in the experiments. On another level, I’m that scientist during the ‘experiments’ out in space, and another level, it is the creation of the universe, and on another level it is the story some sort of ancient techno/future mythology that mirrors the creation of the Universe, then on the last level, I am just me, reading a book about all the above levels. So, the scientist is out in space doing experiments, quantum physics sort of things, trying to determine the nature of reality and how the universe came to be. The scientist apparently starts having sort of flashback visions of this primitive/futuristic mythology, something very Shakespearian, a tragic family, a girl who dies, that sort of thing. The scientist, when he comes back to earth, all of his research and experiments is written, not in the language of science, but he has written it all metaphorically, as the story of that girl and that mythology he had the visions of. There is a psychological examination and a trial because of what he did. Now throughout the dream, I’m constantly shifting from one of these views to another, sometimes I’m reading a book about the scientist, like a fictionalized novel, sometimes I’m the scientist on trial, sometimes imprisoned in a ‘mental hospital’ awaiting trial, sometimes while he is having his visions on board the ship and while he does his experiments. Sometimes, I’m right there, participating/watching the creation of the Universe, interacting and observing subatomic particles, meanwhile I’m also watching the primitive/techno mythological/Shakespearian story. I don’t even remember coming to consciousness or the dream ending. This is definitely one of my weirdest dreams yet. I’ve never had a dream where there were so many levels going on all at once, without any sort of linear or causal format, and I merely shifted, seamlessly from one level to another.
Dream: Weird multilevel time and reality split. In one level, I’m some sort of scientist in the future giving a report to my government about what happened in the experiments. On another level, I’m that scientist during the ‘experiments’ out in space, and another level, it is the creation of the universe, and on another level it is the story some sort of ancient techno/future mythology that mirrors the creation of the Universe, then on the last level, I am just me, reading a book about all the above levels. So, the scientist is out in space doing experiments, quantum physics sort of things, trying to determine the nature of reality and how the universe came to be. The scientist apparently starts having sort of flashback visions of this primitive/futuristic mythology, something very Shakespearian, a tragic family, a girl who dies, that sort of thing. The scientist, when he comes back to earth, all of his research and experiments is written, not in the language of science, but he has written it all metaphorically, as the story of that girl and that mythology he had the visions of. There is a psychological examination and a trial because of what he did. Now throughout the dream, I’m constantly shifting from one of these views to another, sometimes I’m reading a book about the scientist, like a fictionalized novel, sometimes I’m the scientist on trial, sometimes imprisoned in a ‘mental hospital’ awaiting trial, sometimes while he is having his visions on board the ship and while he does his experiments. Sometimes, I’m right there, participating/watching the creation of the Universe, interacting and observing subatomic particles, meanwhile I’m also watching the primitive/techno mythological/Shakespearian story. I don’t even remember coming to consciousness or the dream ending. This is definitely one of my weirdest dreams yet. I’ve never had a dream where there were so many levels going on all at once, without any sort of linear or causal format, and I merely shifted, seamlessly from one level to another.
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Date: 2004-10-12 08:31 am (UTC)I've never been able to explain it myself, but I have a hunch that it has to do with the varying levels of consciousness/spirituality, whatever you want to call it. The level-dreams tend to occur to me when I'm trying to sort out confusing events.
Have you read my weirdass dream yet? I posted that about an hour after I woke up, gave it some time to settle. Lots of random imagery!
What's in the air tonight??? :D
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:28 pm (UTC)Vonnegut
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Date: 2004-10-12 08:55 pm (UTC)OMG.
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Date: 2004-10-12 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-23 03:16 pm (UTC)Then the dream shifted, and I was a young man in the 70's, researching the disappearance of the woman from the first part of the dream- there were these odd clues- a matchbox, a ticket stub, faded records...the apartments were bombed-out ruins, and I stepped through the concrete, trying to imagine the past. I interviewed ancient men and women who had been their neighbors, trying to discover what had happened to them. It was really strange. My dreams are very vivid, very detailed...often like this one.
Speaking of multi-level time splits, I think it's funny how we're conversing with past versions of ourselves and one another.
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Date: 2005-04-23 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-04-23 03:44 pm (UTC)I was just thinking about that, I was like.. is there anything in the back of my journal I would not want someone I just met to read? And then I decided that I don't care, that was me and might still be me and no matter how embarassing something might be, it's a view into my person and completely valid.
Dig away! I'm curious what you'll find. (I'm trying to take my time with yours.. only a few days at a time :)
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Date: 2005-04-23 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-23 04:06 pm (UTC)My blog is definitely not the whole picture either. I try to write mine with two ideas in mind.. 1) I'm writing a letter to a good friend and 2) I'm writing a sort of editorial and I strike for a balance in the middle. My more personal posts, like my glaring relationship exposes and analysis, I keep friends only, a more specific audience. Kurt Vonnegut used to talk about how every writier is really writing for an audience of one. I still don't know who that person is for this blog. I'm starting to think it's for myself.
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