How To Kill Demons and Other Villains

[csecooney]

WARNING:

THIS ENTRY TALKS ABOUT SOME VERY VIOLENT DREAMS.
SO DON'T READ IF YOU'RE NOT INTO HORROR.
DON'T WANNA SQUICK YOU.
UNLESS YOU LIKE THAT SORT OF THING. In high school, I used to have all sorts of killing-things dreams. The things I killed fell into three categories

Comments

[asakiyume]

Wow, that last scenario (not the last dream, but the last type of scenario, with the beasts) is so emotionally complicated! With the others it seems like about mustering bravery, but with the beast one, there seems to be a real sacrifice involved, because of having to kill this wild and beautiful (but destructive) thing. Somehow I'm seeing it all as having to do with creativity and expression and getting yourself to the place to write the stuff you want to write, because that's HARD. But peeling back from interpretation on that level, wow, the images and stories in the dreams are intense.

[csecooney]

Yes, I was always sorry to murder a beautiful thing. Especially since they seemed to like ME. They just ate everyone else.

[asakiyume]

See, if it were my dream, and me, I'd be thinking it had to do w/ my own sense of fear/necessity/ whatever about controlling elements of myself that I think are threatening but that I care about very much. I wonder if it's something like that for you?

[csecooney]

Very possibly. There are dream interpretation exercises that beginning, "In my dreaming place, I..." and then you fill in the blanks, only you strip out all detail. "I destroyed a thing that was hurting my community..." Etc.

But me, I'm interested in the silver fur and ivory tusks. Though I find the exercise useful occasionally, to see if I need to know something about myself I've been avoiding.

[asakiyume]

The story elements are *definitely* worthwhile as story elements, and as things that will become stories--wasn't trying to deny or undercut that by any means!

[csecooney]

Did not take it as any undercut at all! Two different kinds of usefulness, I think, to be had from dreams. Possibly more! What you MINE for story, and what you strip of story to understand yourself. I love them both!!!