london escapades, watery dreams...
I have only just this afternoon got round to updating here, amidst partying, working at the bookstore, attending some lectures and catching up on sleep. I am hoping there is enough afternoon left for a late lunch followed by some charity shop browsing and tasty food shopping...Drank rather alot of wine last night with some friends, and ended up seeing a late start to today. All was spontaneous, but fun. I spent in-between my slumber reading a little about the 13 Moon Mayan calendar, which is interesting...I may find more stuff on this and post something in future.
On Friday evening, I went with a group of ten to London for an all-night indoor festival at the SeOne (a huge vaulted venue, near London Bridge) called Synergy Project. A friendly atmosphere of ethnic stalls, food, tchai and assorted teas, information stalls and charity stands, spiritual stuff - most of it Mayan-themed, poetry readings, folk music, solo artists, art work displayed, an excellent World Music stage and the main psychedelic trance room. Despite a couple of hours of tiredness and cold and intimidation regarding the crowds (which eventually dispersed to a tolerable level), the evening was an escapism and opened up new inspirations. It was nice to dance and lose myself in powerful music of an eclectic mix (a Celtic folk act: Kangaroo Moon, ethnic chill out and deep psy-trance being highlights), and sample different cultural experiences...I hope to attend again.
In the morning light after 9 hours in the venue we made our way to a small café for a 2-hour sleepy breakfast. The sunlight was dazzling, and the quiet winter streets in London seemed like a mirage in a sleep-deprived but blissful haze. After the breakfast we sat in a grassy park with red busses of tourists passing as we sat in a circle and took photographs of each other… I dosed on the bus ride home, waking at the crossing of the Severn bridge, to see sunlight illuminate the waters of the Severn…I had been awake for a total of 30 hours when we got home for hot buttered teacakes and more tchai. Bed felt satisfying and warm that evening!
Aside from recovering from this eventful weekend, I have also had an intriguing and eventful dream life. Obviously, a lot of weird psychic stuff is going on just now…As recently I have experiences very intense dreams. The scenes of one dream were very detailed, and again, only parts of this dream stay in my conscious mind. There was a huge tidal wave, and every time my family, others and myself tried to escape, in many different ways (hiding indoors, on top of buildings, on mountains etc) the water caught up with us. I especially recall being on top of a huge hill/mountain, with coniferous trees below and a pine-covered forest floor. I felt perfectly able to escape here, up above the trees, but then as soon as others joined me the tide slowly but surely followed. On a few occasions I was engulfed by the tide, and it took on full tsunami force. But at times it was also very gentle and creeping…There were mixed feelings from excitement to the rush of adrenaline, to fear and near-drowning. Watery images have taken many different forms in my dream world of late - the form of tears and great emotional release, stagnant water - a location I used to play at in a villlge I grew up in, and frequent depictions of storms, floods and tidal waves...A sudden rush of psychic activity coming into conciousness after a long period of very little dream recollection.