Dream last night
Through carelessness, I allowed my right eyelids to fuse into a single, smooth patch of skin covering the eye; in the dream, this condition had persisted for several years, and I was thinking I ought to go to the doctor. I ran into a bunch of old union mates, who were very friendly, wanted me to get involved in some inter-union fights in Santa Cruz, and had lots of babies. (The main woman to whom I was talking had a baby in each arm, one one-year-old and one newborn.)
I'm not at all sure "whither this LJ." This was almost a Facebook status update, but it didn't make the cut a) for length reasons, b) offering up your dreams for public analysis is a little weird. What if being one-eyed in a dream turns out to be a symbol for, well, something seedier than even what I would normally put in a status update?
I wish I could say that the moral of this dream is, "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Because I have always loved that line. Seems more likely that a) it represented some disappointment with my failure to do more for my old mates at NUHW (something which has been on my mind lately, a bit) and b) it represented a general concern that I can let things go, through inaction, both physically and professionallly. At least those two things are part of the explicit material of the dream; I don't doubt that there's more.
I'm not at all sure "whither this LJ." This was almost a Facebook status update, but it didn't make the cut a) for length reasons, b) offering up your dreams for public analysis is a little weird. What if being one-eyed in a dream turns out to be a symbol for, well, something seedier than even what I would normally put in a status update?
I wish I could say that the moral of this dream is, "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Because I have always loved that line. Seems more likely that a) it represented some disappointment with my failure to do more for my old mates at NUHW (something which has been on my mind lately, a bit) and b) it represented a general concern that I can let things go, through inaction, both physically and professionallly. At least those two things are part of the explicit material of the dream; I don't doubt that there's more.