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

[ada_hoffmann]

Ok, your dreams are amazing. :D

[csecooney]

Very rarely these days! But I was glad to remember this one!

[punkbeaver]

Dearest Ki, I love your dreams! It's so fascinating how you've laid them together here; showing a progression from your earlier dreams to the dream you had last night. Much more community, less fear but still doing what must be done. So cool!

[negothick]

Sounds to me like you should be writing paranormal romance and thrillers. What exciting dreams you have! Lots more exciting than scones with clotted cream.

[csecooney]

I should be writing ALL THE THINGS. But mostly I just sleep. And not so very much of that lately. Hopefully things will quiet down soon. And when I'm quiet, I will write again.

[csecooney]

Of course, if the scones were SCONES OF BONES, with BLOOD-CLOTTED cream, it would be a DIFFERENT MATTER!

[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.