Comments | rachelmanija: In which I get my period, am attacked, take a test I didn't study for, and forget my pants

rachelmanija

In which I get my period, am attacked, take a test I didn't study for, and forget my pants

Mar 27, 2008 07:22

I was so intrigued by the dream poll that I decided to try to remember my dreams more. I had a nice long one last night, full of sexual and work-related symbolism. I think. Would you care to help me interpret it?

( Well, excuse me for having female parts that bleed! )

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loligo March 27 2008, 15:21:34 UTC

No interpretations to offer at the moment, but now I am very curious as to how your friend could possibly not be pleased about GETTING PULLED FROM BURNING CAR.

!!!???

rachelmanija March 27 2008, 15:27:32 UTC

It's a long story, but her stated objection was that she would have gotten herself out perfectly easily, and my panicked yanking and dragging caused her to sprain her ankle.

I think the real issue was that her boyfriend, the driver, ran for the hills "to get help" and if she'd admitted that I saved her she'd have also had to admit that he hadn't. Therefore, he had to have been sensible and I had to have panicked unnecessarily, and also the situation had to have not been all that serious.

In my defense, my recollection is that she was asleep in the back seat, and her seatbelt jammed and wouldn't unlock (a problem it had had before), which is why I yanked her out without unbuckling her. Also that the engine was entirely aflame, and burning oil was dripping down and forming burning pools under the car.

loligo March 27 2008, 15:43:20 UTC

I can pretty safely say that even at the drama-prone age of nineteen, I'd have picked you over the boyfriend.

rachelmanija March 28 2008, 02:19:45 UTC

I wish you'd been there! Unfortunately, that was just the most dramatic of many incidents in which various female friends picked their boyfriends over me. In fact I don't recall anyone ever picking me over their boyfriend, though perhaps people often have and I just didn't realize there ever had been a choice.

...Yeah, I'm still bitter. I blame the patriarchy.

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veejane March 27 2008, 15:34:15 UTC

I thought I'd done pretty well-- I'd disarmed the "killer," hadn't I? I endorse your dream-logic ( ... )

cofax7 March 27 2008, 17:27:36 UTC

Next time I have a crazy dream (that I remember!), I'm totally telling it to you for interpretation.

Also, Rachel, I totally think you're a hero. Go you.

rachelmanija March 28 2008, 02:21:02 UTC

Thank you!

rachelmanija March 28 2008, 02:27:34 UTC

That makes a lot of sense.

Upon reflection, another interesting thing is that in the dream, I was convinced that I was right -- that jumping the gunman had been the right thing to do, that bleeding in class shouldn't disqualify me -- and I think maybe that's the key element: not just that people don't appreciate me, but that, in jobs and relationships, they're ignoring me in favor of inferior parties because they don't actually want excellence.

...I think I am annoyed with my employers. And with men who don't want to date me.

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sartorias March 27 2008, 15:48:28 UTC

Sounds to me like hindbrain is sick of the "No, but..." crap that women get all the time. "No you still aren't really valid/worthy of respect/A list Player because you just..." "you only..." because you bleed.

rachelmanija March 28 2008, 02:21:28 UTC

Good point.

oracne March 27 2008, 16:23:38 UTC

Anxiety dream? I have that "no one believes me" thing and am always distressed by it. But the pretty dawn means you're really past whatever it is? Or else you're not, and the pretty dawn was your brain soothing you. And why was that tied up with New Delhi?

I suck at analysis.

green_knight March 27 2008, 16:31:14 UTC

Your 'friend' is unbelievable. I'm sorry, I know that in real life people act like that, but this is not how human beings *ought* to react. FWIW: you judged the situation, you acted to minimise damage. Getting it wrong in the direction that the car woulnd't blow up and she'd twist an ankle is *far far better* than getting it wrong in the way that the car _does_ blow up and she can't get out. Your reaction was, whatever the circumstances, one hundred percent sane. There are times when you can't stick around and wait, and even if your judgement of the situation had been wrong your action was not. I'd like to think someone like you would be around if I got ever stuck in a burning car ( ... )