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And last night for the first time since beginning this blog I awoke twice, turned on the lamp and wrote down my dreams. Once at 2:00 AM, and again at 4:00 AM. And a note, lest I seem promiscuous, I often use the term "girlfriend" when describing my dreams, or "ex-girlfriend" - this is not true, strictly, they are dreams, the people that appear as players are often pastiches of people I've known, but in the dream the relationship is clearly defined. So, no, I haven't as chequered a past as I appear to be confessing, these are dreams, immune to logic...
The First Dream (2:00 AM): - An Ex Girlfriend - L***-***, is being piggybacked by me, we are dressed up, it's Halloween, the main floor of some office tower, there is an open area, office, filled with people partying. She wants to go in and join them, but we know they are demons, still, she is curious, I warn her, once in we won't be able to leave...
We enter the party, they look like normal people, but they are demons. And we can't leave, we'll be trapped here forever, the exits have all disappeared, we have to escape - I go to the wall where the window was before, taking her with me, we walk through it, now a patio with a little fence, barricaded off, we fall over it together and begin to run down the street in slow motion.
It is an effort to run, we can't move, our steps are slow, and the demons are following us. We are on Rice Howard Way in Edmonton, running in slow motion, two demons behind following us, they look like men in suits, eyes wide open, sniffing the air, they are looking around, but they are blind, they can't see us, they are sniffing the air, following us by scent.
We make it into Rigolettos and try to hide...
The Second Dream (4:00 AM): I am with someone, we are going to the Airport(?) I think, it is nightime and the sky is luminous with the light of ten million stars. He's taking me to the airport, we are looking for a giant US flag that will mark the sky and show us where to go. There are the words 'Noctilucent Clouds' in my head. He leads me over a bluff, and suddenly we fall straight down a slide or chute, like a water slide, only farther- a break in the slide, free fall, then again onto the slide and we are in the airport, our luggage scattered around us. it was a long fall, I think we should have sent our luggage down first to be safe....
More dreams forgotten and not written down
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More dreams, half forgotten and not written down, carelessly thinking that they would linger in memory. Last night I watched a movie - Ironically entitled "Happiness". Perhaps you've seen it. Billed as a comedy that somehow is a little too dark and overpowering, it put me out of sorts.
SO 2 dreams, one - a simple recipe card with a table of italic paragraphs on it, perhaps 5 rows by 7 columns. I can't remember what it said.
And two: I am at a friends, sleeping over with a girlfriend in an attic, somewhere in the country, a farmhouse, old bed, exposed wood and beams. And I get out of bed to go outside, at the foot of it is a garden spider, large and bulbous, the kind that spin their webs in front of your porch light, it climbs up it's web and hides behind a support. The bed fills the attic, I have to squeeze past the spiders hiding place to go outside.
Something is happening, there is a party, it is dark, I run into another ex, it's her place, we arrange to meet, later on, groups of people over the hill in the field, still dark outside, something is going on. I shouldn't be meeting her, but I feel doomed. . .their is sex, but no passion, no eroticism, the details elude me, we are to meet again, dissatisfaction, in the attic my dream girlfriend is still sleeping, but there is something I'm not realizing, I don't know what it is, it's eluding me and both of them have disappeared. The spider is upstairs waiting and I must go back to sleep.
2 dreams, neither satisfactory.
Beyond the 5 Senses
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Today it's both a link and a question. Or, perhaps less a question than an idea - we are used, as humans, to the 5 senses, classically divided as Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch and Smell. This is, however, a short list, for a more thorough list I'll send you (yet again) to Wikipedia.
Now as we all know animals frequently have a different range of senses, dogs, famously, can hear sounds that people cannot, some insects and fish can see in wavelengths that are invisible to us. For a rather complex example try this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513210456.htm link- a Mantis shrimp that can see not only in UV and Infrared but as well polarized light.
And there are of course those senses - whether real or imagined - whereby we are able to read one anothers thoughts (ESP), or see into the future (Precognition) - but the existence of these is still much debated. But, for an exercise, try to imagine adding a sense - what would it be? Think of how much of our world view and "perception" is colored by our senses, so, if you had to invent a completely new one - not an enhancement of an existing one [like the abiltity to see in UV, which is simply a broader range of vision]- what would it be? And, having invented it, how would it affect your view of the world?
Harper Cuts Funding to the Arts
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Can you tell the Election is coming? But, in defense of one of the more common complaints I've heard against Harper is the cuts in funding he's made towards the arts. Being an artist myself who derives not a penny from the government grants I was at first a little disheartened to think that this well might be drying up before I had myself a chance to drink from it.
But then I took a few minutes to reflect. What is the government's role in the arts, anyways? Perhaps I listen to CBC too much, where any threats towards funding the arts seem raise fears that we will lose our national radio. This would be bad. But in a smaller, more local way, what authority does the government have to spend our money on Art? What kind of art would the conservative government encourage? [see picture above]. And perhaps we should view this not as a threat towards the arts, but as a chance for us all to empower them - take the promised tax savings and buy a painting, not a print. Read a Canadian author. A lesser author, not the great Atwood or Davies. Or see a play. And here we all stand to not only be the patrons of the arts, but reap their benefits as well.
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