My dreams lately have been rather …shall we say….VIVID?
First round usually involves some faceless fecund couple popping out lethargic little ones like they had nothing better to do than procreate. When I'm lucky, I'm holding the hand of the moaning mother while the crisply dressed doctors sing to her in a language not my own. When I'm not lucky, I'm doing the pushing.
In the dream this task seems to me menial and of no great importance. It's as if I've run out of things to do in the office so in order to placate my bothersome boss I birth a blank faced baby into the hands of two imperturbably unsmiling male nurses.
The second dream option involves taking tea with Ibsen. Or Ionesco. Or some other random playwright that I don't recognize by face but know by aire of reputation. Our sandwiches have no crusts and my obviously gauche tendencies are impressing no one.
I break into an elaborate (albeit ersatz) version of something presumably Poe hoping that my decision to entertain and not ironize my tea guest is the correct choice to make. My date remains unmoved.
The third dream is obviously a dream of can-can dancers performing upside down not to adulterate their audiences by showing their skivvies but to entrance them with the sea of colorful ruffled skirts waving to and fro in a vibrant fury.
The sounds are muffled upbeat French cabaret and everything seems to be moving at half speed. This is by far my favorite of the dreams maybe because it never involves me.
The most important thing to note in each of these dreams is that at some point just after the denouement someone completely unrelated to the dream steps in, removes the hat or headpiece that one of the main characters is wearing and disappears.
Now tell me dear readers. What am I to make of all of this? Even my most detailed of dream translation books don't have an answer for me.
Perhaps my usually plentiful pool of good dream material is daring to desiccate. Maybe my muse is in mourning. Or possibly I just have a fetish for strangers stealing hats.
I'm at a loss.
