Dream One:
Type: being in class
People: no one I recognize
Featured: ceramic figures of Wotan made by my mom
I’m in a class and we’ve been assigned to do projects. I’ve chosen Odin, the Norse head-god, and am going to talk about the different versions of this myth, including the German version, Wotan. But I realize I can’t do the drawings well enough for the project. So I decide to use some ceramic figures my mom made of Wotan. I tell the class about the mythology chart I made for English class in the ninth grade.
Annotations:
Wotan is one of the main characters in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, parts of which Robin and I saw recently in the Met simul-cast. Also, we’ve been discussing which cycle to go see up in Seattle next year. Odin was a clue recently in the NYT crossword.
My mom does make ceramics. She made some Wotan and Brünnhilde finger puppets for Robin some years back, though they were made of fabric, not clay.
We did make mythology charts in ninth grade English class, and I was very proud of mine. I still have it in some box somewhere.
Dream Two:
Type: being in class, and cooking
People: Julie V. and some guys from my cooking school class
Featured: lobsters and an avocado
I’m at Cabrillo College, parking to go to class. I have to park far away and then walk, and can’t find the classroom, and worry I’m going to be late. When I get there, people are making chowder and bisque. My friend Julie V. has invited me to come. She’s busy cutting the antennae off of live lobsters—though they’re more like huge masses of weird appendages than normal antennae. Others—including a couple guys I recognize as fellow students from when I was a culinary arts student there—are also prepping lobsters and crabs. One guy makes a dish which is an avocado half in which a mound of crab mixed with something and some lime slices has been set. It looks yummy, but I think to myself that it’s not very pretty to look at: sloppily put together.
Annotations:
Being late for a class is one of my classic stress dreams. Julie is a cook by profession, and competed in the Clam Chowder Cook-Off at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz last February. I recently made crab bisque here in Fairbanks with our friends Valerie and Trish.
Dream Three:
Type: attending a performance
People: Mom and Dad and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music orchestra
Featured: a rehearsal that starts late
Again at Cabrillo College. Robin and I tell my mom and dad that they should come with us to a rehearsal. We all go and sit in the classroom waiting for them to begin but it takes forever—there’s lots of talk first. I see Sue Brown, one of the violinists, and realize that it’s the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music orchestra who’s rehearsing. Finally they start to rehearse, but it’s some old Classical chestnut, not what we thought they’d be playing. Mom and Dad tell us they have to leave to go to a doctor’s appointment. Robin and I stay, and then one of the sections (flute?) gets up to go and rehearse something different from the rest of the orchestra.
Annotations:
Although the Festival of Contemporary Music started at Cabrillo College (and took its name from it), it is no longer associated with the college and takes place at the Civil Auditorium, not at Cabrillo. Sue Brown—a Cabrillo College music instructor—does play in the Festival orchestra, and was my orchestra director about 30 years ago. For the past several years Robin and I have been hosting one of the flute-players, Becky, when she comes to the Festival, but I don’t remember her being in the dream.
Lots of classrooms last night!
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