I was awoken by a phone call and it just knocked that dream out of my head...I know the last thing was that I was singing "You are 16, going on 17." Before that I was trying to find classmates for the Fairfield High Reunion and was pleased to find Dara Kempka and Sonja Duerst, names that I have not thought about for 40 years...
Big fail, but I wanted to note it for the record...
A fragment can be very fruitful, though. The reunion and the song would be about the same period of life. So the next thing to do would be to associate to the personalities of Dara and Sonja. Similar? Different? Unique attributes? Contrast and compare.
ReplyDeleteGee, I can't remember much about them. I think I liked Dara and had no particular feeling about Sonja. Dara had brown hair, Sonja reddish. That is pretty much the extent of my memory. If either, or both, come to the reunion, I will try to form more concrete opinions and feelings about them.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe they represent an era more than they do themselves. The time of sixteen going on seventeen and what that was like.
ReplyDelete(I'm just throwing out the questions--I don't have the answers.)
I think they represent two of 400 people that I need to find contact information so we can send them invitations to our reunion. Just a manifestation of the responsibility I feel to do my assigned task.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure the context of singing the song, but I regularly sing it, as I am a big musical fan and like singing songs from musicals. I don't think there is that much of a connection between the two things.
We have been watching Northern Exposure and there is a character, Maurice, who loves musicals. We watched him sing "Hello, Young Lovers" from the King and I at a wedding the other day...I think it probably has to do with that and nothing with the high school reunion.
That's the interesting thing about talking about dreams. You ask a question and more pops out.
ReplyDeleteThey represent the responsibility you feel to do your assigned task. The only thing I would argue with is the 'just'. I think the 'it just means' or 'it's just because I did' something or other is one of the ways we dismiss the messages dreams bring us.
I think it's fascinating that you are in the land of Northern Exposure (which I loved) and have found a symbol in Maurice that is so parallel to your own experience of loving musicals, singing songs from them and being in Alaska.
What are the odds?
Yes, I did like that I remembered the link to the Maurice song from our discussion. But the odds I think are excellent, actually. You don't?
ReplyDeleteI guess I think dreams use everything but that there use of such details is not random but meaningful. Or maybe helpful is a better term. Watching how Maurice negotiates the world could provide some unexpected insights if you're willing to play around with it a bit.
ReplyDeleteI will not be at all surprised if I find you and Leslie and Ziggy appearing in my dreams at some not so distant point. But that's not just because I know you are up there, but because in some ways you all lend yourselves to metaphor. Exploration, animal helper, extreme zones, lucid dreaming--who knows?
I'll let you all know if and when it happens.
I certainly am doing this because I think dreams are extremely useful, often very insightful—creating a tapestry of ideas, people and feelings that sometimes reveals truths or works through kinks in knotty problems—and are always worth thinking about. But, I also think that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. To me, this was a cigar dream (at least what I could remember of it), except it does tell you I like music and have a strong sense of responsibility. But you don't need my dreams to know that. However, today's dreams (which I haven't yet written) are absolutely meaningful to me on several levels. And, in one case, recurrent.
ReplyDeleteCool. No, I'm not trying to force any interpretations or even theories of dreams out on you, just throwing out some questions and see what they hook. I'll look forward to the recurrent one.
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