I posted on twitter/FB today that I had some really strange dreams last night. A few people asked me about them, so I’ve relented and will post it here. I apologize in advance for the blank spots. Dreams are like that: They don’t have to make sense.
//start dream//
I’m sitting in a train station, on a bench on the platform.
A train passes through the station, and stops suddenly. Over the loudspeaker, it is announced that there was an accident, and that Dora the Explorer is trapped under the engine guard.
For some reason, this really upsets me, and I determine that I have to go save Dora.
I run to the end of the platform, and in moments find myself lost in the middle of an endless swamp crisscrossed by sections of rotting wooden platforms. I begin jumping from crumbling dock to dock, trying to make my way to the front of the train, which is nowhere in sight.
After a while, I am overcome with emotion and collapsed, crying and screaming. For some reason, Dora being trapped under the train still has me greatly upset.
Eventually, I see some birds circling overhead. I stand up, and the birds fly back towards the platform, which has reappeared. In the distance, I can see that the train has started moving again.
Suddenly, I find myself running through a store. I pass several clothing racks, and stop at a shelf full of large plastic spaceship models.
And then I woke up.
//end dream//
So, did I make anyone’s brain explode?
September 14, 2009
Wow, what a dream. My Inner Armchair Psychologist tells me that Dora represents your own unexplored ambitions – for travel, and an exotic, animated (literally!) world of multicultural adventure. Being stuck under the train engine represents a kind of death (or at least peril) before even getting started on the journey. Your further disorientation, further exemplifying the difficulty of just getting started – ‘at the train station’ as it were. And the rotting wood might not be that far from reality – a friend who works for the train system says its in desperate need of repair – some of the tracks are still in use from Civil War times.
Spaceships are you wanting to take your travels and adventures to the next level, bypassing antiquated train travel and aiming right for the stars, your destiny.
- Shaman Mike