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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (46065)	1/30/2000 12:09:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<<<I'd be more inclined to dream if I just had the floating dreams.>>> Hmm. Yes. Seems reasonable. You need to write a letter to the Dream Board. (In your case, the Ream Board.) The flying ones are okay, but they can be hazardous. "Floating" would be better; I don't know how to do that. I start out walking and up we go and I'm off the ground flying and I go Oh Boy! I'm flying! I love this! Yah! Rocket science! And I still weigh 190 and I'm going up oh crap 600 feet. oh. uh, eee, and oh my, goddam these guys. Where is OSHA? Where's the freeking net? I look down and I can't see it on the gound there. Plummet. You have to watch out for plummet. [That's a funny word we just found there..... "I plum, you plummed, we plummet."] I hate when you wake up really tired from these psychically struggling dreams; and think, jeez, I need to get some sleep. Because you're really pooped; and need some rest; but isn't that what got you into this in the first place? (I hate logic.) And it's time now to go to work, anyway. What a load of crap. Need to shitcan that, ASAP. I say we flame out the Dream Board, sterilize it, and install some of our own people. Who should we nominate? Well, it's easiest to start with who not to nominate; like say X The Bureaucratic Melee Person, who gets grouchy even TALK TALK TALKING about it; and JFred, who says he never does any. He's a slacker. I'd say Rambi; but she can be kind of iffy too, what with tornadoes and old white frogs or whatever it was. And me, I'm always getting killed; but I think that's the Board's fault. They don't like me; I suspect because I'm an independent thinker and have the chutzpah to call them out. They're assholes. Plain and simple. I say purgitate them. It's the third millennium, man. Time for an update.

To: Ish who wrote (46065)	1/31/2000 10:47:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Ish, read any Kafka? Your dream about being executed for the murder of a girl that even the executioners admitted was actually alive is very Kafkaesque. I used to have dreams similar to the one you describe in your post, but they were even worse than yours. Thay all started out the same way. I have committed a murder. That is, when the dream opens, I am already a murderer. I don't know the victim. I have no memory of having killed him/her; I have no idea of the motive for the killing. But there the dead body is, and I have to dispose of it, so as not to be "found out." Sometimes I try to saw up the body and put it into a suitcase (as the hero in a Lena Wertmuller film I once saw did). Sometimes I drag it off, looking for a furnace to burn it in. Sometimes I just dig a hole in the ground, pop the body in, and try to cover it over. I am sweating all the time this is going on, of course. And the worst thing is the psychological state I am in: I feel irrevocably cut off from the human race. I have stepped "over the barrier," and I can never step back to the other side again. I have lost my innocence, my soul, forever. And I know that even if I succeed in hiding the body, spiritually I will remain in hell. It's horrible! And then I wake up. It takes me about five minutes to realize that I have not killed anybody, that I am still on the "right" side of the barrier. And when I finally realize it, you can't imagine the feeling of relief that comes over me! It has actually been years since I've dreamed those dreams. But I still remember them. Pure guilt dreams, of course. There is nothing like a Puritan background, combined with early intense exposure to Irish Catholic nuns, to give birth to an overactive sense of guilt. Yours is a guilt dream, too. Now, what on earth do you have to feel guilty about?? Joan