Federico Fellini directs my Dreams (Another Dream)

[robby]

I was driving north on the Bayshore Freeway, in the right lane, and an immensely fat, nude woman was crawling off the roadway, into the marsh, crying and screaming. She was in great physical and emotional pain. She was seeking refuge in the swampy slough. Her skin was cracked and leathery. Up ahead, I passed the twisted remains of her station wagon. I felt guilt for not stopping to help her.

It seems that she had had a terrible accident, that triggerered an emotional breakdown. She had stripped off her clothes, instinctively seeking the simpler life of the marsh, as if she was de-evolving from a human toward a swamp grazing hippopotamus-like creature. In retrospect, her skin already looked like the hide of a hippo.

Comments

[bubblesmccoy.livejournal.com]

Aye. That dream sounds.... hideously frightening. Something like that would haunt me for days.

[robby.livejournal.com]

It was more bizarre than frightening. I take it you don't have such nutty dreams? I wonder where my subconscious gets this material? I'm actually quite sane. Occasionally, I'll have dreams that are so improbable, that I'll realize I'm dreaming. That is called lucid dreaming. The dream won't dissolve, but I'll realize it's all phony. Sort of like The Matrix.

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[bubblesmccoy.livejournal.com]

Oh I do have bizzare dreams similar to that in level of weirdness/scariness. And most of the time I know I'm dreaking as well, so I can usually, with a bit if effort snap out of it.

But nevertheless, dreams like that do affect me. I find that they're not easily shaken off.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I'd like to understand this dream. I wonder what this lady represents? Is she an aspect of my own self? Am I commenting on the horror of modern life? Where is Sigmund Freud when I need him?

it's not over till the fat lady crawls into the marsh

[pookiedrawers.livejournal.com]

There's been some "accident" in your life that you are crawling away from. You want to escape the road of life and get back to the safe, secure marsh - the womb like, primordial environment that breeds all life. This "accident" affected your emotions, your feminine side, which is why the victim is a woman. And the woman is fat and nude because of all the excess emotional baggage. Her skin is leathery to symbolize your emotional defenses against this "accident". Your driving by without stopping to help shows you are in denial about all this or it is buried in your subconscious.

Or it could've been another weird dream that doesn't mean anything.

Re: it's not over till the fat lady crawls into the marsh

[robby.livejournal.com]

I think dreams are always significant. They are the bubbling soup d'jour of our psyche. I just realized I was escaping to the sea in my previous dream, much like this woman was crawling into the marshes. Patterns are emerging, Pookiedrawers, and I must ponder this insight you have presented to me.