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08/21/2002: weird dreams
If I was capable of half the ridiculous plot complexity awake that I manage in my dreams I wouldn't need to worry about not having script ideas to draw as comics. Unfortunately my wacky dreams are either too incoherent or I don't remember enough of them to transform them into plots and characters that would stand an awake reading.
I can't get together the full story of my latest unconscious B-movie wackiness, but it involved time travel in an underground train wagon like machine to fix stuff (though it seemed that there was at least one group doing this for fun, maybe they messed things up). There weren't big time paradox like messes, though something had resulted in deaths. There were lots of chase scenes through dark and dank gothic buildings and underground tunnels, interspersed with martial art fights. I tried to escape something, and I wasn't too keen to be part of this whole time travel mess. There were also big intelligent rats planning stuff, it was raining almost constantly, and I was starting to loose all my teeth once again (my teeth falling out is a recurring nightmare for me, though it almost never just happens on its own, but is usually part of ridiculously complicated B-movie plots like this one).
I'm sure that me loosing my teeth has some symbolic significance (it's about the only recurring nightmare I have, I never dream of being naked in class or something like that), but why the bizarre circumstances? I mean always with the chase scenes and action-adventure and most times set in really weird architecture. I'm not even that much interested in architecture and still it's always gothic cathedrals, or underground tunnels, or that last time it was an art nouveau style museum (or museum-like palace) that housed some cult... and usually I only notice the teeth thing halfway into the dream. I'm puzzled.
Posted by RatC @ 11:07 AM CET
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No insight into the teeth thing. But I've heard it said that dreams often involve complicated architecture or physical settings, perhaps because the complex architecture of the dream is a metaphor for the complex architecture of the brain. In that way, the dream is a kind of map of the psyche.
Not sure I buy it, but it's kind of a neat idea.
Posted by Kass @ 08/22/2002 10:53 PM CET
