The Bloomington Dream
I have a recurring dream.
About once a month for the past several years, I have had a dream that I'm back in Bloomington, Indiana, where I went to college. Of course, it's never as straightforward as that. There's always a healthy dose of "dream logic." For example-
a. The dream, without fail, is set in Bloomington, but it never LOOKS like Bloomington. In last night's episode, Bloomington looked like some kind of post-modern Hogwarts, black and angular. Another time, it was a cross between the Hollywood hills and a Disney-cliche version of an Arabian bazaar, complete with carpets and monkeys. Once, Bloomington looked like the landscape of Grand Theft Auto 3 but rendered in REAL LIFE. I only remember one instance of the setting being correct, when I emerged from the slow-ass hydraulic orange elevator onto the 4th floor of the MAC.
b. No one who I actually went to college with ever appears in the dream. Occasionally the plot includes a sequence where I'm "going to see" Wayne Jackson, but it's never revealed why, and I never actually see him. (FYI, Wayne is the guy who, in one of my early audio classes, said something to the effect of, "Gain Structure & Signal Flow. That's pretty much the rest of your life." To this day, the truest fucking thing I've ever been told.)
c. In dream-time, it's definitely the present day; I've lived in LA for quite a while, I've done everything I've done in real life, but I still have to be back in Bloomington "to finish" for some reason. Dream-Dan often makes a point of reflecting on the fact that he's back despite having a not-too-shabby discography. (Dream-Dan, like his real-life counterpart, is clearly a bit of a pretentious twat.)
d. The MFDC character is completely absent; the dream-setting is a strictly Dan thing.
What's throwing me here in terms of figuring out what my subconscious is trying to tell me is the fact that I DID finish school.
So... WTF?
About once a month for the past several years, I have had a dream that I'm back in Bloomington, Indiana, where I went to college. Of course, it's never as straightforward as that. There's always a healthy dose of "dream logic." For example-
a. The dream, without fail, is set in Bloomington, but it never LOOKS like Bloomington. In last night's episode, Bloomington looked like some kind of post-modern Hogwarts, black and angular. Another time, it was a cross between the Hollywood hills and a Disney-cliche version of an Arabian bazaar, complete with carpets and monkeys. Once, Bloomington looked like the landscape of Grand Theft Auto 3 but rendered in REAL LIFE. I only remember one instance of the setting being correct, when I emerged from the slow-ass hydraulic orange elevator onto the 4th floor of the MAC.
b. No one who I actually went to college with ever appears in the dream. Occasionally the plot includes a sequence where I'm "going to see" Wayne Jackson, but it's never revealed why, and I never actually see him. (FYI, Wayne is the guy who, in one of my early audio classes, said something to the effect of, "Gain Structure & Signal Flow. That's pretty much the rest of your life." To this day, the truest fucking thing I've ever been told.)
c. In dream-time, it's definitely the present day; I've lived in LA for quite a while, I've done everything I've done in real life, but I still have to be back in Bloomington "to finish" for some reason. Dream-Dan often makes a point of reflecting on the fact that he's back despite having a not-too-shabby discography. (Dream-Dan, like his real-life counterpart, is clearly a bit of a pretentious twat.)
d. The MFDC character is completely absent; the dream-setting is a strictly Dan thing.
What's throwing me here in terms of figuring out what my subconscious is trying to tell me is the fact that I DID finish school.
So... WTF?
posted by MFDC at 3:19 PM
2 Comments:
Wow. That's deep.
1005 reasons to care deep.
You probably don't feel like you finished school because you never got that 16-track tape machine working. That'd be my guess.
Good point.
That fucking MCI was a big disappointment.
MCI= Maybe Certa's Incompetent
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