I had an odd day-dream a week ago. I had a big pond, though it was rubber-bottomed. It was in a large garden. I was looking at it, thinking of cleaning it up. I saw a baby elephant running about in the bottom of it, under the water. I called Sue to have a look. Two yobs climbed the garden wall and a saw them off with a brush. Next thing I was in trouble with alligators, not exactly scared as they were not that big and likely to be as scared of me as I them. My Dad came and sorted them. No one was at all impressed with the pond, now teeming with fish and Sue coaxed the elephant out. We went into a large, messy kitchen. My Mum was around in the background as a smell of bread and the whistling kettle on the Aga.
Mum and Dad died long ago. I've often wished they had met Sue. Life is a bit uncertain at the moment, though a great pain has been lifted from our lives, if not quite gone. It's new start time, though we are both just escaping exhaustion after illness and stress. I'm happier than for a long time, though not quite kicking on. Whatever the interpretation of this dream (feel free), there is another kind of dreaming, let alone what a bit of opium might do. This is much more directly concerned with thinking, trying to get a new handle on problems and what life could be. This form of dreaming is often despised as 'idealism' or 'Utopian'. You can see a form of it in the 'real dream' above - at least in the desire for family, somewhere decent to live (though the Aga in the kitchen and smell of bread is distinctly not 'green'). We are short of a universal dream of the way we would have the world. I have tired of one tracking down crooks and violent solutions (television and films). Even destroying the Australians at cricket (though I just have in a video game) palls. What, in this sense is in our Mind's Eye? How would we have the world? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
