A Weird Dream
Last night I dreamt, which isn't strange. What is strange is that I remembered it. The dream consisted of me waking up late in the night and hearing this really loud noise. I went outside to see what it was. I was not at my house, I was at my parent's house. The scene was a bit futuristic because something was flying overhead. Imagine a local news station van or SUV with the satellite dish on top and a news crew in the back. This news SUV had wings and was flying over my parent's house and landed in my yard. I tried to talk to them but they hushed me and trained their cameras on the night sky. At first the sky looked like a bunch of stars but as I looked closely their was a war going on in the sky. Apparently the defunct Soviet Union, or North Korea, had attacked the U.S. and we retaliated not with F-16 fighters but with these armed flying SUVs. I couldn't tell if they were fighting in outer space or in the earth's atmosphere. And the U.S. SUVs had a strange fighting formation; they formed a 5-point star formation and moved around fighting the Communist Russian/Koreans. I thought that was a stupid formation in which to fight. It looked like a stalemate. The news crew was very anxious and they told me this was possibly the beginning of nuclear war. But no nukes seemed to be coming, so I sat and watched. The battle went on for hours. I got bored so I went back to sleep. When I awoke the battle was over and the flying battle-scarred SUVs were flying over my house. But I couldn't tell if they were Americans returning or Communists invading. They seemed peaceful. I didn't know who had won. Did the U.S. or the communists? I walked downtown and the whole place was empty except for a Hispanic-looking man who was hanging an American flag on a store front. At first, I thought that the U.S. had won but then I wondered if the Communists had won but was trying to trick all of us so we wouldn't revolt. The news crew was gone and I felt very alone. There are all sorts of motifs in this dream....any thoughts what it all means?
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No idea what it means, but it's an amazing series of images.
Armed flying SUVs is so perfectly American.
And the war itself seems utterly meaningless, especially if you can't really tell who won.
I know, it was so weird. Yesterday my Bruce Springsteen discussion did not go as well as I had hoped....at least that was my perception. It put me in a foul mood. I always think dreams say something about my inner soul but this just seems to be a collection of images dealing more with political events outside my own consciousness. I can't tell if I was disillusioned at the failure of the lecture (dealing with an icon of Americana), or just some random stuff in my head. I guess sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.
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