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The most amazing dream, I had the most amazing dream today! After having twisted around in my head trying to understand things about myself and the person I was involved with intimately at the time, I had a nap, which lasted almost two hours. It felt much shorter than that. There was an artist. He made music, but somehow he made it by spinning a person around on a bungee cord on top of a building, hundreds of meters in the air. He must have had incredible strength. I was an onlooker while preparations were being made for this woman to be the next person who gets to be bungee-spun for the sake of music. Then I realized that it was actually me who was going to be thrown off the building at the end of this bungee rope, and that I was a woman!!! I was thrown relatively gently off the side of the skyscraper (American cityscape), and started to rock up and down gently, picking up speed. In the end, I was flying around above the building, at the end of this rope – and what is really interesting is that though initially I had been safe because I was tied to the end of the rope, now I had to hold on to the rope so I didn’t lose control, so I didn’t fly wherever the oscillation's momentum would take me. I knew that I had to hold on, and it was incredibly difficult... yet at the same time I knew I could have let go, after all. I was wearing a parachute, and though I knew it would be somewhat dangerous, I knew I could have let go. I imagined that if I were to let go, I would fly for a little while then fall – and I wouldn’t have even needed to remember about the parachute, I felt intuitively certain that there was a foolproof, in-built mechanism which would trigger the parachute once I was close enough to the ground. A little awareness of what was going on (meaning I need merely to be conscious, i.e. not passed out) and I could have steered the parachute a little so as to land safely on the ground below. In the dream, I felt the g-forces, and the strain on my wrists and fists trying to hold on to the rope, and the exhilaration of letting go due to complete exhaustion. And, certainly, I felt the fall! The most exquisite thing of all. I am not excited, perhaps a little, but I am delighted I had this dream. It feels very meaningful, and it was very, very vivid indeed. |
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