Are dreams worth recording? I don't know. I've recorded them, on and off, through much of my life. My sense is that some dreams are "important", in that they reveal deep things about your own mind and personality, while other dreams are just random.
I've also had recurring dreams. A swimming pool is a constant motif, along with more obvious situations like being back at school and having a few weeks left before the Leaving Cert.
I don't remember this dream, but I thought it odd enough to record it.
Extraordinary dream. Featured a large cast of people I knew (including some of my FB friends), set in sumptuous house (almost a mansion). All orchestrated by a very innovative dramatist/social radical, who resembled Tony Kushner but nobody knew if he was right-wing or left-wing or beyond those categories. The idea was that the drama happens first and afterwards is "deconstructed", or talked through-- like group therapy.
The drama included long arguments about what was happening in the play itself-- I didn't know if they were staged or not. At one point, the person who wrote the musical score (also a player in the play) was having an argument with the dramatist over the plot. At another point, I was swimming in a swimming pool and all the water disappeared.
It went on way into the early hours of the morning (in the dream). At the end, as everyone was going home, I found myself confronted with a small red bear. I just froze. It walked up to me, looked me in the eyes, and walked away. Then later, as everyone was about to assemble in another room (going home apparently forgotten), but I was there first, Pope Francis came in on a wheelchair and said, in very bad English: "Maolsheachlann, there is a Panadol for your headache", even though I didn't have one-- and wheeled back out immediately, leaving the Panadol.
And then, to be completely meta, everyone who was in the dream was in a room and I was describing the dream to them-- it was the atmosphere of "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" [from A Midsummer Night's Dream], or like the scene when Dorothy wakes up in The Wizard of Oz (which I haven't seen.)
I did watch The Wizard of Oz soon after this, perhaps prompted by this dream.
(Incidentally, A Midsummer Night's Dream was Chesterton's favourite Shakespeare play. The Tempest is mine. What's yours?)
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