December 17, 2002
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I had another hugely vivid dream Sunday night. The day started quickly after I got up, so I forgot most of it. It was a mutual dream, co-created by a number of people.
I was in the role of a super spy, trying to gather information on the soul-crushing activities of a certain shopping mall. The mall had a big machine to crush people’s souls. It was a big metal hoop-shaped sculpture, not unlike the stargates in that show Stargate SG-1. People would be guided through the hoop and it would appear that nothing was happening, but their soul would have been crushed without their knowledge. Apparently very few folks knew the difference.
Some other folks and myself found the soul-restorer machine. But I woke up before we could figure out what to do about it.
I woke up thinking that it was a great dream. It was suffused with meaning and wonderment and a sense of mutual play. The idea of a soul-crushing machine at a shopping mall is sufficiently silly to make up for the Heavy Meaning stuff. Better to tell a joke than to lecture, perhaps.
What interests me most about it, though, is the sense that not everyone understands the narrative in the same way. What was a silly B-movie for me might have been a totally different experience for other participants. Perhaps this is why other participants act so strangely sometimes; they’re in a whole other world, with a whole other set of rules. They end up getting represented in my world, however, as something that fits my narrative sense.
I wish I could have more of these vivid co-dreams.
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My friends and I went to see stargate several times when it came out. I was probably 14 then. We had portions of it memorized, especially when the nerd professor guy is explaining how the gate works by drawing some diagram.
Crushing souls? Soul is then matter?
You need a dream pillow–it has some herb in it that helps you retain your dreams and stimulates vivid dreaming. A an already lucid-dreamer, it make sme vague out and forget, but I know lots of people who love having them. Maybe a little woo-woo for you. A little woo-woo for me, too actually…but I thouth I would mention it. A good rich meal before bed, too. That might help.