Saturday, May 14, 2005

I had another fantastically lucid dream a couple nights ago. I was inside a menacing, labyrinthine mental institution: endless decaying corridors and stuffy reception rooms. Bizarre decor on the walls. Terry Gilliam would have loved this place.

I "went lucid" while looking at macabre knick-knacks in what appeared to be a hospital gift-shop. I'd been frightened and claustrophobic, but the realization that I was dreaming had an instantly invigorating effect, and I strolled purposefully among the decrepit exhibits feeling like a transdimensional tourist. I still had no real idea where I was (the institution was devoid of landmarks or windows), but the building must have been immense -- an amalgam of rambling architecture grafted into a horrific, confining whole.

Last night I dreampt I lived in a lavishly Art Deco apartment with room-sized high-speed elevators. To get to a given floor, a "stewardess" in a glittery black body-suit would escort tenants into large chrome-walled chambers with recessed padded areas in the walls. The operation was carried out with exacting precision, especially since there were at least three or four elevator-rooms shuttling from ground level to the upper floors at any given moment, each full of jaded passengers.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

In my limited understanding of Jungian dream interpretation, a building in which one finds oneself tends to be symbolic of the mind, possibly one's own, possibly the "collective unconscious." (What about your mind might be like a mental institution!?) Here's a lucid "experiment." Reach out and touch a wall. Press against it with the palm of your hand, feel the solid resistance. I find it fascinating that the dream world (while we're in it) can seem as "real" as the waking one!

Mac said...

I often revisit certain "places" (or variations of places) in dreams -- a veritable geography.

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