Dream of roaring silence

This morning, I awoke very confused, multiple conversations about many arrangements with friends which change and where talking only confused things more.

Then, sort of day-dreamed between 13:30 and 16:30.

Walking down a deserted beach. Far down the line a woman walks from the water and cartwheels towards her towel, back to me. I get closer, we look into each other’s eyes and all thoughts and expectations evaporate. We turn to the sea together, smiling at the setting sun…then we turn back to towards the land and walk together.

No words are spoken. All I can hear is the roar of reality as it is, directly experienced, as words, thoughts, feelings evaporate in the heat of surrender. And so it remains. We travel, arrive in Australia, our existence completely synchronised and wordless, never speaking. All engagements, requests, interactions with others are resolved through spontaneous realisation of ‘other’ about what they need to do: a strange situation where neither party is reading each other’s minds but just knows from Big Mind.

I then sat up, turned, and that very second my alarm rings….

What if I were to do this experiment? Commit to being silent for.. a year? Surrender all interactions and actions to fate and possibility? Placing myself in front of people and all they could do is guess what you want – a guess that is probably right, but a guess at an option they think someone in this state might want – a direct reflection of their own state and perceptions.

I just…might…do it.

Losing my passport dream

On the train, about 1 hour from the end of the trip, the guard comes to the door of my cabin to say he has lost my passport [note: if you have not slept on trains, the guards and conductors take your passport and tickets while you sleep, then wake you up / hand them back in the morning] He is very apologetic, but I nearly fall to my knees with despair.

The scene continues as I try not to cause a scene, realise how hopeless the situation is, and try to figure out what to do…given that passport has everything I need in it for the whole trip, including visas it has taken me months to pull together.

Anyway, the guard wants some more time to have another look around, and asks me to do him a favour. He wants me to return the passports and tickets to three people. He hands over the documents, and I notice that each of the three people has drawn mindmaps in response to the questions on some very formal visa documents. This fascinates me – I mean, I use mindmaps, but not to answer something as important and formal as a visa document. But, these guys seem to have gotten everything stamped and improved. Very impressive.

Anyway, as I approach these three guys, who are all sitting on the floor in the hallway at the end of the cabin, I find out that they are all geologists. Geologists who use mindmaps! And, they are travelling to do work in China, their company having OK’d them to travel by train rather than plane….

Thoughts from this one:

• I am, in the dream, able to empathise with the guard losing something so important, because I do similar things quite often e.g watches, jackets. But I am still, obviously, insanely angry.

• The geologists who do mindmaps and whose corporate employer let them travel by train really challenged some of my own preconceived ideas about roles etc. It made me think about to what degree my own pre-conceived notions actually limit other’s behaviour in my presence.
  

Quiet alien attack dream

I am observing the scene from a building or other good vantage point in a city, like London. The sense of time is a few weeks, rather than just one day. What I am seeing is unmanned yellow helicopters with dark tinted windows hovering near all the high points in the city landscape. Soon after hovering nearby, whatever the top part of the structure is (e.g. Bell tower, top floors of a building) is destroyed, crumbling and falling to the streets below. The rersult is a city with no good ‘high points’.

No-one else in the city seems to be concerned. Although everyone was curious when it started, the military investigated, tried to stop the helicopters but coudn’t. So, without being able to do anything about it, everyone sort of continues on their daily lives.

The other strange phenomena, is that there is an increasing number of lizard people (think ‘V’, or the crocodiles from fear and loathing in las vegas) amongst the population. But most ‘normal’ people don’t see that they are lizards.

Anyway, there is this overwhelming sense that most people are sleep walking: a) oblivious to the reality that there are lizard people amongst them and b) not understanding the significance of all the high points in the city being destroyed.

My interpretation (as the perceptive and panicked central character) is that a) the lizards are aliens who are invading b) they are going to wipe out humans by attacking the cities, but also by melting the ice caps so the sea level rises and the only remaining high points in the cities are uninhabitable. But no-one else gets it. Oh my God, we are all going to die!!!

That’s how it ends.

And, what I noticed from that dream is the mix of conscious interpretation of what I dreamt, but also the unconscious parts that just appeared to me. e.g. I was semi-conscious of the interpretations I was making about the yellow helicopter and lizard people.