My day thus far.

[matt_doyle]

Yesterday I cleaned out my coffee machine, and even after cycling water through it four times, my coffee tasted like vinegar.  Today it's maybe a tiny bit sour, but I'm using enough vanilla creamer that I can't be sure, so that's all right.  It does mean I overdid it a little today -- 2 very full double-sized cups in as many hours, and I'm still pondering the virtues of a third.

Dreamed I was a bank robber last night.  I was doublecrossing partners, potentially arranging murders, and as icing on the cake, I think my dream-character was cheating on his dream-wife.

I never used to have dreams in which I was the villain.  In the past few months, I have had several (at least  two; and I know one of them is recorded in my dream diary posts).  I wonder what it all means, psychologically speaking?  I mean, I'm sure as Hell not cheating on my wife, and  except my (hardly new) procrastination-guilt, I think my conscience is pretty clear.  So why do I keep having dreams in which I'm someone so unscrupulous I wake up feeling like my brain needs a shower?

1567 words written.  If the second half of today goes like the first, I am probably less than halfway done. 

75% done with the LARP's rough draft, which means I am maybe 50% done with the LARP as a whole.  Seeing as this usually happens about 3 days before LARP time, and I have 3 weeks remaining, that's great news. 

Maybe the amount of coffee I'm drinking isn't so excessive, after all.

Comments

[ailelie]

The only method of dream interpretation that has ever seemed reasonable to me is the Martian one. Basically, you leave interpreting and meaning aside and explain your dream to a Martian who knows nothing about humanity. So you have to explain everything within your dream both what it is and why. You just keep unpacking until you can't anymore. Finally, you read over that mess and look for your overall meaning.

[matt_doyle]

Oooh. I like that.

However, it does rather rely on remembering more of a dream than I remember of this one, I think.

I am willfully, irrationally, romantically Jungian when it comes to dreams, myself.

[ailelie]

I think the method relies on the idea of what you remember being the most important bits. Also on the idea that dream symbology is deeply personal/unique to each person, but may not be immediately understandable, hence breaking down each dream element. *shrugs*

[matt_doyle]

Duly noted.