recurring themes in my dreams
Aug. 17th, 2024 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
publicstrainlast night i dreamt that i was backstage at a really huge interpol concert—stadium, red rocks situation. people laid out picnic blankets on a hill. the openers were FEWS and the solo frontman of some other post-punk adjacent band; for some reason i rememeber this as mark lanegan although i'm sure it couldn't have been. well, maybe, i don't know, he doesn't have a lot going on lately. those are some weirdly realistic & specific opener choices that my brain came up with...
anyway, this dream contained two recurring, common themes: [1] the appearance of male celebrities i "admire" or at least hold in some kind of hostile reverence (i.e. i dream a lot about seth meyers and i don't like him), and when i meet them they are condescending, smiling politely at me but very coldly and haughtily and with some level of amusement and removal, which is basically how most celebrities would act in real life—however while i've met seth meyers a dozen times and he did act like he does in my dreams, i'm actually sure paul banks would probably be a lot more polite and garrulous. he seems generally chill in interviews & on social media although his lyrics seem to indicate something in his psyche i don't like. it's probably all the rape he talks about. also, i think those aviators he wears all the time are imbued with symbolic dream meaning. anyway, back to the two common dream themes, [2] i am going to be 10-30 minutes late to an interpol concert and i'm so stressed about potentially missing "obstacle 1" that i wake up. i've had that dream a few times. the reason i'm late is usually my own fault, which stresses me out even more. 10-30 minutes is a lot when you're talking about a concert setlist.
some other recurring themes:
* i'm dead and i can't tell anyone that i'm dead, if i try to write it down on paper it registers as chicken scratch or say it out loud the words turn into bubbles, etc
* i'm back in atlanta on a weekend trip and i'm trying to cram as much into the few days i'm home as possible because i'm homesick to death all the time
* JKBC used to show up in my dreams although he hasn't in a while. he's a lot more affable than the male celebrities who are condescending towards me although that's maybe because he's been nice to me when we've interacted or because i don't know if you can really count him as a celebrity.
i don't know why they're always male or if the condescension has to do with their being male, but i guess i don't really dream about female celebrities because i haven't fixated on any the same way. i will try to dream about hunter schafer and report back to you. it would be nice to dream about hunter schafer.
if i can think of any more themes, i'll append them to my next entry.
anyway, this dream contained two recurring, common themes: [1] the appearance of male celebrities i "admire" or at least hold in some kind of hostile reverence (i.e. i dream a lot about seth meyers and i don't like him), and when i meet them they are condescending, smiling politely at me but very coldly and haughtily and with some level of amusement and removal, which is basically how most celebrities would act in real life—however while i've met seth meyers a dozen times and he did act like he does in my dreams, i'm actually sure paul banks would probably be a lot more polite and garrulous. he seems generally chill in interviews & on social media although his lyrics seem to indicate something in his psyche i don't like. it's probably all the rape he talks about. also, i think those aviators he wears all the time are imbued with symbolic dream meaning. anyway, back to the two common dream themes, [2] i am going to be 10-30 minutes late to an interpol concert and i'm so stressed about potentially missing "obstacle 1" that i wake up. i've had that dream a few times. the reason i'm late is usually my own fault, which stresses me out even more. 10-30 minutes is a lot when you're talking about a concert setlist.
some other recurring themes:
* i'm dead and i can't tell anyone that i'm dead, if i try to write it down on paper it registers as chicken scratch or say it out loud the words turn into bubbles, etc
* i'm back in atlanta on a weekend trip and i'm trying to cram as much into the few days i'm home as possible because i'm homesick to death all the time
* JKBC used to show up in my dreams although he hasn't in a while. he's a lot more affable than the male celebrities who are condescending towards me although that's maybe because he's been nice to me when we've interacted or because i don't know if you can really count him as a celebrity.
i don't know why they're always male or if the condescension has to do with their being male, but i guess i don't really dream about female celebrities because i haven't fixated on any the same way. i will try to dream about hunter schafer and report back to you. it would be nice to dream about hunter schafer.
if i can think of any more themes, i'll append them to my next entry.
