and you were there, and you were there, and I was in the air.

It is so bizzare how dreams are influenced by that which you may be up to right before you fall asleep. I had this conversation with a buddy the other week who had been playing video games before he went to sleep, and in turn he dreamed being planted in the video game world while he slept. Before I went to bed last night I was talking with Paige via texting about Lost and Love; one a show one an emotion.

Needless to say I woke up this morning, as I grogged and groaned between waking up at 8:30 and snooze buttoning life until around 10, my dream consisted of paige, myself, and many others stranded on an island with an evil band of "others" out there to get us. Just like the show of course, you never saw the others, but there was a constant air of panic amongst the dream folk. Unlike the show however, traditional jason eano repetitive dream characteristics were amidst the adventure.

Since as long as I can fantastically remember, I have had a constant repetitive dream where I could fly as long as I took my standard routine to take off; the traditional track and field hop, skip, jump, triple jump method. Most definitly a tactic restricted to dream world, the classic hopskipjump while dreaming sends me to skies in a slow mo, Im sleeping on my face and not really going anywhere kind of sensation. When I fly its like I swim through the air, having to flail my arms in order to cut through the sea of sky that I soar through. Needless to say it gives me an uncanny advantage against groups of "others" who are restricted to feet, and maybe some spears or something, while I swim overhead in a sea of superiority.

When I was younger this repetition was often combined with the evil wicked witch of the west and though the villain has changed thanks to wednesday nights at 9, the flying has never faded into a new dream power. If I could dream that adventure everynight, I think I would strive to find a way to garner wage from my slumber.


Maybe Freud would say that I dream I can fly over situations imposed by mediated experience because I refuse to buy into the fantastical jargon associated with mediated fiction....woah im so pomo.

posted by mr. tomas ubik @ Monday, October 24, 2005