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| ==originally published October 2014== |
Say what? Plum
jerky? High Amperage? What in the whale does that mean? How do those words even end up in the same
sentence? The sixties produced a lot of strange
word friends, did they not? Of course
the translation is “Electric Prunes” and of course “The Electric Prunes” were a
proto art-rock band remembered for one fine effort in the genre, to be specific
the 1966 track I Had To Much to Dream (Last Night) dealing with the
consequences of exactly what the title says: allowing yourself to indulge to
excess in the realms of fantasy.
My name is Cyranos, and I’m a recovering dreamaholic. I’m here to tell you that yes, it is possible
to wake up with a hang-over from having to much to dream. The symptoms are not as severe as say to much
alcohol, and yet in some ways they’re more detrimental to your day. Things tend to go surrealistic on you,
reality doesn’t feel real at all, what should be simple bears the burden of
hidden complexity that teases just beyond the grasp of comprehension. The myths start creeping in, the legends and
the superstitions start making sense and the more sense they make the less
traction the day really has, it starts sliding on you as the sun gets low in
the west and if you’re not careful you’ll do it again, and again, and soon
enough you’ll be a dreamaholic like me who sees Gaia’s face in the clouds and wonders
why so often it happens that when you let your focus go soft you see the devil
reaching out of a beautiful woman’s eyes wanting a little piece of your soul...
take my word for it, it is entirely possible to have to much to dream.
Is it possible, friend Cyranos, that, as my analyst once suggested, memorable dreams happen when your subconscious mind is trying to deal with something your conscious mind is blocking or otherwise failing to process? And if you're "recovering," then perhaps what was below your consciousness is rising into it...?
ReplyDeleteThink I've been down that rabbit hole a time or two Jochanaan... it's really the only explanation for this collection of pocket watches that just keeps growing whenever I'm not looking at them ;-)
DeleteTo dream is to dream. Live a dream can be like living a lie but to know the difference is the trick.
ReplyDeleteWise Reader, you make such a fine point...
Deletefor if the dream motivates the day, and the day is fertile
then the dream becomes lesser, or not, and yet
remains before the eyes of the dreamer
and the knowing of the boundary becomes
ever more a matter of knowing the secret self
to recognize that which is of the self, or not...
for if the dream has been made day then
the day will have contributed to the dream
as well it should, the day remade is due its’ say,
and the dreamer approaching the new night
must know what is still only of the self, and
what has been shared into the day gone by
and is therefore workable upon the pallet
of others who also walk the frontiers of creation,
dream to day... where the lies and the lovers
lay down to play.
I find “The Dorothy Test” is of some value in these matters... click your heels three times, say “Take me home!” and if nothing happens? Then assume it really isn’t a dream anymore.
Cyranos sounds like what you are seeing reaching out of hrr eyes is love not sex but just love and looking for it to be returned.
ReplyDeleteI spoke in the generic, the artistic, but if you want to set the scene literal I'll say I've seen that as well. Temptation is a thing keyed to the one being tempted, and of all the things that can serve temptation's cause the hungers of love are one of the most subtle to defeat. I did not say that the beautiful woman was the source of the temptation, that she in and of herself was the usurper, but rather that when the full spectrum of the moment is brought to focus it is not uncommon to realize that her hunger, or your own, is for a form of love counterproductive to that place in life, that to satisfy the hunger will but condemn one or the other or both to remain famished, diminished, by the contradictions involved. The devil is subtle, such contradictions empowered facilitate far more sin and misery than can be accounted within the perception of mortals. Simple sex is of little to no consequence at all as sins go compared to facilitating someone else's premature damnation and all that can bring into reality.
DeleteThe devil cannot make you do a damned thing (in the literal sense of that word). All he or it can do is to try to convince you it's the thing to do. But one of his/its favorite tricks, going all the way back to that unfortunate incident in Eden, is to get us to blame someone or something else for our own screwups. You see it in abusive relationships; the one doing the abusing ALWAYS, in my reading and experience, blames the victim for his/her own actions.
DeleteIndeed... is why when there is doubt the first, not last, place to look is in the mirror. The second place is to look to the balance of the situation, the motives and the needs and the knowing... that is, if you're the one feeling doubt. If temptation it be the other can really only be the representation of something already inside you.that commands power by hidden means.
DeleteSorry Cyranos wasnt taking sex at all. Just plain pure love no sex invold at all. The kind once or have it and loss it you will look for it again and again.... Even if it crushes you every time its not returned. You art, poems, and stories are tops my friend take care.
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