Life is but a dream: A Dark Game of Crystals

Monday, April 7, 2008

A Dark Game of Crystals

4/6

Sunday Morning/Saturday Night

This dream didn’t have me in it… there was a big group of maybe 8 girls and 8 guys (some of the girls had a resemblance to girls on “America’s next top model” who were in a contest. I wasn’t any of them, just privy to the events. They were in this big complex, sort of like a labyrinthine restaurant, and they had to collect pairs of colored crystal rods. If they didn’t they would be thrown out. The contest wasn’t the voluntary type, it was more like they were stuck here and needed to succeed for survival.

The dream followed various pairs of girls and guys through the complex, finding the rods. The crystal rods were about a foot long and a finger’s thickness, and made of colored glass or crystal with a matte finish. One side was flat and the other side had hash marks on it. They had to collect pairs of each color. I think the rods were limited, so if somebody else found one of the colors you wouldn’t get that pair (unless you got it away from them) The rods were hidden in places throughout the buildings. I think there was a time limit involved as well.

One of the girls got thrown out, but she forced her way back in through a secret entrance. She still had some of her rods, and she found another one inside a mailbox, but when she pulled it out, it was already broken. Several people debated whether this would be acceptable or not, but in the end they continued on.

I don’t remember a lot of the details of this dream. Overall it was very dark and gloomy, mostly candle-lit, and the players were frantic to get the tasks completed.

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I have always been fascinated by this other, intangible world into which we retreat, the reality and origins of which are so unknown, so mysterious. It is like a portal into which you can pass into another dimension, a mysterious forest you can ride through to reach Babylon, a lost valley of Brigadoon that comes almost every night, not every 100 years.

Linear time and space are twisted here, analogy is rife but sometimes indecipherable, action often skips to action with many of the boring spots removed, like a fast-paced movie. Feelings and senses are intensified, yet in some ways protected. Although there is no limit to exploration, it is yet not a place where you can choose to do anything you like... you are constrained by certain rules and limits which surely must be self-imposed (we assume, since we imagine we are the only "real" person in this world) but if so, why can we not mold them? This is so similar to the perspective of the waking world that it tests the very nature of reality. And though certain things are clearly connected to or inspired by the waking world, (and perhaps vice versa), there are also those elements, even people and places, which exist only in the dream life... where did they come from?

I know when I write down my dreams I tend to remember more of them, so I choose to do that again now, for better or for worse.

Only in my dreams...

In addition to the dream life being inhabited by persons, places, and memories that don't exist in the walking world, I also sometimes encounter, use and understand words in my dreams that don't exist in the waking world, and maybe they should. Here are some that I both remembered the word and meaning of it upon awakening:

Artigate: verb. To show an idea through means of art, often combined media. For example, a movie might use a scene with with the sun rising and music swelling to indicate to the viewer that a character has died. My sister used this in a dream when talking to me.

Carules: noun (plural). This means something like "love points," all the energy and resources that you use to demonstrate or show love. My cousin and I used this in a conversation in this dream, where he asked hypothetically if I how I would spend 1000 carules (not as in money, as in energy/effort) if I had that many, to show someone that I care for them more than anything in the world. 1000 was an extremely large amount to have, people would not really have that many.