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Dream Journal: "The Arm is Evil!"
Jul. 7th, 2008 09:45 pmI should have written this up first thing in the morning when it was more detailed. The dream had multiple layers of reality -- the sort where each preceding scenario is revealed to have been "the dream" but the new context is "reality". But really, the core scenario stood nicely by itself and would have made a nice little horror flick.
Basically, there was this severed arm, significantly decomposed. As in, the three main arm bones were all visible, but strung together with tendons and bits of muscle. The hand was whole. And the arm crawled. It chased me around ... and various other details happened that have faded now. And I kept trying to alert people to the danger with the message, "The arm is evil! The arm is evil!" Unclear exactly what the danger was, other than the existential horror of being chased by a rotting severed arm.
Then we back up a layer, and I'm trying hard to remember that I have to journal about the arm, to let people know that it's evil. Or am I supposed to journal about a dream about a decomposed arm chasing me around? No that's the third layer, when I'm aware that the evil arm was a dream, but I'm still trying hard to remember to journal about it. Then we back up a layer where I think that I've journaled about the dream about the arm, but I realize that I only journaled about it in a dream, and I still have to remember to do it for real.
Somebody pinch me so I know I'm not still in the last layer.
It didn't feel like a "meaningful" dream (despite one of my favorite motifs of skeletal bits) -- just a very vivid one. I do wish I'd remembered more of the details, though.
Basically, there was this severed arm, significantly decomposed. As in, the three main arm bones were all visible, but strung together with tendons and bits of muscle. The hand was whole. And the arm crawled. It chased me around ... and various other details happened that have faded now. And I kept trying to alert people to the danger with the message, "The arm is evil! The arm is evil!" Unclear exactly what the danger was, other than the existential horror of being chased by a rotting severed arm.
Then we back up a layer, and I'm trying hard to remember that I have to journal about the arm, to let people know that it's evil. Or am I supposed to journal about a dream about a decomposed arm chasing me around? No that's the third layer, when I'm aware that the evil arm was a dream, but I'm still trying hard to remember to journal about it. Then we back up a layer where I think that I've journaled about the dream about the arm, but I realize that I only journaled about it in a dream, and I still have to remember to do it for real.
Somebody pinch me so I know I'm not still in the last layer.
It didn't feel like a "meaningful" dream (despite one of my favorite motifs of skeletal bits) -- just a very vivid one. I do wish I'd remembered more of the details, though.
