Dream vigilante

[vaneramos]

Back in Toronto, it's good to hang out with djjo. He's back from a week-long fibre conference in Michigan. This morning he showed me all his projects: felted silk, spun silk, silk paper.

Unfortunately I seem to have come down with a mild flu, which is rare for me. It might be heat exhaustion, but I was hardly outdoors yesterday. Maybe it's just the comedown from so much social and parental activity lately. I had just enough energy to view Danny's work, then curled back under the covers.

While dozing in and out, I found myself in the stone room at the top of a high keep. There were five damsels with long, braided hair. I recognized two of them: ghostsandrobots and missprune. Blackbeard appeared. He was about eight feet tall. He taunted me, then siezed one of the women, not one I knew, and threw her out the window. Horrified, I produced a musket out of thin air, and blew him away.

Just wanted to let you know I'm looking out for you.

Comments

[ghostsandrobots.livejournal.com]

That actually does make me feel better, Van; thanks!

Hope you get some rest and feel better soon as well.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hehe, my pleasure to rescue damsels in distress. I just realized Blackbeard came out of an article about him in the latest National Geographic. My dreams are pretty funny, when I remember them.

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

Heavens, what a dream. I thought it was going to go in an XXX-rated direction--I started to include my lecherous thoughts in my post, but then realized that this is on an open channel and you'd probably rather I keep it clean. I'll just mention that the verb "impale" occurred, in the PASSIVE tense...

Hope you are feeling better today. I was quite unwell myself on Sat. and I blame failure to take proper downtime.

hugs, Shimmer

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Earlier today I noticed your post about being unwell, and thought that was an odd coincidence. Maybe it's the weather. I'm feeling somewhat better this afternoon, and managed to go to the ghetto with Danny to celebrate our upcoming anniversary with sangria and chicken wings.

It's odd that I don't often get away with straighforward erotic dreams. In the last sexual dream I can remember, I was female. Blackbeard should have been sexy, but in this case was clearly antagonistic from the moment he appeared, and I felt nothing but dread. I wonder what Freud would say about this one.

[trinapink.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for looking out for me! Love the dream.

djjo's projects sound fascinating. Don't suppose you (or he) are posting pics, are you?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I hope he'll post some photos later. If he does, I'll post a link.

[trinapink.livejournal.com]

Oh, very cool. I hope he does. I'll look forward to seeing what things he's done with silk.

[clairenolen.livejournal.com]

hope you are feeling better soon! Your dream sounds fascinating!
I just wanted to explain that my response to your comment in my Lj that started with: " i hate this question" wasn't meant directed to you asking the question. Just in case that didn't come out right.
It was already hard for me to write that i'm scared, but i kind of forced myself to write it down. And then your question on top of it forced me to deal with it AGAIN and even explain it and talk more about it.
Nevertheless it's good, so thanks for the question Van.....;-)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I didn't find your comment negative, just honest. I didn't mean for my question to make you uncomfortable either, still I'm glad I asked it. I've been trying to formulate a meaningful response to your reply all afternoon, but other things keep distracting me here. Good things, I might add, and I'm feeling better.

I'm well acquainted with anxiety, at a clinical scale in fact. I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from you, though. In recent years I've learned to follow my own creative impulses for the sake of life and sanity. I'm not so good at responding to other people's expectations because in the past I often came up too far short, and that's where my social anxiety comes into play. I struggle with the idea that I have little practical use to offer the world. I've been working hard to improve my confidence, though.

wails

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

There was a fiber/fibre convention in Michigan and I didn't know about it? I could have played with yarn and djjo at the same time?

(I hope you get over the blahs soon.)

Re: wails

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Danny says, "Oops!" ;-)

Thanks, I feel a lot better this p.m.

Re: wails

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. (and I can hardly blame djjo for forgetting that I lived in Michigan...)