Invasion of the gamer friend. (dream)

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DREAM

I'm watching a guy talk to someone on his cell phone. He's talking to some unknown guy who is in the process of invading his apartment. He has no idea who this person is, but the invader just seems to be messing with his gaming system. The guy I'm watching is very busy, so he just wants this guy to get out of his apartment.

The invader sounds like he might be kind of high. He's rambling in a very casual, laid-back manner, and has some good points about the game (philosophically-speaking). 

The guy I'm watching gets home, and says, "I'm shutting my eyes. I don't want to know who you are--just go." 

But the invader insists on making himself known. He doesn't leave, and continues rambling. "Oh yeah-most importantly, you reminded me of this guy!" He refers to a Groot-like animated character on a winter background. He's holding up the picture. 

Of course, the apartment owner opens his eyes. It's a friend of his. He tries to ease the discomfort between them. I don't think he thought that what his friend did was cool, but he's not going to get bent out of shape about it. 

But then I see the movie he's making. He's rehearsing with a funny, female friend of his. It's a drama. I really like what the girl is doing. I can peer into her acting process. But his character gets shot on March 2nd, and I can't help but feel that the creepy invading friend is going to make something dramatic happen that day. The guy feels it too. He's worried. 

INTERPRETATION

Relationships are complicated. Even friendships are complicated. Your friends are probably going to do some things you don't approve of. And I think what's most scary about this is how you realize your ability to predict the future is clearly off. You had faith that this person was going to act in a certain way that doesn't offend your sensibilities, and they surprise you. Now you have to consider how what they're doing is going to affect your life and your limited time and resources, not just now, but in the future. But they could always surprise you again by changing. And there's always a chance that you're learning the wrong lessons when a person reveals themselves to you. 

I think this dream is just anxiety about that sort of thing. 

Tearing the wings off of beautiful animals. (dream)

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DREAM

I'm taking a tour of a meat factory. Marilyn vos Savant is being overworked in this factory. She's indulging the tour, but she seems really stressed when she describes to the tour guide how she's working to increase the pig factory's efficiency. She doesn't stay for long. 

Then I enter a beautiful, pink room with a pond and path of concrete circles going through the water that mimics giant water lilies. There are large plants in the background. They bring out one of the pigs and take it through the pond. It's the pig is small, and cute, and to my surprise, it spreads, large, beautiful, feathery wings. I realize with a sinking feeling in my stomach that the factory must tear off and destroy those beautiful wings when they kill the pigs for food. I hate to think of the sparkle going out of the curious little pig's eyes. What a waste of life.

INTERPRETATION

This dream is about my capitalism anxiety. 

Marilyn vos Savant is a lady in her 70s who used to have the highest recorded IQ score of anyone in history. (They changed the tests, according to ChatGPT, so now her record isn't "being maintained.") In the dream, she was miserable working in a meat factory. This to me, is what we're doing: we're taking our brightest people and having them work 60 hour weeks to do stuff like sell bacon a little bit better than someone else instead of giving them meaningful, satisfying things to do in a balanced, sustainable fashion. 

What's more, we're systematically destroying beautiful, innocent animals who were meant to live in the forest and fly--just so we can eat them. So the overall goal is highly questionable.

Also, pigs can fly, which is a euphemism for miracles, but that's not what we choose to make happen in this artificially-created nightmare world. 

Iceland floods. (dream)

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DREAM

I've gone on several summer trips to Iceland with my best friend--not mainly to see my parents, but my parents do have a house here. I'm sure my parents' house is horribly cluttered and neglected. They don't really want me hanging out there, and I don't want to be there either. So I always just pass by its exterior. It's gray-green on a grassy hill with some other houses.

But then one day, I look up their house on Google Maps and look inside. It's beautiful. It's clean. It's well-decorated. It almost looks like they hired an interior decorator. I can't believe it.

The next summer though, all of Iceland is completely flooded. I swim to my parents' house. It's underwater. There's a little stoat or a weasel swimming in the flooded grass with me and my best friend. I guess my parents' house is done for.

INTERPRETATION

I think many people's parents change when they move out of their house. To me, it seemed like my parents were happier, and they weren't hurting anybody (me), so in my mind, they took on a cute, harmless old couple quality that they didn't have before. 

But that time has passed for them (the house got flooded) since my father has passed away. 

The next day, I was supposed to wake up early, but I had a series of dreams that attempted to persuade me to stay in bed. There's something a little creepy about your own sleep trying to lure you into staying with it when it's in your best interest to leave.