{"id":4,"date":"2005-07-01T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2005\/07\/01\/trends-in-my-dreams\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:57:23","slug":"trends-in-my-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2005\/07\/01\/trends-in-my-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"trends in my dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a43'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; It&#8217;s been ages since I updated<br \/>\nthis thing. I&#8217;ve had a handful of memorable dreams in that interval<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ve neglected to record. In general, I don&#8217;t remember my dreams<br \/>\nwell these days but, hmmmm, maybe it&#8217;s not just that clear recollection<br \/>\nmakes a relatively complete record possible. Maybe it can work the<br \/>\nother way around as well. So I am jotting down very very fragmentary<br \/>\nrecollections in the hope that this practice will anchor some more<br \/>\nfragments in the dream stream. <br \/>\n&nbsp; I&#8217;ve dreamt about the Ice Queen twice almost consecutively (last<br \/>\nnight and Monday night). What is notable about these dreams is how low<br \/>\nkey they were. Dreams about her normally pack an intense emotional<br \/>\ncharge (which doesn&#8217;t guarantee my waking mind will be able to retrieve<br \/>\nor reconstruct them). The first dream is like a reversal of the<br \/>\nnightmare I had before I wrote to her two summers ago: I&#8217;m part of an<br \/>\naudience at a lecture she&#8217;s giving and I don&#8217;t understand a thing. It<br \/>\nwould be facile to say that this is an oneiric expression of my<br \/>\ninability to make sense of her responses in waking life. In waking<br \/>\nlife, that incomprehension drives me to despair; in the dream, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nsimply bored. Of the second IQ dream I recall only one detail: she had<br \/>\na brother who was a werewolf. Again, the most natural interpretation is<br \/>\nfacile: this could just be my dream showing me the misgivings I&#8217;ve had,<br \/>\nwondering what I will face in her household when I go there. A slightly<br \/>\nless facile analysis would be that the werewolf is a figure for the<br \/>\ndualities I perceive in her: so supernally beautiful, so insouciant and<br \/>\nvindictive. <br \/>\n&nbsp; Between these two dreams, I dreamt I was in some kind of complex with<br \/>\nMatty and his new wife (whom I&#8217;ve never seen in waking life). I wander<br \/>\noff by myself and at one point become apprehensive because I realise<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve forgotten my spectacles. I rush back to look for them, panic over<br \/>\nnot finding them, then take a breath and realize that my vision is tack<br \/>\nsharp. A good metaphor for a number of things.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s been ages since I updated this thing. I&#8217;ve had a handful of memorable dreams in that interval that I&#8217;ve neglected to record. In general, I don&#8217;t remember my dreams well these days but, hmmmm, maybe it&#8217;s not just that clear recollection makes a relatively complete record possible. Maybe it can work the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}