March 19, 2004
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I had a dream last night that I was in South America in an Inca city, but it was filled with people from India. I crawled up the side of an abandoned house and saw a folded twenty dollar bill sticking out from under the roof. So I lifted the roof (the whole thing) and found mounds of American money. Most of it was normal enough, but some of it was really odd, like three dollar bills and three thousand dollar bills. It wasn’t fake money (least not in my dream), but real money and I had the impression it was hidden before a war. I took it all and stuffed it into a duffel bag and high-tailed it out of there. I passed through a swampy grass-land where I think someone (or something) was hunting me.
Comments (8)
Don’t know so much about the Incas but the Aztecs supposedly dumped a large part of thier gold into the lake that thier floating gardens where in those gardens eventually grew together and created the cover that Mexico city now rests upon …. ( according to legend) so is there gold under mexico city? maybe your dream has some connection to that?
:Schizo: whoa…. cool dream… i had a dream i was reading corinthins… weirdness
I’m so jealous you remember your dreams. I don’t sleep well enough to do that.
This was the most interesting post I have read today!
and it was just a comment…wow!
You also have the best collection oF smileys….and it grows larger all the time …scary.. are they breeding?
“Your statement about the world being like some action movie, and “God” being a bad parent using it as entertainment reminds me of the Gnostic assertion that the “God” the Church worshiped in the Middle Ages was in fact the
“Devil.” This was one of their “heresies.” They argued that the Devil had charge of flesh and God was of the spirit, therefore they said the Devil created the world and flesh while only the spirit was created in the image of God. Essentially they were telling the Church that it had been worshipping the wrong entity for a quite a while. Of course, the Church didn’t like this and killed them all.”
:Viking: better than my dream-someone was trying to cut out my eyeballs. :Swami:
Have you ever read any Jungian psychology? :Reaper:
HGDKS -I don’t think so, the most prominent features of the dream was the folded bill, the threes, and the grasslands. Most everything else seemed to be backdrop. My brain just likes to make interesting scenery for the main focus of the dream, I think.
BlackOblivion18 -I’d be interested to know what passages you read if you remember them.
Joyous -I don’t sleep well either, but I seem to dream every night, provided I get at least three hours sleep. If I don’t dream, I wake up very exhausted. I don’t always remember my dreams, but I know when I haven’t had any.
Dosmangoes -I always found that argument to be the most interesting of the Gnostic heresies. I don’t agree with it (since I don’t believe in God and the Devil), but I find it fascinating nonetheless. In any event, even if the Church didn’t like the Gnostics or their beliefs, they still seem to have adopted some of their dogma, ie that the flesh is evil and only the spirit is pure. It seems to me however that the whole mess grew from the transitory and changeable nature of flesh. In other words, flesh like all other organic matter rots, but the spirit endures. Many of the Christian-Judaic-Islamic philosophies interpret this basic natural fact of life to mean that the flesh is evil by its very ability to putrify. Very sad. On the other hand, we idolize the flesh, going so far as to embalm it to ensure it will not rot in the grave. One of the things my biology teacher drummed into us in college was that “matter is recycled while energy passes through.” The more complex an object, the more it first must be broken down before it can be reused. Flesh is not evil. It’s just not permanent.
Kat… Icky. What were they trying to stop you from seeing, or is it that there’s something in your life you are turning a blind eye to?
o_tempora_o_mores -I’ve only glanced at Jung and his teacher Freud. I don’t agree with even half of what they’ve said, aside from Freud’s assertion that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. heh I don’t agree with Jung’s archetypes at all. I feel the collective unconscious or hereditary memory does not go far enough to explain the workings of the human mind and nearly excludes the spiritual side of the equation entirely.
I would encourage you to look at Jungian psych a little more. Freud was just a pervert, but Jung’s psychology is pretty cool. I think you’d like his dream interpretations, his ideas of self-actualization (or whatever he called it), and the connections to religions and myth. One of the most impressive jungian things is the Myers-Briggs personality test. Anyhow, you should give Jung a chance. mythsdreamssymbols.com is an ok site (at least for their link to myersbriggs stuff) OK I’m done.