i am in a bad mood because...

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... i wz obliquely told off by an academic in a dream!!

see we were at this restaurant and he was an acquaintance of a friend (she actually exists irl), and i wz enthusing abt this book (which doesn't), which seems to have been abt a wild woman who got what she wanted by being bad (with hilarious consequences), and he said he hadn't read it, but he associated it with this other book which wz evil bcz — "as he kept telling his students" — it merely traded on a shallow understanding of japanese culture as transgressively opposed to western culture... he never actually said "post-modern" but i know he wz thinking it

anyway he never looked at me all the time he wz saying this

ok so he doesn't exist, the restaurant doesn't exist, neither book exists, and he HADN'T READ THE BOOK I LIKED... so why am i cheesed off about this now that i'm awake?

is it because i DON'T LIKE BEING UNDERMINED BY MY OWN SUBCONSCIOUS??!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it because yr subconcious has no idea these things aren't real? Mine'll believe nearly anything.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 21 November 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark! You were in a Barthesian nightmare! ;-)

It could be worse: you could be stuck in a hyperreal dream! hehehe

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Was he perhaps wearing a colourful, expensive-looking Japanese shirt and carrying some Evil Dick CDs? ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Did he have any eyepatches at all?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

he looked like jeff lynne

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

you see mark, even your subconscious is intellectually sophisticated.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Last night I dreamt I was being shown up by my head of department in a seminar on Keats: he claimed that the key to 'Ode on A Grecian Urn' is that the urn / poem positions the viewer / reader as a king. This may be barmy or it may be subconscious genius.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

were you in a style lab

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

my dreams are the only style lab there ever was, boxcubed

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i almost never have nightmares

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i have been thinking irl and in dreams about a cohen poem, called the only poem. i havent gone to the library yet.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It was Steve!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in a bad mood because my uni lecturer didn't get sent an invite to an exhibition opening I had last night. Never trust someone else to send your invites.

I have had a series of dreams in which someone tells me I should be taking asprin. This morning I was looking for my sunglasses and I found a huge packet of asprin so I've put one sheet of them in my bag in case I need them. I feel like I should take a couple because of the dreams.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 22 November 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in a rotten mood because 1) I haven't had any work this week and 2) that gives me too much time to brood about my personal life (dumped again).

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

this clearly was a dream about fear of becoming a double-act with momus.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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