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Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Dream: Ex-GF's Star Wars Toys

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March 19, 2009 at 8:50AM

I woke up at 4AM this morning and wasn't able to get back to sleep. I had a strange dream... This is a funny one.

The dream took place in a REALLY large storage room--more like an enormous warehouse. I was climbing around on these big racks filled with... just the normal shit that people have in their closets and basement storage rooms.

For some inexplicable reason, I was tasked with climbing around these racks, looking through bins and boxes in order to find star wars toys that were once owned by my ex-girl friends, in their youth. You know... action figures of Luke, Darth, Chewie, etc... and related star wars toys like the Death Star, an X-wing Fighter, the Millenium Falcon. My, what a strange mission.

As I climbed around the racks, an ex-girlfriend of mine would magically appear down below me on the warehouse floor and say things like, "No. That wasn't mine. No... Yes. THAT ONE! That's mine. Get that one."

It was understood that I was going to sell the toys on eBay.

As I was climbing around the bins, looking for possibly valuable Storm Trooper action figures, being harangued by ex-girlfriends, I remember thinking to myself "This is ridiculous." "Shit, I'm gonna fall and break my neck." "I'm not a sell-stuff-on-eBay kind of guy." and "Do I have to share the eBay money with her... really?"

WTF?

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Dream Exegesis and Hermeneutics
June 13, 2009

I think I know what this dream might be about.... songwriting. The Star Wars action figures are stories or events from past relationships. Climbing around the warehouse is memory / the act of remembering. "Selling it on eBay" is putting that memory or event into a song that I end up playing at gigs, putting on a record, etc. And my concern, "Shit, I'm going to fall and break my neck!", is my ambivalence and mild guilt about the whole process. The girlfriends in the dream are... girlfriends... who say they don't want past events and emotions to appear in a song, but actually, they probably do.

Posted By John Common at: 12:03 am

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Dream: Ex-GF's Star Wars Toys

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