Jaron's Dreams
| September 10, 2008, 9:19 AM The DC Amish and the living game |
| Alright here are a few snatches of another weird night of dreams. And the "Amish" in my dream loosely refer to a closed off group of people who adhere to a strict set of rules that seem culturally strange to rest of us in the dream. What I dream about the Amish and what I think about the Amish are not necessarily the same thing, and upon further thought I think "Amish" can be interpreted metaphorically, and not literally, in my dream...
The first bit of dream I can remember is that Rachel and I were visiting this group of Amish who were living in a small room inside the DC (yeah, the one at Greenville). They were known to her and her family. We all began watching a film which had questionable material for the Amish people. They started to say things against it. During the viewing of this film, one of the Amish girls, who I think liked me, started leaning against me; and it weirded me out! They finally stopped the film on the grounds that it was "inappropriate". The second part of my dream had to do with Rachel playing Castlevania. She was at the first part of the stage in Castlevania III that ends with the Grim Reaper/Large Skull boss (you know, the part with zombies and axe warriors), and she just couldn't get past it! She'd make it to the axe warriors, and she couldn't seem to kill them quickly enough. She also couldn't strategize as to how to avoid the axes for long enough to kill them; she'd always impatiently hack away at them, in the hopes that she'd take them out before they got her. Then she'd start over and try again, and again, and again. Pretty soon we got a phone call telling us that our game-playing was having a real world application. All of the items we'd picked up/bought/used in the game were appearing in real life at the "Castlevania" factory (I guess), and they were being stored on a shelf. This had some sort of monetary consequence for us, and we were thinking about whether or not to keep playing, realizing it was having this effect. Weird, huh? Any thoughts? |
Interpretation/Comment by Jaron Davis on September 10, 2008, 9:25 AM Here's my take... Alright, I'm always thinking of an interpretation as I type these weird dreams. First things first, I think I know what the first part of the dream means; but I think I'm going to shy away from that one. Second things second, I think the second part is a combination of things. It's what happens when on the previous day you watch an episode of Stargate Atlantis called "The Game" where Rodney and Colonel Shepherd are playing what they think is a game that has real life consequences to people on another planet; and you also discuss what the consequences, trials, and hardships of investing in a writing career are. |