Diana Thompson

I played with some photos to recreate a dream. Looking back at the detail files, I created it on 8/2.

Dream

I was alone in my house in a torrent of rain. The house goes over a cliff and lands in the ocean. In the dream, I remember dialing 911 on a red phone, but did not say anything. At first the house drifts along, but eventually flips upside-down. (At this point I think I might not be alive, like the "Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End" movie -they have to flip the ship to return to the world of the living.) I scramble about to find different crevices where there could be air. The house then breaks up, but the debris collapsing around doesn't hit me. I get away and climb up onto a dock. The problem in the dream after that is to convince others that I'm not dead. When I awoke I was in a lot of pain not evidenced by the dream. Maybe it was telling me my health was taking a dive. (House usually = body - for me.)

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What's funny is that later after I recreated the image from my mind and looked at it, I thought that maybe instead of a dream caused by a fear of death, it was a fear of debt. (I worry about the roof in the coming Winter rain.) I wouldn't have thought of it until I turned it into a picture.

I'm not sure what the dream meant, but it turned out to be really useful, because I'm helping my mother to write a book, and after the dream, I've decided to reverse my method in helping her. Instead of writing words to depict a scene, I'll depict her scene and then write about it (in case it brings up something we are not thinking about.) For some reason that is easier for me.

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