Thursday, April 13, 2006

Dream Analysis and Robert Stack

The past couple of nights I have had some vivid (if not too exciting) dreams. I was in both of them along with other people, but they both featured one other person who will remain nameless to protect the innocent. So the first dream, this person got drunk and got sick. And in the second dream, I got drunk and slept in someone else's bed (the bed was empty, just me). In both dreams there were big groups of people I know (family the first night and friends the second), but at the point of inebriation it was just me and this other person. And in both dreams I was out of town - the first dream might have been in the French countryside a la The Grand Illusion and the second felt like a ranch house. I decided to reference a dream dictionary to find out what all this means. This other person getting drunk could mean I harbor negative feelings or disapprove in some way. I dunno. Myself getting drunk means alienation and escape from reality, especially since on the second night I was the only one getting drunk. Sleeping in someone else's bed apparently means moderate business success is on the horizon? Would never have guessed that. Oh, and in the second dream, this other person was talking about me with someone I didn't want to be talking about me standing over the bed thinking I was passed out but I was really awake. Apparently I'm sneaky in my dreams. I don't know what any of this means, but I'm not eating chocolate before bed anymore.

ROBERT STACK! The man passed, but his memory lives on in my head. Last night on Lost there was a faith healer trying to fix Rose. He was describing the ground he lived on and it's healing powers by saying "Perhaps it has something do with the geology. Perhaps it is something else." Unsolved Mysteries immediately came into my head because at the end of story segments that were true "mysteries", Stack would always say "perhaps" to offer a theory. As much as I love this show from my childhood, whenever I think of Robert Stack I think of the film Written on the Wind. In it, he plays a rich oil tycoon who is sterile or impotent or both (I forget which). We had to do analysis of him in one of my film classes three years ago. There's this scene where he's just found out he can't bear children because of his problem, and he looks at this kid bouncing up and down on one of those bouncy plastic horses that move outside a grocery store (or in this case a small town cafe). I recommend the movie just for this scene. Robert Stack almost looks jealous of this boy's energy.

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