Showing posts with label videotape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videotape. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2017

(2/22/05) distorting the rolling stones; planetree and buildings

(Entered in paper journal at 6 AM at home in Harlem.)

Dream 1

I was working on some photograph of the "Rolling Stones" standing on a dirt (?) road in a brightly yellow-green stand of trees. The photograph was probably on a television screen, although the screen worked like it was attached to computer equipment.

All four "Stones" looked normal, none really drawing attention to himself. In fact, the only one whose face even looked recognizable was Mick Jagger. I had gotten word, though, that Mick wanted the picture changed, as he felt he stood out too much from everyone else. So I was now working on the photo.

A couple people with me were getting bored -- I had come up with no ideas. They both got up to leave. Suddenly I got the idea to bend everybody's image out of shape and digitally alter their facial features. But I would leave Mick alone and let him sink into the background.

I drew rhomboid (?) polygons around the other three band members. The polygons stretched up into the trees in the image. I then enlarged the band members' bodies, especially their heads, into the entirety of the polygons. I and the two people beside me were entertained by this process -- each enlargement seemed to match the respective band member's personality.

I now started to work on the far left band member (Mick Taylor?), who looked like a long-faced biker balding on the forehead and with smoky blue-tinted eyeglasses. I added these rug-like, pale tan, almost paint-like, coils and mounds of hair on his head.

The people said, "Okay. That looks great so far. But we should really go get some lunch."

I wanted to save what I had because I knew I'd forget it. So I took a videotape and fast-forwarded though it to get to a part I could save on. There was a movie on the tape, but right in the middle of the movie was a blank spot just long enough to store all the information on the photograph. Fast forwarding through the movie, I became interested in it. I pressed play.

It was night in the movie. There was smoke everywhere, lit up yellow and orange and tan and purple and grey. There was a fallen water tower and frames of fire-gutted suburban houses.

I was now in the movie. A house was burning. A white woman with deep, black eyes, pale skin, and short, silky hair, and wearing a white t-shirt and white pants, stood by a car. She was accusing me of having made things bad between her and her lover. I may actually have done this.

I was slightly afraid of the woman. But I also didn't really care. I thought she might use her husband's or her own social position against me.

She walked away. I now saw her half-smashed by some fallen roof beams. I thought she was on the brink of death. There was a ton of blood, somewhere, but nowhere that I could see on her clothes. I was scared and disgusted.

I may have offered help. The woman looked up at me and told me to leave her alone. She was still going to look for "him." She couldn't stand. Her legs were smashed. I watched her pull herself away, slither down the street.

I thought, Doesn't she know she might die before she reaches "him?" She barely stands a chance!

Dream 2

I stood before a beige-yellow-painted building that stood directly beside a red-brick-colored concrete building. The yellow-painted building took up most of my view. The red building maybe occupied the very left one-fifth.

The yellow-beige building glowed softly in soft daylight. there was a white, white-framed door in the center, at the top of a concrete "double ramp" of three-steps on each side. Possibly three square, white-framed windows line out to the left.

A London planetree branch hung low out left, just above the row of small, square windows. The limb was smooth and fairly even, though dotted all along with sprays of branches and buzzy-backlit seed balls, almost like a quaintly decorative wreath. I may have caught a glimpse or shadow of a smaller, thinner, more vertical, mottled tree in front of the red building.

I told myself to remember this vision -- like I was awake and out on the street!


Sunday, March 5, 2017

(4/25/05) don't shoot my wife; ten lines; subterranean hangar; morning meeting; nuclear burlap; videotapes and library books

(Entered in paper journal at 5:30 AM at home in Harlem.)

Dream 1

I was possibly in some house where there was a killer. It was dark. A whole group of people were in panic. I now saw a husband and wife sitting in the backseat of a car. A spotlight shined on them. Then someone shot the woman in the face. Apparently it had been the cops who had shot.

After the wife was shot, the man screamed and cried, "No! Not us! That's my wife! My wife! Don't shoot her!"

I saw, in the spotlight, the side of the car behind the back side window. There was a large "Thunderbird" decal.


I was now driving up a winding mountain road with my mom and sister. We were all sad because we were going to a funeral. My mom told us how the person or two people had died. I burst into tears. I could barely control my breath.

My mom said, "What's wrong? Did you dream of something like this happening?"

I cried, "Yes!" But when I tried to remember the dream, I didn't know if I had dreamed it at all after actually seeing it all or even if I was still dreaming.

Dream 2

Someone held something that looked like a candle before my eyes. From the bottom of the candle came smallish roots, like at the bottom of wild onions, but longer. At the bottom of one of these roots grew a potato.

All this time I heard my mom talking about how she couldn't find some item for the longest time, but how some person came into her life and found the item right away.

I now had a small piece of paper before me. I counted ten lines. That was significant. I couldn't believe it. So I started to count again.

Dream 3

I had either arrived somewhere on an airplane or had arrived and was waiting to leave again immediately or was waiting for someone to arrive. I was with my mom and my great-grandmother A.

The plane wasn't quite on time. My mom and grandma explained that this type of plane could only fly when enough people were on it to give it weight for momentum. The number 3,000 was key somehow.

We were way down below ground in some place like a subterranean hangar. I could see people and suitcases in the plane, hanging off of some kind of revolving belt machine in the belly of the plane.

Dream 4

My Americorps crew met our chief SM at some place deep in the heart of Brooklyn. It was still dark outside. We were now driving up to our usual meeting spot (i.e. Morningside Park). We still had to be there at 7:30 AM (though, not noticing the discrepancy, I'd looked at the clock to see that it said 7:52 or 7:53).

I called BA, the Americorps program leader, on my cell phone. I asked if from now on we could do the morning meeting thing more efficiently.

Dream 5

I was part of a group of peasants in a country town that almost looked medieval. The richer citizens had either evacuated the town or were just not letting themselves be seen by the peasants. We peasants had a horse-drawn cart and a maroon van. We were going through the dirt trail town picking peasants up to leave the town.

A nuclear war was beginning here. We even knew we might not have a chance of escaping. The richer citizens might not have known about the nuclear bomb attack.

We were all quite cheerful. Some of us wore burlap-style clothes. Others wore modern clothes. We went past one house, which looked modern. One peasant, with no legs, agilely rushed out of the house and cheerfully got into the van. Another guy, sitting at a computer, said, "Go on! I have more business to take care of. I'll drive on out there."

Something blinked out. When it blinked back in, I was a burlap-clad child in the back of the cart. We were going across a bridge of thin wood, over a small bank and shallow creek. In the distance was a small, rounded mountain.

I felt like flinching all the time. I knew the bombs were on their way.

Something blinked out. When it blinked back in I read from a book, "At the very first instant of the strike only the ground tinted orange."

Dream 6

I had left some movie midway through though I had really wanted to see it. My mom had given me videotapes on which the movie was recorded.

I went to some nice house in the woods that I got to house-sit for a little while. As I approached I saw some kids in the trees, apparently having a good time but also in some minor argument. Seeing me, they yelled, "There's XXXXX! Let's ask him! He'll know!"

I tried to hide the tapes. I had taught these children an environmental lesson which apparently went against the use of these tapes.

A kid asked, "Should we pick up garbage like this?" He pointed to a broken glass bottle.

I said, "No. Only pick up the not dangerous stuff. Leave the rest alone."

I was impressed that the kids had gone out picking up garbage of their own accord.

I went inside. I sat the tapes down in some room. I looked at a book on a shelf. I thought, Maybe I'll read that tonight. But then I realized the book was overdue. I then tried to figure out if it really was overdue.

Finally I realized that this whole shelf was library books. This was part of the library. There were even multiple copies of the book in question. I now tried to decide if I would check out the book.