Dream landscape
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smokingbootA strange and vivid dream I record before I get ready for London.
It concerns a very familiar part of my dream landscape, the cathedral. I have spoken of it before. In a part of a town reminiscent to Greenwich stands the Cathedral, a building more squat and gothic and long than spired; sometimes I have seen it in light that made the stone look yellowish, others it just looks grey. It has an attached graveyard, and tunnels nearby that will take you far below the earth. The cathedral itself has sunk below ground level too, as has much of the old city around it; I have often wondered why it seems subterranean...recent dreams reveal that the great museum has grown up around it, the museum's roof soaring high above the cathedral, hewn out of a gigantic cave.
In my dream I tooknovember_girl to that museum; one part of it showed a place of extraordinary wallpapers and designs on the wall, newer ones on top of older ones ad infinitum; the wallpapers were exotic, morroccan in style. november_girl mentioned something about how you simply peeled them back to see the times and lives of those who had gone before. She seemed fascinated. Later ones were comprised of intricate wooden designs rather than paper ones, I moved past those quickly, I wanted to show her the cathedral.
We found ourselves caught in a conversation with a group of French people about sport (probably the football) and again, I tried to move things on, though embarrassingly I burst into the conversation interrupting something my companion was saying. She took it in laughing good grace but I was conscious of my eagerness making me bad mannered. I was in a huge hurry because for the last 3 or 4 dreams in the vicinity of the cathedral, I have not been able to get to it; there's been subsidence or that part of the museum has been cordoned off, or most usually, the museum has been closing. We hurried there to find the latter was the case, the museum was shutting.
My subconscious clearly is closing the cathedral off to me at the moment. Now all I have to do is work out what the cathedral signifies and I'll know what it is I'm moving away from.
And now. Work.
It concerns a very familiar part of my dream landscape, the cathedral. I have spoken of it before. In a part of a town reminiscent to Greenwich stands the Cathedral, a building more squat and gothic and long than spired; sometimes I have seen it in light that made the stone look yellowish, others it just looks grey. It has an attached graveyard, and tunnels nearby that will take you far below the earth. The cathedral itself has sunk below ground level too, as has much of the old city around it; I have often wondered why it seems subterranean...recent dreams reveal that the great museum has grown up around it, the museum's roof soaring high above the cathedral, hewn out of a gigantic cave.
In my dream I took
november_girl to that museum; one part of it showed a place of extraordinary wallpapers and designs on the wall, newer ones on top of older ones ad infinitum; the wallpapers were exotic, morroccan in style. november_girl mentioned something about how you simply peeled them back to see the times and lives of those who had gone before. She seemed fascinated. Later ones were comprised of intricate wooden designs rather than paper ones, I moved past those quickly, I wanted to show her the cathedral. We found ourselves caught in a conversation with a group of French people about sport (probably the football) and again, I tried to move things on, though embarrassingly I burst into the conversation interrupting something my companion was saying. She took it in laughing good grace but I was conscious of my eagerness making me bad mannered. I was in a huge hurry because for the last 3 or 4 dreams in the vicinity of the cathedral, I have not been able to get to it; there's been subsidence or that part of the museum has been cordoned off, or most usually, the museum has been closing. We hurried there to find the latter was the case, the museum was shutting.
My subconscious clearly is closing the cathedral off to me at the moment. Now all I have to do is work out what the cathedral signifies and I'll know what it is I'm moving away from.
And now. Work.
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Date: 2006-07-01 11:35 am (UTC)One of these times you're in London, I'd love to meet up for drinks or something. It'd be cool to finally meet you :)
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