Friday, December 7, 2012

Reaganomicasaurus - I do!

This dream started in a thin forest - there was an abandoned shack that I walked through, looking at dusty glass jars and such. Outside, I wandered around till I found a group of people clustered on a terrace. My dad gave me a ring and told me to act surprised. I looked at it - it had diamonds embedded in equal parts around it. A boy from my old high school was there, Andy (though at times he sort of looked like Finn from "Glee"), and he was wearing a tuxedo. I realized that everyone had been waiting for me, and that Andy was going to propose. I panicked. I didn't know what to do, and then Andy was on his knee and I was desperately trying to not say yes, but then I did and everyone was so happy and we were dancing, but I was still panicking and trying to think of way out of it. I felt trapped.

I think I said no, or ran away, or something that broke everything up. Somehow, this concluded with me winding up marrying Ronald Reagan, though I was still wearing two rings, just as before. The gold band with the small studded diamonds in it, and another ring with a large diamond and a piece that looked like one diamond but was really several small diamonds placed together. I saw that one of the tiny diamonds was not in its setting, and started looking for it. I found lots of beautiful diamonds on the ground, but they were all fake. Overlapping this was a real sense of abandonment and uncomfortableness. I did not want to be married to Ronal Reagan - he was old, and I didn't know if he too was already married. And because I was Catholic, I couldn't divorce him to be with the guy I really loved (who I wasn't sure of either in the dream). My brother was there, and he seemed to pity me. So did my Dad. Thinking about it in the dream, I realized that I could run for office and everyone would vote for me because my husband was a former president himself.

At one point [not sure if this is the right order] I was in a coffee shop with a really long line. The shop was old and had a wooden bar. Robert Pattinson was there, and as I walked past him we made eye contact, and I realized I needed to apologize for hurting him. I left my entourage and tried to find him in the line, but he was replaced by a guy who only sort of looked like him. I felt an urgent need to find him again.

There were more rooftops and terraces, and I seemed to be in a position of power. I think people saw me as the first lady, even though I was more powerful than that. There were women in blue suits wearing furs. I was still doubtful - especially since I knew was manipulating my marriage.  There were rounded hallways and dated clothing. Then I was in a giant plane, and as we flew over the city al Qaeda started attacking us with fighter jets. I ordered them shot down, and we shot a lot of planes down. I couldn't figure out how al Qaeda got so many fighter planes, when I was suddenly off the plane watching it from the city. I was ordering the planes be shot down.

[again not sure of sequence] There were dinosaurs in the city, and Robert Pattinson was running from them with me. There was one flying dinosaur, and one our two raptors or big carnivores after us. As we ran, the ground became sandy, and it was like we were running in a city and a desert at the same time.


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This dream unfolded like a series of horrible revelations. The surprise wedding I didn't want at the beginning, the second marriage I wanted even less, losing diamonds, realizing I couldn't get divorced, al Qaeda, dinosaurs - each sequence seemed to unfold with a sickening feeling. Even when my dream self felt in control at sections, that feeling dissipated with each new twist. I think my subconscious threw the dinosaurs and such in there just to add fuel to the fire.