Sex Dream

My last post was on the 22nd of August... sorry about that, I kind of ran out of things to say... anyway, I'm back and I have (had) a dream.

Had a strange dream last night, it was a sex dream about an old friend of mine, which is strange on two counts because as a rule I don’t have sex dreams about my friends and I don’t want to have sex with this person.

It was all set in a modern, sparse office building, glass and steel everywhere and a view that look out over a city at night, we seemed to be in the largest building for miles around and we weren’t alone. With this girl and me were two people I didn’t know, another couple.

I’m not sure when exactly the turning point came, the only sensible course of action was to have sex until that time came.

To begin with we were all talking about the trouble we were in, we were stuck in this building with no way to get out and we were all sure that we were going to die. My friend was worried that she couldn’t call her boyfriend, Tanaka (a figment of my imagination). I’m not sure when exactly the turning point came, but once we had given into despair and decided we were going to die then the only sensible course of action was to have sex until that time came.

So my friend and I started at it with the other couple watching, whilst we were doing it we were still talking, having pretty normal conversations, nothing like the doom and gloom of how we were to survive or escape our fate, just everyday things.

the dream was about performance anxiety, hence the audience, the windows 

It occurs to me whilst this friend of mine and I are having sex, that she really isn’t enjoying herself, so I ask her if everything’s OK and she encourages me to carryon but still looks utterly bored; then her mobile phone rings and its Tanaka.

Now my friend doesn’t live in Japan, doesn’t have a Japanese boyfriend and never has, but in my dream she’s going out with Tanaka and stops what we’re doing to answer the phone.

At first I’m nervous because I think that we’ve been caught, my friend assures me that there’s nothing to worry about and then passes me the phone. I take the phone and begin talking to Tanaka in my worst Japanese, Tanaka hangs up and I feel terribly disappointed and then wake up.

I think that the dream was about performance anxiety, hence the audience, the windows and the friend who’s opinion I value;. I’m hoping for a dreamless sleep tonight.

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So curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the symbols in my dream, lets try and make sense of this little mess shall we. Time to get out the bullet points:

1. To dream about sex is to dream about the integration of contrasting aspect of myself, apparently. According to experts I need to be more receptive and incoporate aspects of my dream sex partner into myself.
   
2. To dream about having it off with an ex or someone who isn't my partner suggests that I'm anxious about embarking a new relationship or situation. It relates to new roles you've accepted and the responsibilities that come with that.
3. To dream of a strange city means that you will have need to change your mode of living.
4. Skyscrapers are to do with confidence or other peoples confidence in us, the higher we are in the building the more confident we are or they are about you.

So now for the analysis:

Looking at point one first, this is the easiest to assess as I know my friend well enough to describe how we differ and what attributes I may want from her. She's level headed, she's studious, well spoken and out going.

my sex-dream partner and failing, and to impress with both my coital and lingual performance

Point 2: I've been feeling quite worried about doing the JLPT language test this year, that's my new situation I think, and this would explain the whole Tanaka and Japanese language thing. As for the city, I don't know, am I worried about leaving Japan already?

The skyscraper could be the confidence other people have in me and my ability to pass this test, the test in the dream was me trying to integrate the attributes of my sex-dream partner and failing, and to impress with both my coital and lingual performance. Being trapped in the skyscraper was how I feel with the weight of other people's expectation.

Wow... aren't dreams fascinating things?

August the 6th

On August the 6th 2006 I landed in Tokyo and began my life in Japan; the date not only marks my arrival in Japan but also the 25th time I’d travelled around the sun since the first time I first drew breath.

August the 6th 2007 was the start of the 26th year of my life and the 26th time I would travel around the sun and the first time I travelled around the sun from the land of the rising sun. Because as significant as my birthday was to me, more significant was the anniversary of my arrival in Japan. I made it, with my sanity intact, with a lot to show for the journey and a lot to be thankful for.

This blog entry is late, but I still wanted to put it up. Yay for a year in Japan, sometimes its tough, but its never dull.

He said, She said

And so it starts
The bitter ‘he said’
Followed by the sour ‘she said’
Neither one of you
Will lay it to bed
So it rages on
But in no place is the battle more violent
Than inside your own head

And so it is
The lines are drawn
Rook takes knights pawn
Then the games keep on playing
Because no one is saying
Exactly what they think
Grid reference A 4
Watch your battleship sink

And so it goes
Each side has its casualties
Yet each player acts so casually
Pretending to know what each thinks
Oh they act so effortlessly
And deny oh so professionally
Tiptoeing in circles on the rink

Daisies Stereoview

Daisies Stereoview
Originally uploaded by novar45

Do you remember these? Magic eye pictures... i loved them as kid, especially the ones that looked like psychedelic swirls and turned out to be VW Beetles or Aliens.

Just relax your eyes so that the two images cross over and you will see a 3D version of the picture.

Go to FLICKR and search for "Stereoview" for more pictures like this.