Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Your chance to be Freud

For some reason I dream a lot more in Vienna. More dreams, stranger, and more memorable.

A weird one from last night: I was somewhere in Missouri. A house in a rural area. I was there to meet my friend Skip G, who lives in St. Louis but in the dream he was living in the sticks. We were going to go for a drive, but each of us driving our own car. VW Beetles, as it turns out. The old kind, not the new one.

So I knocked on his door, then went back to my car and started it. While waiting for him to come out I noticed an iguana walking back and forth parallel to the side of his car. Then suddenly I noticed Skip, who had crawled under his car. In real life this is impossible, because Skip is a giant of a man and not even an anorexic girl could fit under a Bug. Anyhow, Skip was laying on his side. I was about to ask him WTF when I noticed him firing a stream of urine from beneath the car, about fifteen feet out, directly into the path of the pacing iguana---who walked right into the stream but kept going, seemingly oblivious. (Another thing that would never happen in real life, because no man in his late 50s can fire a stream of piss fifteen feet. Your range and pressure decreases significantly after the age of 10.)

I kept hearing a kitten meowing, even over the sound of the engine, and I wondered where the sound was coming from but it was time to go, the ritual with the iguana having reached its logical (?) conclusion. So I took off down a gravel road, looking from time to time in my rear view mirror for Skip's car. Finally I noticed it, maybe a quarter of a mile behind me.

The meowing continued and it suddenly dawned on me that the kitten was probably in the car somewhere. I was just about to pull over and find the kitten when I woke up.

I've had some weird dreams before, but never one in which a guy ambushes an iguana with a stream of high-pressure piss from beneath a car.

You figure it out, Freud. I can't.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hope you had a good trip!
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Anonymous said...

Siggy was all about sex, so I'm guessing the two VW bugs are breasts. That also fits you and your Oedipal fascination with same. Lizard? Big penis. It's stuff like this that makes me Adlerian/behavioralist.
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John X said...

I think it suggests man's inhumanity to iguanas.