Fresh Dream
Jul. 15th, 2002 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynThis one I had forgotten most of by the time I work up, so it'll be mercifully short.
It unfolded like a show that I was watching: I wasn't one of the characters. There was a vampire who looked liked a young man, and a human woman who was trying to help him. I don't remember how she was "helping" or what he was like, specifically, I have a sense that the vampire was portrayed as at least somewhat cruel in the first part of the dream.
The vampire had once had a wife and son, but they were dead now. Maybe the woman was helping him as he planned vengeance.
The point I remember most clearly is an image of the woman cuddled up the vampire, her head on his shoulder. She looked up to him, adoringly, and said, "It's a good thing you met me."
He asked why.
She gave a little giggle and said, "Don't you remember? I made you into a vampire."
There's this horrible moment of realization for the vampire. He has a flashback of meeting the woman, her claiming to be a sort of vampire groupie. He remembers introducing her to his wife and son, who are vampires. (His son is teenaged and looked bizarre enough that I remember his appearance. He had tattoos that covered all the skin on his neck and cheeks, of writhing snakes and tongues. When he did his little "vampire" thing for the woman, he could make his tongue long and snakey. The parents were somewhat self-conscious about it, but seemed to think it was cute, too. The father said something like, "He thinks it's very scary." The son gave him an "Oh, Dad!" look.)
Then the memory seemed to fade, and I got the impression the woman was keeping him from remember. But flashes of uneasiness kept returning to him. Later, they were having a telephone conversation, and iat first it sounded wholly one-sided to me. The vampire would say something like, "I know you're really a wild woman, a dangerous lunatic. But I don't care" and then go on to say something similarly queer, almost self contradictory.
Then I realized the woman was very quietly feeding him line, like a jedi mind-control trick. After he said, "dangerous lunatic," she said, "But you don't care," and he simply parroted it back, as if it were his own thought. It was like some part of him was trying to break free of her influence, but he couldn't stay conscious of that fact long enough to make any progress.
That's the last I remember.
It unfolded like a show that I was watching: I wasn't one of the characters. There was a vampire who looked liked a young man, and a human woman who was trying to help him. I don't remember how she was "helping" or what he was like, specifically, I have a sense that the vampire was portrayed as at least somewhat cruel in the first part of the dream.
The vampire had once had a wife and son, but they were dead now. Maybe the woman was helping him as he planned vengeance.
The point I remember most clearly is an image of the woman cuddled up the vampire, her head on his shoulder. She looked up to him, adoringly, and said, "It's a good thing you met me."
He asked why.
She gave a little giggle and said, "Don't you remember? I made you into a vampire."
There's this horrible moment of realization for the vampire. He has a flashback of meeting the woman, her claiming to be a sort of vampire groupie. He remembers introducing her to his wife and son, who are vampires. (His son is teenaged and looked bizarre enough that I remember his appearance. He had tattoos that covered all the skin on his neck and cheeks, of writhing snakes and tongues. When he did his little "vampire" thing for the woman, he could make his tongue long and snakey. The parents were somewhat self-conscious about it, but seemed to think it was cute, too. The father said something like, "He thinks it's very scary." The son gave him an "Oh, Dad!" look.)
Then the memory seemed to fade, and I got the impression the woman was keeping him from remember. But flashes of uneasiness kept returning to him. Later, they were having a telephone conversation, and iat first it sounded wholly one-sided to me. The vampire would say something like, "I know you're really a wild woman, a dangerous lunatic. But I don't care" and then go on to say something similarly queer, almost self contradictory.
Then I realized the woman was very quietly feeding him line, like a jedi mind-control trick. After he said, "dangerous lunatic," she said, "But you don't care," and he simply parroted it back, as if it were his own thought. It was like some part of him was trying to break free of her influence, but he couldn't stay conscious of that fact long enough to make any progress.
That's the last I remember.
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Odd...
Date: 2002-07-15 06:18 am (UTC)Obligatory Dream Interpretation
Date: 2002-07-15 02:39 pm (UTC)I would say that there's an element of you that the male vampire represents, possibly the masculine aspects of your personality. For example; defiance, privilege, dominance, aggression, argumentative nature, etc. I think the human woman is your ego ("you") but I don't know why she's manipulating these other aspects. It might be an indication that you're restraining your more brutish natures through guile, and sheer force of will. But if that were the case, why is there any conflict, and why are those brutish natures still extant? There must be some adaptive value to the masculine nature, something that you're probably aware of, reminding you of what you're missing even as you oppose it.
The presence of the teenager might imply a link to your past, or more precisely, to the masculine aspects of your past (since he's a male). The child (past) might be a stronger influence than the father (present), and has possibly been a source of familial stress (the family unit). (Alternately, it may signify that you're exerting dominance over your own sense of what a family "should be". I'm not sure which one makes more sense.)
If this conflict is genuine, it's one that you seem to have a handle on in your waking life. Even though I don't understand the nuances of the dream, it's still a rather positive one that places you in direct control of the action.
Trickster
Re: Obligatory Dream Interpretation
Date: 2002-07-15 05:08 pm (UTC)Re: Obligatory Dream Interpretation
Date: 2002-07-15 05:57 pm (UTC)You should know that my primary motivation in interpreting your dreams is to learn more about you, just to be fair...you strange mystery woman you.
Trickster
Re: Obligatory Dream Interpretation
Date: 2002-07-16 05:16 am (UTC)Anyway, I don't know anyone else who does dream interpretations, and it's interesting to see how you pick out very different things to emphasize than what I think about. I look at my dreams from a superficial, story-telling angle: is it a good story? Is it interesting? Does it make sense? Etc. The psychological angle is totally different. And yet, not nonsensical.
For example, it would never occur to me to associate myself with either the vampire or the woman of this dream, and if I did think to do so, I'd find it chilling. I don't want to be either the mind-controlled monster, OR the eeriely manipulative woman controlling him--for what purpose? (As a side note, from a "story-telling" perspective, the vampire was the protagonist of the dream. He's the one the narrative of the dream followed.)
But, you took the premise that some element of "I" must be present in these characters, and then converted them to symbols that, in fact, apply to my life. I do control my "more brutish natures"--particularly my argumentive and aggressive instincts--pretty strongly. But I'm also aware that, in doing so, I run the risk of different problems. For example, if I decide I don't want to argue about an issue, that could mean caving to something I don't believe in. I try to balance the subject, converting "anger" to "assertiveness", and picking my battles so that I don't debate points that aren't important to me. But it's still an issue for me.
So ... um, long story short, I think it's cool hearing your POV on a dream. :)
Re: Obligatory Dream Interpretation
Date: 2002-07-16 01:45 pm (UTC)Trickster