I have very strange, depressing, vivid, and sometimes gross dreams. I have a recurring fear of the destruction of cultural artifacts, especially in the middle east and I think that triggers a lot of nightmares in me.
Two recent dreams I had that I remember images of more than anything else...
Depressing:
[spoiler]The last one I remember was myself with a friend in Egypt, in the archaeological remnants of an early medieval Coptic church. It seemed like it was a fixture of our hometown where we would hang out, even I've never been to Egypt and this church was purely imaginary, though mundane enough that I'm sure there are plenty of examples like it there. Apparently the only thing remaining of it was one small room, possibly a baptistry. It was next to an overcast beach, and I could feel the salt spray. It looked more like northern California than Egypt. The church grounds were overrun with weeds and the only parts in surviving condition were mosaics depicting the face of Jesus, the face of an apostle, and a typical abstract floor pattern.
I was lamenting over the destruction of similar structures in Iraq and Syria with my friend, lost in the past. We both felt like we didn't belong to the modern world and longed for something pure and ancient. I have a lot of dreams like this where I invent pieces of art and history that don't exist (and seem incredibly mundane to those not interested in art and history, heh)...
An image of a Coptic mosaic. The ones in my dream didn't look as refined as this because I was perhaps thinking of the murals at Dura-Europos.
Or I was thinking of Coptic fabrics and carvings which are a lot more abstract and not as detailed:
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Gross:
[spoiler]Have you ever had the Japanese drink Calpis? If not I highly recommend it. It's a yogurt-flavored, non-carbonated soda. There's also a delicious strawberry flavor.
In my dream, I had a vision of how the strawberry flavor was made: There were a bunch of Japanese high school boys getting their virgin asses raped and stabbed with sharpened pencils and the drink was the mixture of semen and blood from their ruptured assholes. I didn't really notice how fucked up it was until I wrote that out. I did know beforehand that "Calpis" is Japanese slang for semen though, so maybe it's not all my insane subconscious...[/spoiler]
