I remember once upon a time when I was trying to update this thing more regularly. Whoops!
Well I had another weird vaguely stressy dream last night. I was in the UK? Europe? somewhere - it may not have been dream-stable. Maybe I was in the UK and we were visiting somewhere else? I have some very clear memories of *places* that I think were real places (or had elements of them) and that I can't quite pin down - dreams mixing with memories in that weird familiar-but-unplaceable way.
Anyway. I am pretty sure![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
longpig and wererogue were there - I might have been visiting them, and then maybe we were in....France? I was out somewhere in a rough-ish area and I was being my usual confident self about the fact that I could take care of myself wasn't about to get mugged or whatever. But, of course, confidence only gets you so far, and I was unable to stop myself from getting pick-pocketed. The thief - which I suddenly remember was wearing a very distinctive hoodie? - didn't manage to get away with my wallet. But he* did manage to get away with some of my bank cards.
The rest of the dream involved me trying to call the bank and get them cancelled and not being able to dial properly or having the right numbers, finding out my account was already empty, etc. I was so stuck in the stress-dream logic that even in-dream rational suggestion like 'why don't you try contacting them through the website instead' didn't make sense to me at the time. Possibly I was having such issues because dream-me forgot about international dialing codes :V But really it was all slipped fingers and mildly dyslexic number mis-readings, and such. The only problem card was my American bank card - for some reason I knew my Canadian Bank was going to be much easier to deal with and that they would have my back if anything went wrong.
Ahh, brains.
*As I was typing this up, I thought that it would be an interesting study to have people keep dream journals and have them record the genders of people they encounter - male/female/fluid/trans/unknown/other options, and whether their own gender, either as themselves or as other dream PoVs is fluid (sometimes I was a girl sometimes I was a boy, I dreamed I was a transwoman, etc), whether the genders of people they know who show up in dreams are fluid ("I dreamed my sister was there but she was a boy"), and so on. There is the matter of balancing dream certainty "I knew this dog was actually my mother, even though she was a dog" versus the act of ascribing gender based on perceptions to factor in too that would also make it interesting (as that's not a dilemma that occurs to everyone). I don't know what kind of conclusions you could actually draw from such a study, but I think it would be a super cool data set to look at!
I do have some other things I wanted to chatter about in here, but probably I should do some real work, hmm?
Well I had another weird vaguely stressy dream last night. I was in the UK? Europe? somewhere - it may not have been dream-stable. Maybe I was in the UK and we were visiting somewhere else? I have some very clear memories of *places* that I think were real places (or had elements of them) and that I can't quite pin down - dreams mixing with memories in that weird familiar-but-unplaceable way.
Anyway. I am pretty sure
longpig and wererogue were there - I might have been visiting them, and then maybe we were in....France? I was out somewhere in a rough-ish area and I was being my usual confident self about the fact that I could take care of myself wasn't about to get mugged or whatever. But, of course, confidence only gets you so far, and I was unable to stop myself from getting pick-pocketed. The thief - which I suddenly remember was wearing a very distinctive hoodie? - didn't manage to get away with my wallet. But he* did manage to get away with some of my bank cards.The rest of the dream involved me trying to call the bank and get them cancelled and not being able to dial properly or having the right numbers, finding out my account was already empty, etc. I was so stuck in the stress-dream logic that even in-dream rational suggestion like 'why don't you try contacting them through the website instead' didn't make sense to me at the time. Possibly I was having such issues because dream-me forgot about international dialing codes :V But really it was all slipped fingers and mildly dyslexic number mis-readings, and such. The only problem card was my American bank card - for some reason I knew my Canadian Bank was going to be much easier to deal with and that they would have my back if anything went wrong.
Ahh, brains.
*As I was typing this up, I thought that it would be an interesting study to have people keep dream journals and have them record the genders of people they encounter - male/female/fluid/trans/unknown/other options, and whether their own gender, either as themselves or as other dream PoVs is fluid (sometimes I was a girl sometimes I was a boy, I dreamed I was a transwoman, etc), whether the genders of people they know who show up in dreams are fluid ("I dreamed my sister was there but she was a boy"), and so on. There is the matter of balancing dream certainty "I knew this dog was actually my mother, even though she was a dog" versus the act of ascribing gender based on perceptions to factor in too that would also make it interesting (as that's not a dilemma that occurs to everyone). I don't know what kind of conclusions you could actually draw from such a study, but I think it would be a super cool data set to look at!
I do have some other things I wanted to chatter about in here, but probably I should do some real work, hmm?
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