Wednesday 29 April 2020

A disappointing experience

There are a group of us who have been taking part in some kind of experiment or experience, it's unclear to me if it was voluntary or not. I am inclined to tell the person in charge of it that the experience was not useful to me, that it was disappointing. The others are fearful about giving negative feedback, as if this might be a dangerous thing to do, and I hesitate, but then confront him. I say that there were times when I thought it had potential and might be becoming interesting but it ultimately failed to live up to my hopes. He did not say anything and appeared to reluctantly accept what I was saying. His posture was slightly stooped and he turned away. I had a feeling of relief that I had found the courage to make my opinion clear and had not been intimidated by him.

Saturday 11 April 2020

The dream I didn't record - end of the road

I try to record every dream I have that I have a clear memory of. I do this as soon as I can after waking. Occasionally I have a dream that I don't record because it is so unpleasant I really want to forget it. A few weeks ago I had one of those dreams. It included a similar sensation to the one at the end of the 'Crash' dream but much more intense. A sense of struggling to hold on to consciousness in a situation of being overwhelmed. As often happens with this kind of dream I was not successful in trying to forget it.

I was in a car travelling at speed along a  road. I was a passenger in the car. The road was gently winding and there was no other traffic. As we rounded a curve the road ended abruptly and the car continued, plunging into water. I had time to take a deep breath before it hit the water and sank. There followed a sensation of struggling to remain conscious long enough to escape.

While it clearly wasn't a premonition of the exact circumstances we find ourselves in with the pandemic that recently overwhelmed us the sensations and emotions involved are strikingly similar.