I had a funny day yesterday. I was just thinking about playing drums and then suddenly I panicked that I had lost my drum kit. Bizarre and difficult thing to lose you would think! So did I.. but I went to check just in case and of course it was there in the usual place. Strange that I remembered losing it for real? Then I suddenly realized that the night before I had dreamed that I got on a plane and came back to England and forgot my car was still in the other country and it had my drum kit in the back! For some reason, I was still convinced the next day that it was really gone.. Anyone else mistook something that happened in a dream or am I just losing it?

mrlimbic wrote:

....am I just losing it?

Big time, John!


Hey, I've done that and more. I pay a lot of attention to dreams as a source (in my opinion) of powerful metaphorical content customized for me. So occasionally the two worlds do impinge on one another, especially when the "message" is a timely one. It's like "Hey! You listening in there? Yo!"

Stranger yet, I've gotten so involved in a fictional universe (particularly those created by Tim Powers and Connie Willis, a couple of highly-gifted modern fantasists) that I've reacted momentarily in my own world as though I were occupying the fiction. Now THAT's losing it! And that's creating powerful metaphor, something Tim and Connie do quite well.