2020.07.14 13:00 - Dream Session: drawn images and soundtracks

Riddle Sideways: Hi Alma
Riddle Sideways: Hi Tura
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): hi Riddle, hi Tura
Tura Brezoianu: hi Alma, Riddle
Riddle Sideways: so, sending an email works? ?
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): yes, thanks for sending the reminder. I keep forgetting about these sessions
Riddle Sideways: good to come inside and sit.
Riddle Sideways: how are y'all and everybody around ya
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I am getting along all right
Tura Brezoianu: Everything still as usual

Riddle Sideways: our governor shut some places that had just opened
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): such a chaotic situation
Riddle Sideways: and now Doctor Faculi(sp?) is being picked on
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): so senseless
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): the people running our country are running from reality
Riddle Sideways: reality is thought to be a hoax
Tura Brezoianu: Four months to go until it either gets better or a lot worse

Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): hi Luci
Riddle Sideways: hi Cinda
Tura Brezoianu: hi Luci
Luci (lucinda.lavender): Hi Alma,Tura, Riddle:)
Luci (lucinda.lavender): Sorry I have some new responsibilities that made me late.
Riddle Sideways: is ok, not started yet
Riddle Sideways: just moaning and groaning
Luci (lucinda.lavender): How are people:)
Luci (lucinda.lavender): :)
Riddle Sideways: same as the new usual
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I am still well, as far as I can tell anyway
Tura Brezoianu: I recently volunteered for a trial of wider Covid testing,
Tura Brezoianu: It will be happening in a few weeks
Riddle Sideways: great Tura
Riddle Sideways: whoops, maybe not, if they give you Covid-19 and see if you live :(
Luci (lucinda.lavender): what will it test that is a wider trial?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): larger number of people?
Tura Brezoianu: I think they're trialling the concept of mass testing. I pick up a test kit next week, then stick a swab up my nose and return it several times over the following weeks.
Luci (lucinda.lavender): Interesting!

Riddle Sideways: Is anybody dreaming of Covid?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): No I have not
Tura Brezoianu: Not me, as far as I know, although there was some concept of social distancing going in a recent dream
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I think I had a dream in which I was social distancing from the other people in the dream
Tura Brezoianu: *going on*
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I have heard dreams with distancing in them...
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): distancing has become such an automatic part of daily life that it's bound to start showing up in dreams
Luci (lucinda.lavender): nodding
Tura Brezoianu: Are the people in dreams masked?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I have not heard of any like that
Luci (lucinda.lavender): If I watch tv I think about how close people are and that they don't have masks on

Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I had one dream where I was with some people in a kitchen and noticed that no one was wearing masks or social distancing.
Riddle Sideways: during the dream? Interesting
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): good thing the virus can't spread through dreams :)
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): yes, I noticed it while I was in the dream

Luci (lucinda.lavender): is anyone remembering more dreams than usual? I say that because I had them 4 days in a row which was unusual
Tura Brezoianu: I'm only rarely bringing back any more than fragments
Luci (lucinda.lavender): even fragments can be interesting
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I seem to remember them for a few days, and then there is a gap of a few days.

Riddle Sideways: partly.  At 4am can recall them, don't write them down. At 6am just some images.  At 6:30 sit down to computer = nothing recalled
Tura Brezoianu: Have you tried a recorder?
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): I know I've had some interesting and complex dreams, but it's just too much trouble to wake myself up enough to record them, so I completely forget them. :(
Riddle Sideways: only tried it last year
Luci (lucinda.lavender): If I start waking in the dream I center in on a few threads/images then when I get up and sit down to my desk I can recall better
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): They fade very quickly for me
Luci (lucinda.lavender): nods
Luci (lucinda.lavender): certain images have a strength to them
Riddle Sideways: still have an image from a week ago.  A blue and white sign with like a logo of a product.  name started with a B and can not recall the name/word

Luci (lucinda.lavender): Like recently I was in a low light area and ran in to another woman who was wearing the same skirt.Mine was turquoise, hers brown. but both had stitching around them and we held them out like a fan and mirrored them to each other
Luci (lucinda.lavender): it felt like recognizing sameness and difference at the same time
Tura Brezoianu: Did the other woman represent some version of yourself?
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): interesting
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): makes me think of the yin/yang symbol
Riddle Sideways: same and different
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I don't think so Tura...she was unknown to me
Luci (lucinda.lavender): and she was talking on a phone:)
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I think we gave each other a hug and the dream was over
Riddle Sideways: it is ok to hug in dreams

Luci (lucinda.lavender): Riddle you have no idea about the image?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): the blue and white one?
Riddle Sideways: no.  again in mid night the dream was clear.  then at daybreak/cat waking it was faded and at journalling time is was gone but that one image
Riddle Sideways: except that a week later that image is still clear
Riddle Sideways: *one image
Luci (lucinda.lavender): does it remind you of anything?
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): have you drawn or painted it?
Riddle Sideways: nope
Luci (lucinda.lavender): maybe it is a symbol for something...like peace
Riddle Sideways: almost could draw/paint it.
Riddle Sideways: need kids around house so that the art supplies are out and ready :))
Luci (lucinda.lavender): :)
Luci (lucinda.lavender): is there a way to draw it here?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): a white board sort of thing?
Riddle Sideways: nope, don't have your building skills
Luci (lucinda.lavender): me neither
Luci (lucinda.lavender): brb
Riddle Sideways: do y'all draw/paint some of your images?
Riddle Sideways: might help
Luci (lucinda.lavender): If one shows up
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): rarely ... my dream images are usually not that clear or stable
Riddle Sideways: thinking of those crime detective artists that asks if the criminal you saw had a nose
Tura Brezoianu: I've never tried to draw something from a dream. It's never occurred to me before. Might be worth doing

Luci (lucinda.lavender): I wonder if artists dream more visually
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): do you ever hear music in your dreams?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): yes
Riddle Sideways: nods, Tura
Riddle Sideways: yes, hear music
Riddle Sideways: usually the soundtrack
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I feel like music gets caught in my head in waking sometimes...but when something shows up in a dream it is very special
Riddle Sideways: it would be very disappointing to write a hit song in a dream then not recall it on waking :(
Riddle Sideways: am a very good songwriter in dreams
Riddle Sideways: :)
Luci (lucinda.lavender): wish we could hear them
Riddle Sideways: wish I could too
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I watched a video called No Direction Home about Bob Dylan last night
Luci (lucinda.lavender): about his process...very interesting
Riddle Sideways: is that the new one  or the video from years ago?
Luci (lucinda.lavender): I think it is 2016
Luci (lucinda.lavender): lots of old footage
Riddle Sideways: wikipedia says 2005
Luci (lucinda.lavender): ah
Riddle Sideways: Marin Scorsese
Luci (lucinda.lavender): yes
Luci (lucinda.lavender): maybe a rerelease
Luci (lucinda.lavender): through Apple
Luci (lucinda.lavender): music brings back memories
Luci (lucinda.lavender): you can be in my dream if I can be in yours...
Riddle Sideways: hear a song and remember where you were when that song hit

Luci (lucinda.lavender): I will have to go soon...stay well all!
Tura Brezoianu: bye Luci, stay well
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): you too Luci
Riddle Sideways: bye Luci and thanks
Luci (lucinda.lavender): :))thank you

Riddle Sideways: pro tip: if the your dream soundtrack gets loud with "dum-dum da-dum ..."  run away
Riddle Sideways: :)
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): lol
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): especially if you are in the water
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: or in dark strange house with back to dark doorway
Tura Brezoianu: In dreams, no-one can hear you scream
Riddle Sideways: hahahaha
Tura Brezoianu: Dreams II: When you thought it was safe to go back to sleep
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): lol!
Riddle Sideways: have only ever read one Steven King scary book.  Won't do anymore
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): well, I need to go and work on dinner
Tura Brezoianu: bye Alma, eat well
Riddle Sideways: yep, need to go back out and do grunt work
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala): have a dreamy week
Riddle Sideways: thanks, going to try recalling better
Riddle Sideways: by All
Alma di Masala (almadi.masala) waves
Tura Brezoianu: Goodnight all