I had the best dreams last night. They were excellent, although I can really only remember the first few before I woke up. Luckily I woke up suddenly when the phone rang or I wouldn't have remembered anything. The first one I can remember is being a member of a black family walking around in a theme park. It really was more of a forest, but I could see and hear the rides in the distance. I had a digital camera and kept taking really good "action" shots of the family as it walked along the paths. The next one I remember was Julia Roberts complaining to her friends about her new neighbour Johnny Knoxville. I wasn't in this dream, just watching. As she complained, eventually Sir Knoxville crept up behind her and ate all her Pringles. What does this mean? No idea. But it was entertaining. The next dream was an episode of Will and Grace where Jack was hitting on an old Spanish man in a coffee shop. I can't remember it perfectly, but I think that the coffee shop was "Cafe Nervosa" and I was sitting having a coffee with Frasier Crane and I was Niles Crane. Another confusing one. The dream I was having as I woke up was much like movie. It starred the woman that plays Lorelei on The Gilmore Girls. Well basically she was a secretary for some important guy. The "movie" had this other, older woman who I think was the other woman when she was older. Lots of interesting things kept happening and it was all about being useful or not existing and lots of crazy time and space theory type stuff. Right before I woke up Lorelei had little bouts of disappearing a little bit (she didn't notice, but the older her did) then as she was sitting facing a window, the stove behind her burst into flames and the whole room around here became an inferno. Lorelai continued to not notice so the older her tried to get her attention but she was all spaced out. Then I woke up.
Interestingly I read last night that the anti-depressant I'm on can cause abnormal dreams. As far as I'm concerned, bring them on. They were better than anything on TV, and most movies. I can also remember a lot of the colours, like the vibrant greens and browns of the forest and the bright flames from the Gilmore Girl Inferno. Some of the dreams I can easily trace to my day. The digital camera certainly is related to my ordering a digital camera and being excited as I wait for it to arrive. The Gilmore Girls dream I think was influenced by the movie I watched last night "Frederico Fellini's Roma." Nothing that happened in the dream actually happened in the movie, but the whole switching between times thing is in the movie and the dream certainly reminded me of the movie. Maybe it was the colours or the cinematography.
On a related note, I've seen two Italian films in the last week on TMN, the above and another one that is a lot newer, Respiro. I really loved both of them, although they were incredibly different. I think I'm going to make a point of seeing a lot more foreign films, especially Italian ones. Italian directors seem to be incredibly tuned to the beauty of their surroundings. It's a nice change of pace from American and British films that seem to ignore the beauty of the setting and don't allow us to see their characters silently. I think the Italians have found a way to tell beautiful stories with much, much less dialogue.
Keep on trangling,
Anthony Pereira
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