The dream factory pumps ‘em out
4/9/2002
I was on the phone flirting with some unidentified woman (after phone conversation with Noemi about meeting for tutoring, but we didn’t flirt). As I am chatting on the phone I notice outside that there is a momma elephant and her baby in a pen on the far side of the property. It’s a fairly desert-like, or savanna type, landscape (reflecting AZ?). I step outside to let the dog (what dog?) out. I watch the mama elephant leading the baby elephant around the pen. It looks like she is teaching him or entertaining him, perhaps like me with the dog. So, I move closer to watch them.
Then, the momma starts showing the baby how to gather grapes and lay them out in a single layer. I get the impression that within this dream that this is a normal task that the momma elephant is trained to do. However, she deviates from the “normal” method because she is teaching the baby elephant how to lay the grapes out on a blanketed surface. And then, instead of crushing the grapes normally, the momma elephant starts to maul the grapes with extraordinary violence! I was appalled at the hatred flashing in her eyes. And I remember how the little baby elephant couldn’t even get a single drop of the grape juice because the blanket was absorbing all the grape juice. Then, the momma elephant tried to kill her own baby. An odd, merciful (in her mind) attempt to save her baby from living an imprisoned life. There was a race in the dream between me deciding to try and intervene to save the baby (with its bulging terrified eyes), and my hesitation because I was thinking that it would be impossible for her to be strangling the baby since elephants do not have fingers. Then, I woke up to urinate. I was suprised that it was not yet past midnight.
Some themes:
Conscious dreamer versus dream content (like the Invisible Man dream)
Freedom/Imprisonment
Ejaculation
Nuturing baby
Faceless communication
Tags: dream dumbo ejaculation communication freedom nuturing
