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King Kong Crab

dreamed 2008/9/20 by Wayan.
I'm riding round town in a Volkswagen van
with the middle seat torn out. We lounge
on blanket-draped junk: two girls and me,
one new to our class of wizardry
or a guest. I feel obliged to show her round.
She senses (and, I think, thus lures)
things from other planes--and I'm unsure
whether to call them people, creatures or
just entities. Pure power!
A shadow falls. We look up between
glass towers. A slice of bright orange ring
floats silent, linked to a rod blocks long.
Starship, or praying mantis? This thing
she's drawn is... how vast? Can't see it all.
Skyscrapers hide great swathes. Below,
pigeons, cars and crowds alike fall
hushed and still. We go
silent too, bow heads, close eyes. Off it glides,
a King Kong crab. Or ship. Or geometric cloud.
Slowly terror fades; we dare to talk aloud.
The other girl's a classmate of mine,
smallish, beautiful, brilliant. I long
to know her more, but shadowed by
that bold monstrosity, we just
talk shop: this inadvertent magic.
Turns out we two use a similar trick
to minimize (we can't prevent)
such hazardous breakthroughs of awe:
we fire-walk mentally around
their outlines. Spirit-silhouettes!
We think about them, yet
don't think of them, and thus do not
summon things we may regret.
At least not often.
Well, not fatally. Yet.
In this great city our wariness seems right.
Mystics seek desert caves, wild shores
not for their own peace and quiet!
For yours, my friend. For yours.

NOTES

Magic school: I just re-saw Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. My dream had classroom scenes too, but too hazy to include.
Visitor/new student who manifests spectacular, scary stuff: 1: I'm reading Maxine Kumin, a Pulitzer Prizewinner who writes unsparing, brutally honest poems. 2: my powerfully psychic friend Madeline just wrote me a equally deep-cutting, no-holds-barred letter I'm still wrestling with.
Sexy, brilliant classmate I have a crush on: Emily Joy of course: the dream-genius I'm in love with. Madeline's letter was mostly about Em and me.
Don't think of 'em so you won't summon 'em: most wizards in HARRY POTTER won't say "Voldemort" for fear he'll hear them. But J.K Rowling's hardly the first! Folk-magic and most religions believe it. Cognitive therapy confirms it. Learn the thought-structures of depression or paranoia and step around them! You become what you think. Especially dreamworkers like Em & me! Suggestible.
The dream hints that Em and I have shamanic gifts as strong as Maddie's (and that's STRONG); we just restrain it by not-thinking. For good reason? Is the dream saying that in our present circumstances, we can't safely handle some issues?
Huge floating ship/creature: echoes Airacuda dream, 11 days ago. The Airacuda challenged my pacifist upbringing with a more activist stance. Frightening, exciting... a stretch.
Bright orange: whatever it is, it's not interested in stealth!
Ring and stick:
1. suggests something supersonic, or built to pierce a similar phase-barrier with shockwaves, where fishlike streamlining no longer suffices. Hints it's not a huge, predatory creature like a praying mantis, though in the dream I feared that. More likely a device; a faster-than-light starship?
2. Symbol in my dreams for gender. Compare to the dream symbols in Silky's Wedding. Madeline's letter argued I minimize Emily's gender dysphoria, and the dream may confirm that.
ACTION: Email Emily and Madeline, and concede Maddie has a point. But also that Em and I may be stepping around it for a reason: not the right time/place.
This is Dreamverse #29. Every day, a dream-poem! Well, I'm a few days behind. But over all, the structure seems to be propelling me forward at supersonic speed. Faster than write! I mean light.

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