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King Kong Crab

dreamed 2008/9/20 by Wayan.

We're showing off San Francisco to the new girl in our sorcery school. She senses (and thus, I suspect, may lure) beings from other planes--though I'm unsure whether they're animals, people, or superhuman forces--weaves of pure power! A shadow falls. Look up. Past glass towers a silent slice of bright orange ring skyfloats, linked to a rod blocks long. Starship, or praying mantis? This thing she's drawn is... how vast? Can't see it all-- the scrapers hide wide swaths. Below, pigeons, cars and crowds all fall hushed, still as eclipse. And we too go silent, bow heads, close eyes. Off it glides, a King Kong crab. Or ship. Or geometric cloud. Slowly terror fades; we dare to talk aloud.

I talk with a classmate I long to know more: small, lovely, brilliant. But shadowed by that bold monstrosity, all we can talk is shop: such inadvertent gramarye. Turns out we both use a similar trick to minimize (we can't prevent) such hazardous breakthroughs of awe: mentally, we fire-walk around their outlines. Spirit-silhouettes! We think roundabout them, yet never think of them, and thus do not manifest Things we might regret. At least not often. Not fatally. Yet. Here in the City, our caution seems right. Mystics seek wild shores not for their own peace and quiet! For yours, my friend. For yours.

• Magic school: I just re-saw Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone; my dream had earlier Hogwarty scenes too hazy to include.
• New student who manifests spectacular stuff: 1: I'm reading Maxine Kumin, an unsparing, brutally honest poet. 2: my powerfully psychic friend Madeline just wrote me an equally deep-cutting, no-holds-barred letter I'm 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 Hogwarts students won't say "Voldemort" for fear he'll hear them. A hoary folk motif; and cognitive therapy's proved it. You summon what you speak and think of. So learn the mental outlines of depression or paranoia and think around them! Especially dreamworkers like Em & me. Suggestible.
• The dream hints that Em and I have dangerously strong shamanic gifts that we restrain by not-thinking--maybe for good reason! Is the dream saying that in our present circumstances, we can't handle some issues? Safely for whom?
• Huge floating ship/creature: echoes Airacuda, a dream 11 days ago. The Airacuda challenged my strict pacifist upbringing. Frightening, exciting... a stretch.
• Bright orange: like the Golden Gate Bridge. Whatever the sky-thing is, it's sure not interested in stealth!
• Ring and stick:
  1. A design I saw once for a supersonic airliner. That hints this thing's built to pierce some phase-barrier where fishlike streamlining won't help with the shockwaves. A faster-than-light starship?
  2. Symbols my dreams use for gender--like Hinduism's lingam and yoni. Compare to the dream symbols in Silky's Wedding. Madeline's letter argued I minimize Emily's gender dysphoria, and the dream may agree.
• 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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