I spent all this afternoon and evening working on a blog
post that just isn’t panning out. So…I’m going to talk about my dream, despite
the fact that I hate it when people talk about their dreams. I’m a sorry, sick
hypocrite. I apologize in advance.
But anyway, I dreamt that I bought a horse and then quickly
realized that I couldn’t afford to own a horse and had nowhere to put it. The
douche canoe who sold it to me wouldn’t take it back, so I was fucked.
I walked the horse all over my neighborhood, which, in my
dream, was my parents’ neighborhood in Omaha—the one I grew up in. I went from house to
house trying to find one with a fenced-in yard for my horse. And then I would
put the horse in various yards and try to run away, but would always be caught
before I could escape.
So then I took the horse and put it in the backseat of my
Honda Civic. I made it crouch down behind the front seats and I covered it with
a blanket, so no one would see it.
I don’t remember after that—I guess we probably drove out of
town and died by the side of the highway. Or maybe I died and the horse ran
free and ate a boatload of hay or oats or grass since I certainly hadn't been feeding it.
There are many obvious symbolic moments in this dream, but
all of them seem to involve me making bad choices and then shirking
responsibility, so I choose not to delve any deeper for the present. You're welcome.
Instead, I drew a picture for you:
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| Me driving with a horse wrapped in a blanket. Lacey, 2012. |
I’m driving to San Francisco and other points north tomorrow
and will pass many farms along the way. Hopefully I will not make any unwise
and irrevocably irresponsible purchases.
*From "Judy and the Dream of Horses" (Belle and Sebastian).
