I have always had dreams. Not day-dreams but *night dreams*. My dreams have featured Siddharth Basu as the young dictator of some unknown nation. His sister is Amita Kohli (a newsreader from Doordarshan days) and I happen to be her confidante. My memory fails me at this point; I had this dream many years back. Certain scenes flash across my mind where I stand next to a window with Amita next to me as we watch the erstwhile Quizmaster direct an army made up of Oriental-looking troops… God, weird is an understatement.
I have read somewhere that dreams are an indirect reflection of the daily happenings in one’s life. One night, I dreamt of a guy. Not anyone I knew but more of a mythical figure. He was human all right but no one that I’d ever met. All I recall is that he was incorrigibly charming. Young, smart, cute.. oh, even sweeter than Aamir Khan in QSQT. My dream ended with some kind of a promise of a relationship between the two of us. When I woke up the next morning, I desperately wanted the story to move forward. I consciously kept thinking of my dream all day long in the hope that it’d reappear the next night… Alas, it was not to be.
Another dream featured Richard Gere and me. I was in my early twenties and he appeared to be in his early forties. Oh, we were in love… 🙂 I recall a shot of the two of us standing on a bridge over a swift-flowing river. He’s trying to convince me that I must go ahead with my life since he envisions no future for our relationship. I turn to him and implore, “But we can get married! I am 24, you’re 40. We can get married…” I awoke all flushed and happy and wrote about the dream to nearly every other friend I had….:-))
I think I watched ‘Autumn in New York’ a couple of days back… Maybe this also points to the fixation I have about the older guy-younger girl funda in romantic relationships. I even wrote a story about it, many years later, though…
By the way, last night was even stranger. But when it comes to my dreams, I am rarely surprised. Last night, I dreamt that hariputtar, rileen and I were in a medical clinic. Now this place had an appearance of being in the outdoors. Apparently, all of us were waiting to be called in for a blood test. According to some newfangled technology, the blood was to be drawn from the ear. I am extremely needle-shy and this ear thing had freaked me out. But the other two guys were really cool about it. Don’t recall much of what happened later… but it was weird.
lalunadiosa says:
One of my friends believes that our dreams reflect what we ate for dinner…..if you had spicy Thai food you probably have a spicy kind of dream…..or something like that….maybe you should start keeping a dream journal recording your dreams and the menu for dinner the night before….have always wanted to keep one myself….should start soon…
August 5, 2004 — 8:03 am
rileen says:
that can’t be true, because i *do* eat :-p !!
August 5, 2004 — 11:03 am
lalunadiosa says:
and you don’t dream????
or maybe what you eat doesn’t produce the kind of dreams that you’d remember???
August 5, 2004 — 6:10 pm
rileen says:
Yes, i remember a handful of dreams; the rest we can speculate about.
August 5, 2004 — 6:14 pm
radhika74 says:
haha..you made me wish i had less mundane dreams.
August 5, 2004 — 9:51 am
rileen says:
Lucky are they who dream ……
Wow, those are some amazing dreams 🙂
Glad to be part of any dreams as opposed to the usual(?) nightmares, and boy, we sure could do with a few more girls who fall for older men :-p !!
August 5, 2004 — 11:07 am
hariputtar says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
* sigh *
angam galitam — ang gal gaye hain
palitam mundam — sir chikna ho gaya hai
dasham vihinam jaatam tundam — daant gir rahe hain
tadapi na munchati aashaa pindam — phir bhi aashaayein hain
August 5, 2004 — 11:51 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
:-)))) Feels good to hear Sanskrit; it’s been such a long time..
August 5, 2004 — 12:03 pm
rileen says:
Dhairya, vats, dhairya :-p
Off for a walk with Dip now, shall convey your regards.
August 5, 2004 — 12:03 pm
hariputtar says:
extend-u my regards to diptend-u.
August 5, 2004 — 12:13 pm
Lakshmi says:
Not ‘regards-u’???
:-)))
Sorry!
August 6, 2004 — 8:53 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
Do you know, Rileen.. through out my dream, you looked just like you look in this user-pic of yours. Even the same expression!
Obviously, I haven’t seen any other pic of yours… the same dark blue collared jacket and the curly mop and the bemused smile..:-)
August 5, 2004 — 12:12 pm
rileen says:
That’s funny 🙂 * bemused smile *
Here’s another one, 10 months old; the usual one is 6 months old.
August 5, 2004 — 3:33 pm
Lakshmi says:
This one looks a lot younger…not just 4 months! But don’t you ever step out of collared jackets, Rileen?
August 6, 2004 — 5:03 am
rileen says:
So what ages would you assign to those two snaps :-p ?
As for stepping out of collared jackets, it is not advisable when outdoors during the European winter, as in the Feb04 pic – and the Oct03 one was taken just after entering the building.
I’m roaming around in teeshirts nowadays.
August 6, 2004 — 12:00 pm
Lakshmi says:
Tough to say.. what ages to assign.
August 6, 2004 — 1:42 pm
rileen says:
Arre, i was just kidding, since you said the difference looked like much more than four months.
August 6, 2004 — 3:29 pm
jayasankarvs says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
Psst. Doesn’t ‘bemused’ mean ‘confused?’ and isn’t Richard Gere gay?
August 6, 2004 — 10:34 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
Negative… to both the Qs… 🙂
August 9, 2004 — 5:50 am
jayasankarvs says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
What do you think it means? Anyway, I only have second-hand, lj-based knowledge about Gere.
August 9, 2004 — 9:45 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
I meant… neither does ‘bemused’ mean confused nor is Gere gay….or so I think!
August 10, 2004 — 5:08 am
jayasankarvs says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/bemuse.html
In a lighter vein, http://www.allscifi.com/aridor/Iboard.asp?celebrity=Jan-Michael%20Vincent&msg=14713.
August 10, 2004 — 5:28 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Lucky are they who dream ……
Thanks for correction 1; you’re right!
August 10, 2004 — 5:34 am
Lakshmi says:
:-))))
Sonal, you’re quite priceless… Aren’t you curious to know what image did I have of the two of you in my dream?
August 5, 2004 — 12:09 pm
hariputtar says:
yes i am curious. :)) [ you are atrocious! :)) ]
August 5, 2004 — 12:12 pm
Lakshmi says:
🙂 In your journal, you’ve got this link which says ‘.. a couple of pics’ which leads to a Yahoo Photos site. I THINK, rather, I assumed the close-up pic of the guy in the black Tee with a wannabe-thoughtful expression on his face… has to be YOU…:-)
That’s how you appeared… through the entire length of the dream; only younger…:-))
August 5, 2004 — 12:21 pm
hariputtar says:
yes. thats a quite recent pic. (my mom says – i look younger than i did a couple of years back – when i left from india :D. and actually, thats true!) [ … dorian gray :)) ]
August 5, 2004 — 12:28 pm
Lakshmi says:
🙂 Well, you were wearing the same Tee and had the same expression stuck on your face all the while…:-) And it almost appeared as if your features were permanently drawn into that ‘pursed-lip’ expression.. and faraway look in your eyes..:-))
Was funny, I swear.. I mean, as we pass through the various shots, both of you have the same mug shots.. like some dolls/mannequins…Priceless!
August 5, 2004 — 12:32 pm
parag says:
I was so much older then, I am younger than that now…
-Bob Dylan (My back pages).
August 5, 2004 — 8:20 pm
hariputtar says:
🙂 thats clever.
August 6, 2004 — 9:46 am
hariputtar says:
yeah. the law of averages finally caught up with her. had had too many of them dreams with mythical men, and Mr Gere … now its lean times. now, we *are* the stuff her dreams are made of.
August 5, 2004 — 10:10 pm
Lakshmi says:
🙂
That’s neat; you are the stuff dreams are made of; preen on..:-)
August 6, 2004 — 5:05 am
hariputtar says:
read your sulekha article – some portions of it; (and the end; sometimes i want to know …)
thats an amazing piece. very good work.
August 6, 2004 — 12:50 am
Lakshmi says:
Sonal, there are 3 parts to it. I didn’t complete the novella, though….Couldn’t get the spirit for it! Did you read all three parts?
I can tell you the end, if you want….as I intended it to be.
August 6, 2004 — 5:05 am
Lakshmi says:
Here goes Part2:
http://www.sulekha.com/weblogs/weblogdesc.asp?cid=8302
And part 3:
http://www.sulekha.com/weblogs/weblogdesc.asp?cid=9723
It remains unfinished…
August 6, 2004 — 10:09 am
hariputtar says:
i have to say one thing. it is very life-like. this is quite … vivid. as if it was not a story – but *almost* a true occurrence 🙂 that makes me uncomfortable, though. 😀
August 6, 2004 — 2:51 pm
Lakshmi says:
It’s a story I dreamt up during my Cairo sojourn. Uncomfortable… I guess I understand why….
August 9, 2004 — 5:57 am
hariputtar says:
:O no puns intended.
August 6, 2004 — 11:48 am