Dream Journal
April 20, 1997
Context: I worked at Irene's at the time.
After working with Photoshop today, tonight’s dreams were of graphics styles language. Amazingly neat and informative but beyond my memory’s grasp, once again.
I dreamed I was called in to work at Irene’s again and it was the Feve and I got everything wrong. I was trying to make a Pepsi-Root Beer but kept messing it up: adding too much water or eating someone’s food. My consciousness only stepped in to help once every thirty seconds. The rest was me acting without a greater plan, according to habit.
(Later) The subconscious, when we lose focus, finds itself in a strange situation and tried to make the best of things according to the clues left to it. It usually guesses wrong and, for example, you eat the sandwich you were meant to deliver.
References: Irene's is a cafe in Oberlin. The Feve is a related cafe in town.
Dream Language: This time in the “language” of Photoshop.
Technical Difficulties: Our focus is ever-changing in dreams. The waking self often enters the dream state in a low-context state of mind, a state like being high on marijuana. Holding focus on a long or technical task is often very difficult.
This dream was a perfect example. While attempting to carry out preparation and delivery of food, I kept losing my place and forgetting what I was doing. This waking self consciousness, after awakening in a dream, finds itself in a strange situation and tries to make the best of things according to the clues left to it. It often guesses wrong and, for example, I eat the sandwich I was meant to deliver.