Star Wars dream
Saturday, March 31st, 2007 at 6:49 amHad another quite busy night in dreamland. Since I’ve been taking the melatonin more of my dreams - or the ones I remember - have been set in daylit, non-threatening environments than previously. I was having one dream where I was driving around with my mother (she was at the wheel), for some reason to do with my late grandmother on my dad’s side. We were travelling through very pleasant semi-rural countryside, and Mum didn’t seem to be paying much attention to where the roads were - she was driving over paddocks and through front gardens. Then the dream switched to one about Star Wars. Darth Vader was looking for Han Solo. I seemed to be in Vader’s role as well as watching from outside - unusual for me, as I tend to be just myself in dreams (n.b. I was still my own size, so imagine a character more like Dark Helmet). Vader was climbing around in a ventilation shaft or something, which got filled with flames or poison gas - can’t remember which - but his suit protected him. Then he made it to a communications room, where a woman wearing a headset informed him that there was a message from Han Solo: “I ain’t the sheriff of Mexico, and if I were, I wouldn’t be illiterate”. From my omniscient perspective I understood that Han had been masquerading as the sheriff of Mexico, but had been discovered. Then I woke up as my phone beeped to tell me it needed charging. It’s probably thanks to the sudden wake-up that I remembered the dream. After I went back to sleep I dreamed something about a place like Milan central station (one of fascism’s best architectural monsterpieces) and a shop selling pirated music.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:57 am
“I ain’t the sheriff of Mexico, and if I were, I wouldn’t be illiterate.” is glorious. I love it when dreams have memorable quotes. Especially when they’re difficult to understand memorable quotes.
The last dream I posted also had a space-y theme. If you think dumb aliens fighting a weak psychic in a space bull dozer so she can be closer to the guy that she likes is a spacy theme.
March 31st, 2007 at 9:58 am
“I ain’t the sheriff of Mexico, and if I were, I wouldn’t be illiterate” - man, that sounds like something he’d say, even though it makes absolutely no sense.
I had a dream (or possibly several) earlier mangling the anime Busou Renkin and featuring Gwynn talking to someone in an old fashioned phone booth and then interrupting his conversation to laugh at a possibly naked emperor running by being chased by… something large.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I think the line might have somehow come out of that scene in Tombstone where Johnny Ringo accuses one of his fellow cowboys of being an “ignorant wretch”. Very occasionally one of my dreams throws out a quote good enough to use in a story. I like it very much when that happens, because it means less thinking I have to do.
Laurie - always glad to hear he’s having fun. Maybe he’d hang out in my dreams if they had more naked fugitive royalty in them.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I find that I am rarely myself in dreams, but rather leap from one character to another - to the point where I will be talking, or more likely acting upon, myself as multiple people.
I rarely have Star Wars dreams, though I’ve had a few. More often I have X-Files dreams and in these I actually retain some sense of identity - not mine, mind you, as I am always Fox Mulder in the dreams, but I remain as such through almost the entire story. (many of my dreams are very linear with clear storylines and reasonable resolutions)
March 31st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
There was a song in my last dream that had the line “John Lennon’s in our room tonight and Wellington can bleed…”
but what that meant I have no idea. Lines that sound good in dreams are one thing, lines that still sound good when waking are another.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:45 am
W - I kind of felt I was Han Solo as well, only he was always offscreen - a bit of a chiz as I always thought Han was hot. I sometimes wonder whether, if there’s any consciousness after death, if might be like the consciousness in dreams - protean and potentially multiple.
Dave - I dig that line, it just needs the right song. Maybe a creepy sort of minor key ragtime with a sitar?
April 1st, 2007 at 9:24 am
it was actually to part of opening theme song to Death Note (the anime), specifically the refrain, and it is certainly very similar. My waking brain thinks that “Wellington is dead” is better than Wellington can bleed.
I’m pretty sure the Wellington is almost certainly this Wellington.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Oh, yes - “Bury the Great Duke with an empire’s lamentation”. I agree with you - better dead than bleeding.