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One frequent theme to my dreams has been, and continues to be "things aren't where they're supposed to be".

As if I didn't know that.

As if I didn't know that I'm not where I'm supposed to be.

As if I can do anything about the problems.

My subconscious mind is complaining that it can't find a pair of trousers and I can't find a life.  Bah.

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In my dreams a few hours ago...

Somebody sent me a very technologically advanced trifle.  Either Coca-Cola, or the company that builds their vending machines, created it.  Somehow they found out that I liked robots, and I liked party balloons, and I was interested in the Industrial Internet of Things...so I received a robotic device to stick to the ceiling of my room.  Every so often, it would activate, play one of Coca-Cola's many jingles, inflate a balloon with air, tie it off and let it loose.

Why Coca-Cola?  I don't know.

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You know that dream that all adults have of being stuck back in Grade School again?  I sort of had a variation on that overnight:

I was handled an examination pamphlet I was supposed to have done back in childhood.  Only I had never seen it before and all the responses inside it were blank.  And then I found a note inside it from my teacher that read Stephen Bierce was in trouble and being disciplined that day so he was unavailable for this assignment.

I would later learn that the faculty at my school was morally opposed to the assignment and wrote notes like it in all the books.  Not only did they keep us from doing the work, they hid the whole thing from us so we would never know it existed.

I have no idea what the dream is supposed to mean.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 6, 2016

The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that? Because you're likely to emerge triumphant! That's right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I've seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to ace? At what game would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.

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I caught my subconscious in a lie this morning when my sleep cycle was coming to a close.  Maybe I ought to trade it in on a new model.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of December 10, 2015

My old friend Jeff started working at a gambling casino in Atlantic City. "You've gone over to the dark side!" I kidded. He acknowledged that 90 percent of the casino's visitors lose money gambling. On the bright side, he said, 95 percent of them leave happy. I don't encourage you to do this kind of gambling in the near future, Sagittarius. It's true that you will be riding a lucky streak. But smarter, surer risks will be a better way to channel your good fortune. So here's the bottom line: In whatever way you choose to bet or speculate, don't let your lively spirits trick you into relying on pure impulsiveness. Do the research. Perform your due diligence. It's not enough just to be entertained. The goal is to both have fun and be successful.

Last night I dreamt that there had been a rumor going round that I lost a hand--and people responded by sending me hands in the hopes that one of them could be transplanted on my arm.  Perhaps my view is that while the goodness of people persists, they are being undermined by a lack of truth in the right places.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 31, 2013

I had a dream that you were in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? You were like the character played by George Clooney after he escaped from a prison chain gang. Can you picture it? You were wearing a striped jailbird suit, and a ball and chain were still cuffed around your ankle. But you were sort of free, too. You were on the lam, making your way from adventure to adventure as you eluded those who would throw you back in the slammer. You were not yet in the clear, but you seemed to be en route to total emancipation. I think this dream is an apt metaphorical depiction of your actual life right now. Could you somehow use it in designing your Halloween costume?


...But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no!/Not gonna let them catch The Midnight Ri~i~ider!
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 21, 2013

On the one hand, menopausal women are no longer able to bear children. On the other hand, they often overflow with fresh possibilities and creative ideas. More time is available to them because their children have moved out of the house or don't require as much care. They can begin new careers, focus on their own development, and devote more attention to their personal needs. So in one way their fertility dries up; in another way it may awaken and expand. I suspect that whether or not you are menopausal, you are on the cusp of a comparable shift in your fecundity: one door closing, another door swinging open.


I certainly hope another door is swinging open. I had a dream overnight in which I needed something from my room...and new managers had taken over the building in which I lived and gave me a rough time about letting me into my room or letting me at my own belongings. The people you think are in charge of your life pretty soon won't be--and the next regime won't fall over itself to help you.
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While I was asleep this morning, one of our family friends, Jessica, was here picking up a dozen eggs that Dad had gotten her from a nearby farm as per their usual arrangements. After she left and I fell asleep again, I dreamt that Mum was there in the living room with Jessica and Dad, getting them caught up on the goings in the hereafter.

I can't remember what she said.

Besides, would you really want to know?
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A Snuggly Brown Blanket.
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* It becomes a fad to get mini refrigerators, mini freezers and mini microwave ovens (all roughly the size of toaster ovens--originally designed for the Asian market) and have them in rooms other than the kitchen. One set for the living room, one for the den, one for the hallway between the bedrooms, one for the office. Of course, this doesn't do the problem of rampant obesity any good.

* Disney adds a new area to Walt Disney World devoted entirely to the studio's horror properties. The Haunted Mansion is moved out of Adventureland and updated to become the centerpiece of this park-let.

* A viral advertising campaign for a synthetic "incense" product gets a lot of notoriety when the people behind the campaign hack local TV stations to air commercials which are banned by the FCC. They ALMOST get away with it. But the phrase "Stoner Taxicab" enters the slang lexicon permanently.
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Barking canines. At about 2AM overnight, EVERY SINGLE ONE in a two or three mile radius had to go berzerk and howl or scream or belch or whatever.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of September 8, 2011

The beauty contests in Saudi Arabia don't judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. A recent winner, Aya Ali al-Mulla, was crowned "Queen of Beautiful Morals" without ever revealing the face and form shrouded beneath her black head-to-toe garment. Instead, her excellence emerged during a series of psychological and social tests that evaluated her strength of character and service to family and society. I'd like to borrow this idea and apply it to you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could and should be a paragon of moral beauty in the coming week -- a shining example and inspiration to all the other signs of the zodiac.


I'm having a hard time believing this one, as lately I've been carrying a lot of evil in my being. At least I don't act on it, but I fear my own anger and bloodlust. I had a nightmare Sunday/Monday about watching somebody I know getting killed. I know it was my mind playing tricks on me, but I dread what my own behavior would be like if I were in a situation where I know somebody is about to die from unjust actions and being in no position to stop it--yet being in a position to summarily avenge it.

All of a sudden I want a t-shirt that reads "I Reject Your America And Substitute My Own!"

Crud

May. 23rd, 2011 06:47 pm
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Looks like I'm mostly over the crud from the past week, but enough of it is still around to load up my upper chest and wear me out over the course of the day.

I'll probably be okay tomorrow or Wednesday but who likes to be like this?--Nobody.
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Two!--Three!--Four!--

I've been hit hard by some sort of respiratory infection since Sunday. I'd been hoping to do things overday, but I took an anti-histamine dose right after breakfast and then went back to sleep till 3:30 PM. So much for that idea. The crud hasn't been beat, so I'll probably give myself another belt of meds right before bedtime.
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Yes, I dreamt...like I usually do.

And yes, finding meaning in my sleeping apparitions as they relate to my current life is pretty darned HARD.

I'm beginning to think that somebody is going to introduce William Gibson's APPARENT SENSORY PERCEPTION or "Simstim"TM technology soon. (See also the movie Brainstorm.) Because bits and pieces of my dream experiences seem far to fictitious to make sense as actual life-going-on. What is truly bizarre is that after an initial use of "sense actors" in the roles of character/"camera", the art moves to 100% artificial realities/machine generated content.

I recognize in some of these threads of consciousness in the dreams that I'm not myself...either I'm in character as somebody else, filling somebody else's vision of life...or I'm in a completely different "incarnation", with nothing that matches my own operational systems.

And again, I have this urgent need to wonder what it means. Am I a maker, or an addict? Do I redefine my life using the coming technology and media? Is using the media the way I survive what is to come? Am I too rooted in reality, or not enough?

I can't stay here forever. Hmmph.

FP
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Watch the sports on TV.
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Would the gal who was wearing the wedding dress in my dream overnight please get back to me? Thank you.

If...?

Nov. 23rd, 2010 06:03 am
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If I am younger in my dreams than I am in real life, might it mean that I'm not dreaming of my own future, but someone else's? Or am I dreaming of the next world?
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In my mind I tell myself semi-ongoing stories, and try to unfold plotlines for future writing projects. It surprises me sometimes how often I get real ideas from the practice.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 7, 2010

This morning I had to interrupt my meditation on your horoscope. I'd studied the astrological configurations and said my usual prayer, asking for guidance to come up with the oracle you need most. But nothing had occurred to me yet, and it was time to leave the house for an appointment. As I closed the door behind me, I was still in deep thought about you. Then my face hit something gauzy, and I pulled back. Overnight, a spider had spun a huge web spanning the entire porch frame. I'd knocked it a bit off-kilter, but it was still intact. "That's got to be an omen," I thought to myself as I stooped under it and continued on my way. An omen of what? A little voice in my head gave the answer: Sagittarius is ready to merge more directly with the great web of life.


Overnight I dreamt that I met myself. "Stephen Bierce! Don't be afraid, it's Stephen Bierce! I won't demand anything from you, and I don't care whether you demand anything from me..."

It would have been more interesting but the dream leapt ahead to a binge screening of the whole Iron Man saga--#5 was being released and somebody wanted to see the other four first before going to the theater.

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