Last night I dreamed I was walking with an ex-friend who has horses. We were walking with one of her horses that she was taking to the slaughterhouse. Or rather we were meeting someone who would transport the horse there, while it walked along with us like a pet. It was emaciated, every bone on its body was outlined.
We met the man who had a station wagon with horses inside. On the passenger side he picked up her horse and put it inside the car, fastening him down on his back with a belt which he buckled.
I reached in the opening in the back as there was no window. I wanted to pet the horse and say goodbye. The horse put his hoof in my hand. It was frightened and upset, begging me for help. I unbuckled the leather belt, lifted the horse out and set him down to free him.
My ex-friend said, "Why did you do that? We can't be friends anymore." She turns her back to walk away.
I say, "What does he eat?"
She says, "Grain. I feed him a handful but he doesn't eat."
The End
but once you have, it is a
memory that will be burned
into you for as long as you
live. In its last days, a
starved horse truly looks like
skin has been sprayed over
its skeleton, with well
defined hip bones, spinal
processes and ribs just
underneath the skin. Despite
so many odds, the will to
live often keeps the horse
going far longer than it
seems possible. We’ve seen
them eat fence post and rails, trees and dirt, just to stay alive a little longer
Freudian analysis teaches us to look at the day/the time before the dream. A friend had told me that being tied down was not an option.
We had been discussing the film
Tie Me Up! Tie Me
Down!
The Dreamtime of the aboriginal tribes in Australia invert the Freudian analysis. The dream dreams a world, a child, an object into existence.
"Psychoanalysis overturned. Instead of the dream being the fulfillment of desires unsatisfied in real life, real life would be the site where desires born of dreams were fulfilled. Instead of being the dumping ground of the unconscious, dreams would be the matrices of real events - thus becoming like the 'dream' of the Aborigines, for whom a child has to be dreamt before he can be begotten, 'real' paternity being merely the fulfillment of the dream." (Cool Memories IV 105)
Bella dreams her child into existence, does she not? (Breaking Dawn)
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