h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've always considered dreams to be a digestion of affect, an indicator of unconscious concerns. But I woke up this morning having dreamt that entertaining TV history-of-science boffin and online tax return promoter Adam Hart-Davis, was actually responsible for writing "Wichita Lineman". What am I supposed to do with that??

Get a surge protector?

'kinell! I quoted that line from Wordsworth in a pub last night. Synchronicity or what?

Must go now. There's a scarab beetle on my windowsill who wants to come in...

I've never placed much stock in the notion that dreams necessarily "mean" anything, in a symbolic sort of way, and I'm not entirely convinced they're even indicative of unconscious concerns, per se. Certainly a majority of mine are just random nonsense. If I was one of those people who could remember much of them for long after waking, I bet it'd be fun to swap weird dreams with people sometimes.

Not sure what, if anything, you should do with that one. I had to look the guy up, but it does sound pretty random. Might it be a lingering effect of that man-flu and the accompanying brain fever? I dream some up, acid-trip-like shit when I'm ill. Once, I dreamt about work and real life friends, but all in Simpsons-style animation.

Hmmm. *strokes chin*. I see a lot of repressed sexuality here.

No, I'm with psychocandy. I think it's just random nonsense. One of my weirdest dreams I had years ago; my gran came back to life and decided to live on a shelf that was on the outside of a high-rise.

Bizarre.

Maybe you're right. I do have messed-up dreams all the time, certainly trip-like but then I used to do a lot of acid (repressed sexuality as standard ).

Apparently Wordsworth's quote, my all-time favourite "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven" was a reference to the French Revolution, but he retracted it later when he went over there and discovered it was shit.

Ed, here's another contender - F19585?thread=4910299

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I would blame Percy (Byshe Shelley) myself & ditch the spell-checker.

zdt

I love those weird dreams that proposes something which you know in real life to be utter nonsense, but which seems perfectly reasonable in the dream. Like the mysterious hidden second floor of my house, which I only found the other night by going around a corner... and ping! there it was, complete with another bathroom, master bedroom, and a cool little attic nook. Then I woke up.

Is Wichita Lineman the one that goes... "I am a lineman for the cooooouunty..."

Yeah, I get those ones too. When you wake up it's disappointing to find out that the extra bit doesn't exist. I also like the way that dreams can construct complex places that don't resemble places you've ever been to in any way. When I was younger I had a memorable dream about a place that seemed so real that I almost felt like searching for it. When I did eventually find a place like it (it was an old hovercraft port near Ramsgate -- near the old viking ship if you know it?) I felt that I should be looking for a message of some kind.

Google now have a new service: Google Dreams...

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Be afraid, be very afraid....

zdt

I get those "extra rooms" dreams, too. Or dreams where my entire high school is inside my home, complete with track and field. And yes, it always makes *perfect* sense in the dream...

Wichita Lineman is one of the great recordings of the 20th Century. Or I've been listening to Radio 2 too long.

I doubt you can listen to Radio 2 for too long. However, an overdose of Radio Europe Deux can induce psychosis especially on Christmas Day.

Garrgh, sign of age or what? I remember getting up at 6am to hear the opening broadcast of Radio One..."Flowers in the rain: The Move" was the track, presenter was Tony Blackburn.

zdt