Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over" & "Kiss With A Fist" / What Dreams May Come…


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I’ve been having such vivid dreams lately that I decided to create a record in an effort to analyze them all. Whenever I wake from such a dream, I immediately grab my iPhone and email what little I can remember to a friend. I’m not sure why I share them. Maybe it’s my subconscious struggle to be understood… so that someone else can see what goes on inside my head, from the inside out.

3/4/09
…we were walking down the street and you were singing Corinne Bailey Rae, except it was a song I never heard before… And it was upbeat but I thought the song was boring… And it reminded me of my songs and I was worried if people would really like them… But you were skipping and singing along to it so that made me feel better…

3/5/09
I’m in my home in Hawaii for some reason. Apparently it was bad and people needed money and the guy has “malignant cancer” or something… And I’m reading some news article to find out what it was that he did that was so horrible… like not donating money or something, but I think it was that he was cruel and dry to his loved ones before telling them he was sick and undergoing surgery. The headline reads:

One man’s painful journey to find love…

3/5/09, dream 2
…and I wonder where you are, and [someone] says you’re to my left… and I turn and see you and give you a big hug. And you say something teasing like “didn’t you see me?!” and I wonder if I should just make a funny face and say, “gne gne gne” instead…

3/6/09
It was me driving at first, then me in the backseat, then me driving and realizing I had to meet my parents where they left me. I parked and biked through a crowd in the sand and got sand on everyone and felt really bad. Even got sand and stuck my tires accidentally into their picnic dip (falafel in hummus!). Mom calls my phone and says she is someplace else that I Tweeted about and keeps hanging up before I can ask for details. I tell my friend, annoyed:

Always make sure who you’re looking for is in the crowd before jumping into the fray…

3/7/09
We’re leaving a store and it takes awhile to get out because so many old people are leaving. I see a friend and say hi. She asks if I need a ride and I say I already have one. She looks a little disappointed that I said no. I see Tinna in the parking lot and leave. Then I’m reading a magazine with a special feature called “The Founders” or something, with pics of old moss covered ruins with Latin inscribed on them. Pretty but a little somber. I realize I read that magazine before at a time that had something to do with EG…

3/8/09
I’m in and old and tropical place. There’s a bridge that’s hard to get around. I’m taking pictures at first. There’s a woman who is an ecologist and I learn somehow what I’m seeing is the last of something. She doesn’t know I’m here, and I take a picture of her. There’s the presence of God except he’s a little plastic figurine at the edge of a lake that the woman is swimming in. Then I see God for real as I take the pic, and I try to get both him, her, and plastic God in the frame, except she’s coming toward me so it’s hard…

3/8/09, dream 2
It’s some weird Chinese/Buddhist/martial arts chant show but no one is Asian. They all lip sync to Chinese but their mouths don’t match. They parade past us and a black guy who looks very small but is older points at my shoes and tells me he likes them. One character yells, “in inglese!” and the show starts in English. It’s all very much like a circus show or Moulin Rouge… ominous, like most of my dreams not involving food (unless the cake is trying to eat ME…) and it’s snowing lightly and it’s dark and the bright lights are blinding…

Then you and I are in a living room somewhere. A Christmas Tree is up and swing music is playing. We start dancing and it’s fun, but when we stop I worry if you think I’m a bad dancer…

A coworker in Germany shared this band with me, and the vibrancy of the videos seemed to match that of my dreams, so I thought it apt to include them in the post…