Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> I thought everyone did, until a friend of mine told me that he only
>> dreams in B&W. How odd.
>
>Most people actually dream in B&W.  Apparently, it's mostly creative
>people who dream in color. I THINK I dream in color, but I'm not
>sure.
I know I do (except when the dream is at night, in which case all
colours blend to "dark" anyway).

A dream early this morning concerned trying to buy something somewhere
in Mexico (in Spainish as well as in colour). Whatever the thing was,
the lady kept saying "cincuenta centavos"; and the 50c notes I had
weren't government issued. Whatever kind of Mexico this was, it had no
coins (and she had no 50c notes to make change). There must have been
some kind of revolution or political reworking of the country; as
there was money from the national level (i.e., El Banco de Mexico,
S.A.) whose pesos had Jose Morelos at the right side in blue. There
were also some kind of local money (El Bancu del Estadu Culectivista
de ..something I couldn't make out). Not quite in Spanish; and all the
important bits were in some Native American langauge. I know it read
"The counterfeitor of these notes of the Collective State will be
punished to the greatest extent allowable by law..." but I have no
idea how I knew that, cos it wasn't in Spanish. The 50c note had a lot
of purple and yellow and scenes from some Native group's daily life.

>I can never remember visual details clearly enough to be sure.
>
>> The Dreamworld _is_ an interesting place!
>
>Yes, a place where you can take a wrong turn and end up half a state
>away, as in one dream of mine!  Or, go *down* stairs, and end up on
>higher floors as in another dream of mine!  :-)
Ah? You have those too? Mine usually happen in a church: walk down to
the basement and end up in the choir loft. Of course, quite a number
of the stairways end up nowhere as well; and you have to cross over
a narrow wooden bit with no railing in order to get to the next
staircase.

Padraic.

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