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Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Friday, October 6, 2000, 16:29
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:

> 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.
Incredible dream! I am absolutely incapable of reading in my dreams. In fact, when I'm drifting off to sleep, I can't even visualize consciously the written word. It's weird, too, considering that most of my life is tied up in literature and writing. *laughs* Maybe that's the reason! My brain wants a break! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.