Coming back and visiting the underground…

OK, after starting this blog, I managed to almost immediately neglect it.  I’m going to try to come back and do some semi-regular posts about movies I manage to squeeze in.  Dreams I recently had – over two consecutive nights, really pushed me towards picking this up again.  In the first dream I visited scientist Steven Hawking and found that he had a sick pet of some kind.  A giant, but sick, furry animal.  It was, according to my dream, addicted to pain killers.  I gave it some medicine and it felt better, then became very friendly.

I had no idea what this dream meant.  So, my brain made another dream the next night:

I was traveling underground in a labyrinth of tunnels.  A bit under the surface was a large, mostly empty room.  I had the feeling that a monster lived here and to escape it, I needed to travel further down.  The only path down was choked with garbage – I knew it to be years of accumulated garbage shoved down by the monster.  I traveled down the pathway, climbing over the garbage, to find a new area – an underground library, stocked with books and with people working.  In this area, I met a scientist with a large, sick rodent-like animal.  When I cautiously pet the animal, it perked up and became very friendly.  Then the scientist showed me an elixir he had that could produce sunlight – creating a bright light in this underground room.

After the second dream, I think I worked it out – something about an inner scientist in me that has a sick animal (instinct) that needs a little bit of TLC.  Writing this blog and delving into symbolism is probably what I need to be doing, to counterbalance some of the all-too-mundane aspects of my regular life and get more in touch with this combo scientist/instinct part of me.  All the garbage choking the path down to that realization just reminds me of how long it’s been that I’ve neglected doing something like this.

So, I recently saw a few movies and I’ll try to write up analyses of them.  First up… :”Baby Mama”.

–Tedd