Posts Tagged “dream”
screen memory
by jebni on January 30, 2005
Last night in a dream, I suddenly remembered that I had been charged with looking after a small and special mouse, which was housed inside an intensive care crib in my backpack. This special mouse received all its nutrients via (…)
mutant high
by jebni on April 19, 2004
Last night’s dream: I enroll in a weird kind of social geography high school, where they go on field trips around the world, mapping social flows, patterns and stratifications. The principal introduces us new students at assembly, thanking us for (…)
i see dead people
by jebni on September 29, 2003
This is a conversation that my father recorded when I was about five years old, after I’d had a dream: I fell down onto Hell. There was fire — it was all red. Did you see any people? I saw (…)
a cry for help? what’s going on in my head??
by jebni on September 21, 2003
Dream #1 Superhumans in captivity: a closed circuit television system watches a bunch of variously-powered people in caged enclosures. A zoo. Click. Some kind of fish-man. Click. An impossibly nimble Chinese woman does a reverse tumble along the top of (…)
or-iental
by jebni on September 19, 2003
In a strangely self-orientalising turn, last night I bought my mum some Chinese journal-writing books for her birthday. You know, with intricate gold patterns stamped on the cover. How “Chinese-y”. Where will this self-fetishisation of culture end? God, next I (…)
overcome
by jebni on September 7, 2003
Dream #1: He has discovered us disposing of the body. So he has to die, too. She begins bashing him with a lead pipe. Blood and brains spraying everywhere, all over us, all over the walls. I’m hysterical: “How are (…)
beauty pass
by jebni on July 15, 2003
Last night: an erotic dream involving a visual-effects motion control camera. I’ll stop now, before it gets even more incriminating.
my insides will look like war
by jebni on April 22, 2003
Another dream: we are all on a tropical island. All of a sudden we get bombed the shit out of. People dead everywhere. Huge craters where buildings, bridges and rainforest once stood. Stomach-turning viscera everywhere. And the oddest thing: some (…)
king of all gorillaz
by jebni on April 22, 2003
Did I mention my amazement at the visual effects upon rewatching King Kong the other week? The other night, something came to me in a dream: what if there were a band that was totally made up of franchise characters, (…)