dreams
I had quite an interesting dream this morning... I woke up and immediately commited what I could remember to paper and drew a quick sketch of a moment in it.
It began with a girl, emaciated, sparse hair, trapped in a tube barely large enough for her suspended (rather, surrounded by, since there was little room in the tube) in a viscous fluid (the usual... tube... imagery) in some abandoned building...
Emotions riding forth at this point in the dream are of confusion; loss, both of orientation, direction...
And then she meets her Cheshire Cat. At least, that's the closest imagery I can think of... an androgynous creature, lying sideways, trying to escape the random arrangements of what seems to be a deathtrap in the building outside of her tube... sexless, perhaps... but the first image is of it lying sideways, eyes observant, tubes, blades, arranged downwards upon it much like lying sideways under vertical blinds, with only one of the blinds broken off, lying on top of it, to shield it from the rest.
The bond between them is warm, loving. I'd almost put here that it was much like God's love for his creation, but that's more of an Adam/Eve interpretation that I will get into later...
The androgynous creature disappears, but there is no confusion, after a kiss on the tube it flits away and all that is left is a feeling of comfort...
And then a wild man, lithe, beautiful, agile, comes through the tubes, and she treats him innocently as friend, though his intentions are unknown... and he lies beside her tube, one arm under it resting under it... much like someone lying on their side gazing at their lover in the morning as she wakes, and for a moment I seem to sense that the androgynous, loving creature watches, then disappears.
The lithe, young man swings away as well, and is replaced by a snake, this time which slithers into her tube, coaxing yet instilling fear... I cannot recall their conversation and I wish that I could...
As I wake the dream becomes a little less hallucinagenic and more literal, as the view pans out from the warehouse, we see someone breaking a watermain (on purpose) and drowning the building in which the tube resides... and a protagonist now that I can feel being (rather than observing) driving down the road, looking for the girl, as a creature runs overtop his car and you can see a wasteland of suburbia in the background, abandoned, and a walled city with searchlights in the air in the distance...
And this... protagonist... comes upon the warehouse, shuts off the water after noticing it, dives under and rescues the girl, and the next memory is of the girl being dressed in what clothes could be found, transformed in a way... more beautiful than she was suspended, though still somewhat emaciated more whole, somehow... (thinking... Evie at the end of V for Vendetta... tinge of Natalie Portman but I was thinking more the novel than the film)... there's a conversation here too that I wish I could remember but I recall being full of wisdom... and then I wake.
Interpretations to follow... at some point.