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     Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
I OD'd on chillies last night, which may explain this bizarre dream. There was this combination boys' home and dog shelter run by Robert de Niro. I'm not sure if it was actually him or a character he was playing. Boys and dogs kept going missing only to be found later, murdered bloodily. A friend and I (the friend was at various times my brother, a childhood acquaintance, my best friend from high school) were investigating and I found a bloody pickaxe and carried it around throughout the dream. (I don't know why I thought that was a good idea.) There was no sense that I was in any danger, not being either a boy or a dog. I found some old 1970s LPs with splashes of blood on them, so I hid them under some shrubs in the back garden, along with another body. Through a window I overheard a conversation with de Niro and an old woman who was bribing him. So I thought he was the killer. Then it turned out he was gay and that's why she was bribing him. I found more bodies and more LPs and my friend was now carrying a rusty sawblade he'd found. We stared at each other as we listened to the conversation and something de Niro said tipped us off: WE were the killers! And all the deaths had been accidents; we'd just been trying to help. The bodies hadn't really been dead at all - not until we'd hidden them. They BECAME dead through our actions. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Why do I never get dreams like that?! Waiter, more chillis, please...  | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Here's a tentative reading of your dream: When you were young you had one ideal of manhood represented symbolically by "Robert De Niro" (most probably in his 'Deerhunter' guise) that was eternally thwarted as you got older by your dealings with immature boys whom you would have quite happily pickaxed to death. It was only after you realised "De Niro" was an illusion that you discovered true contentment, friendship and the perfect "partner-in-crime" through a love of the macabre.  You should turn it into a story! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.206.8 |
Kate - that wasn't a dream. Bob actually made that film. Nah - it's just these days he'd take your hand off for a script like that one... | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
I could see it as a TV Movie of the Week or tepid pseudo-giallo Afterschool Special starring some Z-list de Niro wannabe. Lots of dog food and "Sponsor a child for the cost of a cup of coffee" ads in between scenes. Music by Michael Bolton. I'd also just read Clive Barker's "Son of Celluloid" before bed, which featured Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Bogie but not de Niro. Mind you, none of them are my type, though I certainly understand Bob's appeal in Godfather II. I've never even seen a pickaxe in real life. Only in horror films. The one in my dream was heavy and nearly as long as I am tall. Hmmm... | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
According to dream symbolism: BOYS HOME = your mothering instinct starting to take over. DOG SHELTER = feelings of loyalty and protection. BOYS & DOGS GOING MISSING = worries about forgetting something important due to disorganisation. DISCOVERY OF A MURDER = deep seated anger towards someone. PICKAXE = sexual aggression... oo-er! BLOODY LPs = frustration at going round and round in circles (I swear I'm not making this up). AN OLD WOMAN OFFERING A BRIBE = insecurity due to too high expectations from the devouring mother principle(!?!?). RUSTY SAW = neglect and the need to quit doing something that has become a chore. Any of that make any sense at all???  | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
There was this combination boys' home and dog shelter run by Robert de Niro. I was unable to carry on reading after that line because I was laughing too much.  | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
And here I was thinking it was just indigestion. How could the pickaxe NOT be Freudian? On THIS board? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
You were wandering about looking for boys with a large weapon. Quite straightforward to me | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Your dream was more sensible and entertaining than most Hollywood screenplays, Kate. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.58 |
There's no mystery here at all, it's quite simple, really: this is the film HIDE AND SEEK sort of all mashed around by the subconscious. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
.. and now I can't get that song - "Robert de Niro's waiting" - out of my head. It's going round and round like a bloody LP!  | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
Does it spin you right round like a record, baby? ....showing my age.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.58 |
Does anyone younger than 25 even know what a record is, anymore?... let alone an LP?... (and it's not "Lord Probert") And that wwwpppwwppwpp! sound you hear in, say, comedies, the sound of the needle skipping across the length of an LP... does anyone know what that sound is from anymore? And why it contains significance beyond the mere funniness of its own sound? (i.e., a needle skipping used to be tantamount to a disaster for your record, sending record-owners running to it screaming) |