The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[megamania]

Oh yes ... NOOOO Internet access where I will be, so I will be outta ENworld until ... hmm ... early July?

Maybe I'll post a thread in general ... just for general info.... :\

Where are you going? NE Vermont?

 

[megamania]

I find that very hard to do. I have very vivid dreams and remember them often.

Its the darker themed dreams that I find disturbing.

The last "dark" dream I had was strange. The imagery was done like animation based on Art Adams comicbook. It took place about ten years ago just before my cancer days.

I was running around the outside of the house and tripped down the hill in front of the house. The grass was very very tall.

The clouds got thick and dark and I rolled over. A dark red skinned bearded and long haired man with no pupils appears in the grass. He parted the grass and spoke to me in a thick mechanical tone filled with malice-

"You know who I am and you will join me if you continue as is."

What he meant I was not sure.


Another dream was even stranger and involved DnD.

I was driving with the wife in New York and saw a tag sale. I felt compelled to stop and did. We found nothing until we reached the last table. It had every copy of Dragon and Dungeon printed at that point. The owner was Gary Gyrax and to buy the books I had to sell / offer my soul to him.

weird.

 

[megamania]

By the time I had the inspiration for the current design, I was also trying to overcome the issues present in the prior avatars - ie, too much detail for too small a space, better constrasting colors, and better contrast against any of the possible background styles.

...

I have the same issue. I really want my megamania character to be the avatar but between size, clarity and size/fit I can't seem to do it so I have my foot again. At least that stands out from the crowd.

 

[megamania]

Well, seems folks are away now. Too bad, this may be the last time I can pop in at EN World until next weekend..... :\

 

[Mycanid]

I wonder what the head shrinkers would say to that?

I do believe dreams are a way of our sub conscience mind communicate with the conscience. This can include paranormal connections.

I would love to have studied classes on dream analysis. I RARELY remember my dreams these days. Kinda a bummer.

Mega! How about that! Just touching base before closing shop here....

I also agree that our subconscious does "communicate with the conscience" (or do you mean consciousness? - they are quite different things) ... but the important questions are: does is have anything worthwhile to say ... AND should you listen to what it says?

For me I believe the answer to both is sometimes, but very rarely. There are too many uncontrollable factors involved in this whole realm. And I have personally known people who have lost their rational faculty and gone off the deep end when mussing about in this cloudy area.

 

[Mycanid]

Where are you going? NE Vermont?

western Illinois!

 

[Mycanid]

Well, seems folks are away now. Too bad, this may be the last time I can pop in at EN World until next weekend..... :\

I'm here! Yoo hoo!

 

[megamania]

well HELLO!


nearly missed yah.


How goes it?

 

[Mycanid]

Whew!

That was close! rarely do we get a chance to say hi to one another these days!

Well, as you know, I am going on vacation (see thread on my going away for more details, I guess) ... and am doing last minute prep.

Just about to close up the office when i thought I would check into EW one last time and .... there was Mega!

Yourself? (other than working yourself to death, of course )

 

[megamania]

Mega! How about that! Just touching base before closing shop here....

I also agree that our subconscious does "communicate with the conscience" (or do you mean consciousness? - they are quite different things) ... but the important questions are: does is have anything worthwhile to say ... AND should you listen to what it says?

For me I believe the answer to both is sometimes, but very rarely. There are too many uncontrollable factors involved in this whole realm. And I have personally known people who have lost their rational faculty and gone off the deep end when mussing about in this cloudy area.

ALL dreams have worth and meaning but how they are read / misunderstood is the biggy. Some dreams are warnings of health, others of one's future. Some put stuff into perspective that is welll.....strange. I had a wicked one involving my wife and her infidelities. Its what put it all in perspective to me.


Excuse me if I get personal with this.....

This is how the dream goes.... She and I are college age again, BIG campus, snow, X-mas lights up. We visit an apartment over a bar. Two guys are there whom welcome her and say hi to me. I walk off to the bathroom and stare at the mirror with a blank lost look for a looooong time. You can guess what they are doing. Then she gets me and we leave.

Dream repeats with little change.


My own psycho anylize of this- when engaged, she cheated on me. He looked exactly like the one guy. This happened in college. He worked at a bar as a DJ. The other guy looked like a much younger version of the guy she cheated on me with when married.

In both cases, I was self- absorbed and though I knew it was happening didn't act on it as I needed to to. Basically I allowed it and as such became a part of it.


Messed up.