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So two totem animals get into a dream brawl...

 
 
The Tower Always Falls
01:22 / 25.05.04
Right, I'm not entirely sure how needed this post is, but I felt compelled to share...

As I have babbled about before (see this thread) I have somewhat of a burgeoning magickal relationship with Scorpion. I'm not going to get too in-depth with certain workings, but they're interesting.

Thing is, there's another "animal" that I seem to have a relationship with, and that's... well what I sort of call "The Great Worm". It's a a frequent dream visitor who always lends a huge air of ... fuck, i dunno... the epic to a dream. And these dreams often seem to be full of message and portent and yadda yadda yadda. It's sort of like Lynch's Dune Navigators meets the worms from Tremors with the mind of age-old space wisdom etc. It's huge and always dwarfs me, whether swimming through water or warping through space. (I tend to have some rather epic dreams...)

So in this dream, we see our buddy Scorpion taking out a spider on the floor next to my bed (it should be mentioned that we are sleeping in the center of our apartment since we're painting the bedroom, so sleeping is a bit off) and, cleaning house as He does. My field of vision follows the limping spider for a moment before snapping back to Socrpion, who now seems to be going to town on a miniuature version of The Worm. They're both going at it, and I'm rather disturbed by this. So disturbed, that I take my shoe and start smashing them both. The dream logic gets fuzzy at this point, as I look over from the smashed remains to see the two of them still going at it in a fit of bi-location and the like. I woke up then feeling extraordinarilly off-key.

(Perhaps "unrelated", a river is flooding and we had to evac one of our nursing homes, which portends absolute batshit crazieness for the next few weeks on a work level.)

So, there you have it. Not sure what i'm looking for with this post. Advice on how to negotiate a cease-fire? Whether I even should? Should I sit back and watch or sit each down for a pow-wow. Or just a standard "oooh, sleeping in a wrong place here's a discomfort dream using famillair imagery!" Has anyone else experienced such an antagonistic display between two totems before? Either way, it's been a while since I've popped out of lurker mode here, and I figured this would be a good starting point.
 
 
nameless oxymoron
10:17 / 25.05.04
A worm and a scorpion? Or rather: an intelligent, soft, swimming worm thing with no limbs versus a built-in-weaponry, armor-plated, multi-legged scorpion that walks?
That definitely ranks a high amount of opposites!
When they were "going at it", what was so disturbing that you smashed the poor little critters?
 
 
macrophage
16:56 / 25.05.04
Sounds like yer subconcious has turned itself into a bloody warzone. You need to sigilise or make a servitor so yer competing thought forms play friendly footy with each other just like France at the Great War when they were all mdma'd out of their gas masked nipples! (on xmas day) Subbuteo thoughtforms are were its at, like Weebles they mite fall over but they never fall all the way down! Four words - Johny Morriss' Animal Magick!!!!!
 
  
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