dream theater

[fox]

alarmingly weird dreams this morning, involving video games and a strange cult-like group that kidnapped people and replaced them with -- with clones, i guess, whose job was to get more people, and they kept the originals in a sub-basement, and if you pissed them off your clone would "get sick" and die so they'd have an excuse to kill you.  they got you in the first place by giving you things, so it wasn't long before people were keeping their hands in their pockets and not even touching, much less taking hold of, anything anyone else held out to them.  running through a mall you had to be careful not to let the perfume girl actually spritz you with a sample.  i was at the stage of sleep where i was aware it was a dream, but no matter how much i tried to think about something else, it kept shifting back.  ugh.  and now i have a headache.

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That's scary and different

[orange852.livejournal.com]

And of course I can't stop the guesswork on What It All Means:

Being kidnapped and replaced, but not killed unless your replacement is, sounds like someone living a public life a least slightly at odds with their private life. Misbehavior in private leads to the public self getting eliminate, which then tracks back to the private self.

The mixture of "gotten" and "not yet gotten," the latter starting to keep their hands to themselves to avoid being "gotten," sounds like alienation from society. Actually, it sounds a whole lot like the whole Blue State vs. Red State thing, when I think about it. "Fitting in" publicly, or at least not engaging in vicious yet pointless debate with adherents to opposing political positions is getting very, very difficult.

Now, given that our Foxkit has been transplanted to a different country and culture, maybe it means you're trying to fit into your milieu in more ways than are strictly desirable or necessary? And you're pulling back from further assimilation and feeling "meh" about that?