Monday 25 May 2009

People are weird

I went back to the pool today, for the first time in a week and a half - the carcass was complaining and I was a full two minutes slower than usual. There was a certain pleasure in being the first person to disturb the limpid waters, though my habitual impersonation of a drowning rhinoceros was perhaps not the most elegant of entries.

I had quite a strange experience afterwards though. Here's an image you'll find difficult to shift. While I was hosing myself down, a guy I vaguely know from the university stopped to tell me he'd dreamed about me last night. This is the second time a relative stranger has said this to me recently. He did make it clear that my nakedness wasn't part of his dream, which consisted of seeing me crash my skateboard outside Wolverhampton's central library. I've never been on a skateboard, don't frequent that particular institution, and certainly don't feature in this guy's life enough to impinge on his subconscious!

I'm largely uninterested in dreams - random fragments of the subconscious. I only ever dream about being shouted at, during times of stress like the marking period. What's your interpretation of this one though?

2 comments:

Dan said...

I've seen films like this. They never end very well, to be honest. He's obviously snooker loopy.

Benjamin. said...

I've had people telling me they dreamt of my premature death. One even floated around the church full of people mourning my death at the funeral... on a flying skateboard.

So in conclusion, people are deeply disturbed, occasionally racist (BNP followers) and ignorant as my blog shows.