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Angel

Jun-12-03, 4:51 PM

I had a dream about Mr. Raymonde last night that I thought was worth sharing. Please keep in mind I did not fall asleep drunk nor did I eat anything spicy ;)

In my dream Simon and I were a happy little unit living in the house I live in right now. My husband had just left me for his best friend (girl) and I asked Simon to move in and much to my surprise he did! For some odd reason the only place we hung out was in the closet in the master bedroom. We were watching a Denise Williams (Let's Hear it For the Boy) video and I heard a very loud crash. I went outside to find out what it was and a van full of cheerleaders had crashed into the side of my house and broke a few windows. Simon, being the gallant beau that he was pulled out the ladder and climbed on top of the roof to fix one of the columns that had been shaken loose. As he was doing that I was alternating between shouting obscenities to the cheerleaders and making goo goo eyes at Simon up there in his wife beater fixing my house.

I'd love to hear any interpretations of this dream if you have any.

Phil Lawton

Jun-13-03, 6:18 AM

Angel

One of the items of the many left to me by the venerable Dr Pip in his will was the rather weighty tome from 1978 - "Dream Interpretation And Raffia Weaving - A Study" (Faber & Collins, £15.99).

I've pored over this book and used the analyses therein to make some sense of your dream. Here is what Dr Pip's book says your dream meant:

In my dream Simon and I were a happy little unit living in the house I live in right now. My husband had just left me for his best friend (girl) and I asked Simon to move in and much to my surprise he did!

Dr Pip says:

Dreams in which the spouse is replaced by any celebrity (be they a politician, an actor in a moving picture profession or a member of some modern beat-combo which wrings money from our youth with their raucous, cacophonic, pale imitations of what we call "music") indicate a deep unhappiness with the subject's environ and may even be indicative of homicidal tendencies. Faith, it may be prudent to turn oneself into the authorities immediately upon waking.

For some odd reason the only place we hung out was in the closet in the master bedroom.

Dr Pip says:

Closets show a hidden desire to hide from the world or, on occasions, a tendency towards burglary. There are studies to show that "closet" references can indicate some homogenous sexual repression, but this has yet to be proven in clinical circumstances.

We were watching a Denise Williams (Let's Hear it For the Boy) video and I heard a very loud crash. I went outside to find out what it was and a van full of cheerleaders had crashed into the side of my house and broke a few windows.

Dr Pip says:

Voyeuristic habits can be hard to break; some of my patients have taken not an inconsiderable amount of therapy to wrest themselves from the need to watch others "mid coitus", so to speak. Cheerleader images show a healthy interest in sexual liberty, as I explained to the police upon my return from Copa Cabana with the Manchester Unites Football Club cheerleading team. I still have no idea what the desk sergeant at Cambridge police station meant when, whilst filling in my arrest forms, he commented "How many did you doink, Peedo?" My tan from the trip obviously misled him to think I was of Latin American stock, although my efforts to correct his pronunciation of "Pedro" appeared to fall on deaf ears.

My efforts to find the origin of the verb "to doink" have proved fruitless, although it may be linked to an Incan initiation ceremony. I am pleasantly surprised to find our constabulary so well-versed in ancient American cultures.

(NB - it took fully forty-eight hours to gather the birth certificates of the cheerleading squad to prove that each member was, at the time of the outrageous, alleged offences, over sixteen)

Simon, being the gallant beau that he was pulled out the ladder and climbed on top of the roof to fix one of the columns that had been shaken loose.

Dr Pip says:

Any dream with a pillar and/or a roof points towards aspirations to greatness. It does sometimes point towards aspirations of a dramatic suicide leap. My colleague, Dr Alan McMaccer, still clings to the Freudian idiom of the pillar/penis interplay, a theory which earned him the accolade of "Twat Of The Year" from New Psychiatrist Magazine in 1974.

As he was doing that I was alternating between shouting obscenities to the cheerleaders and making goo goo eyes at Simon up there in his wife beater fixing my house.

Dr Pip says:

Profanities in any dream indicate a deep desire to vent frustrations or the onset of Tourette's Syndrome. Wife beating can show a penchant for sodomy or, in very rare cases, a deep-seated feeling of hostility toward authority figures and/or door-to-door salesmen.

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Angel, I hope all or some of this helps. If not, then I can photocopy and mail the sections on raffia weaving.

Phil