I didn't mean to define religion as a whole in that way, but I will stand by that when you're in that state of puppy love you're not thinking as clearly. Of course it could lead to good things. You obviously become very focused on whatever the center of that love is for. Hell, pure insanity can replace the need for bravery in accomplishing things. I just think it's an element. You hear people talking about experiencing the love of God, or Jesus, and it sounds like that euphoric, dreamy, wishful state you can be in when you're in that kind of love. I believe it's another way of experiencing that feeling. It's a good feeling, but a strong one.

Anyways, again in no way am I trying to boil religion down into something that can fit in a single sentence. No matter what it's still a deeply personal experience which automatically implies it's unique to some to degree for everyone. It was more to explain why people can feel it's so right to them and hold on to it so diligently. Imagine if that first crush you ever had accepted you, always helped you, always saw things your way and never left you... you would guard that person with your life.

I agree with you on your example about the rabbit, but I would also add it shows a need to connect with the rabbit. As you said, to pull it's existence into something more similar with his own human existence, but also in the process make it somewhat benevolent. Like it could make choices about giving him a rabbit to survive off of, an act of giving like a friend would do. All this hinting at a need to love -something- on some level. Too metaphysical to argue though, I can only see it as a possibility.

You sound dreamy.

Nathan is sooooooo dreamy. want more! Oh right, emmy's. I've never actually seen a Dr. Horrible episode, this is intriguing enough I shall have to rectify that immediately.

It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice

I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice

Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
There's only Alice

NDT is so dreamy...

ah..the joys of barracks life../dreamy look..
what am i saying?..that shit blew ballz!
it's been 25 years and i still remember my roomie spankin it.shook the whole damn bunk bed.all i got was denial when i confronted him.
ok ok..that one was easy to stop.i started taking pictures /evil grin.

No, but I do! So dreamy!

Yeah, they are both amazing. If you liked those I´d suggest Einstein´s Dreams next - I it like if Calvino was writing (invisible cities style) about a loose interpretation of relativity. It is beautiful, poetic, dreamy and a pleasure to read. Invisible cities is also another must from calvino.

lately I´ve been reading murakami - it´s one of the best authors I´ve read in a long time...


In reply to this comment by blahpook:
Love love LOVE both If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... and A Hundred Years of Solitude.

I haven't read the rest. The geeky "in" club I wasn't allowed to join my first year of college had a thing for Einstein's Dreams but I have yet to read that one too...

In reply to this comment by NeuralNoise:
1) Dune
2) Complete works of Fernando Pessoa
3) Schismatrix
4) Brief story of nearly everything
5) If on a winter´s night a traveller
6) The Sandman
7) The Wind-up bird Chronicle
Einstein´s Dreams
9) 100 years of solitude
10) I´ll stop on nine, I can´t, can´t settle on my top 10 so this slot is a huge caroussel.

Children need to be in contact with the options, not dream with a void or unidimensionalized mind filled with "dream inducers". The kid sitting in the bus, staring epicly through the window into towers of Berlin, didn't need these "stories" to be dreamy. I'd tell'em what they'd never hear outside: reality.

Children make their options confronting them with those they know are possible. They may be told anything (ellusive and narrowminded topics as well as rational ones) but only conceptualzie what they're capable of and also the only way they can. No harm in being true or correct when speaking to a kid about any given situation. Even when you explain what lightnings are scientifically,it may remain a sort of fireworks to the kid.

Speaking of science, some of the coolest memories I cherish to this day, is my amazement with all the half-uncompreehensible things family-adults of the time talked about while trying to include us kids on the conversation.

If kids needed these stories to dream, we should be questioning ourselves if the only reason why they animate those actionman and GIJOE dolls (whatever they play with nowadays) is because they heard about this episode about the Resurrection...

Yeah, that life thing comes out of nowhere.

There was this kid girl from Norway who used to have wallflower.nu. She started it when she was still a little brat and it was always a bright spot in my day to pop in there and see what she was up to. So precocious. She changed her name and was going to be a web designer. She changed her website every other week or so.

Then, she grew up.

I think she broke up with her boyfriend and now she's going to be a teacher. Everything seems like it's going to be fine in her life, but that hopeful, dreamy, slightly bratty kid is gone and now she's a young adult, a little cynical and already tired of the work-a-day grind.

Thanks! He's so dreamy..

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Much NPH-action in this: http://www.videosift.com/video/Prop-8-The-Musical-with-Jack-Black


Wait.. He's gay?




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the skybox is dreamy, nice concept.

BW is just sooooo dreamy!

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Thanks:) a nice trip, the guitarist didn't get the bends right but all in all a decent performance..
Added it to my "live arts" playlist; I don't put live arts in the dreamtrip 2.0 list as they have a "live/conscious" feel which is less dreamy..

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Rottenseed posted this, Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother," as performed by students (I'm guessing) at the Paris Conservatory. It's about 35 minutes long, but it may be something you'll like:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Pink-Floyds-Atom-Heart-Mother

It was originally released in 1970, so it's more of a Dreamtrip 1.0 type of work, but maybe you'll like it. It's good to listen to in the background while you're maybe reading the news, a blog, or your email.