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I had some interesting dreams last night. Obvious works of life-changing intents boiling around in my head.
The setting was a closed bar that was supposed to be the place I work at now, but was not actually. I was at the bar with a mold of my face. I was thinly slicing meats and lining the mold, because I was making a new face for myself. I was pouring in things from bottles behind the bar, none of them booze, incidentally. I kept tweaking the ingredients, and rearranging the meat-bits. The dream ended with my letting it sit to cure and set for later. Throughout, people came in and out of the room to observe and make suggestions or ask questions. The dream took place over a period of hours on and off during which i woke several times and resumed dreaming upon returning to sleep.
I feel it related to the sigil work I have been doing. My original intention has taken upon itself to expand the realm of influence as well. And this is good.
When I was a kid, I had a dream world with a layout I could map out as though it were in physical space. Each part held contents chock-a-block with symbolic means - the school for info I was learning, a library with all of the info I have learned so far (even a book of my life was in there...and I was always prevented from reading past the present when I tried)....a house on a beach full of glass bottles full of wishes and fantasies. I used to be able to lucid dream there too. There were "my monsters and demons"...they would make chase and I would tire...trying to confront them always resulted in something blocking my view of it. When I tired I would "dive through" the "floor" of the dreamworld, and land in my body.
I had one of those kinds of dreams last night...after well over 15 years since I was last "there".
I was in a place I had not been able to go before. Sort of a victorian boarding house if the Winchester mansion was full of tenents and multidimentional. It was newest at the entrance as as I moved along into it, part of it were obviously aging and looking like a (decently kept) squat at times. Each few rooms had people in them, mostly conversing and having refreshments (all were dreamers and I knew no one). I had a guide but cannot remember his face, though it dawned on my in mid dream that my guide was a male version of myself, and trying to not make it blantant that we were the same person from different places. It was on the bare edge of lucidity, but I woke up...twice...while trying to fully grasp that i was asleep. Each time I would go back into the dream after waking, I was back in the main lobby and had to explore again. My guide insisted I map this to add to my long-unused dream city map. (note to self - time to get out the pen-n-ink and go buy some parchment). On the last go I almost made it to a distant "back door", but again, awoke. I NEED to know where this door goes.
The dream felt ...important. A portent. On the edge of a magical work another me in an alternate timeline is creating to give us a crossroads. Actually, in essence, this dream struck me as a group working consisting of only myself
This is tied in with some things I've been toying with, in my mind, and in the world outside of my head too. I'm hoping I will have more to explore, to be more lucid in. I'm hoping I can go back there. I kind of think I NEED to. I've had a thousand little glimpses into a multitude of futures that are both mine and not, and a thousand new ways to find my way to the mythylogical Tavern at World's End.
I'm babbling.
I implore you...if you like to play with dreams, try to meet me there. I'll put out the brightest beacon I can muster. It may indeed, make a sound like a TARDIS, too.
Every once in a while, something lines up a big, fat arrow to get my attention going in a direction that inevitably leads to some lesson or experience of value in my life, something i need to keep mind to, and listen for the whispers, so to speak. I'm a crazy sort - I adore the scientific, and it doesn't alter my love of the supernatural, of heeding signs and portents.
A small nudge occurred again recently. I lost my best night at work, for reasons i won't go into here, because this will cross-post on FB. At first I was pissed - lost $ - but I had actually been considering taking a day off from there, because the levels of unhappiness to be found there gets overwhelming, and i tend to be the person people either bend the ear of...or completely dump on. Within week one, I felt relieved. I got cheeky and changed my "persona" on FB to Mal Loup ( a purposely incorrect version of the word "bad" - mal meaning bad, as in broken, as opposed to "mechant", meaning bad as in evil - of Bad Wolf in French) - a Doctor Who reference to Rose, taking on the whole of the Time Vortex and being unto like a God. "I am the Bad Wolf, I create myself", et al. Just reminding myself who exactly runs how I perceive life around me, and who EXACTLY has the only true power to make things go good or bad for myself.
Jump ahead. Today. J in a bad mood all day long, cranky, snappy, me picking up the bad vibe. catching up on homework, but utterly not wanting to immerse myself. Procrastinate, decide to go back to leisure time. I start to play Sims 3 - I had created an 11th Doctor, who lives in a grand house (no TARDIS yet, I cannot find one to my liking yet), and after having given him traits I thought appropriate, was letting him run in autonomous mode, to develop "his" own persona sans my interference, for now. This makes me chuckle - having read something espousing the idea that in terms of mathematics, we could even be simulations run by "gods" elsewhere, for all we know. It's something that makes me, in the back of my head, want to make my sims the happy ones, if nutty, rather than amuse myself with more morbid amusements with them (which some find quite dull, mind you) So I have a little laugh at "being god" to a character from sci-fi who rubs all those little quantum-obsessed parts of my brain....and watch Bar Karma, a show ALSO about Possibility - in a quantum/magic/multidimensional/out of time way that I like so much. Story today is about a woman with multiple personas - also a theme I tend to understand and which encourages my thoughts. Then, begin reading a book I just got, called The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics. Then, fall asleep.
And have one of those dreams that when you awaken, makes you wonder HOW what seemed to be DAYS fit into 20 minutes. Now, usually, I can remember lots of my dreams, every day, but I felt this one slipping away like water immediately. I only have pieces left. I woke up breathing like i had been running, heart pounding, the end of the dream having "fallen" a looooong way down back to my body. I WISH it had been a lucid dream, but if it had I suspect I would have overloaded, or limited what I could "see". There was a large "sea" for lack of a better description. The sea of EVERYTHING. That was, will be, could be. The universe. UNIVERSES. All splitting off from one another like cells in a petri dish. And in the dream, in a manner similar to using a touch screen interface, but 3 dimensional, I could "zoom in"...to a universe, a quadrant, a galaxy, a solar system, a planet, a continent, a city, a house, a person, and then BAM! for a brief interface, "upload a profile" of that person. A basic overview of who they were. Examine the "properties" of the person's "life metadata"...see relationships, people, decisions, employers, habits, likes, dislikes, interests, emotional overview, spiritual life and so on...in a glace. I had a guide, unseen, incorporeal, in this dream. Who "taught" me to use this system without words. Hard to explain. I zoomed in and out of all sorts of universes...like ours, this one, ones that seemed to come from Bizzarro world, realms akin to sci-fi, ones without solid, permanent form but FULL of active, intelligent life (this place struck me as the gathering place of the greatest minds in ALL POSSIBLE PLACES EVER, and it caused me a blinding headache within a few moments of understanding the nature of it, making me withdraw immediately. The headache remained in lesser form the rest of the dream, and remains with me now. I found the "emotional AI cache" associated with our universe...in it, not only "us", mind you, but "others"....and this part of the dream sent me into tears and laughter, making me understand what perhaps HP Lovecraft was thinking of when he created the blind idiot god in the center of the universe, gibbering madly, surrounded by the flutes of the music of madness - like so -
"[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.[9]
Lovecraft referred to Azathoth again in "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931), where the narrator relates that he "started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the Necronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth."[10] Here "nuclear" most likely refers to Azathoth's central location at the nucleus of the cosmos and not to nuclear energy, which did not truly come of age until after Lovecraft's death." - wikipedia
only in HP's case, he focused on the seething CHAOS - for there was no other way to call it, it was a bubbling cauldron of emotions of all, good and bad, in one big overload-the-circuits-with-too-much-information soup, he focused on that experience on being bad, horrible, driving one to madness. Which it certainly would, i suppose. I actually did not want to leave, despite the fact that I could "feel" the insanity creeping from my "dream self" all the way down the wire, so to speak, back to my physical body, where I suspected (in the dream), that it was going to fry my brain and possibly leave me mental, but I DIDN'T CARE...or maybe I did, since I had all emotions there for me at once. But my guide cut the connection as soon as there was understanding i was not going to exit on my own, and a vague sense of surprise at that fact. At this point, I was worn out and bedazzled, and the guide merely "towed" me back outward, away, into the sea of everything, and back to the shore. It left me a vague message that I did not get to see all i needed to because I was drawn in too quickly by other aspects that could have been dangerous.. In my "future"...back in the realm where I reside, for this was outside of time and space - I would be allowed access to deeper "file resources"...metadata of my own timelines and lives. Just parts, if I kept to tasks "they" would give me later, ones that put me in a place of helping others tip some cosmic scale event in their lives, by helping be a guide in turn. Wanting details, i was given none, and then, with a wash of apologetic emotion, was "shoved"....back to my sleeping self.
Panting and heart racing, and brain hurting, abuzz. It still is now. and I have only typed out what has not been LOST between then and now, which is quite a lot.
Subject: Looking forward to make a contribution Hi - I am definitely happy to discover this. great job!
I am elated, unsettled, hyped up, a bit freaked out, and amazed at this universe, and the things it does to ...all of us. Especially if you heed, and listen to signs and portents when they come our way...
...then again, if you hear I have gone utterly mad in the near future, let this be evidence to the case for it....
Mental Environment: indescribable Aural Atmosphere: The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
So, started the digital photography class. The school loaners SUCK, so I had to make a case for being allowed to use my Droid X with a few added camera apps as my camera (I won the argument, since the apps include the same customizable settings and then some that the loaners do). Out first assignment is a list of 25 things that we need to illustrate in whatever way we like with 2 pics each. I started a flickr album for this semester, which I am sharing. the entire album is found here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaoticerotic/sets/72157625783860633/
NSFW...or the sane, or the squeamish, or the prudish...this video involves a scary japanese visual-k metal band, screaming, undead demonic geishas, semi dismembered cyborg puppet women, fatal codpieces, LOTS OF BLOOD AND SEMI NUDITY AND POSSIBLY
(EMBED CODE IS SUXORZ)....so here is the link instead.
These are camera phone pictures of prints that I dug out, from my first (mildly sexy)figure modeling gig, 20 years ago. MEH quality, but still, it will do until I scan them. Non explicit nudity, but still most likely NSFW.
These are the apartment pictures. The bed room shown is the "guest room".(two gay guys live here, the place was AMAZING. I will not have as nice a place until I get new furniture :( ). The next is the stairwell leading to the 2nd floor, our new digs. Then, a corner of the living room...which is actually now painted a soft sage green. The last, the kitchen and dining area, is bigger than the picture looks to be. All of the lighting in the house are these gorgeous, tasteful fixtures (He owns several B&Bs in the area, and uses the same fixtures across the board in his other properties, from what it seems). The bathroom, not shown, has these amazing huge planks of OLD wood from the old shipyards (house was built by a person who worked there over a century ago) It is long and slightly narrow, with no tub, sadly, but a huge, custom tiled shower, and nautical feel in a grey blue, with soft lighting. The main bedroom, also not shown, is rectangular, the same gold color as the above living room photo, 2 closets and two doors, one on each end. There is a decent sized foyer on the stairwell landing, enough for a loveseat or perhaps a nice bench and table for a "mudroom". Basement storage, heat/gas/electricity/water included, coin op laundry in the building next door, also his property.
...I found an apartment, it is GORGEOUS, 2 bedroom, great landlord, and includes all utilities. HAPPY
Edit: EAST BOSTON. 3 blocks from my current house.
Edit 2: I did a working to summon the perfect place, sigils and a drawing on a christmas ornament...then also sent a "letter to santa" from NORAD. the next day I spotted the ad, which seemed too good to be true. We were the first people to reply, and first to view it. Several others viewed it after us, but I came prepared and handed him $ 900 cash on the spot...some people still like cash, thank gods! I'd say that worked out well. Thank you, Universe!
I moved to Boston, with much aggravation and expense for two reasons - to get J treatment for his issues and to get back to living in my family home, which comes with it's own set of my own issues. Now, j is on his own for treatment, my dad wants his own space although I am welcome to "visit", and I am very, very sad and put out at the thought of leaving. I hate this. My whole life tossed upside down again in my head because I need to move and all I want is a secure feeling of HOME..
If I don't live here, I have almost ZERO reason to live in Boston\
I HATE and am growing to fucking LOATHE my place of employment. They are paranoid that I am part of a lawsuit because I am associated with the person suing them, they spy on our LOCKED FB accounts, people generally get treated like underlings and talked down to and yet they want to know why I am "uncomfortable" being around upper management/owners. Since this is gonna crosspost to FB, and they MAY read it - Because, folks, you probably wouldn't be so paranoid i was out to screw you if you knew you had treated me better than you have - and continue to - but I'm not so ethically corrupted by the moral cesspool that I WOULD do that. But the FB spying is a bunch of CRAP, and as a tec savvy person, I will just let it be said that I watched your little remote view program in action while i was there. In case you are wondering how it keeps getting disabled.
That said, work also is nights and weekends, so i have ZERO social life with the people i know and love who DO live in Boston, more or less. And there are only maybe 3-4 of them anyway.
All the rest of the people i care about and miss dearly are back in...Albany.
School, you ask? Well, i could transfer to Hudson Valley. I would get to see Crimson again, and Brit who is now a self maintaining, functioning adult. I have a dozen and then some friends. i could actually get my cake and eat it to - my dad said i could certainly do what I did for the year before I moved here - travel back and forth by train weekly in order to keep working at the club...until or unless i get other employment and cease doing so. Albany is a metric fuckton less expensive, and i even have potential room mates there. I could probably pick up life model work at the colleges again, as I still have all those contacts. and then there is burlesque.
Since I moved here I have had maybe a once a year occasion to use any of my now mouldering-in-the-damp-basemet costumes. I simply cannot DO boston burlesque...there is simply NO scene anything like can be found in NY where it is mixed media, spontaneous, loosely organized and flexible, able to be done either on whim or rehearsed. Here, groups that do BQ are pretty much closed to outsiders, or require serious, theatrical commitment....weekly rehearsals and starting as an apprentice and so on. I'm not able to do that, and frankly, it takes much of the fun out of it, as my style is far more of flash flood ideas and inspirations that are done in bars or pubs, not theaters or fancy ass harvard university owned night clubs or theaters. So I feel like I'm wasting away, as far as bq goes. I MISS BING BAMBOO ROOM.
I don't really want all the hassle in reverse it took to move here. But i have no motivation to stay, either.
As it stands, I'm looking for a tenancy at will apartment here in Eastie. Winter is upon us and that is NOT going to be any time of year to move anyway. I would have to detach myself from my belongings and that will take some work anyway. After spring hits, I will see how I feel once the next semester wraps up. If Albany still seems like a good idea, you guys might be seeing me there once more.
No matter what, I need to GTFO of working in nightclubs of any sort. UGH.
These are the poll results, by gender, for our group project on topfree equality. It is MOST of the data compiled by my group )1 poll...15 people...was excluded because that students failed to note the gender of the individuals).
Please, answer these two questions, yes or no, and if I don't already know, your age group (20s, 30s, ect), and gender. - 1) Do you think breast feeding should be freely allowed in public places? and, 2) do you think women should be allowed to be topless in the same public places men are allowed to be topless?
PLEASE feel free to post a link to this poll, I'd like BUNCHES of answers, if possible. Encourage friends of differing lifestyles or mores to answer too!
I know I will get a certain skew to my results here, but I'm also doing this as a "man on the street" type of poll, and combining the data. I'm also going to ask all my neighbors, this is going to be so funny.....
My gender identity class today was interesting...teacher was out sick. We have a group project to work on. The teachers assistant attempted to help structure the other group, which was in utter chaos. We had an advisor who realized our group was very good at self directing and left us to our own devices. We ran our own group well, and adjourned only a half an hour before our class would have ended. I wonder how the other group fared, since they all went to the library to do the research that they failed to do independently this past week. Hmmmm.
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