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Searching for Velázquez.

Date of dream: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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It is daytime and I find myself in a vague outdoor area possibly in what feels like a car park at the rear of a mall or the waiting bay of a bus station. The area is very quiet save for a man and woman who are both strangers and are stood some distance in front of me.

The man and woman would appear to be a couple. I watch them both and see that the man lightly punches the woman on her upper arm continuously he does this very firmly it would appear to be some kind of annoying game he is playing with his partner.

After a short while of this the woman swings around and begins to punch the man on the arm in the same fashion, there is an element of childish teasing or almost bullying going on here. I sense that they are still both good friends though.

I am then joined by a brother-in-law who walks directly over to the woman and begins to hit the woman on the arm too he does this very hard and not at all playfully. This doesn’t go down at all well as the joke or play fighting was a personal thing between the couple and the relative had no right to go and get involved.

The woman would appear to be very upset and almost tearful at being punched on the arm and her partner takes on an aggressive stance toward my brother-in-law. I can see a real conflict about to rare up so I back off watching the ugly scene for a few moments before turning around and making a sharp exit the horrible scene makes me feel tense and nervous.

I turn around and walk only a few yards before I come to a large display table resting in front of me. The table is loaded up with a selection of books all stacked into neat piles, the topic of the books is art and more specifically biographies of various artists.

I start to pick up a few of the books and flick through them, one or two of them are very reminiscent of other dream books I recall picking up these ones also have a thick heavily woven grey fabric binding.

As I continue to look at the books I feel the desperate need to find a book about one of my favourite artists the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. I look and look but can’t find anything resembling what I am searching for. I actually become quite desperate and frantic in my search for a book about this artist but I soon release that there is nothing here I am left feeling anxious, disappointed and frustrated.

Additional Comments:

The details of the play fight in this dream vaguely resembled something that I witnessed in the past few days and which most probably influenced this dream.
  • Themes
  • Violence
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  • Present
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  • Celebrity
  • Other Relative(s)
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  • Searching
  • Keywords
    Punch
    Brother-in-law
    Books
    Art
    Diego Velázquez
    Add'l Emotions
    Play fighting
    Teasing
    Intimacy
    Nervous
    Frustrated

    The politician footballer.

    Date of dream: Saturday, February 03, 2007

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    I find myself in a very austere office room of a top politician in the houses of parliament, the room is clad in lots of rich leather and wood, it has an aged stately or regal air to it infused with a feeling of bureaucracy. I watch the top politician man just in front of me, he appears to have quit his job (or possibly been told to leave).

    The man is packing his belongings into a large cardboard box in order to take them with him. I watch as the man picks up a very old heavy looking red book. I gather that it is something of a political heirloom. The man picks it up by the hard book cover with his fingertips almost as if to avoid soiling himself with the offensive book.

    As he lifts it up from the desk the worn old book jacket tears away from the crumbling old tissue papery pages. The main part of the book drops to the floor with a thump. The man doesn’t seem so concerned and leaves the book where it is not bothering to pick it up or recover it.

    The man is dressed in an expensive grey suit, he is quite stocky and has a closely cropped shaved head, which is thinning on top. The man very vaguely reminds me of an uncle (the father of my crazy cousin, this uncle was a bit wild too). As I stand there watching the man we both enter a flashback scene from earlier in the man’s life.

    Back in his youth the man was a soccer player and more specifically a goalkeeper, he played for the team of the town where I was born. I watch a match being played out on a very dark stormy and ominous pitch at night time. The game is floodlit and appears to be a colossal battle between the two teams.

    Nearing the end of the game the goalkeeper gives the ball a thundering strike from his own goal mouth. Everyone in the stadium holds their breath including myself. The ball travels like a rocket the entire length of the pitch and slams into the oppositions goal scoring. The entire stadium erupts into wild hysteria at the amazing site.

    The game is drawing to a close and there are only a few minutes left before the end of the game. Feeling full of confidence I am amazed to see that the politician goalkeeper has left his goal unattended and rushed further up the pitch to join the game. He deftly tackles the ball away from the opposition.

    The goalie then puts on an amazing dazzling display of dribbling skills outwitting the opposing team easily and making them look like amateurs. He slots the ball home gracefully and with ease. The stunning goal has sealed the victory for the politician’s team, he seems like such an unlikely hero and the crowd are wild with adoration.

    The goalkeeper comes running over toward the direction of my viewing point, he is making some kind of victory gesture or celebration. He stands in front of me with his arms raised and shaking them into the air, he looks really manly and powerful. He stares at me deep into the eyes.

    His face is covered in shadows and this shows off his muscular male model like face, he bites down on his jaw giving me a real show of supremacy and squints his eyes sharply as if to accentuate this look. Stood there with his long shoulder length brown hair I really admire and look up to him.

    We shift forward in time to a stage in the politician’s life when he has retired, he is still quite young but now seems to be living the wild life with lots of women trailing after him. He still seems to be basking in his former glories and his fans still love him for his memorable display of courage and power in the unforgettable football match.

    One day I find myself up in a packed football stadium with the man, shockingly he is stood upright having sex with a young woman who is straddled around his waist. Apparently the woman was fan who just came up to him casually, lots of other men turn around to watch the spectacle with wide amazed leering smiles on their faces.

    The scene kind of detracts everyone in the vicinities attention away from the game. I find watching the overt display makes me feel strange, I feel an odd mixture of disgust and embarrassment but its also very raw and sexual too and kind of exciting. It seems to be the ultimate in showing of his prowess and status.

    Even in his retirement years the man still has the power to attract women to him but also attracts the admiration of all of the other men too. The scene is very odd indeed what with it being so public and so many people gathered around watching them have sex. The man’s allure seems to be based on his past glory.

    The scene shifts forward in time and we are both back in the politicians office. I look at the man with new eyes and see that he is still handsome in a rugged kind of way and also still has some of his charm and sex appeal even though he is much older. I watch as he has a glint in his eye and has a wry little smile to himself.

    He seems to be happy to be packing in his role as a politician, so much so in fact that he has decided to leave the cardboard box behind and not even bother taking his old belongings with him. I watch as he leaves with a spring in his step, he seems to be rejuvenated somehow. Once he has gone I go over to peer inside the box.

    I see that he has left a lot of old political books behind (as well as the torn old red one from earlier). Some of books appear to be about law too. One has a black book jacket and another is grey. I rummage about in the box and see that he has also left behind a lot of old expensive looking wristwatches and pocket watches too.
  • Themes
  • Sexuality
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  • Celebrity
  • Friend
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  • Peaceful
  • Keywords
    Politician
    Books
    Football
    Sex
    Watches
    Add'l Emotions
    Leaving
    Power
    Glory
    Sex appeal
    Admiration