Dream a little dream of ... what?
Oct. 30th, 2020 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithSo my sleep is all out of whack. I didn't go to bed until 6:00 am and then woke at 1:30 pm. This is the worst turn around, but it's time to fight back to the daylight. (Speaking of which, with the time change tonight, if it is now 7:30 pm, does it become 8:30 pm or 6:30 pm. I suspect 6:30 pm since it suddenly becomes dark by midafternoon coffee break. Bah.)
One of the things that happens if I sleep long enough and wake on my own is that I have very detailed dreams that I remember. Last night (or rather around noon today), someone had decided to reboot the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise, and had chosen me to play Buffy. (!!) (No seriously: !!) It was very peculiar because although they really wanted me to play Buffy, they also really wanted to change me: I was going to need plastic surgery on my nose and my mouth. Or - definitely my nose, and something else on my face.
I was reluctant because I thought they were totally stupid to be getting a non-actress pudgy girl (I'm perpetually young in my dreams) to play Buffy, and that even plastic surgery wasn't going to make it any better. Also, I was arguing that since I have the pending corneal surgery, I didn't want to do any more surgery - I did't even want to do that surgery. When I woke, they were still cajoling me to reconsider.
So. Buffy is a series that I enjoyed very much. I have the CDs, and I rewatch them if they are played on TV. Some episodes I skip over because, while it's nice to know what happened in them because often the info gets used later, one viewing is enough. :)
I would like a reboot of the series - but I want it with the same actors, and I want all the time to have passed so that they are dealing with the aging and disappointment and gearing up for the second half of life. I'm not interested in the same story arc with young actors. I also suspect that a younger audience isn't going to be interested in that old story.
So. Rebooting Buffy as the original - bad. Using new actors to do the old story - bad. Picking inappropriate people that need to be modified to fit the old roles - bad.
So, I suppose this is a symbolic version of feeling that the forces around me are currently trying to fit me in an old role that I don't fit and don't want. Well, yes. But suggestions about what to do about it would be more welcome, dear subconscious.
One of the things that happens if I sleep long enough and wake on my own is that I have very detailed dreams that I remember. Last night (or rather around noon today), someone had decided to reboot the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise, and had chosen me to play Buffy. (!!) (No seriously: !!) It was very peculiar because although they really wanted me to play Buffy, they also really wanted to change me: I was going to need plastic surgery on my nose and my mouth. Or - definitely my nose, and something else on my face.
I was reluctant because I thought they were totally stupid to be getting a non-actress pudgy girl (I'm perpetually young in my dreams) to play Buffy, and that even plastic surgery wasn't going to make it any better. Also, I was arguing that since I have the pending corneal surgery, I didn't want to do any more surgery - I did't even want to do that surgery. When I woke, they were still cajoling me to reconsider.
So. Buffy is a series that I enjoyed very much. I have the CDs, and I rewatch them if they are played on TV. Some episodes I skip over because, while it's nice to know what happened in them because often the info gets used later, one viewing is enough. :)
I would like a reboot of the series - but I want it with the same actors, and I want all the time to have passed so that they are dealing with the aging and disappointment and gearing up for the second half of life. I'm not interested in the same story arc with young actors. I also suspect that a younger audience isn't going to be interested in that old story.
So. Rebooting Buffy as the original - bad. Using new actors to do the old story - bad. Picking inappropriate people that need to be modified to fit the old roles - bad.
So, I suppose this is a symbolic version of feeling that the forces around me are currently trying to fit me in an old role that I don't fit and don't want. Well, yes. But suggestions about what to do about it would be more welcome, dear subconscious.
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Date: 2020-10-31 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-31 11:04 am (UTC)I invariable wake up an hour earlier than I would have, instead of an hour later as I should do and get very confused about the time. Especially when only some of the clocks have adjusted to teh correct time and others are showing random times.