This morning
My flatmate Laura has lost her netbook recently and in keeping with her predilection for leaving stuff in random places, I dreamt that she had stored / jammed a roast chicken into the cutlery drawer...in the dream I sent an e mail to both flatmates saying please don't put roast chickens in the drawers.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Aviation
About a week ago
I vaguely recall this was a much longer and larger dream but the part I do remember is quite neat. Me and someone else (a vague faceless sense of 'friend' as you often get in dreams) found a faded and abandoned old B-24 Liberator WW2 bomber, landed in the countryside amongst some scrubby bush and trees (that had grown up around it after it landed there during the war). In one engine cowling I found a battered journal, jammed with papers and odds and ends, which turned out to be that of a famous aviation historian and journalist. I was pretty excited at this amazing and valuable find, and even more excited when wrapped up in a cloth in the journal were tiny pieces of wreckage from the Air NZ DC-10 that crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica in 1979. In the dream, I recalled that this journalist character had been a pivotal reporter on the accident at the time. Of course apart from the chronological inconsistency of a book written in the 1970s in a plane abandoned since the 1940s, one of the amusing things about this all was that the journal was so much more exciting to me than finding a perfectly preserved historic plane!
When I think about it, I can trace many aspects of this dream - the Liberator is a bomber I saw at Duxford aviation museum in August, and having recently edited my photos from that I have been seeing it again, and also the condition of the Liberator in the dream, faded and battered but in one piece, was similar to two more modern but equally historic planes at the museum. The journal I think comes from watching the TV mini series Any Human Heart recently in which journals are a key part of the character and the story. And the Erebus disaster comes from my upcoming trip...
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/any-human-heart
I vaguely recall this was a much longer and larger dream but the part I do remember is quite neat. Me and someone else (a vague faceless sense of 'friend' as you often get in dreams) found a faded and abandoned old B-24 Liberator WW2 bomber, landed in the countryside amongst some scrubby bush and trees (that had grown up around it after it landed there during the war). In one engine cowling I found a battered journal, jammed with papers and odds and ends, which turned out to be that of a famous aviation historian and journalist. I was pretty excited at this amazing and valuable find, and even more excited when wrapped up in a cloth in the journal were tiny pieces of wreckage from the Air NZ DC-10 that crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica in 1979. In the dream, I recalled that this journalist character had been a pivotal reporter on the accident at the time. Of course apart from the chronological inconsistency of a book written in the 1970s in a plane abandoned since the 1940s, one of the amusing things about this all was that the journal was so much more exciting to me than finding a perfectly preserved historic plane!
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| B-24 Liberator (actually a modern picture of a restored one I think but this colour/condition best matches how it looked in the dream) |
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| Wreckage of AirNZ DC-10 still on the side of Mt Erebus, Antarctica buried by snow but then exposed again by wind etc in 2006 |
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/any-human-heart
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