Zombies and the Underground

[errantember]

So, among other things, I had dream last night that I somehow became a zombie, and was tearfully shot by my own German grandmother whom I haven't seen or really even thought about in about 20 years. This is a bit more out-of-left-field than most of my dreams. After going through a Dream Worker phase, and because I rarely have to get out of bed on anyone else's schedule, I now have a policy of going back into any dream that ends badly and changing it to something positive instead.

I believe that there are powerful subconscious benefits to doing so. This one was a toughie, but I recalled an example of a character being redeemed from zombification in the Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson, which I've been re-reading lately, and used that as a seed idea to revive myself from undeadhood. I suspect this may have something to do with actually enjoying my job for about thirty minutes yesterday.

I also had a dream of being in a burn-event like environment where the community had sub-divided the large, subterranean warehouse into two parts, a positively aspected part, and a negatively aspected part. I suspect this may have something to do with my plans to bring my hexayurt and a yet-to-be-constructed collapsible competitor to Decompression next weekend.

Comments

[kiki39.livejournal.com]

I've done the "change your dream to something positive" as well, and it really does make me feel better. After trying this a few times, I actually got better at it (maybe it's like revising fiction? :P) and it sure beats spending the day in a bad mood, which I usually do after a bad dream.

sounds like an adventure

[hexayurt.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Folding Hexayurt?

http://www.archive.org/details/TwoPartFoldingHexayurtFullSized

There's some more video on Archive.org which shows the full way of making them, although we've discovered that it works "well enough" without angle cutting the edges.

Enjoy the decompression!

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

I first read about doing that from the book Urban Shaman, which is quite excellent...even though it looks like it's about Hawaiian shamanism on the outside, it's actually a very readable book by a very human person whose figured out quite a lot of crap, sometimes the hard way. When I was a high priestess, that was one of 2 must-read books for my students.

Anyway, yes...no reason to not rewrite the endings! Give understanding the dream a good college try, but even if you don't get it, make it into a story that works for you.