JamesWhitehead
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In one section, some serf-like functionaries were bringing materials out of a cellar for the scrutiny of some courtiers. The objects seemed inert until they brought up something that looked like a brown rug. It turned out to be be a large, seamless bag of chestnut horse-skin. It appeared to contain something alive and kicking though it was impossible to detect any plausible animal shape - the bumps were shifting and changing, occasionally extending into limbs. Despite this movement, we were assured - in the anonymous way information arrives in dreams - that these "blind horses" were inanimate. To demonstrate this, one of the bags was torn open and there was only a brief rush of air from within.
In a subsequent scene, scryers were brought in to read the markings on the inside of the skins. It was the epic of an extinct race but its language was mainly lost. Somebody proposed to turn the grooves into sound-waves so that we could have a more immediate contact with the race.
The dream shifted to a Catholic church, very like the one attached to my infant school. I had - without permission - allowed some visitors into the church and they were playing the organ. Oddly enough, their cars had disappeared from the drive. The Parish Priest arrived - he was very much a Father Ted clone and in a surprisingly good humour, pardoning my trespassers. He was keen to show me a poster of forthcoming events in the parish. Most of them were in bold colours and seemed to be light entertainments. There was, he admitted, a problem with a couple of days which were boring religious stuff. He drew a circle on the poster with his finger and said, "If we drill a hole here, all this terrible stuff will drain away!"
Triggers? I had, before bedding down been browsing a chapter on leys and dowsing in the old Unexplained part-work. This explained the concept of "blind springs" which are supposed to be blockages of natural energies which bring bad luck. I had also glanced at a chapter about ghost horses, so maybe the weird "blind horses" emerged from that.
The churchy stuff was possibly a hangover from the Hayfield Resurrection of 1745, which I had been researching in the last few days. Certainly the reference to things draining away seems to relate to the horrid tale of a flood in the crypt of a church. A clip of Father Ted was posted on the board very recently.
The two sections were very different but both seemed to refer to cellars and drains. In the first, the written evidence of an extinct race was being disinterred. In the second, the written word appeared to be magically capable of improving the drainage. In the first scene, I was entirely an observer but I played a rôle in the church scene. It may reflect an incident from childhood when I allowed a visitor into my grandmother's house to play on the organ which she was giving away. She arrived home and thought it was the ghost of her husband playing!
In a subsequent scene, scryers were brought in to read the markings on the inside of the skins. It was the epic of an extinct race but its language was mainly lost. Somebody proposed to turn the grooves into sound-waves so that we could have a more immediate contact with the race.
The dream shifted to a Catholic church, very like the one attached to my infant school. I had - without permission - allowed some visitors into the church and they were playing the organ. Oddly enough, their cars had disappeared from the drive. The Parish Priest arrived - he was very much a Father Ted clone and in a surprisingly good humour, pardoning my trespassers. He was keen to show me a poster of forthcoming events in the parish. Most of them were in bold colours and seemed to be light entertainments. There was, he admitted, a problem with a couple of days which were boring religious stuff. He drew a circle on the poster with his finger and said, "If we drill a hole here, all this terrible stuff will drain away!"
Triggers? I had, before bedding down been browsing a chapter on leys and dowsing in the old Unexplained part-work. This explained the concept of "blind springs" which are supposed to be blockages of natural energies which bring bad luck. I had also glanced at a chapter about ghost horses, so maybe the weird "blind horses" emerged from that.
The churchy stuff was possibly a hangover from the Hayfield Resurrection of 1745, which I had been researching in the last few days. Certainly the reference to things draining away seems to relate to the horrid tale of a flood in the crypt of a church. A clip of Father Ted was posted on the board very recently.
The two sections were very different but both seemed to refer to cellars and drains. In the first, the written evidence of an extinct race was being disinterred. In the second, the written word appeared to be magically capable of improving the drainage. In the first scene, I was entirely an observer but I played a rôle in the church scene. It may reflect an incident from childhood when I allowed a visitor into my grandmother's house to play on the organ which she was giving away. She arrived home and thought it was the ghost of her husband playing!
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