brownmane
off kilter
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I dreamt that I was in a group of people chatting with the original cast of The Beachcombers - a Canadian tv series. I think it was like a reunion interview/question gathering. The majority of the originals are dead irl.
I wanted to ask Pat John (he just died last year. He was also the first indigenous actor on tv who did not portray a stereotypical First Nations person) a question, but flubbed it up. I think I referred to him as "Indian", not a huge faux pas, and I quickly referred to him as Indigenous. He was gracious and lightly laughed at the "indigenous" word and said that that isn't quite what he and his friends reference themselves as.
There was another indigenous person there, not a cast member, and they both chuckled at this. They were both of different First Nations bands (I did realize that they may have preferred this reference), and both spoke different languages.
They spoke to each other and then spoke to me, but in their languages. Neither of which I understood. I think they were telling me their words for each of their bands.
They then sang a song for me, each song was one of their clans in their language. They sang overtop of each other so I didn't get even one word to try to understand.
The songs were light-hearted and fun. They were sharing their cultures with me.
During the dream, I did not, even as the dreamer, have an inkling of what the words were, but they were words. Has anyone else had this in their dreams?
Usually the dreamer has a knowing throughout a dream what certain random actions or spoken dialogue means. I do have dreams in which I don't know what a character's, who is not myself, motive may be or understand what is being said, as in this case.
I once had a scary dream in which I had no clue to the other character's actions and I woke myself up because of this.
I wanted to ask Pat John (he just died last year. He was also the first indigenous actor on tv who did not portray a stereotypical First Nations person) a question, but flubbed it up. I think I referred to him as "Indian", not a huge faux pas, and I quickly referred to him as Indigenous. He was gracious and lightly laughed at the "indigenous" word and said that that isn't quite what he and his friends reference themselves as.
There was another indigenous person there, not a cast member, and they both chuckled at this. They were both of different First Nations bands (I did realize that they may have preferred this reference), and both spoke different languages.
They spoke to each other and then spoke to me, but in their languages. Neither of which I understood. I think they were telling me their words for each of their bands.
They then sang a song for me, each song was one of their clans in their language. They sang overtop of each other so I didn't get even one word to try to understand.
The songs were light-hearted and fun. They were sharing their cultures with me.
During the dream, I did not, even as the dreamer, have an inkling of what the words were, but they were words. Has anyone else had this in their dreams?
Usually the dreamer has a knowing throughout a dream what certain random actions or spoken dialogue means. I do have dreams in which I don't know what a character's, who is not myself, motive may be or understand what is being said, as in this case.
I once had a scary dream in which I had no clue to the other character's actions and I woke myself up because of this.