I rarely, mention my background as a private practice psychoanalyst for thirty years in Wasgungton DC. I studied with Erich Fromm, author of Escape from Freedom, The Sane Society, and others.. The experience of thousands of hours of being with another and understanding them and yourself in a powerful experience for which I am grateful. In this context, I had a dreamtwo nights ago which puzzles me. It is part of my exploring every lreverage that might help get a corrective grip on climate. What is striking here is the short distance between perception and consciousness in dreaming and "reality.”It went like this:
I am invited to a university in a town I don’t know to give a course on hunter-gatherers The first lecture is announced. The topic is stirring up lots of new interest, lots of students wanted to participate, so chairs were set up on a basketball court. When I arrive the room is packed i cnt’t figure out where I should stand to see and be heard Somene suggests the bleechers (and in the dream at that moment bleechers emerge). I am thinkig because the bleechers slope away from the court athe people, will be farther aways but i cn see more of them because of the ellevation. I decide to talk from there… the talk begins… You have all seen photos of hunter-gatherers , two or three together or just one standing alone with a spear but in fact when they are moving across the land they move, eight or teneight eight feet from each other, in the shape of a diamon moving forward with one of the points. If any one sights game they give a sign and the hunters quickl move further apart tomaybe to thirty feet, but maintaining the sahape of the diamond. If the game is sighted and the diamod is closing in, another sign is given and each hunter moves on their own best guess of a path that will lead to the game. the diamond is dispersed…. here the dream ended.
I hope this stimulates new curiosity about your own dreams and that maysuggest some ideaabout how to manage the world in catastrophe, in this case what I am calling gaiacide.
I think it would be nice to do more dream sharing. That may help me remember my dreams. Right now I remember having dreamed, and sometimes the feeling associated with the dream.