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The Harlequin and the Ticktockman

Dream of Friday night, 14th of February, 2014

This dream seemed like some kind of strange combination of a previous dream (only at one level) and several others of the past but with quite intriguing new layers that I am very amazed the subconscious could come up with - even though dreams often do this in inexplicably clever ways (that I don't think the waking conscious mind could even begin to do, even in creative people). This one really impressed me with the number of layers and associations that only genuine dreams can do (as opposed to one-level fabrications that read like a bland short-story - though dreams should always be documented in whatever way the dream journal keeper chooses that most benefits him, not the public - and dreams are certainly not meant to be a "novel" or published "story" in the way literature is - although aspects of dreams can certainly be turned into a story, I suppose, as I have done such in the past - but did not pursue this as said before because too many were too postcognitive or precognitive to stories and comics I saw soon after).

The dream was quite disjointed though. One thing I found intriguing was that I had not been clear on the last dream about the UFO. The scene where I had written about glass shards shaped like kidneys (relative to my sister's illness and death) had a revision within this dream - although (and this is important) now that I look at my original notes, it is quite possible that this dream was a "replay" of that scene on a clearer level (this has happened before).

In that version, the UFO had dropped thousands (if not millions) of jelly beans. This is what caused the glass to explode at the ending of my last dream (which was a sequel to a previous dream about "My brother-in-law's plan"). This is very much like a scene from "'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman" which I hadn't seen in years, either the story or the illustrated adaptation (last read in the the late 1980s, I think). However, I am more likely to associate "triggered precognition" here as in reading something which brings back a dream more clearly (this is a form of precognition since you could not have possibly known, when you had the dream, that you would soon later be reading something which clarified or "flashed" the dream in a far more vivid memory of it - this happened with the "Dread Manticore" dream, which was rather startling).

Consider this, which I consider some sort of intriguing precognition within precognition itself. In that, I mean precognition that builds on postcognition which in turn is amazingly synchronized into more postcognition aspects. Here is an example: The dream with implications of "Ronald McDonald" - Ronald McDonald is a clown. Blue Öyster Cult did the song "The Great Sun Jester", one of my favorite older songs. This is interesting because they also recorded "Don't Fear the Reaper" which relates to the dreams regarding my sister's death - and several associations with the "Ticktockman" theme I had not thought of in many years, particularly in the clusters of this dream.

I had thought the song was somewhat based on "'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman", but I'm likely wrong. Perhaps this was a stronger association because "Harlan" sounds a lot like the first part of "Harlequin" ("Harlan" also sounds a little like my sister's name) and I had been familiar with both the song and the two versions of the Harlequin story during the same time period years ago. The Ticktockman comes into play with more clever associations; a section which I will not go into due to a certain troll on one site. I will, however, relate a scene from the disjointed dream. A bluebird keeps knocking himself into the glass until he knocks himself unconscious (this is an Internet meme, by the way - and I suspect a generic dream element for some of the public) and I see that it is not a real bird, but a clockwork one when seeing the internal gears in the cracked-open body. However upon closer inspection, it is not a bird - but a clockwork fairy. (This is very loosely related to my recurring "Patches" dream of childhood from the 1960s probably first posted in 2006 - but in a negative sense this time). Meanwhile, the Harlequin woman from "Blade Runner" seems to be multiplying herself somehow. Hundreds of "her" are walking across a white, S-shaped road that is somehow hovering in mid-air several feet above the ground. I am not sure what the "road" is made of. She appears angry, but no drama ensues. Oddly, yet another layer comes into play regarding the previous scene - the bird scene from "Lost" where the bird crashes into the glass in the same way. This is very important because Walt supposedly had special powers of manifestation (relative to dream-work metaphorically - a perfect play on those who can lucid dream and those who pretend to dream at all, as I suppose I would be Walt in this case relative to the dream scenario).

And yet another layer - the multiplying Harlequin ("clockwork" or clone/android) woman (as in her "Blade Runner" guise) linked to the song "Army of Me" (by Björk) - which was, very curiously, released by "One Little Indian" ("Army of Me" seems to be what happens when your dreams rise from a more vestigial state and become far more meaningful, lucid, or entertaining - equally important, I think). I am not sure of the intent - but the Pinocchio-like character in "Blade Runner" (which I did not even consciously remember until now) is yet another play on the theme of "Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman'" - it also reminds me of a Nazi in a way, even though I am not certain of all the details behind the imagery or original story. Even more curiously - "Blade Runner" is the movie version of the story: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick (1968). There is another "rekindled" precognitive layer regarding a previous post, because I did not (consciously) know what was coming on one of the sites I post on, and I also had just posted an old dream with a Pinocchio theme and only later learned of the trolling commentary on another user's entry directly after that dream on his own "dream" - where he very clearly violated the Terms of Service (as he had many times before). I post a Pinocchio-theme dream with validated and deep personal meaning. Someone comes on calling such dreamers "deluded" and I have a multilayered dream that shows Pinocchio as a "Nazi" (with a long nose, yet) along with a very large number of associations that also relate to my sister's recent death and previous dreams that tie in with dreams before those events and which have already been posted. Amazing how that works.

Speaking of "Army of Me", the most vivid and longest part of the dream involves thousands of girls of various ages and races all dressed in white and standing in a very old graveyard. My wife had a dream which ties in with this section (which was occurring during my dream with no possible "cues" of any kind) and may post later on - although in her dream I had talked to twin girls of around age ten in a hall that resembled a church setting. The girls are mostly on a section of a hill-like area (with at least two large oak trees on each side) of about twenty degrees inclination, where there is an embankment and a set of winding, mosaic-like steps - yet it also seems somewhat like a public park as well as an ancient graveyard (life-long recurring). (For some reason, I get a vague impression of being younger, with memories of Veteran's Park in Wisconsin Dells.) The tombstones look very old but fairly well-preserved. One is a large cross about five-feet tall which I see behind a cluster of girls. They are all standing so close together, though, it is hard to tell which dress is associated with which character. Still, I am intrigued by the detail. I am also aware of a large flower with many vines that is mostly white, with very thick "fleshy" petals (reminiscent of downward banana-shape somewhat) and some sort of purplish star-like pattern about twenty-percent from the center.

I almost missed the "clowns"/"clones" play. ("Send in the clones" / "Send in the clowns" - though that's an old one.)

A few more (but certainly not all) associations: In the Ronald McDonald association - the "M" on his outfit reminds me of sister M_ who has just died (although my brother-in-law "didn't want to be Ronald" even in wanting to use all other "R" aliases as well as his own) - on Valentine's Day where I live (but the 13th in the USA) - the McDonald's "M" reminds me a little, also, of the top half of the heart (Valentine) symbol itself (and the two mirrored to two symbol face-wise). The "golden arches" of McDonald's can also be a tentative play on Heaven, unfortunately (I had considered this in the recent brother-in-law dream and the follow-up UFO one but did not elaborate). How about the "Ticktockman" dwelling on the passage of time and "waiting to die" as one way of looking at it - as the "ticktockman" is visualized as the Grim Reaper in some cases? It is also possible that R_ did not want to be "R. M. (Ronald McDonald)", as M_ was his wife he would "join" later (R/M), somewhat convoluted, but still a possibility.

Having a series of dreams with such intriguing multiple layers of continuity and associations and eye-opening "teaching" (which again, I don't think the conscious mind would be capable of - especially with all the usual "noise" of day to day living) really gives me inspiration for what else may be possible when focusing on the higher forces behind dreams. In my experience, I have had dreams which, when looking at them honestly, seem to actually be some sort of composite created by years of trial and error into just minutes. This is what convinces me of the paranormal nature of dreaming. Can you imagine the conscious mind coming up with a five-minute scenario that utilizes several years of compressed associations in several layers at once in a very short, limited time period? This also seems evidence (and I experienced this often as a child) of time expansion and compression in ways that can only imply higher dimensions (which are "outside of time") - and no one (especially now) could convince me otherwise. This only confirms what I already knew, though, realistically.

Even for me, I would say this is actually another new level of spirituality and satisfaction. I sincerely hope that all other people who do dream-work (including in far more private offline endeavors, of course) are getting as much understanding out of their own dreams as possible (being as honest as possible with themselves, regardless of a world full of shortsighted skeptics - which matters not after the fact as said before).

Thank you very much for reading.

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