World Dream Bank: MY GATE

MY GATE

Dreamed 1996/5/27 by Chris Wayan
Small screen, slow connection? Illustrated text version

My Gate, a dream-comic by Chris Wayan, page 1: when the full moon rises I become Were-Girl.

My Gate, a dream-comic by Chris Wayan, page 4: I unstick my gate, become a man, and greet my girlfriend.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

That Dickinson poem...

The Soul selects her own Society -
Then - shuts the Door -
To her divine Majority -
Present no more -

Unmoved - she notes the Chariots - pausing -
At her low Gate -
Unmoved - an Emperor be kneeling -
Upon her Mat -

I've known her - from an ample nation
Choose One -
Then - close the Valves of her attention
Like Stone -

The gate, security = at the party today, the hostess said "I had a phone jack out on my back porch, but I had to disable it after I woke up one night and heard a prowler in my yard--whispering into a phone he'd plugged in! He was making long-distance calls on my line!" Another Silicon Valley first--a chat burglar! The things some people will do to save a buck...
A frozen heart-knot that I must undo and make openable = I've got some habitual defenses that keep me from choosing freely who I want to let into my heart. I keep you ALL out... weakly. Bores and pushies and needies can barge on in, while those I want are frozen out.
Were-Girl = at the party, a blonde looking like Were-Girl talked over the fence with the Tattoo Man. I was attracted, but she was beyond the boundary, forbidden... Never talked to her.
Being naked, yet I get the job done = is baring myself to strangers a problem, was I too open at the party? I did feel kinda naked there--stood out as a freaky artist. But I LIKE being Were-Girl at parties--baring my real feelings in a way most guys don't. And so? If I lack social skills I just gnaw away at my problems...

A technique I recommend to all you nightmares out there. My tangled heart-knot; dream sketch by Wayan.