Ruby Unicorn
Dreamed 2012/11/15 by Wayan
THAT DAY
My bandmate Mike doesn't want to record or post more songs, "giving away our music for free". He wants us to polish what we have and make a CD. I disagree--I want to record decent roughs of all our songs now, and I want all that work online. When has posting songs free ever hurt obscure bands? And Mike's soon heading for India--for months. So yes, I want to record everything we can, now. We could die tomorrow!
See, I've spent all my adult life ill, seeing hopes blighted. I KNOW life's short and uncertain. I can't let hopes of future money restrict what music I make or distribute now. I keep my life simple and sacrifice financially so I can focus on art for its own sake. Okay, maybe the WRONG art; at the moment I'm putting many hours into Planetocopia and sculpture, neglecting music, poetry and even dream-tales, which may be better stuff; who knows? I lack perspective.
And I know why. I'm autistic. I don't understand non-autistics any better than they get me; I don't know what humanity'll value in the long run. So I work on all that interests me, hoping some projects will resonate for someone someday--even if it's a century from now--AIs, posthuman spacers and/or uplifted furs, not humans at all. Fine with me! Trial and error so far makes me suspect I'm too strange for most humans here & now. But I won't crop my ears and tail and ESP--or my autistic math and pattern modules. I won't put on a human mask.
THAT NIGHT
A girl shows me her art studio. On a squarish bronze pedestal stands a surreal unicorn or kirin, rearing, done in a translucent ruby material so deep-red it's nearly black till a light shines through.
The mane, tale & horn are lighter--or just thinner so they let light through easier. Not very equine--quite feline. Nor very realistic; low, slinky, muscular, surreal.
I ask her what she made it from and she says "Oh, I didn't make it, I just found it sitting in some rubbish. Old and out of style I guess!"
More feline but still not fierce or strange enough |
I'm amazed. The trash? Even if not to most people's taste, she's unique. At least I've never seen anything like her and I notice unicorns. Being one--just one that's learned to pass.
NOTES IN THE MORNING
YEARS LATER
I dreamt this feline unicorn years before I ever saw Unikitty in the Lego movies. But I suspect the dream does not anticipate Unikitty but another animated character who's a much better match! Just three months later, I first saw My Little Pony, whose candy-colored, low, slinky, emotionally expressive unicorns were much like this. I identified strongly with them. The first show I saw had ponies from the Crystal Empire, who are translucent--even more like the dream-figurine! A red rather feline unicorn? Cadance, the big-eyed, sexy Princess of Love. Sigh...
But in 2012 when I dreamed this, I hadn't seen the show at all.
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