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dampscribblerI don't often post about dreams for several reasons -- mainly, I don't remember my dreams very often anymore, but also because I've been told dreams are boring. I don't think dreams are boring, but I'm a closet psychoanalyst, so I guess I'm not representative of the average person.
So, this morning, I had a dream that bugged me for a while, and I decided I want to try to remember it. I was in a large high-rise-type building like I used to visit in Chicago. Marble entry, banks of elevators, etc etc. Possibly even ballroom-sized meeting spaces. There was some sort of party going on that I was attending. At the main part of the party, there was a huge announcement posted, possibly even carved into the marble walls, and it said something like:
ATTENTION EVERYONE
ALICE LILLY (That wasn't the name, but it was a rather dated woman's first name, and the last name was associated with a big corporation like Eli Lilly) WON $(and then a long long series of numbers beginning with a 1 and a 4 and continuing on) AND HAS NEVER COME FORWARD TO CLAIM HER PRIZE.
It was an admonition against her, but also it was a sort of invitation. I had the impression that the money could be mine if I claimed it. But there was more to it than just claiming it, I had to come up with something good to do with it. I counted the digits, which had the commas in the wrong places, and finally came to the realization that the number represented over 1.4 Billion dollars. I could make a lot of difference with that kind of money, I thought. But specifically what would I do? I tried to think of some easy things, like giving half a billion to the Gates foundation just to get it off my hands. I thought of other things I've occasionally fantasized about -- like when I'm driving behind some old beater that's spewing foulness in all directions, I think, damn, if I won the lottery I'd buy that guy's beater and give him a Prius. I started waking up, confusing myself with why certain types of spending wouldn't work, how I needed to come up with better things to do. And I really wanted to remember this dream, especially the number -- one point four BILLION dollars. I was telling people things like "If you spent a thousand dollars a day, it would take 300 years to spend that much money." And I had to figure out what to do with it. And I wanted to. To do "good" things with it.
ATTENTION EVERYONE
ALICE LILLY (That wasn't the name, but it was a rather dated woman's first name, and the last name was associated with a big corporation like Eli Lilly) WON $(and then a long long series of numbers beginning with a 1 and a 4 and continuing on) AND HAS NEVER COME FORWARD TO CLAIM HER PRIZE.
It was an admonition against her, but also it was a sort of invitation. I had the impression that the money could be mine if I claimed it. But there was more to it than just claiming it, I had to come up with something good to do with it. I counted the digits, which had the commas in the wrong places, and finally came to the realization that the number represented over 1.4 Billion dollars. I could make a lot of difference with that kind of money, I thought. But specifically what would I do? I tried to think of some easy things, like giving half a billion to the Gates foundation just to get it off my hands. I thought of other things I've occasionally fantasized about -- like when I'm driving behind some old beater that's spewing foulness in all directions, I think, damn, if I won the lottery I'd buy that guy's beater and give him a Prius. I started waking up, confusing myself with why certain types of spending wouldn't work, how I needed to come up with better things to do. And I really wanted to remember this dream, especially the number -- one point four BILLION dollars. I was telling people things like "If you spent a thousand dollars a day, it would take 300 years to spend that much money." And I had to figure out what to do with it. And I wanted to. To do "good" things with it.
