ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I had a dream last night with Willie Nelson in it.
He came up to me excitedly and proclaimed, "You have to listen to this!". Then he pressed some button and the dream was filled with the lyrics of "On the Road Again" sung by a Sinatra clone with some wild jazz horn arrangement. It was really bad.
I think I said something polite but I'm not sure.
Anybody know what this means?
I think I can explain this. First, we have to look at some of the underlying connections between the dream images. Willie Nelson's first big hit, as we all know, was "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain." What was Sinatra's nickname? Old Blue Eyes, of course. This all becomes more clear when we realize that Sinatra starred in "From Here to Eternity." Who wrote the AAR "From Here to...well, it feels like an eternity?" Why, you did.
We therefore see that Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra represent your ego and superego. Well, Nelson might actually represent your id. It's hard to say without several months of therapy. The Sinatra element also represents a Jungian connection with AE, as expressed in your involvment with AE's collective unconcious, i.e., the forums. The fact that "On the Road Again" was not done by Sinatra, but was poorly done by a Sinatra clone, thus represents your fears for your carriers in the current operation. Your carriers, after all, could be said to be "on the road again."
Finally, you named the current operation "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life." This is a country and western song and Willie Nelson represents the essence of country and western music. We can thus clearly see that the dream you describe represents your hopes (represented by Willie) and your fears (represented by the badly done Sinatra clone) about the game.
Ah, it is so refreshing to read a
Freudian psychoanalysis dissecting the underlying fears and motivations of WITP enthusiasts.
I must, however, suggest that this Freudian interpretation may be incorrect, and offer an alternative
Jungian viewpoint:
Analyzing Mandrake's
Archetypal Dream with respect to the universal symbols present in our
"collective unconcious," I discern the following inescapable conclusions:
Willie Nelson represents the eternal
Trickster, attempting to warn Mandrake not to take this new effort too seriously, because it is irrelevant to the long-term strategy of defeating his opponent: Operation "Drop Kick Me Jesus" is simply a diversionary sideshow, whereas the defining battle permanently turning the tide of war will obviously be fought on the Australian Continent, not on the outskirts of the Coral Sea.
The "Sinatra Clone" represents Mandrake's
Shadow, the repressed/rejected part of Mandrake warning him that he really doesn't want to be involved in this enterprise.
Don't believe me? The Sinatra clone is singing a crappy version of a Willie song that fundamentally sez, "Let's get the hell out of Dodge, Boys! The current situation I find myself in is bad juju!"
Then think about what the dream would have meant if Mandrake had encountered Old Blue Eyes Himself (and not some worthless clone) who belted out a studio perfect, #1 on the charts like a bullet version of "I did it my way!" (Now that would be encouraging!)
The confusing wild jazz horn arrangement obviously represents Mandrake's
divine child, his true, beautiful, core inner self trapped by its innocence and vulnerability into an uneasing pairing with the Sinatra Clone guiding the operation.
Finally, the
wise old man is clearly represented my Mandrake's
ego's or personal subconcious's choice of a name for the operation: "Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life." His deepest hope is to do the right thing, coupled with his insightful acceptance that all of us need the help of others.
Hey: you could look it up on google or bing! It's gotta be true; it's on the internet! [8D]
Who sez all those Med School classes and clerkships in psychiatry were a waste of time? [:-]
[:D]
