When I'm Not Around

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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All right, my subconscious has done it again.  A couple of nights ago, I had the most intensely erotic dream ever—

 

About pie.

 

Yes, pie. And no, I can think of no better word to describe it than ‘erotic.’  There was nothing sexual about the pie at all, nothing like that. It was just that, in the dream, pie was an intense sensual experience. The dream narrative went something like this:

 

Delicious pie. Look at this apple pie. Beautiful, isn’t it? The top of the crust is so crispy and flaky. See the way the sugar on it sparkles. Can’t you sense the texture of the cinnamon now? That crust would melt in your mouth. And it’s so beautifully formed and fitted to the bottom crust at the edge—and that crust is a crust you could sink your teeth into. And if you peek under the crust—see those delicious, full slices of apple under the steam? Look at that filling, so sweet and sugary, and those slices are just the perfect consistency. Biting into those would be enough to send you into shivers of ecstasy. This is the best pie in the world. The other neighbors all burned their pie. But you’ve got your whole delicious pie to yourself. You can eat it with a tall glass of milk. Beautiful pie.

 

This was accompanied by camera swoops and pans,* and a steamy apply scent.  I woke up positively aching for apple pie.

 

The best part, though, is that I don’t even like pie.

Yeah.  I make sense.

 

 

*Oh, come on, I know you dream cinematically. Who doesn’t?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

The best part, though, is that I don't even like pie.

I was already snickering by that point, but that line made the entry. XD

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that was amazing until you said you don't like pie, and now I'm just sad. :(

[killabee886.livejournal.com]

GODDAMNIT! Now I want pie!!!!

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

*Oh, come on, I know you dream cinematically. Who doesn’t?

Yeah. But not about pie. ;P

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

Haha! Amazing! I could only hear a Barry White voice in your narrative which made it even better. Way to go pie dreams!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I can think of no better voice to make that happen.

"You love the pie, baby."

[viizou.livejournal.com]

XD

I had similar dreams on a frequent basis when I was on a diet - only they usually revolved around chocolate. I wanted to slap my subconscious for torturing me like that.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

wild! You know, I do dream cinematically... But I don't think I've ever quite had "dream narration" like you describe. Is that usual for you?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to describe it. There is no Magic Voice (in this case, my sister points out that Barry White's is the only possible choice); it's just the overall feeling of the pertinent information that accompanies the images. It's the "you somehow knew that this was the subtext" portion of dreams.

Hell, maybe that IS just me.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

ok... it makes a little more sense that way. I often have something similar in my dreams, in my own voice, as though I'm describing the dream to myself as it happens. Often I have foreknowledge of upcoming events in the dream, as though I'm dreaming a story I've read before (and while I don't recall ever dreaming the plot of an actual book, I frequently dream that my dream is the plot of a [nonexistent] book I've read!).

*grin* My dreams contain so much subtext they're often nearly impossible to write down, because I have to spend pages trying to describe things I knew in the dream... only those things make no logical sense outside the dream! I had the oddest experience once of waking up with a rhyming couplet from a dream in my mind-- only I woke up remembering the words, and they didn't actually rhyme! But in the dream, they did.


Worst of all, I sometimes get the notion in a dream that I have had this dream before, and hence know what is going to happen in it. Often this is accompanied by a vague awareness that I am dreaming, and at times I can deliberately change details of the dream at this point. All very well and good and sometimes even fun.

Here's the kicker, though-- when I wake up, I am unable to tell if I've really had that dream previously, or if I only dreamed that I had dreamed it before-- a sort of dream-deja-vu. It's truly mind-boggling, and distressing because it's one of the few times that I truly don't know if something in my head is made-up or a genuine memory. Every time it happens (not often), I swear up and down that I'm going to start writing down every dream I've ever had, just so I can know for sure next time! But of course I don't :)