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coffin_dodger » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:56 pm wrote:I rarely remember dreams, but this one was vivid.
Immersed, I was watching a video clip from the future - paradoxically viewed through an old, boxy, square TV set, with an enormously convex screen, almost spherical.
The video was cartoonish in style. Something vaguely human in form - but highly personable - was presenting.
It told the story of the death - and rebirth - of jokes.
It began by cataloguing how jokes had once been a great source of merriment - a mechanism to lighten mood, to convey and simultaneously deny the crass nature of things - translated into laughter. But jokes had a dark side - they were intermingled with mockery, racism, sexism - so many isms.
The presenter continued - jokes had begun to die out in the late 20th century, into the dawn of the 21st - a time of great seriousness - and a time of change. Personally experienced comedy became the rage. It became essential to mock one's own attitudes - for the sake of not only political correctness, but personal inward contentment as well. This made 'joking' an intensely personal experience - rarely shared amongst others in a sociological sense - you had to be there at the gig to 'get' it. Something had been lost that seemed perhaps unnecessary and certainly impossible, to replace.
But then, from nowhere, a new type of joke, something to lift the spirit, began to emerge. A joke that one received almost exclusively as text. Electronically or actually written on paper.
Always, on first reading, appearing as an insolvable riddle or piece of confusing, garbled nonsense. But over time, which could vary from minutes to months, years even - the hitherto hidden meaning of the joke was revealed as the receiver continued to think about what it could mean.
The joy generated at the point of realisation of meaning - a true 'Eureka' moment, with a slap of the forehead and a self-exclamation of 'how could I have missed that?', multiplied and added enormously to the most excellent experience of the joke. They were little parcels of ecstacy, joy and wonderment wrapped in an enigma, always delivering an unprecedented punchline - and the wait (with the surity that it would come to you, it always did) was part of its delicious experience.
Of course, no examples were given in the presentation - I got the feeling it was taken for granted that everyone understood the mechanics of these jokes at that point in time. It felt like a history lesson, maybe aimed at children who were just 'coming of age', so to speak - to be able to appreciate them.
That's all folks!
Nordic » Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:09 am wrote:Would anyone happen to know, or have any ideas, as to interpreting a dream where the person dreaming is cutting off his own foot? With a saw. Without much pain but the growing realization that perhaps it's s mistake that cannot be rectified and he has already very likely made a terrible mistake?
Asking for a friend.
Nordic » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:09 am wrote:Would anyone happen to know, or have any ideas, as to interpreting a dream where the person dreaming is cutting off his own foot? With a saw. Without much pain but the growing realization that perhaps it's s mistake that cannot be rectified and he has already very likely made a terrible mistake?
Asking for a friend.
semper occultus » Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:36 pm wrote:pretty much what happened between Jeff and the mods...
Elvis wrote:Nordic » Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:09 am wrote:Would anyone happen to know, or have any ideas, as to interpreting a dream where the person dreaming is cutting off his own foot? With a saw. Without much pain but the growing realization that perhaps it's s mistake that cannot be rectified and he has already very likely made a terrible mistake?
Asking for a friend.
Is the dreamer about to get married? or face some other life-altering choice? I would take an inventory. To me, the interpretation seems to be contained in the bolded part above. Maybe involving a loss of freedom, or mobility etc.
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