I had a dream

Most people’s brains turn off when they are sleeping. Unfortunately mine doesn’t.

I’ve tried many things to help, I’ve changed my bed, I’ve started going to the gym, gone to bed earlier, gone to bed later, but still I continue to work at my day problems during my sleep, then wake up to find that the essay I wrote/feature I edited/training I ran for the past 6 hours had no material form and disappears before my open eyes. Its very annoying, not only becasue it disappears but because I wake up exhausted and faced with the challenge of writing/editing/running it again.

Last night I dreamt quite a nice metaphor though; I was in a place crossed between The Kimberly and Nepal and was part of a scientific group who arrived at a beautiful secluded pond. The biologists wanted to know what life lived in on the water bed so they took a little piece of a log from the bottom of the pond and examined the little organisms living on it. They were saying it was just a little piece which would give a good idea of the rest of the pond and since they didn’t have the time to comb the whole waterbed it would have to do, but they stressed it was important to remember that they could never downplay the complexity of what existed in the rest of the pond, that they little piece of log was just one fragment which might be similar to the whole, or could be comepletly different. 

I dreamt about representation.

From then on things got weird- Libby was there, Jon H was there, Jon got angry at me when I fell asleep in a landmark mock court which had some of Australia’s most famous judges presiding over it, and it was an outdoor setup that we had arrived to in a small early-model light plane. I think we flew from the Kimberly to the court in Nepal. 

Now that I’m awake, its probably time to get some useful work done.