Sunday, November 13, 2011

My dream - Nov 13, 2011

Today I woke up at 5.20 AM at my room at the Residence Inn, Marriott in downtown Minneapolis. Its been 3 days since we arrived; this is getting better since I woke up at 3.30 AM yesterday.

Just before I woke up, I had a dream which I would like to chronicle before it evaporates from memory.
In my own way, its a bit haunting and somewhat insightful (?) but in a way very weird.

So here's the dream, and later what struck to be strange about it to me:

I probably was elsewhere talking to Deepthi on phone when the dream began, so I cant recollect exactly how this sequence started. Probably in the beginning I was somewhere outside in Bangalore city. When this sequence begins, I am cycling down towards 'home' and am calling Gowrish (Gowrish Mallipattana) a colleague at Target India. What I tell him is this, I need some details about X (cant remember what that X is). Then he goes on and on and for some part of it, I am not even paying attention, but for some I do. He talks about some incubation centers developed by Infosys and some other corporates and how he has been involved in it and how sometime he can take me there etc etc... yada yada. That forms the first half of the conversation, while I realise I am getting closer to 'home'.

By this time I realise I am near Devegowda petrol bunk, which I cross effortlessly with just a few vehicles coming perpendicular to me. He asks 'how come u've called on the day off' and I laugh aloud 'yea!! All my supposed study prep are over :))'

Then I tell him this: ' oh by the way Gowrish, I need to ask you about few more things. I remember you bought some real estate when you were at Minneapolis, so wanted to discuss with you in detail about buying property at a place like Edina'. While I say this, I am visualising the suburb Edina and the surroundings. I also think of the sections in the Target India pre-departure guide where they say something like 'while normally international assigners do not indulge in acquiring property or trading in foreign equity markets, if you are interested it is possible to arrange'. I also ask Gowrish a couple more questions about my travel to MPLS which I cant remember. To that he jokingly remarks 'oh what is this man, so many questions; first go there and settle' and I tell him not to worry about answering all of them right now since there are a couple weeks for me to travel.

Now I am at the interior crosses which turn into the road where my house is with steeper inclines and the network seems to drop. Gowrish cant hear me right, so he gets cross; almost sounding frustrated that he gave me all this info and I hung up. I keep yelling 'network out, ill call you later' and hang up as I arrive at my house.

I can see Mom and bommi chickamma on the balcony, talking. I come in and park my 'Hero Hansa' and put the center stand (!!) as I greet Doddamma in the outside lobby. I talk to Bommi (who is already down); we talk about how her son is set for placements after MS and is specialising in some 'red hat' stuff. Strangely I think this "Huh Linux. If I had specialised in Unix/ Linux ivaga elloo irtidde". Then I come into the kitchen and talk to Dad and Mom. They offer me fresh bananas and jack fruit with honey, that doddamma got. They also talk to me about some errand that I was supposed to take care of this after noon in prep to my trip but which I say Deepthi will take care of instead of me. To this they strangely say nothing and appear a bit worried.

That's pretty much the dream. Not sure about you, but I found the following things remarkable or weird about the dream:

Am I in the present, recent past or way in the past in this dream? In any case the dream just whacked my brain out by showing the inconsistencies between my waking mind and my dream mind (in lieu of calling it my sub conscious) 
Here's how I mean:
  1. You might have already inferred, the house I see in my dream as my home is our earlier house in Padmanabhanagar. The deve gowda petrol bunk circle I crossed was that of the late 90s when there was no traffic lights there. While everyone knows I stayed in Jayanagar, which is what my waking mind tells them, my dream mind is stuck with Padmanabhanagar.
    This is not of now, but quite regularly in my dream, home means Pad'ngr. Earlier I used to get visions of my Jayanagar 5th block home (where I grew up) quite regularly in dreams, then a mix of both. Never Jayanagar 7th block - my current home before I left to MPLS
  2. What am I doing riding a cycle? That too Hero hansa, which I used to ride when I was in high school.
  3. How about that comment about 'study holidays'. Will that nightmare ever end!!!!!??? No need to interpret that..
  4. Small time fabrications: Clearly there was no cellphone network weakness at that point near Carmel high school. Hell I never used cell phones much when I stayed there (till 2003). Also the predeparture guide has nothing to encourage international travellers to trade or buy real estate in the US
  5. Speaking of real estate, now for the most intriguing part. So far it seems like Madhu from the 90s is speaking to his colleague from 2011 and is ready to leave to MPLS in a couple weeks. But my Edina visit was just yesterday evening (i.e last 24 hours). In the dream, I even imagine Edina from my visit. This is the part that struck me real weird.
  6. The rest is alright I guess....normal stuff. Behaviour of chickamma, doddamma, parents, Gowrish (he he although my mind caricatures the Gowrish that I 've seen in real life)
Now for some inferences, from dream moods:

To dream of childhood / previous home, see the second paragraph under 'Home': http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=home


Well ill take all these inferences with a pinch of salt.. :)

Weird dream..
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