dysfunctional children's cartoon dreaming
Nov. 15th, 2003 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyNo plot to speak of, but one of the more interesting concepts my subconscious has pitched in a while.
So, dream which my subconscious framed very explicitly as a children's cartoon--Saturday morning sort of thing. There were several points in this at which my dreaming self said, But surely they wouldn't!, always to be reassured by the dream that, Yes, really.
The setting was junior high school. The main character was a suicidally depressed bear. There was another bear who was gay; a manic-depressive armadillo; a perfectionist Type-A cat (at least I think she was a cat); and a Scottish aardvark who was too smart for his own good and got mercilessly harassed by the pack of popular pyromaniac kids. I don't know why the aardvark was Scottish.
It all made perfect sense as a children's cartoon ... except that every single one of the characters needed therapy, and possibly heavy drugs. I think the really disconcerting part was the fact that the dream never let that be handwaved by letting go of the children's cartoon framework. I have a lot of dreams that slide from being framed as fiction to being just dreams, but this one wouldn't do that.
Hopefully I do not have prophetic dreams, and dysfunctional cartoons are not going to be the new trend in children's programming. Because really I think that would be a bit much.
So, dream which my subconscious framed very explicitly as a children's cartoon--Saturday morning sort of thing. There were several points in this at which my dreaming self said, But surely they wouldn't!, always to be reassured by the dream that, Yes, really.
The setting was junior high school. The main character was a suicidally depressed bear. There was another bear who was gay; a manic-depressive armadillo; a perfectionist Type-A cat (at least I think she was a cat); and a Scottish aardvark who was too smart for his own good and got mercilessly harassed by the pack of popular pyromaniac kids. I don't know why the aardvark was Scottish.
It all made perfect sense as a children's cartoon ... except that every single one of the characters needed therapy, and possibly heavy drugs. I think the really disconcerting part was the fact that the dream never let that be handwaved by letting go of the children's cartoon framework. I have a lot of dreams that slide from being framed as fiction to being just dreams, but this one wouldn't do that.
Hopefully I do not have prophetic dreams, and dysfunctional cartoons are not going to be the new trend in children's programming. Because really I think that would be a bit much.
