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Am I the antichrist? LOL I had a recurring dream ( when I was 12 ) where a kid is walking down a garden path, everything is very pleasant and then the realization that that kid will cause WW3! And then the horror, THAT KID IS ME! At 12 my parents were divorcing and maybe the dream was a cathartic way to confront the death of my childhood.
2 years ago I dreamt that I was married and the dream was so real! I remembered how we met and a thousand other details. Then we realized that it was only a dream. As the mist rolled in we cried and said our final goodbyes.
10 years ago ( when I was married) I woke up laughing. My wife asked why. I told her that I had just told myself a joke I had never heard before! ( We can discuss the philosophical ramifications later * ) In the dream I was watching TV . On the screen was a Jesus face. The announcer asks, " what would Jesus do?" Then answers his own question ." he would switch to camels." Jesus then lights up a cigarette ! I think the dream was about the commercialization of spirituality.
* The trinity of dreams. We are the actor, the playwright and the landscape designer. A lion jumps out and surprises us. How is that possible?
Reminds me of a dream I had. Like your 12 year old dream it was prompting by a "life passage". I was about to graduate from college (so my adolescence/childhood was about to end,and supposed adult was about to begin so to speak). I dreamt that I had died, and gone to Heaven. And it turned out that Heaven bore a strong resemblance to Kenwood Country Club down the road (that folks even more affluent than our family belonged to). Trees and grass, and a little stone house shaped offices were ladies drive up and drop off their children for tennis lessons, and the like. Certainly a nice place.
I checked into the office. In the conversation with young ladies at the desk it came up that Ludwig Van Beethoven "usually plays tennis on Tuesday afternoons". I was baffled and said "Beethoven has been dead for centuries...how can THAT be???". Everyone laughed, and I realized "I forgot. This is Heaven. Folks who have been dead centuries live here." Then I got excited and said well I would like to introduce him to my buddy, who is a musician ( I real guy I knew then who played country guitar). Later I did get to introduce the two. But both were self-involved jerks, and neither were interested in speaking to other. So I got angry and just struck out on my own. Took a brisk hike across the golf course. It was overcast, but the gray sky was pleasant and calming. Then it sank in that WOW ...the day of my death is not ahead, but behind me.. And that caused me to feel a certain profound calmness, and Buddha like bliss, until I realized that..."HEY, this is just a dream! And I gradually woke". Quite a dream, that one.
That other dream of Christ on TV: when asked the question in an interview Larry Flynt responded with "Yes. I think that Jesus Christ was the type of guy who would read Hustler Magazine."
Well...I guess that Jesus was a blue collar carpenter type. Probably not in the demigraphic for Penthouse. So who knows?
The idea of Christ endorsing any modern commercial product (Burger King over McDonalds say) whether the product is a sinful vice, or not, is laughter inducing to me.