Dream a little dream

10. September 2008 by Joe Gergen.

I usually don’t dwell on my dreams too much. Not to say that they don’t have meaning, but that I don’t make any real effort to recall or analyze them. But, sometimes they do shed some light into the darkness of the soul. I don’t mean dark as in evil but dark as in shadowy and hard to see.

And now it sounds like I have some dark secret to reveal, which I don’t. But on to the dream.

So I have this dream where I have made a large quilt for someone, except that it’s a unique quilt in that it is made of wood, kind of like a butcher block but not glued but sewn together, kind of like those seat covers you see that are a bunch of wooden balls threaded together except in this case the balls are square. So several of us are moving this obviously heavy quilt up the stairs and it starts to fall apart in spots and I’m trying to hold it together and hoping no one notices so I can fix it later but it keeps crumbling and soon I am trapped in this now cargo nettingesque quilt and can’t move and fade to gray.

Really, it’s not that strange of a dream. I knew immediately where it came from. I just finished this headboard and footboard where I used dowels to attach the legs to the headboard and footboard. I had never done that before and was not sure how many dowels I needed, how big they had to be, how I was going to accurately thread them and secure them and so on. And last night I was showing some friends the bed and talking about the dowels and how I hoped it was strong enough.

It was this lingering doubt that  manifested itself in the dream. I was disconcerted to find out these doubts where so embedded in my subconscious. The good thing I took from it though was that the doubts were about mechanics and not about the design.  Mechanics can be fixed.

So hopefully no dreams about failed designs though it may be interesting to see what kind of dream manifests as a design doubt. Something tells me there would be pigs or bears in it.  

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