BEAR
I’ve been having very interesting, technicolor dreams lately. They’re so interesting they surpass anything in my real life, and even anything I watch in actual movies. That makes it hard to motivate myself to get up, since I know I won’t be seeing anything as interesting while I’m awake.
Here’s the content of one of the latest ones:
I often have dreams that have to do with a movie that suddenly becomes incredibly violent at the last minute. Often the number thirteen is involved. (For instance, in the past I’ve had a reoccurring dream about a movie by Peter Greenaway that is cut into fourteen sections, with the thirteenth and fourteenth being horrifically bloody and brutal.) This dream had to do with a movie called BEAR, which came from a book (it has a yellow cover, with a picture of a bear and the type in black) that I saw in last night’s dream too. It’s a science fiction story, and suddenly the last thirteen frames of the movie become incredibly violent, with a female character (played by Renee Zellwiger) being transformed into a bear, and using her long, razor-sharp claws (kind of like you see on Gloomy Bears) to slice a man to ribbons.
Of course, thirteen frames of a movie would take less than a second to see, but when the dream began, I was thinking about them and how I would be scared to see them. They had actually been printed out large — maybe people in the theater could only see them subliminally, were terrified, and wanted to see what they were really like — but I tried to avoid looking at them too.
As the dream went on, I was put into the actual movie, as sort of an observer/minor character. It was set in a society that was sort of futuristic and medieval at the same time. It was set in sort of a police state where animals were only kept as pets and not trained to do anything, and the government used sets of strings (like dividers made of string) to block some sort of magic or power. What they really didn’t want people to find out was that some people, under the right circumstances, could transform themselves into animals. They also didn’t want people to know that animals were trainable, and could be taught to do things. If they thought you were involved in training animals, or had some sort of knowledge of the possibility of people to transform, government agents would kill you. There were also people who had some sort of ability to steal people’s souls through their mouths — they weren’t part of the government, though — they had some power or authority, but I’m not sure who it came from. Eventually it became clear that the bear transformation at the end of the movie involved a woman who was totally ignorant of this possibility of transformation, and she just turned to a bear unexpectedly, perhaps under the threat of rape by the man, and once transforming, tore the man to shreds.
I wonder what I’ll dream about tonight.