Way to fuck up Dave
Back in business round here. First off, we have an exciting new Science and Psychology feature with the wholly unaccredited Aaron Mullan, sound engineer for Sonic Youth, bass player in a band yet to be named, and Man of a Thousand Ambiguous Facial Expressions. That’s Aaron over there <, psyching out Dave Mies of Glass Rock into dissonance when he had in fact been nailin’ it with the taste of a grieving Eric Clapton.
To begin with, we asked Aaron to provide some dream interpretation for an unnamed member of Glass Rock who is so interesting that [he] tells people about [his] dreams. Let’s check it out. To stay within APA guidelines, we are reprinting the entire analytic process. Glass Rock believes in transparency when concerns independent non stop post balls psychoanalytical jumbalayah. Peace and love.
Glass Rock: So, did I have too much to dream last night! I was in a bed with Eddie Murphy and William F. Buckley Jr.? What does this mean? (We were just talking).
Aaron: I need more info to analyze this.
GR: I was in the middle.
A: Your lack of details is making me think this is not a real dream.
GR: Man I wish I could remember more. It really happened. [My significant other] can verify that I groggily stated it.
A: Hmmn, can you free associate about each of them?
GR: WFBJ–conservative, thought of as eloquent but rather, long winded, deceased
EM–funny, probably gay [-a-& b-], nice leather suits
A: Oh this is easy. Dreams are the subconscious’ (is that how you make that word possessive?) presentations of wish-fulfillment fantasies. In this case your subconscious is expressing your desire to be accepted by and have some amount of familiarity/intimacy with men across a wide spectrum. If it’s the leather-suit era Eddie Murphy I would say he represents a young man at the peak of his potency. All males want to be associated with the virile and lauded, with the hopes that the harem attracted by these males may contain some spare available females. Eddie Murphy being ‘probably gay’ speaks to the unquantifiable (incalculable?) nature of his sexual power (and the increased likelihood of bonus females). Buckley represents a man of your grandfather’s generation. You may disagree with Buckley on some things, but he is widely respected and you still look for his approval. So your subconscious is expressing your desire for respect within the established social power structure plus your simultaneous and contradictory desire to upend the current mating hierarchy (which is really what the social power structure is).
Aaron and the townspeople check out a disturbance.
GR: Can I send you all my dreams? Eeriely, your analysis seems spot-on as far as conscious, related/similar (internal) struggles which i am aware of . . . I think I’m about to have a nervous breakdown, my head really hurts, the cognitive dissonance between “Eddie Murphy” and “William F Buckley Jr” is hard to take.
A: This seems like the absolute most normal and basic aspect of being a male human. I wouldn’t worry about it.
GR: Thanks Aaron.
Thanks also to our friends who came to check us out in Brooklyn last night. We are grateful for the warm campfire vibe and hope you felt it as well. As we work over North America -a&b- we visit Detroit on 4/17 minus Freud and the more shallow members of the group look forward to seeing you. Have a nice weekend getting wasted again.
what color mankinis was Eddie wearing? How does William feel when Eddie forces him to laugh?