“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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Algy leaned forward to study the rock pool more closely. He was hoping to see a baby sea monster, but soon realised that this pool, with its bright shell sand and clear, shallow water, was not a suitable environment for such secretive and mysterious folk, for he knew that they only inhabited the depths, even when very young.
There was other underwater life in the pool, however, which provided plenty of interest for an observant fluffy bird with nothing much to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon. But as he studied the sea anemones and watched for other wee sub-aquatic creatures, Algy began to doze in the warm September sunshine, lulled by the soothing sounds of the waves on the beach close by, which on a calm day when the tide was low just rippled and laughed as they played gently on the sand.
And as he dozed, Algy fell into a happy reverie, half awake and yet partly asleep, listening to the myriad sounds of the sea which filled the air around him, and thinking of a strange poem he had once read. Gradually his eyes closed a wee bit further, and then he began to dream a fabulous dream, for he thought that there in front of him, glistening beneath the water, he could see the magical rainbow shell, its glowing, translucent colours impossible to describe, and that among the ocean's happy ripples of laughter he could hear the beautiful melody of its silent song…
In the profoundest ocean
There is a rainbow shell,
It is always there, shining most stilly
Under the greatest storm waves
That the old Greek called "ripples of laughter."
As you listen, the rainbow shell
Sings—in the profoundest ocean.
It is always there, singing most silently!
[Algy is quoting the poem The Secret by the early 20th Century author Katherine Mansfield from New Zealand, who mainly worked in London.]
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had a dream that a little bird bit me on like the corner of my mouth and I had to get a stitch in it. and the doctor afterwards was like 'okay you're fine' and I was like 'so it's literally visibly infected' but he just shooed me off so for a while I was just like wandering around bothering people to help me get antibiotics. and then the. the fucking international space station crashed??? into the middle of a city?? and like I Saw something collide with it before hand so everyone was freaking out about 1) this disaster and 2) whether or not it was aliens and I'm like in the middle of a crowded room with everyone losing it and I was like hey YES. this is AWFUL. but we can't really do anything about it. you know what we can do though? PREVENT ME FROM DYING OF AN INFECTION FROM A STUPID BIRD BITE!!!
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tell me about a dream that stuck with you good or bad or just weird.
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