Sunday 3 January 1999

Slept almost till noon. Dreamt long complicated dreams and woke up tired (and still with a cold). The first long dream was about a guy I've never heard about in real life, a long-haired musician of moderate renown. He was presumed dead, but was actually wandering around in the countryside, deeply depressed. My eldest brother knew who he was (still in the dream, obviously) and did most of the talking to keep the guy from actually taking the dark way out.

To top this, the second long dream was about two depressed, irrational and suicidal girls. They could surely not be over their teens. This was somewhere else entirely, and this time I was together with my Best Friend and her brother, who actually behaved quite responsibly. His dry humor was invaluable. Again I found the two girls (well, the first one at least ... the other was her sister) and again I was supporting cast after a while. The dreamworld seemed to be in a near future and/or slightly to the side of this world, as the technology seemed slightly more advanced on the compuTV and the houstereo. I had problems with using the control ball of Friend's houstereo, which I guess means that we were in her (rather large) apartment. Oh well. She's going to be a doctor, and my eldest brother is a psychologist and musician, so me taking the back seat was actually quite realistic (for a change)!

Ouch, I am definitely pickled with cold. I sure hope I can go to work tomorrow. (Because I don't get paid for being sick, not because I love my job.)

I've finished reading The Celestine Vision by James Redfield. I must say that it's good, for a New Age book. I mean, usually New Age books will contain lots of fluff that needs interpretation to make any sense at all (if then), such as numerology, astrology, dreams, colors, crystals etc etc. I don't mean that these things can't lead to valuable insights, in the same way that tea leaves and pebbles and clouds may shape patterns in a mind seeking meaning. But the spirituality that Redfield describes is one level closer to earth. You don't need anyone to interpret most of it, you can just go out and do what he says. And if I may say so, some of it looks like it's stolen from Christianity and just put on New Age clothes. Not that Christians have generally practiced much of it, and I don't expect the new generation of hippies to do that either. But at least they have the chance. For further reading, and loads of New Age fluff from Redfield's New Age friends, plus some environmentalism, you can visit the Celestine Vision web site.

Oh, and I've resubmitted my site to AltaVista, whereupon I have not been able to even log on AltaVista for a couple of days. It's like the whole place is closed down. Yay!