3 posts tagged “sky”

dreamy Joaquin

Last night I dreamed that I was hanging out in my current apartment with my mom, Joaquin Phoenix, and someone else, I'm not sure who. The other dude was short, pudgy, and bald. I think he was a friend of my mom's.

It was the middle of the night, and no lights were on, just the moonlight coming in the open window. I got up out of bed needing to pee and came upon the others still hanging out in my living room. My mom was napping on the couch, and Joaquin sat at my computer trying to help the pudgy guy remember who he is. He listed a bunch of movies, then recommended that the guy watch Clay Pigeons and Velvelt Goldmine because those are his best films. I agreed that Velvet Goldmine is fantastic. I made no comment about Clay Pigeons and wondered why he didn't mention Quills instead. Or even Gladiator for fuck's sake! I told the pudgy dude that Velvet Goldmine stars Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, and Joaquin Phoenix, but it in fact does not. It's Jonathan Rhys Meyers, not Joaquin. DUH, Sleeping Christi.

So I decided to stay up and hang out. It was Friday, so why not, I says. I took one of my mom's Virginia Slims to smoke on the patio and asked Joaquin if he cared to join me, and he said he'd be out in a minute. He and that other guy were busy trying to find the Velvet Goldmine on Netflix on demand. They only found something called Velvet Goldmine 2 which looked like some awful, straight to DVD kind of crap.

I went outside, lit up, and looked at the sky. I saw through the trees the biggest brightest and most stars I've ever seen. I crouched to get a better view through the branches and saw the most detailed version of Orion ever. Like thousands of stars traced his whole self and even detailed his clothing and his bow and arrows and facial features. The moon was the buckle of his belt. All the stars looked like balls of orange fire.

Joaquin stuck his head out the sliding glass door and laughed asked me what on earth was I doing crouching like that. What do you see? He said.

I said, I see Orion and....EEEEK the apartments are on fire!!!

And surely they were. My roof was in flames!

We all ran downstairs and as far as we could get from the building. In my dream there was a giant field around the apartments, and a highway nearby. The apartments burned up pretty quickly and I thought of my cats with a pang that I had to repress at the moment. I couldn't go back for them.

I said out loud they were the only thing I'd miss out of all my possessions. Joaquin said, what about all your pictures? I said I have them stored online. I'll just download them someplace else. Nothing's material anymore. Then I threw myself into his arms in the guise of needing comforting because I was scared, when really I was just taking advantage of the situation to cop a feel. He laughed and said awwww and let me nuzzle his cheek.

AND THEN I WOKE UP. 

Last night I dreamed that I saw a solar eclipse in my kitchen. Like I went in there to get a coke or something, and there was a sun up near the ceiling with a moon in front of it. I guess it was about a foot across in length.

So I ran off to tell somebody, but I don't know who. The kitty probably. I said, hey there's an eclipse in the kitchen, but it's just a penumbra like the one that occurred the day after my mom was born.

And that's the end of the dream, but I feel I must explain. What I actually saw in my dream kitchen was an annular eclipse. It's the kind where you can see an outline of light around the black circular shadow, like the picture below. The moon looks smaller than the sun, so it doesn't cover it up completely like a total eclipse where only the corona is visible. (Annular looks kind of like "anal,", doesn't it? There's a reason for that. Observe:)

annular eclipse

And from reference.com, the word my subconscious pulled out its nebulous ass-

Penumbra

The penumbra (Latin: paenes "almost, nearly" + umbra "shadow") the region in which only a portion of the occulting body is obscuring the light source. An observer in the penumbra experiences a partial eclipse.

 
Well I was close, but not completely accurate in my dream when I said I saw a penumbra. I saw the complete shadow, but it just wasn't big enough to cover the whole sun thingy, you see. GAH dream me is so dumb!

But I was right about there being an annular eclipse the day after my mom was born, although that wasn't some kind of weird dream prophecy or anything, I already knew about it. This is a fun NASA site about eclipses, when and where they'll be seen and have been and so on and so forth etc.

FACT(s): My mom was born April 18, 1958, and there was an annular eclipse on April 19, 1958.  I was born February 25, 1979 and there was a total eclipse the next day Feb 26, 1979.

We came, we saw, we blocked the light of the SUN! mwahaha

Last night I dreamed that Venus was conjuncting my natal sun, and there were flowers everywhere. Then all the villagers were marching to my house, but I wasn't too concerned. Then I dreamed I wrote this on vox