Dream Analysis: Mutant Lizards

Dream:
I was trying to parcour on the side of a concrete water channel which was coming through a grate under a highway, into a cylindrical reservoir. It overflowed into a sloping shaft. I was trying to get across the passage to the other side of the reservoir, but a man on the other side of the fence to the highway told me that the water was "100% ascorbic acid" and to come back. He looked like M, but reminded me of the Czech police agent I hosted because of his frame and being Eastern European, though his being authoritarian in the dream is in contrast both with him and the Czech. We argued about whether or not ascorbic acid could hurt, and finally I tried to jump across the shaft but fell, and as I walked down the shaft through the shallow water, my vision flashed green in a Half Life 2 radiation effect. Down the shaft was a huge room, also in concrete, where scientists were examining specimens of the enlarged handlike limbs of the mutated reptiles that had begun to appear all over the world.

Analysis:
Yesterday I talked to someone about bushwhacking together, which is like parcouring in nature, and I associate it with performance art, which M showed me yesterday. The water overflowing into the shaft reminds me of decanting brewed coffee from the dregs. Someone told me that brewing coffee for too long takes out the acids, hence ascorbic acid. I sometimes drink coffee for my blood-brain barrier, and the argument whether or not the acid would hurt me is a reversal of the argument whether or not I need it.
I don't usually drink too much coffee because cash crops like this are the reason why corporations forbid developing countries form subsidizing food production instead, but perhaps it's more efficient to import food from where it grows better, so it's hard to say if coffee production is good or bad for developing countries, and the argument whether or not the acid would hurt me is therefore also a reflection of the argument whether or not coffee is good for developing countries. Even the dream is conflicted about this: I get the radiation effect from Half Life 2, but don't even flinch and make it through alright.
When I try to think of what the mutated lizard limbs could mean, for some reason what pops into my head is "Mutant Message" by Juno Reactor, in which a distorted voice says variations of "everyone (should) know that" in German. A few days ago, I wondered what it meant: it reminded me of how troublesome communication can be, and at some point yesterday I thought about the "telephone game", though I don't remember in what context. This reminds me of my attempt yesterday to communicate with the world, only to be cut off like a severed limb and probably to be misunderstood. The lizard limbs are also an obvious Spiderman reference, but in the dream, the lizards had been mutated by the Combine to make life difficult for humans.
I told myself yesterday that my efforts to communicate my manifesto would not have happened weren't it for how my personality having changed from clomiphene and hCG (which increases testosterone production) in the way I hoped it would. Is this the mutation my dream is warning me about? Yesterday, I thought of how I should've heeded the warning from my unconscious in an earlier dream about a male oral contraceptive I took that damaged my testosterone production. Is this dream warning me that something is going wrong?
The connection to caffeine may be that I thought it might inhibit Leydig cell proliferation. It could be a warning that some of those cells are being apoptotized as my body (the scientists) sees them as overgrowth. I was thinking the other day that there must be a balance between anabolism and catabolism to prevent either cancer or atrophy. But why lizards, of all things? In thought I've often called myself a lizard out of self-hatred of how cold I am, symbolizing the primitive amygdalic emotions of fear, pleasure and anger (and my amygdala does seem overstimulated). Perhaps the dream is trying to tell me that it
The hCG regenerates the testes much like the doctor in Spiderman regenerated his arm with lizard DNA. M to me is an archetype of a good kind of masculinity that I've been striving towards, but yesterday, when watching one of M's videos and thinking about how he compared which performers were the best, I sensed a certain competitiveness to be the best, and thought how this doesn't lead to authentic self-expression. He said of really skilled performers that they're "mutants" because they're so good, causing me to associate masculinity with mutation.
Why always the concrete Half Life 2 sewers? They've been a recurring theme in my dreams. In the "canals" mission, you're supposed to escape through an unpleasant route. In the back of the huge concrete room, there was something else, an exit where the other dead mutated lizards are. In the dream's context of virility, perhaps the sewer is a reference to the joke "what God would build an open sewer in an amusement park?" perhaps because I joked yesterday that the old house in Ostend takes up so much space that you could tear it down and build an amusement park in its place, when M said there was so much we could do with the place — just as I am tearing down my old self to rebuild my new self.
So the cylinder is my testicles containing semen, the shaft is my penis, and the concrete room is the cervix, where my semen is rejected for being inferior (lizard) and distorted (mutated). Perhaps the dream reveals my worries about how my treatment will fail, how rather than improving me (from lizard to human) it will just distort me (from lizard to mutated lizard). But it also reveals a far deeper problem, and this might be the real distortion that's taken place inside me, and it's the clinical way in which I've come to approach my sexuality. This is basically a very distorted dream of sex, complete with ejaculation in the form of the rhythmic green flashes, and M warning me is a symbol of my inhibition. The "100%" is a reference to the 100% azoospermia papaya seed extract would cause, and also a reference to Angelspit, which I associate with purely hormonal energy. I first listened to Angelspit around the same time I started using papaya seed extract, and perhaps now my testosterone is back at the levels it was then.
So what's the conclusion? Will I go too far if I go any further? And what would that mean? The only way to find out is to keep going.

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