Make me feel it even if it ain't true

[sovay]

I woke up from a dream of writing a chapter which began, "The first movie I ever saw by Derek Jarman was The Ascension." Which isn't true, first because that was Caravaggio (1986) and second because The Ascension doesn't exist, but I had an incredibly clear image of a still from the film: a blue sky running into a blue sea with heavy white clouds on the horizon so that the figure standing at the tide-line appeared to be set in the sky, wearing a bird-beaked mask and a broad hat with long, blue-black plumes and a kind of Renaissance-classical drapery around its hips. I couldn't tell if it was male or female or if it mattered. There were little hints of gilding all around its edges, but they were just from the slant of the sun. It was either an angel or a person who had become one. Because of Jarman, I want to say that the object between its hands was a mirror, but I honestly can't remember either way.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I think I saw that movie once when I'd recently ingested a fungal psychedelic.

[sovay]

I think I saw that movie once when I'd recently ingested a fungal psychedelic.

How was it?

[jesse_the_k]

I was speaking about your dream movie, and the fungal psych greatly improved my thunderstorm experiences while sitting in a hay mow.

[sovay]

I was speaking about your dream movie

Yeah: I wanted to know how the rest of it was! I only brought that one frame out of the dream.

and the fungal psych greatly improved my thunderstorm experiences while sitting in a hay mow.

I am glad to hear it.

[dhampyresa]

That's a really striking visual.

[sovay]

That's a really striking visual.

I never feel I can take credit for the things I dream, but thank you.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I want your dream movie channel on my cable lineup.

[sovay]

I want your dream movie channel on my cable lineup.

Maybe then someone could DVR the things and I could watch the bits I can't remember.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Just what I want.

And a circulating library of your dream books.

Nine

[sovay]

And a circulating library of your dream books.

Thank you. I hope they would be as interesting as I remember.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I wish I could paint this for you. Story? If you ever remember what the figure held, I'd love to know.

[sovay]

I wish I could paint this for you.

That is a wonderful thing to say. Thank you.

Story? If you ever remember what the figure held, I'd love to know.

For you, I will try to find out.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful and, as you say, quite likely.

[sovay]

That is beautiful and, as you say, quite likely.

Thank you. I really wish this one existed outside of my head.